Ingratiating
Gaining approval
Mediocrity
Being adequate
Shortcoming
Failure to meet a standard
Deserted
To be void of people
Confine
To enclose
Reflection
Making a serious consideration about something
Persevere
To keep on going in the face of adversity
Sentience
a state of being aware of one's senses, awake
yuppies
people in their 20s/30s who make a good deal of money, live in or near a city, and are characterized by materialism
portends
foreshadows, predicts, points to
circumspection
being prudent, thoughtful
implacable
committed, incapable of being swayed to another opinion
orifice
a bodily opening
lability
the state of being amenable to change
venery
the art of hunting
incipience
the beginning
tumesce
to swell
antiquated
old-fashioned
countenance
one's face
perestroika
Russian for "restructuring"
