adj. uncomfortably or inconveniently small (*) incontinent (*) ethereal (*) incommodious (*) combustible

n. a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) (*) benefactor (*) bard (*) duress (*) apothecary

n. an event that departs from expectations; variant (*) insolence (*) idiosyncrasy (*) hybrid (*) discrepancy

adj. causing dejection; dark; disconsolate; gloomy; grim (*) elated (*) dingy (*) alterative (*) squalid

n. any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant (*) vise (*) grotto (*) pachyderm (*) etymology

n. the humanistic study of language and literature (*) preamble (*) kismet (*) philology (*) dinghy

adj. exaggeratedly proper; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; tight-laced (*) enigmatic (*) prudish (*) metallurgical (*) lackluster

n. seeing ahead; farsightedness; prospicience (*) courier (*) spendthrift (*) foresight (*) whirring

n. inappropriate playfulness; pertness; sauciness (*) archness (*) assumption (*) whiff (*) quandary

adj. practicing great self-denial; austere (*) spartan (*) reefy (*) impalpable (*) concave