Accept something reluctantly but without protest.
Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.
Make minor changes in (a text) in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date.
Hostility or ill feeling.
A person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial.
An astringent lotion applied to the skin to reduce bleeding from minor abrasions or as a cosmetic to make the skin less oily.
Work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create something.
Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully.
Have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another.
Express contempt for; ridicule.
Lay down authoritatively; prescribe.
Careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage.
No longer married because the marriage has been legally dissolved.
Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
Bewildered or perplexed.
(of a tree, plant, or land) producing much fruit; fertile.
Existing from birth.
A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
(of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting.
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
Tormenting or teasing with the sight or promise of something unobtainable.
Equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as.
A state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy.
Vigorous or incisive in expression or style.
Offense or annoyance.
Able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.
Difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse behavior.