| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abound | be abundant or plentiful |
| cache | a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time; gradually |
| quest | the act of searching for something |
| embezzle | appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| ajar | partly open |
| hearth | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built |
| implore | beg or plead urgently |
| mar | destroy or injure severely |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony |
| mull | to think about or pondor |
| pact | a written agreement between two states or sovereigns |
| stalemate | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge |
| surplus | a quantity much larger than is needed |
| shirk | avoid dealing with |
| botch | to patch up |
| beneficiary | the recipient of funds or other benefits |
| regal | 1. royal, kinglike; fit for a king |
| quibble | an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections |
| melancholy | a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed |
| flounder | walk with great difficulty |
| downtrodden | 1. treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed |
| prudent | careful and sensible |
| ordain | appoint to a clerical posts |
| insubordinate | disobedient, rebellious, defiant, unruly, mutinous |
| disputatious | inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits |
| perjury | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
| paradox | (logic) a self-contradiction |
| flagrant | conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
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