| Term | Definition |
|---|
| chafe | [v] to rub roughly |
| fructify | [v] to make fruitful |
| addled | [adj] confused in mind, irrational, nonsensical |
| strident | [adj] loud, clamoring |
| timbre | [n] tone, quality of sound; as tone of voice |
| irrevocable | [adj] irreversible, incapable of being taken back |
| complement | [v] to harmonize with, as complementary colors |
| metaphysical | [adj] larger or greater than the physical, concerned with philosophical or spiritual matters |
| sonsolidate | [v] to put together (to make "solid" carious things) |
| peripheral | [adj] on the outside edges |
| furtive | [adj] sneaking, hidden |
| unsullied | [adj] undirtied, unpolluted |
| fabricate | [v] to build, to create |
| preen | [v] to admire oneself, to primp |
| acridness | [n] bitterness, acidity |
| disinterested | [adj] without emotion or passion, detached, objective |
| pristine | [adj] pure |
| soliloquoy | [n] (plural- soliloquies) speech spoken aloud to oneself |
| interminable | [adj] neverending |
| chagrined | [v or adj] upset, bothered, irritated |
| pervade | [v] to infiltrate |
| fretful | [adj] anxious, bothered, worrisome, peevish |
| malaise | [n] unease, illness |
| schemata | [n] order |
| dissipation | [n] squandering energy often through drinking excessibely |
| affluence | [n] wealth, state of material well being |
| dirge | [n] sad, mourning song |
| abhorrent | [adj] repellent, hateful |
| myraid | [adj] many, a multitude |
| emasculate | [v] to deprive of manhood, to humiliate |
| tacitly | [adv] silently, understood without spoken words |
| succumb | [v] to be defeated, to give up |
| fervently | [adv] passionately, with feeling |
| buffeted | [v] given blows, hits |
| static | [adj] unchanging |
| petulant | [adj] sulky, spoiled |
| epithets | [n] informal names, terms to refer to someone either in an endearing or in an insulting way |
| harridans | [n] shrews, scolding, demanding women |
| ameliorate | [v] to make better, to improve |
| covert | [adj] hidden, secret |
| solicitous | [adj] concerned about |
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