Wordbank

• Demensne - a property in one's righ
• Condone - Treat something bad or blameworthy
• Turgid - swollen and distended
• Dingy- gloomy and drab
• Dinghy- small inflatable rubber boat
• Maw - throat of a voracious animal
• Elusive - hard to find or capture
• Illusive - deceptive
• Milquetoast- timid or feeble person
• Quixotic- exceedingly idealistic
• Affable - friendly
• Droll - amusing in an odd way
• Sallow - yellowish or unhealthy
• Specious - misleading in appearance
• Reticent - not revealing one's thoughts
• Scrimp- thrifty
• Eponym- name or noun formed after a person
• Demur - raise doubts or objections
• Laudable- a praise
• Mettle- persons ability to cope well with difficulties
• Thicket- group of bushes or trees
• Venal - motivated by susceptibility to bribery
• Predilection- special liking for someone
• Contemptible- arousing or deserving scorn
• Nonchalant- unbothered
• Umlaut- mark used over a vowel
• Desultory- lacking a plan
• Efflorescene- an action or process of developing
• Embrocation- liquid used for rubbing to relieve pain from sprains
• Epitaph- form word written in memory of a person who has died
• Erstwhile- a former
• Felicity- intense happiness
• Harbinger- a thing that announces or signals the approach of another
• Imbue- inspired
• Insure- secure or protect someone
• Phyrrhic- won at too great
• Lissome- thin,supple or graceful
• Demitasse- small cup of coffee
• Feuilleton- part of a newspaper or magazine
• Invidous- unfairly, discriminating