injurious to health

to understand thoroughly and intuitively

one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune

yielding or containing gold

to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely

powerful; mighty; potent

a fixed or firm belief

a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space

a lone dissenter, such as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from their peers

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

to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable

a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent

affording remuneration; profitable

relating to or characteristic of a person who indulges in some of the luxuries and comforts of a fancy lifestyle; relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class, especially when regarded as being elitist or snobbish

something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest, etc.

needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in "widow woman"