secretly, stealthily

razzle-dazzle, or showiness, brilliance, or virtuosity in technique or effect

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion

high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

completely puzzled or perplexed by something unexpected

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

settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like

having very little inflection; limited to a narrow pitch range

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in Texas won by six runs (meaning “Texas's baseball team”)

arrogantly superior and disdainful

exhausted; very tired

very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive

a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song

to conspire in a fraud