| beneficiary |
one who receives or is formally designated to receive money or property, as from a will or insurance policy. |
| insensible |
without normal sensations; unconscious. |
| instigate |
to purposely agitate or incite; provoke; foment. |
| lucrative |
producing monetary gain; profitable. |
| manifold |
abundant and varied. |
| mundane |
of or pertaining to what is common and everyday; ordinary; commonplace. |
| prude |
someone who is extremely or overly concerned with modesty or proper conduct, speech, dress, or the like. |
| respective |
of or belonging to each one. |
| restive |
unable to remain at rest; impatient or ill at ease, especially under restraint. |
| tangential |
barely connected to or touching a subject. |
| temporize |
to be indecisive or delay acting, as in order to gain time or avoid conflict. |
| testy |
easily annoyed or angered; irritable; touchy. |
| throe |
(usually plural) any convulsive or anguished struggle, or great exertion. |
| timorous |
showing or marked by fear; fearful; timid. |
| tome |
a large thick book, often one of a multivolume scholarly work. |