| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appellative |
a descriptive name or title, as "Terrible" in "Ivan the Terrible". |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| bereft |
deprived or stripped of something. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| linguistics |
(used with a singular verb) the scientific and historical study of the form and structure of human language. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| pelf |
money or wealth, usually regarded with disapproval or contempt. |
| remonstrate |
to say in opposition, protest, or objection. |
| Saturnalia |
an occasion of unrestrained revelry. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| topography |
the shape of the earth's surface across an area or region. The topography of an area includes the size and location of hills and dips in the land. |
| 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. |