mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

to form small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern

a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck

characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please; deferential; fawning:

to cut something; to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument

serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical

a fear of the number 13

a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth

wild; frenzied

neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping

cheerful; merry; blithe; glad

sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting

to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble

corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint

of or related to an offensive, unpleasant, or disgusting as an odor