• corral, hurdle, wattle enclosure
• austere, have no side, homely, humble, low-pitched, lowly, meek, moderate, modest, unambitious, unassuming, unimportant, unobtrusive, unpretending, unpretentious
• assassination, attempt, outrage
• humbly, lowly, meekly, unobtrusively
• to busy oneself, to hustle, to roust about, to stir
• false modesty, mock modesty