| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| dearth |
a shortage or scarcity of something; lack. |
| desideratum |
something that is needed or wanted. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| preferment |
the act of promoting or being promoted to a higher position or office. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| sagacious |
possessing or characterized by good judgment and common sense; wise. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |