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| Adjective that means traveling from place to place.Someone who travels around is an _________. |
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| Noun for one who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or means of livelihood. It can also be used as an adjective. A more contemporary term is homeless. |
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| Noun that means temporary stay or brief period of residence. It may also be used as a verb. |
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| Adjective that means remaining in a place for only a brief time or passing with time. As a noun it means a person who stays somewhere for only a brief time, such as a hotel guest. |
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| Verb that means to move from one country or region and settle in another and is used to describe the behavior of both animals and people. |
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| Noun that literally means a pilgrimage to Mecca. It can be used to signify any important journey. |
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| Adjective that means walking from place to place or traveling on foot. |
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| Noun that means to wander or travel abroad. |
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| Verb that means to get around by artful maneuvering or to bypass. |
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| Noun that suggests a more figurative kind of travel. It means a deviation from the expected course and is more likely to connote not following expectations than physically traveling anywhere. |
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| Used as either a verb or a noun this word means quick retort. In fencing it means a quick thrust given after parrying an opponent's lunge. It can be used to means any clever, retaliatory reply in words or action. |
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| Adjective that means indelicate or bordering on the inappropriate. |
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| Noun that is used to suggest a completed and therefore irreversible action. |
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| Adjective that means fashionable or elegantly sophisticated and well-groomed. |
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| Noun that means an artistic work tht openly imitates often satirically the works of other artists. It can also mean a hodgepodge or collection of mismatched parts. |
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| Noun that means a performance that occurs in the daytime, usually in the afternoon. It's almost always used to describe a theater performance or a movie showing. |
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| Adjective that means nonchalant or blithely indifferent. |
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| Adjective that means fake or artificial. |
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| Noun that means social blunder. |
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| Adjective that means awkward or clumsy, lacking social polish. |
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| Noun that means lawlessness. When one suffers ______, one has a feeling of alienation and purposelessness caused by a lack or standards, values, and ideals. |
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| Noun that means a feeling of neurotic fear or anxiety that often is accompanied by depression. |
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| Noun that means a pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. |
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| Noun that means a perspective or world view. |
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| Noun that means sadness over the evils of the world. |
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| Word that is used to means a person of remarkable talent or ability who achieves great success at a young age. |
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| Noun that means a very strong desire to travel. |
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| Word that is used to describe a year spent traveling, wandering, or taking an absence from one's work. |
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| Noun for a novel about the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a youthful main character. |
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| Noun that is a physical, psychological, or symbolic pattern of elements so unified that its properties cannot be derived from the sum of its part. _______ of something is its overall impression or sense, a whole that suggests more than the sum of its parts. |
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| Noun that is used in discussing music or literature. In music, it is a melodic phrase associated with a specific character, situation, or element. In a novel, it is a dominant or recurring theme. |
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| Word that means spirit of the age or the taste and outlook that is characteristic of a particular time period or generation. |
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| Adjective that is used to describe a person who is round or plump. |
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| Adjective that means slender or graceful in figure, thin. |
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| Adjective that means a lot of body or excessively fat. |
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| Someone who is _________ is excessively skinny, usually as a result of starvation. |
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| Adjective that means someone who is generally more comfortable with his or her size. This word once meant majestic or grand. It is now used to connote pleasingly plump. |
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| Word that means excessively hungry. |
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| Adjective that means brave, determined, or resolute. It is more often used to mean thickset or bulky in figure. It's also the word for a very dark beer or ale. |
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| Adjective that means marked by loss of appetite. |
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| Adjective that means healthily plump or full-bosomed and is reserved for describing females. |
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| Noun that means rather plump. |
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| Word that refers to a system or arrangement or words in particular discipline. |
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| Noun that refers to a method or system of arranging or classifying or more loosely, as science of naming or labeling. |
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| Noun that means false name and is most often used for the pen names chosen by some authors. |
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| Noun that is a name, a nickname, a pseudonym-what you're called. |
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| Noun that refers to a term used in addition to a person's name or as a substitution for the name. It can mean an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase such as profane or obscene language. |
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| Word that can be an adjective meaning small or a noun meaning a form of a name expressing either affection or contempt. |
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| Synonym for a nickname or an epithet that comes from French. |
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| Noun that refers to an inappropriate or inaccurate name for a person or thing. |
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| A name or title given to someone or something. Je m'appelle... |
