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- recover from illness or exertion.
Recuperate
- hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort; a laborious task.
toil
- existing at or from the beginning of time; primeval. (ancient, earliest)
Primordial
graceful and elegant bearing in a person.
Poise
-yearn to possess or have (something).
Covet
- recover one's health and strength over a period of time after an illness or operation
Convalesce
- beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
Implore
having or showing the proud and unpleasant attitude of someone who gives orders and expects other people to obey them
Imperious
- experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person; Acting or done for another
Vicariously
exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work.
Malinger
- stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
Obdurate
- strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way
Uncanny
- impossible to stop or prevent. (of a person) impossible to persuade by request or entreaty
inexorable
to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully; to fill to excess
Sate
– (of disease: infectious), evil-intentioned, cruel, unkind, hurtful, nasty, mean
Malignant
raider, plunderer, pirate, looter, robber
Marauder
– inundate/overwhelm/flood with a great quantity of something.
Deluge
- magnificent; very impressive (very positive connotation)
Splendid
adj - unnecessary, especially through being more than enough
Superfluous
– an article or thing of very little value; a matter, affair, or circumstance of little importance or significance.
Trifle
– hostile and aggressive
Belligerent
the top or highest part of something, especially one forming a point.
Apex
- dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest
Monotonous
- incongruous in a striking or shocking way; clashing, causing a physical shock, jolt, or vibration
Jarring
- cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused.
Bewilder
- to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care
Pamper
pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely
Forlorn
make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive
Daunt
- sullen and ill-tempered; gloomy, moody
Morose
- make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body; respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to a violent or unpleasant feeling or thought
Writhe
- make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily.
Blunder
alone; without companions; unattended; living alone; avoiding the society of others:
Solitary
very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
Fastidious –
– verb - struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud ; struggle mentally; show or feel great confusion
Flounder
Uncanny – adj - strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way
Uncanny
- walk (or travel through or around a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way).
Perambulate
dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever
Deft
a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality
Incarnation
- looking or sounding sad and dismal.
Lugubrious
- not harmful or offensive
Innocuous
a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury; grievous affliction; adversity; misery
Calamity
to do something bad to someone who has hurt you or treated you badly: to get revenge against someone
Retaliate
easily managed or handled; tractable: readily trained or taught; teachable.
Docile