characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please; deferential; fawning:

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

a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece

of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use

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

light, playful banter or raillery

pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms

humanity or fellow feeling; kindness

the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others (opposed to egoism)

to make valid; substantiate; confirm

projecting or leaning forward; overhanging

a sexually unrestrained woman

to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble

originating in or apprehended by the reason

a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture