| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| astute |
keen in understanding and judgment; shrewd. |
| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. |
| demotic |
of or relating to the common people; popular. |
| imbroglio |
a difficult, confused, or complicated situation, often involving a misunderstanding, disagreement, or quarrel. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| ligature |
a band or tie. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| panegyric |
a formal speech or piece of writing devoted to publicly praising a person or thing. |
| risible |
provoking laughter; laughable or funny. |