| acrimony |
bitterness or sharpness in speech or behavior. |
| centennial |
having to do with a one hundredth anniversary. |
| deleterious |
harmful or injurious, as to health. |
| insidious |
dangerous through cunning, subtlety, and underhandedness. |
| limpid |
perfectly clear; transparent. |
| myriad |
of or constituting a great but unspecified number; numberless. |
| negligible |
so small or unimportant as to be of no account; trifling or insignificant. |
| obligatory |
required; compulsory. |
| permissive |
allowing much, often excessive, freedom of behavior; lenient. |
| populace |
the people who live in a particular place. |
| quintessence |
that which most perfectly describes or typifies something; essence. |
| salient |
extremely noticeable or prominent; conspicuous; important. |
| sobriety |
abstinence from alcohol; temperance. |
| sycophant |
one that flatters and fawns over superiors in order to get favors or advance his or her position; toady. |
| tenet |
any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or especially an organization holds as being true. |