Word List 42

a legend

shrewd; perceptive

lascivious; lustful

obvious; prominent

salty

yellowish

beneficial; wholesome

displaying ostentatious devoutness

bloody

cheerfully optimistic; hopeful

sarcastic; cynical

scornful remark; stinging rebuke

pertaining to tailors

form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly

mocking

gloomy

half-human, half-beast, portrayed as wanton and cunning

to stroll slowly

scholar

a great quantity

meager; insignificant

division; split

a spark; trace

to sparkle

to mock; ridicule

to thwart

severe punishment

to hesitate, for ethical reasons

careful; conscientious

to move off in a confused hurry

indecent

to move briskly

despicable; contemptible

to sink

sordid; unwholesome or unhealthful

to char or burn

withdrawal

separate religious body; faction

worldly; temporal

calm and composed

resistance to authority

diligent

run-down; decrepit

proper; appropriate

to ooze; trickle; dribble

to be in a state of agitation; to boil

net for catching fish

pertaining to earthquakes

outward appearance

influencing future developments

a school for priesthood

old age

devoted to pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptuous

terse; pithy; aphoristic

a sentry or lookout

foul; putrid; fetid

a tomb