Mesmerize - to hypnotize, dazzle and control
Ravish - to transport with joy or delight or force to have sex without one's will
Woe - grief, sorrow, misery, heavy calamity
Propensity - bias, bent, tendency
Aphorism - general truth expressed in concise saying
Deterent - that which prevents or deters
Sluice - an opening or channel through which anything flow
Wary - cautious, apprehensive, guarding against danger
Detriment - that which injuries or cause damage, michief or harm
Philstine - a person deficient in liberal culural refinement
Embellish - to decorate or make beautiful
Quibble - to raise an insignificient point
Abut - to border, be contagious, to meet
Encumbered - burdened, weighed down
Eddy - a current of water or air moving in a circular direction
Asperity - harshness, roughness of temper
Bequest - that which is left by will, esp. personal property
Restitution - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Strop - a piece of leather used for sharpening
Fulminate - to make a loud, sudden noise, to send forth decrees with force or authority
Repugnant - hostile, disposed to war, offensive
Anhedonic - unable to experience pleasure
Diminutive - below the average size, very small, little
Lustrous - shining (particularly from reflected light), glittering, bright
Languid - dropping or flagging from exhaustion, weak, without animation
Unsullied - unspoiled, pure
Inebraited - drunk
Scurrilous - using indecent language, offensive
Discombobulated - confused, and may be a little upset
Wizened - dried, shriveled, withered
Desist - to cease to proceed or act to stop
Emaciate - to become or to cause to become very thin
Bastion - a fortified place
Welter - to rise and fall as waves, to tumble over
Lurk - to lie in wait, to keep out of sight
Argot - Jargon, lingo, the lg of a particular class, register
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