bemoaning
to express deep grief or distress over
bodkin
a sharp slender instrument for making holes in cloth
bumptious
presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive; obtrusive
chaffed
teased good-naturedly
chimerical
existing only as the product of unchecked imagination; fantastically visionary or improbable
covert
hiding place; shelter; a masking or concealing device
desultory
marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
enteric fever
typhoid fever
guaiacum
any of a genus (Guaiacum) of the caltrop family of tropical American evergreen trees and shrubs having pinnate leaves, usually blue flowers, and capsular fruit
ineffable
incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable
infallible
incapable of error; unerring; not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint
minatory
having a menacing quality; threatening
necromancer
someone involved with the conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events
paradoxes
a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
petulant
characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor; peevish
piquant
engagingly provocative
prognathous
being or having an upper or lower jaw that projects abnormally forward
querulously
fretfully; whining
rusticate
to go into or reside in the country
superseded
to taken the place over; displaced in favor of another
