| Term | Definition |
|---|
| charlatan | a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack. |
| elude | to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery |
| plausible | having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable |
| fugitive | a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway |
| circumvent | to go around or bypass |
| lethargic | pertaining to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish |
| inkling | a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation |
| rend | to separate into parts with force or violence |
| credible | capable of being believed; believable |
| quack | a person who pretends to have skill or knowledge he/she does not have; charlatan |
| dismantle | take off or remove |
| listless | lacking in spirit or energy; languid |
| respite | a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort |
| gratify | v. To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need. |
| forsaken | (v) to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert. To give up or renounce |
| heft | To lift (something) in order to judge or estimate its weight |
| raze | to destroy completely; demolish or decimate |
| demure | affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way |
| watchword | a secret password; a word or phrase expressive of a principle or rule of action; slogan; a rallying cry; a cheer |
| debunk | expose as false, exaggerate, worthless, ridicule |
| wan | abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress |
| epithet | word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas". |
| lacerate | to tear, cut roughly, rend, mangle; to wound, afflict, cause pain |
| exotic | strikingly strange or unusual |
| girth | distance around something; circumference |
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