• ire: intense anger; wrath
  • percolate: to filter through; permeate
  • imbue: to saturate; to inspire or impregnate as with feelings, opinions
  • caprice: sudden, unpredictable change, as in mood or weather
  • amalgam: an alloy of silver or mercury, occurring as silver-white crystals or grains; also, a mixture or combination
  • solder: to join closely and intimately
  • hirsute: hairy; shaggy
  • tatterdemalion: a person in tattered clothing
  • jetty: a pier or similar structure jutting into the water
  • fraught: filled or laden
  • droves: a large crowd of people, often in motion
  • relegate: to send to an inferior position, place, or condition
  • sate: to satisfy fully
  • cauterize: to burn with a hot iron, electrical current, or fire, especially for curative purposes
  • assent: to agree or concur
  • facetious: lacking serious intent
  • erstwhile: former, of the past
  • regale: to entertain lavishly or agreeably; to delight
  • chagrin: a feeling of vexation marked by humiliation or disappointment
  • insouciant: carefree, nonchalant
  • askance: with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval
  • corrugate: to draw or bend into folds
  • convalescence: the gradual regaining of health after illness
  • ingress: the act of going in or entering
  • lecherous: lustful; erotically suggestive
  • posit: to lay down or assume as fact
  • pander: a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others
  • replete: abundantly supplied or provided
  • aperture: a hole, opening, slit, gap, crack
  • voracious: craving something; exceedingly eager or avid
  • stipulation: a condition or demand in a contract or agreement
  • lubricious: arousing or expressive of sexual desire
  • philistine: lacking in or hostile to culture
  • canting: to talk hypocritically; to beg
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