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| the sharp striking of one thing against another |
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| lasting for an indefinitely long time |
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| to penetrate through spaces, to spread throughout |
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| to hold fast to a task or purpose despite handicaps or obstacles |
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| tending to delay or postpone |
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| exited feelings of pride, triumph, or happiness |
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| to use available evidence to form a conclusion |
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| to engage in a quarrel, a struggle, or a rivalry |
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| to upset, to overthrow, to ruin |
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| excessively willing to yield |
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| to twist or bend out of shape |
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| to change something to make it false |
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| to reply quickly and sharply |
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| having many twists and turns |
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| a person who's thoughts are directed inward |
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| stubbornly doing something other than what is reasonable or required |
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| ordinary speech or writing without rhyme |
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| a passage selected from a book, play, or a piece of music |
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| to cheer, to stimulate, to enliven |
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| to cheer, to stimulate, to enliven |
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| to mix together, to combine two or more parts or elements |
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| a precise statement or explanation |
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| to set forth an explanation or view of something in detail |
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| to set up, or force to on others |
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| one who deceives by using a false identity |
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| one who argues in support of something |
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| coming from outside, foreign |
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| outside or originating outside the limits of the earth's atmosphere |
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| a person chiefly interested in things outside the self, directing thoughts outward |
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| to act as a negotiator between opposing sides in a dispute |
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| the condition of being commonplace or ordinary, somewhere in the middle between high and low, an ordinary person |
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| a substance or element though which something is transmitted |
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| a statement that does not follow logically from evidence |
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| excessively willing to yield to others |
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| to go into hiding, to seek solitude |
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| sowing an orderly relation of parts |
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| characteristics of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing |
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| to fell or express sorrow or pity |
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| spacious, roomy, as in a house |
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| thoroughly remorseful and repentant for one's sins |
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| to refrain from something by one's choice |
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| holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief |
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| hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly |
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| a natural talent or ability, quickness in learning |
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| an added part not essential to the whole |
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| to give forms of verbs in a fixed order |
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| an authoritative command or order |
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| a serious state of affairs |
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| to conquer, to dominate completely |
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| a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water |
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| severe, constricted, tight |
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