| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Amalgam | 10 A mixture or combination |
| Escarpment | 10 A long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing |
| Contumacious | 11 Stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient |
| Disquieting | 12 Causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing |
| Cursory | 13 Going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial |
| Terse | 13 Neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language |
| Enigmatic | 13 Perplexing; mysterious |
| Subcutaneous | 14 Situated or lying under the skin, as tissue |
| Mawkish | 16 Characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin |
| Hyperkinetic | 16 A disorder occurring in children and adolescents, characterized by excessive activity, extreme |
| Combine | 16 A harvesting machine for cutting and threshing grain in the field |
| Convivial | 18 Friendly; agreeable |
| Onerous | 22 Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship |
| Detrital | 25 rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or |
| Interdiction | 27 Confrontation; ending of the advance of something |
| Convection | 27 the vertical transport of atmospheric properties, esp. upward |
| Wash | 25 the dry bed of an intermittent stream |
| Egress | 28 a means or place of going out; an exit |
| Adherent | 28 a person who follows or upholds a leader, cause, etc.; supporter; follower |
| Emasculate(d) | 32 To deprive of strength or vigor; to weaken |
| Perfunctory | 35 performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial |
| Precipitous | 36 Extremely or impassably steep |
| Primordial | 38 pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning |
| Garrulous | 40 excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters |
| Discernible | 39 Distinguishable |
| Bourgeois | 39 a member of the middle class |
| Sedentary | 44 accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise |
| Recluse | 44 a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society |
| Anachronistic | 47 out of its proper or chronological order, especially pertaining to an earlier time |
| Indelible | 48 that cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, or the like |
| Destitute | 51 without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter |
| Harangue(s) | 51 a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe |
| Fulminate | 52 to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like |
| Derelict | 59 a person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; |
| Immoderation | 64 Lack of restraint |
| Ambivalence | 66 uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to |
| Incoherent | 72 without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling |
| Eremitic | 73 Living in solitude |
| Uninhibited | 78 not restrained by social convention or usage; unconstrained |
| Petroglyph | 88 A carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric people |
| Brazenly | 89 In a shameless or impudent manner |
| Veracity | 95 conformity to truth or fact; accuracy |
| Insolence | 95 contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech |
| Congenial | 99 agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character |
| Taciturn | 103 inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation |
| Cadence | 105 rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words |
| Mercurial | 105 changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic |
| Vagary | 107 an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance |
| Rancor | 107 bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice |
| Apartheid | 113 in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite |
| Inherently | 115 In the manner of something permanent and inseparable |
| Dollop | 119 a small quantity |
| Monomania | 120 an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like |
| Clemency | 122 an act or deed showing mercy or leniency |
| Philanderer | 122 One who carries on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one |
| Pellucid | 124 clear or limpid |
| Recalcitrant | 128 resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant |
| Keening | 130 a wailing lament for the dead |
| Speculation | 134 conjectural consideration of a matter; conjecture or surmise |
| Exfoliate(d) | 135 to remove the surface of (a bone, the skin, etc.) in scales or laminae |
| Inveigle | 136 to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods |
| Precipitously | 136 very suddenly and to a great degree |
| Gravity | 141 serious or critical nature |
| Chutzpah | 143 audacity; nerve |
| Hector(ed) | 148 treated with insolence; bullied; tormented |
| Epiphany | 149 a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of |
| Metastasize(d) | 150 to transform, esp. into a dangerous form |
| Volition | 151 a choice or decision made by the will |
| Hubris | 155 excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance |
| Coppice | 176 a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood |
| Ungulate | 178 a hoofed mammal |
| Voyeur | 179 An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects |
| Hauteur | 180 haughty manner or spirit; arrogance |
| Sobriquet | 181 a nickname |
| Feckless | 184 having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy |
| Munificence | 188 a giving or bestowing with extraordinary liberality; generous bounty; lavish generosity |
| Transcend(ent) | 198 to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed |
| Confluence | 201 a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like |
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