VAT 12

elegiac

adj. having a mournful quality

fecund

adj. cpaable of producing an abundance of new growth or offspring

legerdemain

n. skillful use of one's hands when preforming conjuring tricks; trickery

limpid

adj. clear unclouded

malady

n. a disease or ailment

profligate

adj. recklessly extravagant or wasteful use of resources
n. a licentious, dissolute person

remonstrance

n. a forcefully reproachful protest

scintillate

v. to emit flashes of light or sparkle

terse

adj. sparing in the use of words; abrupt

vitiate

v. to spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

anthimeria

substitution of one part of speech for another

synaesthesi

the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body

aporia

deliberating with oneself as the though in doubt over some matter; asking oneself

metaplasmus

changes to spellings of words(additions, omissions, inversions, or substitutions