| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| debouch |
to advance out of a confined or narrow space such as a canyon into open country. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| impugn |
to call into question; challenge or try to discredit. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| 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. |
| profligate |
totally given over to immoral and shameful pursuits; dissolute. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |