| audacity |
courage or boldness often combined with daring or recklessness. |
| comely |
pleasing in appearance. |
| equilibrium |
a state of balance between two or more forces. |
| mercurial |
volatile in temper; changeable; fickle. |
| monolithic |
large, unyielding, and without diversity. |
| neutrality |
the foreign policy of a nation that refuses to take sides in an international dispute. |
| oratory1 |
the art of public speaking. |
| progenitor |
an ancestor or forebear. |
| prosaic |
straightforward and plain; unimaginative; dull. |
| reassess |
to evaluate again. |
| rejoinder |
a response to a reply; retort. |
| scourge |
someone or something that inflicts punishment or causes suffering or destruction. |
| sedative |
causing tranquillity or calmness. |
| serendipity |
lucky coincidence or accidental discovery of something pleasant or valuable. |
| tenacious |
holding on or tending to hold on strongly or persistently (sometimes followed by "of"). |