MM Vocab

• to depart secretly and hide oneself
• escape, break out (of), clear out, flee, fly, get out, lam, run away, run off
• the subject ()ed to Canada
• Several prisoners ()ed from the jail.

• involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome ( a ____ task)
• having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages ( an _____ contract)
• bitter, brutal, burdensome, cruel, excurciating, grievous, grim, hard, hardhanded, heavy, inhuman, murderous, harsh, oppressive, rough, rugged, searing, severe, stiff, tough, trying

a colorless volatile flammable toxic liquid aromatic hydrocarbon c6h6 used in organic synthesis as a solvent, and as a motor fuel.

• an elaborate short-sleeved overdress with a fitted waist and a draped cutaway overskirt
• a stately Polish processional dance popular in 19th century Europe

• lacking modesty
• marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others : insolent
• arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, fresh, impertinent, nervy, insolent, sassy, saucy, wise

• present at all seasons of the year
• persistent, enduring
• ageless, continuing, dateless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, lasting, ongoing, abding, perpetual, timeless, undying

• continuing to sound : echoing
• intinsified and enriched by or as if by resonance
• golden, orotund, plangent, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant

• able to pay all legal debts
• that dissolves or can dissolve

• being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence
• having the disposition of an enemy; hostile
• unfriendly, adversarial, antagonistic, antipathetic, inhospitable, hostile, juandiced, mortal, negative, unfriendly, unsympathetic

beg, sponge

• an obscure speech or writing
• something hard to understand or explain
• an inscrutable or mysterous person
• mystery, closed book, conundrum, mystery, head-scratcher, mystification, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle, secret

• poised without visible support
• suspended as to swing freely
• bowed, bowing, declined, descendant, descending, drooping, droopy, hanging, hung, inclining, nodding, sagging, stooping, weeping

• crown: a royal headband
• something that adorns like a crown
• chaplet, coronal, coronet, crown

• lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance
• apathy, casualness, complacence, disinterestedness, disregard, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, nonchalance, torpor, unconcern

• troublesomely urgant : overly persistant in request or demand
• burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, acute, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent

one who takes part in dialogue or conversation

• having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefullness in handling
• clever, dexterious

• a group of retainers or attendants
• entourage, following, posse, cortege, suite, tail, train

• extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books : profound, recondite, or bookish learning
• education, knowledge, learnedness, learning, literacy, scholarship