Vocabulary to work on

to furnish or shore up with a buttrses : support, strengthen

to make faulty or defective : impair

magnificent: extremey costly, rich luxurious

cheap and guady in appearance or quality; ignoble gaudy

using or given to coarse language

claiming, intend, purpose

complex

nonchalant, marked by ease and informality

to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument

using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

beat, rythm, measure, meter

not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated

discuss, examine

to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger

to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly

sully, soil

compannion, colleague

consiting of or measured in money, dollars-and-cents