n. someone who dislikes people in general (*) misanthrope (*) bureaucracy (*) clapper (*) swerving

n. statement that seems to be self-contradictory (*) paradox (*) vagrant (*) multiplicity (*) clapper

n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; moralist (*) metaphor (*) roofy (*) trudger (*) martinet

n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights (*) privation (*) jubilation (*) assumption (*) impending

v. fix firmly (*) goad (*) hitchhike (*) ensconce (*) plonk

adv. adcrookedly; slanted; at an angle (*) inadvertently (*) askew (*) gamely (*) pell-mell

n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious; tedium (*) correlation (*) ennui (*) reserve (*) whit

n. license to market a company's goods or services (*) granger (*) franchise (*) portent (*) eddo

n. coloring material used as paint or dye (*) pigment (*) misadventure (*) defection (*) largess

n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; pundit (*) mesmerism (*) propellant (*) voyeur (*) savant