n. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth (*) armada (*) verity (*) mishap (*) jocoseness

n. a small cave (usually with attractive features) (*) grotto (*) cordon (*) monotheism (*) pigment

n. violent pangs of suffering (*) ichthyology (*) obsidian (*) resumption (*) throes

n. a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin (*) incline (*) furor (*) mirage (*) sherbet

n. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying (*) verdancy (*) argot (*) transitoriness (*) parlance

n. funeral ceremony (*) obsequy (*) prow (*) rendition (*) patriarch

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy (*) diaphanous (*) leonine (*) begrimed (*) rampant

n. the object of a feeling of intense aversion (*) sluice (*) valor (*) ascendancy (*) antipathy

n. someone new to a field or activity; tyro; initiate (*) barrage (*) malfeasance (*) tiro (*) concubine

n. any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon; olefin (*) alkene (*) ballyhoo (*) facet (*) adversity