a game in which the players try to flip a knife from various positions so that the blade will stick into the ground.

a love letter

a discourse or declamation full of bitter condemnation

a period of 1,000 years

a peddler especially of cheap flashy articles

edible

volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed

to understand

catchword, slogan

a cramping and oppressive lack of resources

not provident; not foreseeing and providing for the future.

a comprehensive conception or apprehension

a left-handed person

a person of elevated rank or station

a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of the parts of a compound term

rambling and confused

to make beautiful with ornamentation