| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| cyst |
a small pouch within body tissue that is filled with fluid or air. Some cysts are connected with serious disease, but most are not harmful at all. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| extrinsic |
not inherent or essential; extraneous. |
| fealty |
faithfulness or loyalty. |
| forbear |
to keep or abstain from (an action or utterance). |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| lenitive |
mitigating pain, discomfort, or distress; soothing. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |