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| a temporary suspension of activity |
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| voluntarily refraining from eating vertain foods or drink or from doing something pleasant but not good for you |
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| hard to understand or grasp |
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| to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely |
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| cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness |
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| able to walk or move about |
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| false, spurious, of a doubtful orgin |
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| hermitlike, self-denial, austere |
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| hardworking, busy, diligent |
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| whimsical, fanciful, impulsive |
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| to punish, chastise, criticize severely |
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| wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression |
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| argumentative over a point, quarrelsome |
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| to run counter to, to show something as false |
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| to tolerate, to put up with something |
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| a disaster or violent breakdown |
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| to discern, to see something, to catch sight of |
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| to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting |
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| comic, sometimes crude, informal verse |
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| a file of documents, letters and records |
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| having a nice, agreeable melodious soung |
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| a eulogy or expression of high praise |
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| native, belonging to a specific region |
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| to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of |
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| vanishing, happening for the briefest moment |
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| an excellent model, a typical example |
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| urgent, demands prompt action |
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| to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate |
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| humourous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner |
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| fertile, productive, fruitful |
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| a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire |
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| to deny, to speak or act against |
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| a dominant of recurring theme |
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| an emankment designed to prevent a river rom flooding |
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| to run at a steady easy pace |
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| to softern by soaking, to cause to waste away |
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| the humorous mususe of a word that sounds very much like the word intended |
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| to enroll, most particularly in college |
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| bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner |
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| being in a dying or decaying condition |
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| unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering |
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| eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
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| to become rigid, to become set it one's ways |
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| to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing |
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| lofty praise, eulogistic writing |
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| careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty |
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| to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech |
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| shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment |
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| cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish |
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| pungent, charmingly provocative |
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| to deviate from the truth |
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| corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagan |
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| nearness in place or time, kinship |
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| readily assuming different shapes or characters |
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| stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority |
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| hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head |
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| a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel |
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| restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative |
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| vulgar or indecent language |
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| winding, having many curves |
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| marked with thin lines or grooves |
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| arogant, overbearing, condescending |
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| a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man |
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| boldness, rashness, audacity |
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| hostile, agressive, savage |
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| empty, lacking intelligence |
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| a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid |
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