Anecdote - noun
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay
• the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting
Cunning - adjective
1. having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion
• ingenious
2. attractive; quaint
Elixir - noun
a magical or medicinal potion
• a preparation that was supposedly able to change metals into gold, sought by alchemists.
• (also elixir of life) a preparation supposedly able to prolong life indefinitely.
• a medicinal solution of a specified type; i.e. for coughs
Graft -
noun
Horticulture .
a. a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow.
b. the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion.
c. the place where the scion is inserted.
2. Surgery . a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
3. an act of grafting.
verb (used with object)
4. to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.
5. to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.
6. Surgery . to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.
Horde -
noun
1. a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd.
2. a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
3. any nomadic group.
4. a moving pack or swarm of animals.
verb (used without object)
5. to gather in a horde.
Lugubrious - adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.
Nigh -
adverb
1. near in space, time, or relation.
2. nearly; almost; (often followed by on or onto).
adjective
3. near; approaching.
4. short or direct: to take the nighest route.
5. (of an animal or vehicle) being on the left side.
6. Archaic . parsimonious; stingy.
preposition
7. near.
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
8. Archaic. to approach.
Progeny - noun, plural -ny or, for plants or animals, -nies.
1. a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
2. such descendants or offspring collectively.
3. something that originates or results from something else; outcome; issue.
Scorn -
noun
1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain.
2. an object of derision or contempt.
3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
verb (used with object)
4. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain.
5. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain.
verb (used without object)
6. to mock; jeer.
Idiom
7. laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride.
Shole - noun
A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.
Shoal -
noun
1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
adjective
3. of little depth, as water; shallow.
Sojourn -
noun
1. a temporary stay.
verb (used without object)
2. to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily.
Toil -
noun
1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2. a laborious task.
3. Archaic . battle; strife; struggle.
verb (used without object)
4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields.
5. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
verb (used with object)
6. to accomplish or produce by toil.
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
1. characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
2. of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy.
3. having an oily or soapy feel, as certain minerals.
Vociferous - adjective
Crying out noisily; clamorous.
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