Words

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skulk

move about stealthily

solicitous

concerned; thoughtful

definitive

conclusive; fixed and final

stoic

one who is indifferent to pleasure or pain; one who practices repression of emotion

taciturn

habitually untalkative; laconic

anticlimax

abrupt transition from the serious to the ludicrous, the important to the trivial

apostrophe

address to a personified object or idea

censure

blame or condemn

placate

appease; make a person less angry or hostile

patent

obvious

ulterior

lying beyond what is evident; concealed

vanguard

leading position in a trend or movement

posthumous

after death

waive

give up voluntarily

wane

to decrease gradually; to decline in power, prosperity, influence