Barron's 3500 words

hatred of marriage

fashionable

legal delay of payment

biting; sarcastic; stinging

dying

ill-humored; sullen; melancholy

to humiliate; punish the flesh

small speck

ability to move spontaneously

blotched in coloring; spotted

charlatan; boastful pretender

to confuse; mix up

to defraud a person of something

very generous

ability to change in form; fickleness

to ponder

swimming

neatly or smartly dressed

very wicked

favoritism (to a relative)

connection

beak; pen point

precision; minute distinction

to spend too much time on minor points; carp

indistinctive; ordinary

person of no importance; nonexistence

to bring to a halt by confusion; perplex

questionable medicine

marriageable

futile; worthless

a movement of the body expressing respect (a bow)

tall column with a pyramid top

funeral ceremony

boisterous; noisy

to push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; butt in; stick out or extrude

in the west

detestation; hatefulness; disrepute

burden; responsibility

iridescent; lustrous

timely; well-chosen

prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous

dramatic poem set to music

ceremony conferring holy orders

traditional; conservative in belief

correct spelling

made of bone; bony

to surpass; outdo

presumptuous; arrogant