of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious

a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity

to comment or discourse at great length

(of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness

to turn renegade

relating to or characteristic of a person who indulges in some of the luxuries and comforts of a fancy lifestyle; relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class, especially when regarded as being elitist or snobbish

lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid

projecting or leaning forward; overhanging

outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended

neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping

equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification

a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song

a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior

secretly, stealthily

a small, dry one-seeded fruit that does not open to release the seed

to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper