| acrimony |
bitterness or sharpness in speech or behavior. |
| dispel |
to scatter or drive away in all directions. |
| grandiloquence |
speech that is pretentious, pompous, or excessively mannered. |
| intimacy |
the condition of being close in friendship or otherwise intimate. |
| invertebrate |
without a backbone |
| mania |
an extreme desire or enthusiasm. |
| namesake |
one who has been named after another. |
| patrician |
of, concerning, or belonging to an aristocratic class. |
| proclivity |
a natural tendency or inclination; propensity or predisposition. |
| prude |
someone who is extremely or overly concerned with modesty or proper conduct, speech, dress, or the like. |
| reprehensible |
deserving of blame or reproof; condemnable; blameworthy. |
| torpid |
dormant or inactive, as in hibernation. |
| torrid |
parched or scorched by the sun, as a geographic area. |
| traverse |
to go over, along, or through; cover or cross. |
| vogue |
a popular fashion or style. |