081005 - Words

• Capricious - Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
• Suffuses - Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
• Missives - A written message addressed to a person or organization
• Lamented - Mourned or grieved for
• Sated - Fill to satisfaction
• Jettisoned - Throw away, of something encumbering
• Oppressive - Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
• Claustrophobic - Uncomfortably closed or hemmed in
• Alcoves - A small recess opening off a larger room
• Vernacs - provincial; culturally backwards, unfashionable, or unrefined
• Guttural - Like the sounds of frogs and crows
• Cavort - Play boisterously
• Slew - a large number or amount or extent
• Scathing - Marked by harshly abusive criticism
• Aglow - Softly bright or radiant
• Roiled - Aroused to impatience or anger
• Chute - Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
• Vehemence - The property of being wild or turbulent
• Rancor - A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
• Sagacity - The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
• Lechery - Unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
• Wizened - Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
• Enmeshed - Caught as if in a mesh
• Wiles - The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
• Pivot - Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
• Slovenly - Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
• Waltzed - An assured victory (especially in an election)
• Tufts - A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
• Convulsed - Be overcome with laughter/ Shake uncontrollably