VOCABULARY WORDS (DEAD STARS)

Curry - to use flattery
Shrug - to draw up as a sign of about
Repose - restless/serenity
Dapple - to mark with; any of numerous usually cloudy and rounded spots or patches of a color or shade different from their background
Perfervid - passionate/ardent
Insipid - uninteresting; dull
Tumultuous - restless; disorderly
Haste - urgency
Delude - mislead
Resonant - echoing
Verge - margin
Recalcitrant - actively disobedient
Wayward - stubborn; unpredictable
Spurt - a burst of activity
Exuberant - joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic
Derided - imitated; to laugh at contemptuously; to subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule
Immutable - not capable of or susceptible to change
Filigree - ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design
Lugubrious - exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
Capitulation - a set of terms or articles constituting an agreement between governments; the act of surrendering or yielding
Prosaicalness - dull; uninteresting; commonplace; prosy; as, a prosaic person
Exasperation - the act or an instance of exasperating; the state of being exasperated; frustrated annoyance
Ebbing - a period of decline or diminution; to fall away or back; decline or recede
Desultory - lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful; digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random
Fastidious - scornful; having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please
Prying - insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive; eager to investigate and learn or learn more
Poignantly - in a poignant or touching manner; profoundly moving; keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
Lurking - to lie in wait, as in ambush; to exist unobserved or unsuspected; to move furtively; sneak
Errant - roving, especially in search of adventure; straying from the proper course or standards
Averred - to affirm positively; declare
Covert - not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown
Elusive - tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory; difficult to define or describe