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- factitious
- not natural, not spontaneous, not genuine; forced or artificial
- drollery
- the act of joking dryly or sarcastically
- discourse
- to speak or write formally and at length; to engage in conversation or discussion
- epoch
- a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development
- languid
- lacking energy or vitality; showing little or no spirit or animation; lacking vigor or force
- tenebrous
- dark, gloomy
- athwart
- from side to side; crosswise or transversely
- cocksure
- certain about something
- inextricable
- impossible to escape from
- ulster
- a loose, long overcoat made of heavy, rugged fabric, and often belted
- satiated
- satisfied, fulfilled
- imperturbably
- not being disconcerted, disturbed, or excited; unshakebly calm and collected
- shoal
- a shallow place in a river
- somnambulist
- a person who walks in their sleep
- recondite
- hidden from sight, concealed
- eloquence
- speech or writing that is vivid, forceful, fluent, graceful, and persuasive
- circuitous
- not being forthriht or direct in language or action; taking a roundabout, lengthy course
- estuary
- a water passage where the tide meets a river current, especially an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river
- trenchant
- cutting, sharp; keen, penetrating, incisive, as with trenchant words; forceful, vigorous, effective, as with a trenchant argument
- peroration
- the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up and emphatic recapitulation; a high-flown, bombastic speech
- evanescence
- the tendency to vanish like vapor
- impalpable
- cannot be perceived by the senses
- voraviously
- insatiable, ravenous, having a huge appetite
- superciliousness
- full of contempt and arrogance
- inscrutable
- hard to interpret
- recrudesce
- to break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence
- conflagration
- large disastrous fire
- rapacity
- predator-like -- living by eating prey; being covetous, greedy, ravenous; taking by force
- craven
- characterized by abject fear or cowardice
- propitiatory
- to cause to become favorably inclined; win or regain the good will of; appease or conciliate
- primeval
- relating to the earliest, first time or age
- lugubrious
- mournful, exaggeratedly mournful or dismal
- moribund
- approaching death; about to die; on the verge of becoming obsolete
- motley
- cloth of mixed colors; composed of many different or clashing elements
- jocose
- joking, humorous, playful
- skepticism
- philospohical doctrine that truth of all knowledge must always be in question and that inquiry must be a process of doubting; a doubting attitude or state of mind
- untrammeled
- unrestrained, unconfined
- insipid
- not exciting or interesting; dull, lifeless; lacking flavor or zest
- sepulchral
- relating to a burial vault; suggestive of the grave
- equitable
- characterized by equity, fairness, justice
- offing
- the part of the deep sea seen from the shore
- absconded
- to run away secretly and/or hastily and hide oneself
- unscathed
- unharmed, uninjured
- assegais
- a slender spear of light javelin
- sprit
- a spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
- harlequin
- a traditional comic character in a pantomime, who wears a mask and spangled diamond-patterned tights in many colors
- sustenance
- that which sustains life; means of livelihood
- precipitate
- to throw headlong, hurl downward; to cause to happen before expected, needed or desired; acting, happening, done very hastily, rashly, impetously
- sententious
- abounding in pompous moralizing; energetic in expression; characteriezed by aphoristic utterances
- insatiable
- always needing more and impossible to satisfy
- ascendancy
- controlling influence
- obsequiously
- subserviently, marked by fawning attentiveness
- tepid
- barely or moderately warm; lacking warmth of feeling or enthusiasm