light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter

extremely distasteful; unacceptable

pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech; incessant or compulsive talkativeness

the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent; often used for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect

a false argument; sophism

a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings

to run away hurriedly; flee

the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair

to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to)

to dry thoroughly; dry up

in poetry, a "foot" of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter

plentiful; copious; abundant

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

not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties

not being what it purports to be; false or fake

deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery