to conspire in a fraud

exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant

a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive

former; erstwhile

requiring painstaking care

to make valid; substantiate; confirm

yielding or containing gold

of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal

to communicate; impart; make known

flashing or sparkling

a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings

to sink (a vessel) deliberately, especially by opening seacocks or making openings in the hull

condescending; haughty

to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to)

to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, especially by degrading or frustrating means