- ALLOY: (v) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior (unalloyed means pure)
- APPROPRIATE: (v) to take for one's own use; confiscate
- ARREST: (v/adj) to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention
- AUGUST: (adj) majestic, venerable
- BENT: (n) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
- BROACH: (v) bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- BROOK: (v) to tolerate, endure, countenance
- CARDINAL: (adj) major, as in cardinal sin
- CHAUVINIST: (n) a blindly devoted patriot
- COLOR: (v) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect
- CONSEQUENTIAL: (adj) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
- DAMP: (v) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
- DIE: (n) a tool used for shaping
- ESSAY: (v) to test or try; attempt, experiment
- EXACT: (v) to demand, call for; require, take
- FELL: (v) to cause to fall by striking
- FELL: (adj) inhumanly cruel (eg. a fell beast)
- FLAG: (v) to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
- FLIP: (adj) sarcastic, impertinent
- FORD: (v) to wade across the shallow part of a stream or river
- GROUSE: (v) to complain or grumble
- GUY: (n/v) a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy (think "guide")
- INTIMATE: (v) to imply, suggest or insinuate
- LIST: (v) to tilt or lea to one side
- LUMBER: (v) to move heavily and clumsily
- MEET: (adj) fitting, proper
- MILK: (v) to exploit, to squeeze for every last ounce of
- MINCE: (v) pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully
- NICE: (adj) exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
- OBTAIN: (adj) to be established, accepted, or customary
- OCCULT: (adj) hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- PEDESTRIAN: (adj) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
- PIED: (adj) multicolored, usually in blotches
- PINE: (v) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
- PLASTIC: (adj) moldable, pliable, not rigid
- PLUCK: (n) courage, spunk, fortitude
- PRIZE: (v) to pry; to press or force with a lever
- QUAIL: (v) to lose courage; turn frightened
- QUALIFY: (v) to limit
- RAIL: (v) to complain about bitterly
- RENT: (v/n) torn; past of red/an opeing or a tear caused by such
- SAP: (n) a fool or nitwit
- SCURVY: (adj) contemptible, despicable
- SINGULAR: (adj) exceptional, unusual, odd
- STAND: (n) a group of trees
- STEEP: (v) to saturate or completely soak
- STRUT: (n) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
- TABLE: (v) to remove from consideration
- TENDER: (v) to proffer or offer
- WAFFLE: (v) to equivocate; to change one's position
- WAG: (n) wit; joker