n. a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease (*) prow (*) pundit (*) talisman (*) stolidity

v. describe; portray (*) swerve (*) dulcify (*) limn (*) impale

n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs; chemist; pill pusher; pill roller (*) deadlock (*) summation (*) brawn (*) apothecary

n. a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action (*) getup (*) culmination (*) vigor (*) crescendo

v. excite pleasurably or erotically (*) sham (*) mussitate (*) titillate (*) dismantle

n. equality of distribution; counterbalance (*) arroyo (*) scabbard (*) equipoise (*) motility

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny; unearthly (*) auroral (*) eldritch (*) irrevocable (*) indisputable

adj. of uncertain outcome; dicey; dodgy (*) chanceful (*) pejorative (*) jolty (*) devious

adj. having hills and crags; hilly; mountainous (*) fogyish (*) encomiastic (*) rigid (*) cragged

n. a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles; tingling (*) counterpart (*) kerfuffle (*) prickling (*) waggle