Acquisitive
Tending or seeking to acquire.
Avuncular
Relating to an uncle.
Becalmed
Leave a sailing vessel unable to move, usually due to a lack of wind.
Blippeting
Make a short high-pitched sound or succession of sounds.
Borscht
A type of soup, usually with beets.
Caracole
A turning maneuver on horseback done in dressage and military tactics.
Commissary
A government official whose job is to oversee things.
Dualistic
Twofold, two-parted.
Durance
Incarceration or imprisonment.
Elided
To omit or to leave out.
Firmament
The heavens or the sky.
Freeloader
A person who takes without giving in return.
Galoot
A clumsy, oafish person.
Hoarforst
A grayish-white type of snow formed in clear, still weather.
Incumbent
A necessary duty or responsibility.
Indenture
A formal legal agreement or contract that was used to bind someone into servitude.
Insectile
Resembling an insect.
Insidious
Stealthily harmful.
Interment
The burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb.
Irascible
Having a tendency to anger easily.
Longboat
An open boat to be rowed by eight or ten oarsmen, two per bench.
Ludicrous
Foolish, unreasonable, or ridiculous.
Masticate
To chew food.
Maudlin
Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental.
Mead
An alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water.
Mellifluous
A sweet and musical voice or words.
Mortuary
A funeral home or morgue.
Nondenominational
Not restricted to any particular or specific religious sect.
Ocher
A pale, brownish-yellow color.
Oxblood
A dark shade of red.
Panache
Flamboyant confidence of style.
Paradigm
A typical example or pattern of something.
Parapet
A low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony.
Pendulous
Hanging down loosely.
Pension
A regular payment made to a retired person.
Piskies
A mythological cornish creature like a pixie.
Prestidigitation
Magic tricks preformed to entertain.
Priapic
Related to or resembling a phallus.
Profane
Irreverent or disrespectful.
Promissory
Conveying a promise.
Punctiliously
Exact in the observance of formalities.
Reprovingly
Expressing disapproval.
Sardonically
Mocking or sarcastic.
Scraeling
The norse term for foreigner.
Spurious
False or fake.
Squall
A sudden, sharp increase in wind speed.
Susurrus
Whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
Synaptic
Relating to a synapse or synapses between nerve cells.
Tetchy
Irritable, bad-tempered.
Tumbril
A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to the guillotine.
Upshot
The final outcome of something.
Vicissitudes
A usually unpleasant change in circumstances.
Vigil
A religious observance.
“Boob tube”
Slang term for televsion.
“Copping a feel”
Slang term for grabbing someone in a sexual manner.
“Greenbacks"
Slang term for dollar bills.
