| albeit |
notwithstanding; even though. |
| indigent |
without financial means to live; needy; poor. |
| indispose |
to cause unwillingness or disinclination in; make averse. |
| insular |
closed to new ideas; narrow-minded. |
| manifest |
to show plainly; display; demonstrate. |
| nonconformity |
refusal or failure to adjust one's behavior and actions to accord or comply with societal customs, values, or the like. |
| occult |
of, pertaining to, or with the aid of the supernatural. |
| ominous |
giving a sign of future evil or trouble. |
| presentiment |
an intuition or sense of something about to happen; foreboding. |
| profundity |
that which involves great insight or intellectual depth. |
| quip |
a short, humorous, clever, and often sarcastic utterance. |
| refract |
to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. |
| reticence |
the state or quality of being hesitant to speak out; reserve. |
| rhetoric |
the art, ability, or study of using language effectively in speech or writing, especially to influence or persuade one's audience. |
| trenchant |
incisive or penetrating, as perception or wit. |