Words on Tuesday; Lessons #17-20 DEFINITIONS

not revealing one's thoughts or feelings easily

• persnickety

• palpable

• reticent

• odious

in a ridiculous manner

• brusque

• gaunt

• stoic

• farcical

relating to the idea of all people deserving equal rights

• atrophy

• espouse

• egalitarian

• posterity

able to be touched or felt

• palpable

• intrepid

• whet

• reticent

person falsely claiming to have special talent or skills

• charlatan

• farcical

• drivel

• egalitarian

to gradually decline or waste away

• whet

• hone

• atrophy

• espouse

to drink heartily

• hone

• whet

• quaff

• drivel

secret or illegal cooperation, especially to treat others

• brusque

• collusion

• espouse

• gaunt

nonsense

• quaff

• drivel

• hone

• odious

able to endure hardship without showing pain or complaining

• palpable

• balk

• whet

• stoic