| adamantine |
firmly decided or fixed; unyielding. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| germane |
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent; significant. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| imprecation |
a curse, uttered or thought of. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| perquisite |
a payment or benefit in addition to the wages or salary associated with a position. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| transpose |
to exchange the position or order of (two things). |