jewel

marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable, humiliating

suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful

abrupt in manner; blunt; rough

to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion

allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent; clear

a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

a rascal; rogue; scamp

characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently

encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error

not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary

a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly"

childishly foolish, immature, or trivial

the greedy pursuit of riches