• abscond: to depart secretly and hide oneself
• admonitions: gentle or friendly criticism
  
  ⤿ counsel or warning against fault or oversight
• affront: to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
• akimbo: having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward
  
  ⤿ set in a bent position
• alacrity: promptness in response
• anathema: someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
• apercus [a-per-sue ]: a brief survey or sketch
• atavism: recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
• augure: to foretell especially from omens

• bibelot [bee-ba-low]: a small household ornament or decorative object; trinket
• bowdlerize: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
  
  ⤿ to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
• bucolic: relating to or typical of rural life
  
  ⤿ of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen

• calumny: a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
• carbuncles: any of several red precious stones
  
  ⤿ a painful local purulent inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues with multiple openings for the discharge of pus and usually necrosis and sloughing of dead tissue
• caul: the large fatty omentum covering the intestines (as of a cow, sheep, or pig)
  
  ⤿ the inner fetal membrane of higher vertebrates especially when covering the head at birth
• circumspect: careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
• comestible: edible
• commonweal (commonwealth): the general welfare
• concupiscence: strong sexual desire

• delsultory: marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
  
  ⤿ not connected with the main subject
  
  ⤿ disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
• diaphanous: characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
  
  ⤿ characterized by extreme delicacy of form; ethereal
• dolorous: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
• dotage: a state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline

• effrontery: shameless boldness
• enmity: positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
• enervate: lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor
  
  ⤿ to reduce the mental or moral vigor
• equanimity: evenness of mind especially under stress
• ersatz: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

• fecund: fruitful in offspring or vegetation
  
  ⤿ intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree
• folderol [fal-del-rol]: a useless ornament or accessory
  
  ⤿ nonsense
• frisson: a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder
• froideur: coolness or extreme reserve in manner

. . .

• hamartia: tragic flaw
• harridan: a strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman
• hermetically: in an airtight manner
• hoi polloi: the general populace
• hoyden: a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior

• imbroglio: an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding
• inclement: lacking mildness
• indefatigable: incapable of being fatigued; untiring
• insouciant: lighthearted unconcern

. . .

. . .

• lily-livered: lacking courage; cowardly
• louche: not reputable or decent
• loquacious: full of excessive talk; wordy
• lugubrious: exaggeratedly mournful

• maelstrom: a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
• mendacity: given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truths

. . .

. . .

• paucity: smallness of number
• penultimate: next to the last
  
  ⤿ of or relating to the next to the last syllable of a word
• piquant: agreeably stimulating to the taste
  
  ⤿ engagingly provocative or stimulating
• porcine: of, relating to, or suggesting swine; piggish
• prurient: marked by, arousing, or appealing to sexual desire

• quotidian: occurring every day

• rebarbative: repellent, irritating
• rheumy: a watery discharge from the mucous membranes especially of the eyes or nose

• sagacious: of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning
• sartorial: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
• scintillating [sin-​til-lat-​ing]: obrilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty
• shirkers: to go stealthily
  
  ⤿ to evade the performance of an obligation
• smarmy: revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness
  
  ⤿ of low sleazy taste or quality
• sonorous: producing sound (as when struck)
  
  ⤿ full or loud in sound
• sotto voce: under the breath
• stalwart: marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit
• suppurate: to form or discharge pus
• sybarite: a person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury

• temerity: unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness
• torpor: a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility

• unguents: a soothing or healing salve

• vertiginous: characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness
  
  ⤿ inclined to frequent and often pointless change
• vestibule: a passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior of a building; lobby
• virago: a loud overbearing woman

• wittering: a piece of information (as a sign, token, or hint)

. . .

• yokel: a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town

. . .

• abscond: to depart secretly and hide oneself
• admonitions: gentle or friendly criticism
  
  ⤿ counsel or warning against fault or oversight
• affront: to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
• akimbo: having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward
  
  ⤿ set in a bent position
• alacrity: promptness in response
• anathema: someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
• apercus [a-per-sue ]: a brief survey or sketch
• atavism: recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
• augure: to foretell especially from omens

• bibelot [bee-ba-low]: a small household ornament or decorative object; trinket
• bowdlerize: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
  
  ⤿ to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
• bucolic: relating to or typical of rural life
  
  ⤿ of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen

• calumny: a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
• carbuncles: any of several red precious stones
  
  ⤿ a painful local purulent inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues with multiple openings for the discharge of pus and usually necrosis and sloughing of dead tissue
• caul: the large fatty omentum covering the intestines (as of a cow, sheep, or pig)
  
  ⤿ the inner fetal membrane of higher vertebrates especially when covering the head at birth
• circumspect: careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
• comestible: edible
• commonweal (commonwealth): the general welfare
• concupiscence: strong sexual desire

• delsultory: marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
  
  ⤿ not connected with the main subject
  
  ⤿ disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
• diaphanous: characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
  
  ⤿ characterized by extreme delicacy of form; ethereal
• dolorous: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
• dotage: a state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline

• effrontery: shameless boldness
• enmity: positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
• enervate: lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor
  
  ⤿ to reduce the mental or moral vigor
• equanimity: evenness of mind especially under stress
• ersatz: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

• fecund: fruitful in offspring or vegetation
  
  ⤿ intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree
• folderol [fal-del-rol]: a useless ornament or accessory
  
  ⤿ nonsense
• frisson: a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder
• froideur: coolness or extreme reserve in manner

• hamartia: tragic flaw
• harridan: a strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman
• hermetically: in an airtight manner
• hoi polloi: the general populace
• hoyden: a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior

• imbroglio: an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding
• indefatigable: incapable of being fatigued; untiring
• inclement: lacking mildness
• insouciant: lighthearted unconcern

• lily-livered: lacking courage; cowardly
• louche: not reputable or decent
• loquacious: full of excessive talk; wordy
• lugubrious: exaggeratedly mournful

• maelstrom: a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
• mendacity: given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truths

• paucity: smallness of number
• penultimate: next to the last
  
  ⤿ of or relating to the next to the last syllable of a word
• piquant: agreeably stimulating to the taste
  
  ⤿ engagingly provocative or stimulating
• porcine: of, relating to, or suggesting swine; piggish
• prurient: marked by, arousing, or appealing to sexual desire

• quotidian: occurring every day

• rebarbative: repellent, irritating
• rheumy: a watery discharge from the mucous membranes especially of the eyes or nose

• sagacious: of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning
• sartorial: of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
• sepulchre: a place of burial; tomb
• scintillating [sin-​til-lat-​ing]: obrilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty
• shirkers: to go stealthily
  
  ⤿ to evade the performance of an obligation
• smarmy: revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness
  
  ⤿ of low sleazy taste or quality
• sonorous: producing sound (as when struck)
  
  ⤿ full or loud in sound
• sotto voce: under the breath
• stalwart: marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit
• suppurate: to form or discharge pus
• sybarite: a person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury

• temerity: unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness
• torpor: a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility

• unguents: a soothing or healing salve

• vertiginous: characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness
  
  ⤿ inclined to frequent and often pointless change
• vestibule: a passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior of a building; lobby
• virago: a loud overbearing woman

• wittering: a piece of information (as a sign, token, or hint)

• yokel: a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town