| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| brash |
rudely self-assertive; bold; impudent. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| feckless |
weak or incompetent; ineffective. |
| inquest |
a legal investigation, usually involving a jury, especially a coroner's investigation of a suspicious death. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| obviate |
to prevent or eliminate in advance; render unnecessary or irrelevant. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| pusillanimous |
shamefully timid; cowardly. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |
| welter |
to roll about or wallow, as in mud or the open sea. |