| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| amortize |
to deduct (expenditures) by fixed amounts over a period of time. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| fixation |
an obsession, especially one that interferes with normal functioning. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| insularity |
the condition of being closed to new ideas or outside influences; narrow-mindedness. |
| laudatory |
expressing praise. |
| modus operandi |
a method of accomplishing something; way of working. |
| parlance |
manner of speaking or writing, especially word choice; vernacular. |
| schadenfreude |
(often capitalized) pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |
| tyro |
one who is beginning to learn a business, trade, sport, or the like; novice; neophyte. |