tight
what is taut?
the highest point
What is an apex?
motherly
What is maternal?
nearsightedness
What is myopia?
a pause or a break
What is hiatus?
a fortified place
What is bastion?
a crude image of a person
What is an effigy?
ordinary and commonplace
What is mundane?
decorated
What is festooned?
tall, pointed formations
What are pinnacles?
a gloomy affect
What is pall?
like a storm
What is tempestuously?
kindly and charitable
downward slopes
What are declivities?
hostile; unfriendly
ridicule; mockery
What is derisive?
out of date
What is anachronistic?
obscured and blocked from view
What is eclipsed?
intense enthusiasm
What is ebullience?
vanishing; soon passing away
What is evanescent?
disbelief
What is incredulity?
showy and pretentious
What is ostentatious?
incapable of being affected
What is impervious?
incapable of being understood; unable to see through physically
What is inscrutable?
disloyal
What is perfidious?