adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh (*) convoluted (*) tertiary (*) strident (*) obtuse

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; cruel; roughshod; savage; vicious (*) fell (*) chapfallen (*) transient (*) swooning

adj. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law (*) subversive (*) forensic (*) abstracted (*) equable

adj. lacking foresight or scope; unforesightful (*) vociferous (*) demotic (*) myopic (*) coltish

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile (*) doddering (*) esoteric (*) bouldered (*) pliable

n. something of small importance; trifle; small beer (*) tome (*) nuance (*) frailty (*) trivia

adj. without or deprived of the use of speech or words (*) rubicund (*) unscathed (*) acrid (*) inarticulate

adj. being present everywhere at once (*) portly (*) ubiquitous (*) posthumous (*) bonnie

adj. dulled by surfeit (*) jaded (*) somatic (*) convex (*) susceptible

adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people (*) fervent (*) flint (*) fractious (*) provincial