adj. narrow-minded; having a limited perspective (*) powdered (*) civil (*) sallow (*) sectarian

v. make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate (*) consort (*) impair (*) discount (*) imply

adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another (*) explicit (*) deciduous (*) sadistic (*) erose

n. the appearance of truth (*) verisimilitude (*) tonic (*) mandate (*) cataract

v. beat through cleverness; outsmart; outfox; beat (*) ratify (*) outwit (*) reave (*) dissuade

n. an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition (logic) (*) somnambulist (*) piety (*) corollary (*) purgatory

v. sharpen by rubbing (*) stash (*) whet (*) preclude (*) conflate

n. a person who dribbles; slobberer (*) ichthyology (*) crosshatch (*) drooler (*) murkiness

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; skin; struggle; sputter (*) ostracize (*) shinny (*) tucker (*) improvise

v. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity; descend (*) deign (*) low (*) importune (*) commandeer