| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| conclave |
a secret, private, or confidential meeting or gathering. |
| deadeye |
an expert shooter. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| erudite |
having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge; learned. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| jejune |
lacking interest or liveliness; dull. |
| kibbutz |
an Israeli farming settlement whose ownership is shared by those who live and work there. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| reprise |
repetition of a musical phrase or theme in an identical or slightly altered way. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |