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| stale from overuse; trite, insipid, commonplace |
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| source of bad luck or harm; curse, destruction |
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| extravagant, elaborate style of decoration or presentation; ornate, as music or literature |
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| looking for a fight; aggressive, feisty, warlike |
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| a leader, one who will take charge |
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| gentle, gracious, kind; mild or favorable, not malignant |
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| to trouble, harass, or hem in |
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| diagonal line; prejudice or personal outlook; bent tendency |
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| to quarrel over little things; quibble, argue |
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| hypocrite; intolerant person who thinks his way is the only way |
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| profanity, as a lack of respect for God; swearing about something sacred |
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| embarrassingly obvious, loud, or showy; brazen, tasteless |
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| cheerful, merry, and lighthearted; casual, heedless |
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| person lacking manners or sensitivity; clod, yokel |
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| cowlike; patient and slow-moving; dull or placid |
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| rather salty; unappealing |
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| to wave about in a threatening way; to swing back and forth; to flourish with a flair |
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| bandit or thief (used in a less negative sense) |
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| abrupt, short, or blunt, usually unpleasant in effect; curt |
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| referring to the country; rustic, rural, pastoral |
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| egotistic, often irritatingly self-assured; pushy, arrogant |
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| lighthearted, cheerful, upbeat; able to float |
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| a literary or dramatic work making fun or ridiculing by comic exaggeration; a mockery or caricature |
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| a support that gives stability and strength |
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| to shore up, support, or strengthen |
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| horrible sound; harsh, displeasing noise |
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| moral or mental worth; quality; diameter of a projectile or bore of the gun |
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| malicious, damaging talk about another; slander |
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| open and honest; fair or free of bias; frank, even to bluntness |
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| hypocritical talk; dialect of a particular group; jargon; trite talk |
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| to tilt or slant at an angle |
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| grumpy, testy, bad-tempered and quarrelsome |
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| to do a survey; solicit votes, opinions, orders, etc. |
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| to give in surrender, or acquiesce |
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| not steady or constant; changing at a whim |
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| overly critical, finding fault easily |
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| slaughter or massacre (as in a war) |
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| to nitpick; find fault in a petty manner |
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| something that cleans or purges; a purifier |
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| biting or corrosive ; incisive, cutting |
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| to object in a trivial or unimportant way; to find fault in a captious way |
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| embarrassment; unhappiness brought on by humiliation |
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