| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| astringent |
a substance or drug that contracts body tissue and slows discharge or secretion. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| calumny |
a harmful statement, known by the maker to be false. |
| corollary |
a readily drawn conclusion; deduction or inference. |
| deterge |
to cleanse, wash, or wipe off. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| malapropism |
the humorous or ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by using a word that sounds similar to the correct word, but whose meaning is inappropriate. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| otiose |
having no purpose or use; unnecessary or futile. |
| recurve |
to bend or curve back or backward, as the ends of certain shooting bows. |