a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth

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

affording remuneration; profitable

awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception

of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement

a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly"

to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to)

objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome

the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time

having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future

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

the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference

exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant

arrogantly superior and disdainful

eerie; weird; spooky

to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation