having a ready insight into and understanding of things

the concluding section in musical and poetic bar form

to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.

to understand thoroughly and intuitively

having little or no money; penniless; poor

a substitute

glowing or glittering with red or golden light

light, playful banter or raillery

a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things

extremely distasteful; unacceptable

free from reservation, disguise, or subterfuge; straightforward

fine arts; a sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif

intestinal cramps or other intestinal disturbances due to anxiety

a collection of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality: one twentieth of a ream

alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry

one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune