| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| arrant |
complete; unmitigated; downright. |
| bellicose |
easily incited to quarrel or fight; belligerent. |
| cognomen |
a last name; surname. |
| constrict |
to pull or squeeze in; make smaller or more narrow; tighten. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| euphoria |
a strong feeling of well-being or elation, sometimes unrealistic or unwarranted, and able to be induced by certain drugs. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| indistinct |
not clearly perceived or perceiving. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| lenitive |
mitigating pain, discomfort, or distress; soothing. |
| parsimonious |
excessively frugal; stingy. |
| pretentious |
assuming or marked by an air of importance or superiority that is unwarranted. |
| stridulate |
to produce a shrill grating, creaking, or chirping sound by rubbing certain parts of the body together, as some insects do. |