| affable |
pleasant to talk to and be with; friendly; likeable. |
| amenity |
(plural) social courtesies; agreeable manners; pleasantries. |
| astral |
of, concerning, emanating from, or resembling the stars; stellar. |
| buttress |
a structure built to give support to the outside of a building or a wall. |
| cerebral |
characterized by intellect or reason. |
| distill |
to subject (a substance) to heat to the point of vaporization, and then to cooling to produce condensation. |
| extant |
still in existence; current; not extinct, destroyed, or lost. |
| fluency |
the ability to speak or write smoothly and easily in another language. |
| incongruity |
the condition of being inappropriate or inconsistent. |
| mania |
an extreme desire or enthusiasm. |
| meander |
to wind back and forth. |
| notation |
a system of signs used to stand for numbers, words, or musical notes. |
| pique |
to cause (a feeling or action) to be aroused or incited. |
| sordid |
morally bad; ignoble or base. |
| stodgy |
lacking the ability or inclination to act informally or to find humor or enjoyment in things that others might; stuffy; prim. |