| bibulous |
addicted to alcohol; alcoholic. |
| chary |
not dispensing freely. |
| cognizant |
aware; informed (usually followed by "of"). |
| corporeal |
having to do with a physical body; bodily. |
| engender |
to create or give rise to. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| impute |
to ascribe or attribute to a source or cause. |
| jeremiad |
a long complaint about life or one's situation; lamentation. |
| lugubrious |
sad or mournful, especially in an exaggerated way; gloomy. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| paroxysm |
a sudden strong outburst of feelings or actions. |
| reprisal |
injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war; revenge. |
| requite |
to retaliate for; strike back on account of. |
| uxorious |
excessively or foolishly devoted to one's wife, and often thereby submissive to her. |
| voluble |
characterized by a steady flow of words; fluent; talkative. |