| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disingenuous |
not candid or sincere. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| gird |
to surround, bind, or encircle, as with a belt. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| misanthrope |
someone who hates or distrusts humanity. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| saturnine |
gloomy, sullen, or cynical in temperament or appearance. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| stative |
in grammar, of or designating a category of verbs that express state or condition. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |