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| Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations |
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| Characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
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| Great warmth and earnestness of feeling |
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| A strong inclination, taste, or liking for something |
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| Boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions |
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| An outcast; any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided |
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| A natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion; an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling |
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| Disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reluctant or restrained |
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| Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure |
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| Dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.; the quality or state of being decorous; orderliness; regularity |
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| Gloomly or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
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| A riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words |
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| Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; temporary |
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| Fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, esp. in eating and drinking |
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| Promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
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