(a) mysterious; mystifying; clandestine mysterious;

(a) relating to cooking or the kitchen

(v) to climax; to reach full effect

(a) deserving blame; guilty

(a) hasty; superficial

(v) to shorten; to cut short

(n) one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness

(v) to make fearful; to intimidate

(n) lack; scarcity

(n) violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat

(n) wild living; excessive intemperance

(v) to weaken; to cripple

(a) decaying or decayed especially in terms of morals

(v) to kill or destroy a large part of; to kill one of every ten

(a) proper; in good taste; orderly

(v) to conclude from evidence; to infer

(v) to libel or slander; to ruin the good name of

(n) submission to another's will; respect; courtesy

(a) conclusive; providing the last word

(v) to break down; to deteriorate

(a) harmful

(v) to describe accurately; to draw in outline

(v) to deceive

(n) a flood; an inundation

(n) a leader of the people but more a rabble rouser

(n) inhabitant

(n) extreme wickedness or corruption

(v) to express disapproval of

(v) to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously

(a) disapproving; degrading

(v) to dry out

(a) extremely depressed; full of despair

(n) an absolute ruler; an autocrat

(a) extremely poor; utterly lacking

(a) without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random

(a) relating to discussions; relating to the rules and methods of reasoning; approaching truth in the middle of opposing extremes

(n) an authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb

(a) intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic

(a) timid; lacking in self-confidence

(v) to stray from the main subject

(n) someone with superficial knowledge of the arts; an amateur; a dabbler

(v) to have insight; to see things clearly to discriminate; to differentiate

(a) prudent; judiciously reserved

(a) unconnected; separate; distinct

(v) to notice or point out the difference between two or more things; to discern; to differentiate ;

(n) arrogant scorn; contempt

(a) not taking sides; unbiased

(v) to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about usually in a somewhat indirect way

(a) different; incompatible; unequal

(v) to spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known

(v) to thin out drift away or dissolve; to cause to thin out drift away or dissolve; to waste or squander

(n) the breaking up or dissolving of something into parts; disintegration

(v) to swell; to extend a great deal

(v) to tell apart; to cause to stand out

(a) easily taught; obedient; easy to handle

(a) inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality; dogmatic

(a) arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; stubbornly claiming that something often a system of beliefs is beyond dispute

(a) having to do with the household or family; not foreign

(a) inactive; as though asleep; asleep ~volcano ~window

(a) full of doubt; uncertain; a ~ friend; be ~ about

(n) the act of being two-faced; double-dealing; deception

(a) boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant

(a) not conventional; a little kooky; irregular

(a) choosing the best from many sources; drawn from many sources

(v) to enlighten; to instruct especially in moral or religious matters

(v) to erase; to rub away the features of eclipse

(n) a pouring forth

(a) believing in the social and economic equality of all people

(a) selfish; believing that one is the center of everything

(a) extremely bad; flagrant

(v) to bring out; to call forth; ~a laugh from; ~a reply

(a) oval; missing a word or words; obscure

(a) hard to pin down; evasive

(v) to move to a new country; to move a new place to live; to expatriate

(n) someone moving out of a country

(a) relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical

(v) to strive to equal or excel usually through imitation

(v) to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass on upon

(a) native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous

(v) to reduce the strength or energy of especially to do so gradually

(v) to grant the privileges of citizenship especially the right to vote

(v) to bring into existence; to create; to cause; to produce

(n) a mystery riddle

(n) extreme evil; a hideous offense; immensity

(a) lasting a very short time

(n) a brief and usually witty or satirical saying

(n) a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm ;

(n) composure; calm

(a) fair

(a) ambiguous; intentionally confusing; capable of being interpreted in more than one way

(a) scholarly; deeply learned

(a) hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar

(v) to support; to advocate

(a) heavenly as light and insubstantial as a gas

(n) a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one

(a) fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period

(v) to make worse

(a) extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care

(v) to raise high; to glorify

(v) to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of

(v) to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example

(a) thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking

(v) to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to

(n) an emergency; an urgency

(a) having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions

(v) to free completely from blame; to exculpate

(v) to throw someone out of his or her native land; to move away from ones native land

(a) providing an immediate advantage; serving ones immediate self-interest; practical

(v) to speed up or ease the progress of

(a) clearly and directly expressed

(v) to praise highly; to laud

(a) unnecessary; irrelevant; extra

(v) to protect or deduce from something known; to infer

(v) to free from difficulty

(n) an open outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself