- lackadaisical: lacking spirit ,lax
- litany: a long list, catalog
- macabre: horrible,grim
- paucity: scarcity,lack
- portent: suggest,to give advance warning of
- raze: pull down ,to tear down
- recant: to withdraw a statement, repudiate
- saturate: flood, soak thoroughly
- saturnine: sullen,gloomy
- slough: shed, to cast off