| avid |
having or showing great enthusiasm. |
| comely |
pleasing in appearance. |
| commodity |
something that can be bought and sold. |
| connive |
to join secretly in a plot; conspire. |
| constraint |
a state of confinement or restraint. |
| dapple |
to mark or be marked with spots or mottling. |
| gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
| ignominious |
characterized by or associated with disgrace, dishonor, or shame; humiliating. |
| interminable |
endless or seemingly endless; monotonously long. |
| malice |
the wish to harm others; ill will. |
| proletariat |
the working class, especially those who lack capital and must sell their usually unskilled labor in order to survive. |
| ramification |
a consequence or related aspect of something; offshoot. |
| redouble |
to make twice as great; renew more vigorously; intensify. |
| risqué |
very close to indecency or indelicacy; sexually suggestive; racy. |
| stratagem |
a plan or trick to deceive, surprise, or outwit an opponent, especially as a military maneuver. |