a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.

to grow or develop quickly; flourish.

a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.

exceptional ability, good luck, success.

relating to or being a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area.

a South Korean conglomerate, usually owned by a single family, based on authoritarian management and centralized decision-making.

the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire.

to bewitch; practice witchcraft on.

a training technique, used especially among runners, consisting of bursts of intense effort loosely alternating with less strenuous activity.

the armhole opening in a garment through which the hand, and then the arm, passes, and to which a sleeve may be attached.

occult learning; magic.

to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly.

a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.

to be sparing or frugal; economize.

golden or gilded.

courteous and gracious.

a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder.

a soil common in cool or temperate semiarid climates, very black and rich in humus and carbonates.

any supplement; appendix.

an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.

a three-pronged instrument or weapon.

womanly nature or qualities.

pertaining to or occurring in late summer.

displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.

time past.

cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes.

of or having a light, purplish shade of blue, like that of a clear and unclouded sky.

deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.

a truck, as for military supplies.

a portion of a country geographically separated from the main part by surrounding foreign territory.

ostentatious glitter or sophistication.

of or relating to the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.

to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.

incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.

a suspension of activity.

Something that attracts strongly.

a school, college, or university at which one has studied and, usually, from which one has graduated.

hypnotize; petrify.

a pet scheme or remedy, especially for social or political ills; panacea.

the process of mountain making or upheaval.

a place of great beauty, luxury, and contentment.

an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.

an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations.

characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period.

the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.

a stream of fire or fiery light.

to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.

menacing; threatening.

in chess, a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect.