| Term | Definition |
|---|
| legerdemain | sleight of hand; artful trick; A show of skill or deceitful cleverness |
| martinet | someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; A strict Disciplinarian |
| pelf | informal terms for money; Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired |
| repugnant | Offensive to taste and feeling; bad, obnoxious; hostile |
| proffer | a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection |
| placebo | an innocuous or inert medication |
| aggrieved | wronged, offended, injured; treated wrongly |
| rant | talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| pulchritude | physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
| pulsatile | marked by or occuring in pulsation |
| chip | break a small piece off from |
| puckish | naughtily or annoyingly playful |
| flounder | to struggle to move; to proceed clumsily |
| cession | Something that is given up. |
| rile | make turbid by stirring up the sediments of; to stir up anger |
| addendum | textual matter that is added onto a publication |
| omnipotent | having unlimited power |
| irk | irritate or vex |
| waffle | pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness |
| roil | to stir up, disturb, rile |
| resilient | recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like |
| embolden | give encouragement to; foster boldness |
| bedlam | a state of extreme confusion and disorder |
| heed | pay close attention to |
| adolescent | in the state of development between puberty and maturity |
| indelible | cannot be removed, washed away or erased |
| destitute | poor enough to need help from others |
| meteoric | coming into existence swiftly, suddenly , brightly, like a meteor |
| surly | bad-temoered, rude, and hostile |
| invigorate | impart vigor, strength, or vitality to |
| repose | freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) |
| stoical | seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain |
| estrange | arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; alienate |
| overhaul | periodic maintenance on a car or machine |
| bilious | ill-tempered; very unpleasant |
| extricate | free from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle |
| quarantine | isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease |
| dissuasion | persuasion not to do something |
| unfathomed | situated at or extending to great depth |
| restiveness | the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters; uneasiness |
| sublime | exalted, noble and uplifting, utter |
| friable | easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder |
| prig | a person who adheres smugly or unthinkingly to a rigid standard of propriety or morality |
| dissipated | indulging excessively in sensual pleasures (to spend or use wastefully) |
| straddling | sit with each leg on one side |
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