to approach and speak to first;

to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

able to get and retain ideas or information;

concerned with acquiring wealth or property

to calm or pacify, set to rest;

to lessen or relieve

to pronounce distinctly;

to express well in words;

to connect by a joint or joints;

expressed clearly and forcefully;

able to employ language clearly and forcefully;

jointed

desirous of something to the point of greed;

intensely eager

to work on excessively;

to thrash soundly

straying or wandering from a straight or direct course;

done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

to decorate, adorn, touch up;

to improve by adding details

the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial;

fair and equal treatment;

something that is fair;

the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim

to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate;

to honor greatly, revere

incumbent

obligatory, required;

one who olds a specific office at the time spoken of

a principal idea, feature, theme, or element;

a repeated dominant figure in design

consisting of or measured in money;

of or related to money

stimulating to the taste or mind;

spicy, pungent;

appealingly provocative

reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound;

a fallacy

a watch kept over a person;

careful, close, and disciplined observation

pertaining to or characteristic of forests;

living or located in a forest;

wooded, woody

easily irritated;

characterized by impatience and exasperation

green in tint or color;

immature in experience or judgement