| abeyance |
temporary suspension or cessation. |
| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appellation |
a name, title, or other designation. |
| determinism |
the belief or teaching that every effect, including human thoughts and actions, is completely and predictably brought about by preceding causes and that, therefore, free will does not exist. |
| distraught |
mentally or emotionally unbalanced; crazed. |
| effrontery |
shameless impudence; insolence. |
| glabrous |
having no hair or fuzz; bald; smooth. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| stately |
dignified. |
| tort |
in law, any civil rather than criminal harm or injury that violates the implicit duty of each citizen not to harm others, and for which one may bring a civil suit and collect compensation. |
| trabeated |
using horizontal beams or lintels as supports instead of arches. |