v. to destroy completely; to erase (*) despoil (*) gloat (*) lacerate (*) obliterate

adj. capable of being disentangled (*) haggard (*) contemporary (*) incisive (*) extricable

n. ability to handle situations with skill and diplomacy; grace; delicacy (*) consternation (*) finesse (*) brevity (*) archetype

adv. on; toward the rear of a ship (*) abaft (*) slovenly (*) amiss (*) askance

adj. rose-colored; rosy (*) errant (*) auspicious (*) timorous (*) roseate

v. to annoy; to irritate (*) nettle (*) malign (*) cower (*) suffuse

adj. fearless; not discouraged; impossible to frighten; bold; daring (*) orthodox (*) ethnic (*) dauntless (*) magnanimous

n. thing which is joined together; assemblage (*) confluence (*) pommel (*) conundrum (*) initiate

adj. beginner (*) fledgling (*) pedestrian (*) baneful (*) untoward

adv. in a defective manner (*) slovenly (*) amiss (*) awry (*) indubitably