frank and simple good-heartedness; a good-natured manner; friendliness; geniality

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

holding one's attention completely as though by magic; fascinating

serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical

erratic and unpredictable in behavior or direction

to laugh loudly or immoderately

extremely distasteful; unacceptable

a rogue or a scoundrel

causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative "Go!"

the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent; often used for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect

dark, gloomy, and cheerless

of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal

a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead

cheerful; merry; blithe; glad

personification, as of inanimate things