| apprehensive |
feeling fearful about future events. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| garrulous |
given to talking excessively. |
| goad |
something that spurs a person to action; stimulus. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| munificent |
having or showing great generosity. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| obfuscate |
to make (something) seem or be difficult to understand; obscure or darken. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| putrefaction |
the act or process of rotting or decomposing. |
| quiescence |
a state of inaction, rest, or stillness; dormancy. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |
| sere1 |
dried up or withered. |
| symbiosis |
a close association, usually a mutually beneficial relationship, between two dissimilar organisms. |