adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy (*) unctuous (*) irrepressible (*) monolithic (*) supine

n. a feeling of anger and animosity (*) subpoena (*) histrion (*) severance (*) hackles

n. to presume; to suppose (*) array (*) pittance (*) postulate (*) conceiver

v. fire; give notice; dismiss; sack (*) chronicle (*) terminate (*) bedamn (*) indite

adj. completely acceptable (*) obstreperous (*) decreed (*) avaricious (*) unimpeachable

n. a specialist in care for the feet (*) surrogate (*) contriver (*) podiatrist (*) pundit

adj. having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated (*) cuspate (*) beatific (*) verdant (*) crotchety

n. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output (*) impishness (*) incentive (*) charisma (*) rotundity

v. exasperate or irritate; aggravate (*) hunker (*) exacerbate (*) adulterate (*) macerate

n. the hemisphere that includes North America and South America; New World (*) nostrum (*) asceticism (*) occident (*) faction