| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| beatify |
to admire or exalt as superior. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| canard |
a deliberately false story or rumor, usually defamatory to someone. |
| expostulate |
to argue earnestly with someone, usually against an intended action; remonstrate. |
| flak |
(informal) irritating opposition, criticism, or dissent. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| knurled |
having small ridges. |
| macrocosm |
a large unit or entity that represents on a large scale one of its smaller components. |
| maverick |
a person who thinks and behaves independently, especially one who refuses to adhere to the orthodoxy of the group to which he or she belongs. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| periphrasis |
an indirect or roundabout way of phrasing something; circumlocution. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |
| somatic |
of or pertaining to the body itself; corporeal. |