| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| doyen |
the senior or highest-ranking male member of a group. |
| expound |
to discuss or explain in detail (usually followed by "on" or "upon"). |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| glut |
a greater supply or amount than is needed. |
| indemnity |
insurance against damage, loss, or liability. |
| innocuous |
not capable of causing damage; harmless. |
| intersperse |
to place or scatter among other things. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| malingerer |
one who pretends to be ill or injured, especially in order to avoid work or duty. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |
| sententious |
using or marked by pompous, high-flown moralizing. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |