sanguine

sanguine: optimistic, cheerful, confident

beseech

beseech: ask for earnestly; beg for urgently or anxiously

burnish

burnish: to polish and make shiny

hermetic

hermetic: airtight; protected; concealed

ellipsis

ellipsis: omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete; sudden leap from one topic to another

nocuous

nocuous: harmful; damaging

consternation

consternation: a constant dread; amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion

tautologous

tautologous: needlessly repetitious; redundant

interminable

interminable: seeming to have no end; endless

pinchbeck

pinchbeck: counterfeit; copper and zinc used to imitate gold in jewelry

myopia

myopia: nearsightedness; narrow view of something

expurgate

expurgate: to remove offensive parts; to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous

froward

froward: willfully contrary; habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

denigrate

denigrate: belittle, attack maliciously; defame

tome

tome: large scholarly book; a volume forming part of a larger work

highhanded

highhanded: with haughty disregard; no regard for the rights, concerns, or feelings of others

toady

toady: someone who is servile; one who flatters in hopes of gaining favors

victuals

victuals: supply of food

Wanton

wanton: behaving lewdly; hard to control

Vacuous

vacuous: inanely foolish; lacking content, ideas, or intelligence