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| lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic. |
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| to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach |
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| dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical. |
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| A construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective, is applied to 2 or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way. |
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| using few words; expressing much in few words; concise, terse. |
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| Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail; difficult to please; exacting. |
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| precisely meaningful; brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning |
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| a very noisy place; wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos; the abode of all the demons. 2. capital city in Dante’s Inferno. |
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| 2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable. 3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable. |
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| 1. A small mark; a scar or birthmark; 2. A mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one’s reputation. |
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| tending to make or become worse; belittling; tending to disparage or belittle. |
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| To obstruct, retard, interfere with, or slow the progress of; hinder. |
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| 1. excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters, 2. wordy or diffuse; tiresomely talkative. |
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| 1. dangerous or hard to perform 2. Having enormous strength, courage, or size. |
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| 1. a name, title, or designation. The act of naming |
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| showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions,contemptuous, or pessimistic. |
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| 1. to stimulate or shock by or as if by a electric current. 3. to startle into sudden activity; stimulate (as in a crowd). |
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| to free from entanglements; to carry out promptly or speed up the process of. |
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| to edit (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable; to expurgate (a book) prudishly. |
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| a shaded, leafy recess; an arbor. a rustic cottage; a country retreat; a woman’s private chamber in a medieval castle. |
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| 1. to exclude, by general consent, from a group 2. to banish (a person) from his or her native country; expatriate. |
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| 1. Abnormal drowsiness. 2. The quality or state of being lazy, sluggish, inactive, or indifferent. Syn. lassitude, torpor, stupor, languor. |
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| to affirm positively as true; to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner; to allege as a fact. |
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| tending to delay, procrastinate, or postpone; intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision |
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| 1. one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain. |
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| to act as a go-between or liaison in amorous intrigues; function as a procurer. a go-between in sexual intrigues. |
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| of or relating to a lower world of the dead; of or relating to hell or a nether world. |
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| brilliantly clever; animated, vivacious; marked by high spirits or excitement. |
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| lighthearted and unconcerned; free of cares and anxiety. |
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