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| to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement |
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| used so often as to lack freshness or originality |
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| the expression of approval or favorable opinion praise; official approval or sanction |
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| a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference |
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| a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose |
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| to draw forth, bring out from some source |
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| to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm, put an end to; appease; satisfy, quench |
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| decline, decay, or deterioration, a condition or period of decline or decay, excessive self-indulgence |
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| to attempt to dissuade someone from source or decision by earnest reasoning |
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| to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of |
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| wearied, worn-out, dulled |
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| foliage giving shade; shade cast by trees; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion |
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| a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence |
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| causing shock, horror, or revulsion, sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
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| to rise above or beyond, exceed |
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| pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward, of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside, a person with a narrow point of view, a person from an outlying area, a solider from a province or colony |
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| peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
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| fatty, oily, and pliable, excessively smooth or smug, trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety |
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| worthy, deserving recognition and praise |
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| by virtue of holding a certain office |
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| to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
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| without feathers, without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophisitcation and poise |
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| to improve, make better, correct a flaw, or shortcoming |
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| pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas |
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| to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favorable acceptance by others |
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| a summary, condensed accountl an instance that represents a larger reality |
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| poise, assurance, great selfconfidence, perpendiculariy |
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| to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
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| saliva or murcus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense, to let saliva flow, to utter nonsense or childish twaddle, to waste or fritter away foolishly |
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| to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
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| to think or believe without certain supporting evidencel to conjecture or guess, an idea oor thought that seems lickely but lacks definate proof |
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| belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent, originating in a bodily organ, or part, good for its own sake |
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| mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret; hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means, to hide, conceal, eclipse, matters involving the supernatural |
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| to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height, chracterized by excessive haste, moisture, the product of an action or process |
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| weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
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| a period of one thousand years, a period of great joy, prosperity, or peace |
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| strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling, sharp or bitter to the taste |
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| an intruder, one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be |
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| to make amends, atone, make up for, to ward off or advert |
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| to make easy, cause to progess later |
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| to have an intense dislike or hatred for |
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| to assign or refer to, attribute |
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| resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause of character; accidental, not essential, acquired, not congenital |
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| to direct or to order, to prescirve a course of action in an authoritative way, to prohibit |
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| to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress |
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| the modification of the social patterns traitrs or structures of one group or society by contrast with those of another, the resultant blend |
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| a state of great excitement, agitation or turblulence. to be in or work into such a taste, to produce alcohol by chemical action |
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| bitter, sarcastic, highly caustic or biting |
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| to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end |
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| to steal something that has been given into one's trust, to take improperly for one's own use |
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| a natural or habitual inclination or tendency |
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| exsisting in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously |
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| resistant to lawful authority, having the purpose of overthrowing the government |
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| thin, slender, not dense, lacking clairy, of slight importance, lacking a sound basis, poorly supported |
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| not decisive or definite, unwilling to take a clear posistion or to say yes or no |
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| composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances |
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| resulting frmo or marked by lack of attention; unintentional, accidental |
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