requiring painstaking care

exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant

to form small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern

of Classical Mythology, relating to the deities, spirits, and other dwellings under the earth

a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side)

utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent

to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does

to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal

having or showing equanimity; even-tempered

lacking in wholesome vigor; decadent

to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition

to enable or allow the continuation of into the future; keep alive (used most often in reference to something considered harmful or false)

in a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise

waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects

very cold; icy

natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous