| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| barrage |
a great number of things coming one after another very quickly. |
| berate |
to reproach or scold severely. |
| colloquialism |
a word or phrase typically used in conversational, informal, or regional speech or writing, hence sometimes considered inappropriate in formal writing. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| liminal |
of or at the threshold of a physiological or psychological response or change of state. |
| malaise |
a state or condition of feeling generally unwell, mentally depressed, sluggish, or uneasy. |
| stochastic |
of, or arising from chance or probability. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |