| abash |
to cause to feel embarrassed, uneasy, or ashamed. |
| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| comity |
mutual courtesy and respectful treatment among people or nations. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| dissimulate |
to hide one's true feelings, intentions, or the like by pretense or hypocrisy. |
| erudite |
having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge; learned. |
| espouse |
to take up, hold, or commit oneself to (a cause, idea, or belief); embrace. |
| extort |
to extract or obtain (money or the like) by force, threats, or abuse of authority. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| incessant |
never stopping; constant. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| louche |
of questionable decency, morality, or taste; shady; disreputable. |
| paroxysm |
a sudden strong outburst of feelings or actions. |
| tamp |
to compress and pack tightly by repeated light taps. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |