affording remuneration; profitable

a false argument; sophism

requiring painstaking care

next to the last

a person given to voluble, empty talk; nonsense; blather

overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited

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

to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists

to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently

of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive

seeming or trying to seem superior, important, etc.; pompous; pretentious

free from reservation, disguise, or subterfuge; straightforward

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

characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance

headlong

extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.