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Adversity
a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty
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Aesthetic
having to do with what is beautiful
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Autumnal
of, characteristics of, or occurring in autumn
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Bight
a bend in a coast forming an open bay
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Bombastic
marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown
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Comeliness
the condition of being pleasing and wholesome in appearance
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Digress
to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument
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Fastidious
having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please
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Fringe
something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject
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Frugality
the quality of being prudent in the use of resources
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Insatiable
incapable of being satisfied
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Interdict
a prohibitory decree
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Meet
(not in the rendezvous sense); fitting, appropriate
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Opprobrium
something that brings disgrace; contempt, reproach
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Peripatetic
pedestrian; itinerant
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Prostrate
lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward; may indicate reverence or submission
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Ramble
to move aimlessly from place to place
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Stygian
relating to the river Styx; extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
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Umbrage
a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
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Vexation
a cause of trouble
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