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avuncular
Of or relating to an uncle; suggestive of kindliness and geniality
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bemuse
To confuse or bewilder; to occupy or absorb one’s mind or attention
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confound
To baffle or frustrate; to put to shame, discomfit; to refute; to make someone confused or perplexed, increase the confusion of; to mix up
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forage
To collect or secure (provisions) by searching; to strip of (provisions); to wander in search of (provisions); to raid, ravage; to make a search, rummage
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guffaw
To laugh in a loud or boisterous way
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guttural
Made in or coming from the throat; low, strange, and unpleasant
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hoary
Gray or white with or as if with age; extremely old, ancient
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interdict
To ban or prohibit by law; to forbid formally; to cut off, destroy, or damage by firepower so as to halt an enemy’s advance; to halt the advance or activities of
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jocund
full of mirth and high spirits, merry
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mulct
To punish by a fine; to swindle or defraud or money; to obtain by force, fraud, or theft
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pathological
Relating to the study of disease; deviating from the normal in some structural or functional way as the result or as if as the result of disease; generally changed or caused by disease
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pontificate
To act or officiate as chief priest; to speak in a pompous or dogmatic way
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preternatural
Existing outside of nature; going beyond what is normal or usual, extraordinary; not explainable by ordinary means, psychic
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roisterous
engaged in or characteristic of rough and noisy revelry
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sentient
Conscious of or responsive to sense impressions, aware; extremely perceptive of feeling or emotion, especially in others
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sundry
miscellaneous, various
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transfix
To pierce through with a pointed object, impale; to hold motionless as if by piercing through
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welter
To twist or roll one’s body, writhe; to roll and fall about in or as if in waves, toss, wallow; to become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved in; to be in turmoil
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wreak
To inflict (as punishment or vengeance); to give free rein or play to; to bring about, cause
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