v. mock; deride; degrade (*) higgle (*) contend (*) perturb (*) stultify

adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous (*) incorporeal (*) convoluted (*) guileless (*) enervating

adj. hot or warm and humid; sticky (*) agog (*) dubious (*) muggy (*) wanton

adj. lacking in harmony; dissonant; inharmonic (*) discordant (*) causal (*) momentous (*) stratified

n. premise; basic assumption (*) asceticism (*) tinder (*) axiom (*) horde

v. cross; pass over (*) importune (*) traverse (*) bask (*) relegate

adj. having calluses; thickened (*) acidulent (*) jaundiced (*) maritime (*) callous

n. a person skilled in telling anecdotes (*) quietude (*) amebiasis (*) nincompoop (*) raconteur

n. thinks about unfortunate things that might happen; worrywart (*) fusspot (*) histrion (*) obsidian (*) canker

adj. short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly (*) clairvoyant (*) outlandish (*) polyglot (*) podgy