adj. servilely attentive; servile; fawning (*) obsequious (*) doughty (*) evanescent (*) mellifluous

v. to think hard; to ponder; to meditate; to contemplate; to ruminate (*) ken (*) cogitate (*) stigmatize (*) hamper

v. to bicker; to criticize; to complain (*) implement (*) disentangle (*) cavil (*) coalesce

n. basis for an argument; presumption; proposition (*) enigma (*) premise (*) peccadillo (*) coffer

adj. laborious; difficult; strenuous; hard (*) distant (*) sapid (*) arduous (*) partisan

adj. describing knowledge which resides in people's heads and is not easily written down (*) amiss (*) pragmatic (*) implicit (*) reciprocal

adj. eating away at; sarcastic words; corrosive (*) caustic (*) docile (*) meander (*) laconic

n. amazement or terror that causes confusion; shock; dismay; alarm (*) fissure (*) satire (*) consternation (*) encomium

n. anything of mixed origin; crossbreed (*) collusion (*) bauble (*) hybrid (*) authoritarian

v. to imitate in a non-serious manner; to mock (*) emanate (*) suppress (*) appease (*) burlesque