smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness

making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking

of, in, or appropriate to spring

to wipe out; do away with; expunge

wild; frenzied

to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with)

not stylish; drab; old-fashioned

a large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes; fireball

twilight; dusk

deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery

refuse given to hogs; swill

very cold; icy

not being what it purports to be; false or fake

having little or no meaning; making little or no sense

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

a sudden violent squall blowing offshore from a mountainous coast