to irritate, annoy, or exasperate

an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock

lateness; delay

free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank

causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.

marshy; wet

given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating

a flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something

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

heart-shaped

a hand in which no card is higher than a nine

to stare stupidly; gape

extravagant boasting

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”)

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

the pure and concentrated essence of a substance