(adj) fidgeting about; uneasy; restless

"What makes you so _______ that you can't sit still with us for a minute?"

(adj) bitter, mocking, sarcastic, biting

"His ________, sneering wit is sometimes more stinging than amusing."

(adj) giving pleasure through the senses, esp. artistic form, color, sound, texture

"The feeling of the warm sun on your bare legs is one of the __________ pleasures of summer."

(adj) indulging in physical, esp. sexual pleasure

"Explicit description of _________ behavior is not necessary to convey the idea."

(adj) dull, not easily aroused or excited

"The ________ young man listened to the jazz concert without a movement, not so much as a tap of his fingers."

(n) lover of luxury, sensual pleasure; voluptuary

"Exotic music! Incense! Cushions on the floor! Why, the man is a regular ________!"

(n) vituperative, intemperate speech

"Whenever he drank too much, he would go into a long ________ against the government."

(n) caprice, whim, quirk, impulse

"Some _______, some irrational whim which no one could understand, made him turn around and go the other way after all."

(adj) corrupt, capable of being bought, mercenary

"A ________ politician, whose vote can be bought, is worse than a traitor."

(adj) experienced through sympathy with another; indirect

"He is too small to play football, but he gets a _________ pleasure from watching others play."

(v) to make weak, ineffective; spoil, invalidate

"His strength was _______ed by late hours and heavy drinking."

(v) surrender, relinquish, renounce, deny

"By emigrating she ___________ all ties with her homeland."

(adj) difficult to comprehend, recondite

"Modern physics is too ________ for untrained people to understand."

(adj) sharp, bitter taste or odor; bitterly irritating to feelings

"We were all afraid of his _______ wit."

(v)(n) to insult openly; an open insult

"I take your slanderous press release to be a deliberate ________ to my campaign."

(n) error in chronology, something outdated, an anomoly

"My father's belief in a double moral standard, one for girls and another for boys, is __________ic."

(adj) marked by dignity or grandeur; awesome

"The king's _________ presence caused the crowd to fall silent."

(n) harsh, dissonant sound; jangling

"Acid rock to him sounded like mere __________."

(n) distress caused by humiliation, disappointment; shame

"When I dropped the tea cup, I blushed with __________."

(adj) held or conducted with secrecy; surreptitious

"The conspirators held a ___________ meeting."

(n) haughty, scornful, rude language; disdain

"Instead of listening to my explanation, he verbally brushed me aside with ___________."