| conciliatory |
tending to placate or reconcile. |
| contemptuous |
feeling or expressing angry disgust, as at something unworthy or wicked; scornful. |
| electrify |
to shock, startle, or excite. |
| exigency |
a condition of urgency. |
| fallacious |
based on unsound logic; in error; illogical. |
| ferment |
a state of upset or fast change. |
| fester |
to become filled with pus; become infected. |
| fleck |
a small patch of light or color. |
| imponderable |
unable to be evaluated or calculated accurately. |
| maladjustment |
an inability to bring one's own needs into harmony with the demands of the external environment. |
| nonchalant |
not showing excitement or anxiety; coolly confident, unflustered, or unworried;casually indifferent. |
| proximity |
the condition, quality, or fact of being near or close; nearness. |
| stymie |
throw an obstacle in the way of (something or someone); impede; thwart. |
| veer |
to change direction; turn quickly. |
| vestige |
a visible trace or sign of something no longer present or existing. |