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| Noun that refers to a password or a distinctive pronunciation that shows that a person is or is not an insider, a person deserving the name of that group. Today, it also means a distinctive trait of a certain group. |
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| Adjective or noun that simply describes or refers to a coward or cowardly behavior. |
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| Adjective that describes a spirit like that of a weak, little animal such as a pullet, a young chicken. |
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| To be _______ is to be full of apprehension, of fear. |
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| Adjective that describes something physically trembling or quaking, particularly, though not exclusively, in response to fear. |
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| Adjective that is used for an experience that gives you th figurative feeling of having your insides ripped out as if you'd been literally _______ed which is a farm implement that breaks up clods of earth. |
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| Word that means one is nervous or timid or undependably likely to change one's mind. |
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| Adjective that describes something repelling, something that irritates. |
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| Something that is so is like a fort or a castle that cannot be taken by force. A person is ___________ if he or she is likely to be right and is extremely firm in his or her convictions. |
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| Adjective for a person who arouses either fear or respect. |
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| Adjective that frequently describes a person or situation that arouses fear or dread. Something formidable might also inspire admiration. |
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| If your are __________, you are freed from a responsibility or blame, whether in a legal matter or something less official. |
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| An easy synonym for mercy, kindness, or even mildness. |
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| Noun that is defined as security against hurt, loss, or damage as in the financial form an insurance company might be able to provide. |
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| If you receive _______ for a wrongdoing, you get a pardon, either literally or figuratively. |
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| Verb that expresses the idea of patiently enduring something unpleasant or refraining from something you might otherwise do. |
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| A religious connotation to this kind of forgiveness. |
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| If you're _______, you have a mild and tolerant outlook and forgo harsh punishment of someone even in a situation where you might have a moral right to such. |
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| Verb that contains the idea of something being made less harsh, less severe. |
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| Verb that means the overlooking or forgiving of wrongdoing. It is now being used in a somewhat stronger sense of meaning the giving of unspoken approval to something. |
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| Noun or verb that refers to the granting of a temporary delay in a punishment or in the performance of a harsh duty. |
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| Noun that is always plural that refers to customs defining standards of behavior in any one culture. |
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| Noun that is a strong term for immoral, even shameful behavior. It is reserved for actions considered really bad in our society. |
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| French adjective that is often used with an air of slight amusement or mold amazement. It means possessing questionable taste or morality. |
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| Denotes behavior or manner that is lacking in vital force or marked by self-indulgence. |
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| Adjective that means completely lacking in any moral sense. |
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| Adjective that means offensive. When not used to describe behavior, it might describe a strong, unpleasant smell. |
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| If you're ________, you're wicked, stunningly wicked. |
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| The _____ person is corrupt, crooked, willing to sacrifice any principles if the price is right. |
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| A person of _______ is a person of complete integrity. |
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| Noun that means moral uprightness; synonymous with probity. |
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| Adjective that refers to the perception or appreciation of beauty. |
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| Word that means flabby. It can be used in a literal or the figurative sense. |
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| Word that describes something forceful and effective, especially something quite sharp in its effective. This adjective can also be used abstractedly. |
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| French noun that means place or environment with a sense of being in the center or middle of it. |
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| A newcomer to a higher level of social or economic status, one who doesn't yet know how it's done. |
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| Literally, being everywhere at once. It's used in a metaphoric or an exaggerated sense. |
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| If you're eager, amazed, or excited, you may be agog. |
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| If someone uses _________ on you, they're practicing dirty tricks, deceiving you. |
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| A fancy word for a state of disuse or inactivity |
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| Fascinating and complex word that refers to either a literal manuscript, possibly on hide or parchment that has been written on, scraped, and written on again or an object or place that similarly reflects layers of its history. |
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| If you _____ someone's place or power, you seize it unlawfully, you push them out. |
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| Verb that can be used as a synonym for usurp but it even more strongly suggests underhanded doings, trickery. |
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| Verb that refers to discarding something not regarded as desirable. |
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| Verb that refers to making a formal withdrawal of membership. |
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| If something recedes, it goes to a position or condition further back whether in time or in space. |
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| One who _________ chooses to give up power, especially that of a throne. |
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| The voluntary giving up of some right or pleasure. |
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| Verb that refers to the process of gradually growing smaller. |
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| A rather formal statement. |
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| Literally, to turn one's back on - to leave - a cause formerly supported. it can also be used to refer to speaking evasively, hoping to disguise one's meaning. |
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| It means to fall back, to recede, to go away. |
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