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| lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking |
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| injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage |
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| disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic |
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| not producing, or tending to produce, cancer |
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| inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved |
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| answer; reply sharply or angrily |
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| overturn or overthrow from the foundation; undermine |
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| arouse by words; advise stronly; urge |
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| specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how; expertness |
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| lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid; jejune; vapid |
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| compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay |
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| fixed pay for services; salary; regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner |
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| (followed by to) in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome; repugnant; odious; abominable |
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| reprove gently but seriously; warn of a fault; caution |
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| extremely pleasing to taste or smell; delicious; like ambrosia (the food of the gods); heavenly |
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| lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory; short-lived; transient |
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| easily deceived or cheated; credulous |
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| bring back to condition of being full; refill |
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| unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently; unknowingly |
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| give, transfer, or deliver, as if by signing over; hand over; commit |
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| shameless boldness; insolence; gall; temerity; nerve; chutzpah |
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| causing great pain or anguish; agonizing; unbearably painful |
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| act of forbearing (refraining); abstaining; leniency; patience |
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| extraordinary in amount or size; enormous; gigantic; huge; colossal |
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| examine very closely; inspect; vet |
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| force out of use; displace; supplant; replace |
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having the characteristics of a clown; mildly insane; crazy; clownish; loony
clown; buffoon |
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| too please with oneself- often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug |
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| fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable |
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| showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant; remorseful |
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| in bad humor; displeased; discontented |
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| thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy |
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| painfully touching; piercing |
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| made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness |
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| excessive praise; flattery |
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| persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax |
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| work (oneself) into favor |
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| showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning |
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| submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself |
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| treat as highly important |
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| repeat mechanically, like a parrot (tropical bird that imitates human speech) |
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| remedy for a poison or evil |
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not dangerous
gentle, kindly |
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threatening to cause death
very evil |
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| recover health after illness; recuperate |
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resistance (to a disease)
freedom (as from an obligation); exemption |
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gruesome
having to do with disease |
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extremely poisoness; deadly; venomous
very bitter |
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| expressing low esteem; belittling; disparaging |
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| praise; extol; laud; glorify |
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| (used mainly in the plural) applause; enthusiastic praise; acclaim |
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| charge, esp. an unjust or false charge; insinuation; accusation |
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| false and defamatory printed (or written) statement |
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| speak evil of; vilify; traduce |
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| false and defamatory spoken statement; calumny |
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in the habit of joking
said in jest without serious intent |
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| lack of proper seriousness; trifiling gaiety; frivolity |
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| exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd |
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| cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness |
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| strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy |
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| perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree |
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| of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible |
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redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally high channels
purify; refine |
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| deep breach; wide gap or rift |
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| most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid |
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| low; mean; subservient; servile |
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| a person's or family's descent; lineage; pedigree |
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good manners
gentry; upper class |
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| offspring; children; descendants |
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| one of two ore more children of a family |
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| pertaining to the sense of smell |
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| upleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale |
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| young and inexperienced; unfledged |
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| person 90-99 years old (note also octogenarian, person 80-89 years old, and septuagenarian, person 70-79 years old) |
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firmly established by age; deep-rooted
habitual |
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| legal minority; period before maturity |
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| foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish |
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| in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted |
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| worthy of respect becuase of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance |
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published after the author's death
occuring after death |
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| sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent |
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calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator
listlessness |
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| throw (goods) overboard to lighten a ship or plane, discard |
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| cleanse; purify; rid of undesired element or person |
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| calm; peaceful (from halcyon, a bird thought to calm the waves) |
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| deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched |
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| sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating |
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kinship
nearness of place; proximity |
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| bottomless depth; immeasurably great space |
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| down-to-earth; realistic; coarse; low |
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lift up with joy, pride, etc.; elate
raise in rank, dignity, etc.; extol; glorify |
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