1. Celerity – “rapidity of motion or action”
  2. Macabre – “having death as a subject , comprising or including a personalized representation of death”, “dwelling on the gruesome”
  3. Yen – craving
  4. Dipsomania – “an uncontrollable craving for alcoholic liquors”
  5. Trocar – “a sharp-pointed surgical instrument fitted with a cannula and used especially to insert the cannula into a body cavity as a drainage outlet”
  6. Cannula – “a small tube for insertion into a body cavity or into a duct or vessel”
  7. Greenhorn – “an inexperienced or naive person”, “a newcomer (as to a country) unacquainted with local manners and customs”
  8. Beelzebub – devil, “a fallen angel in Milton’s Paradise Lost ranking next to Satan”
  9. Ted – “to spread or turn from the swath and scatter (as new-mown grass) for drying”
  10. Skinflint – “a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means”, miser
  11. Aspersion – “a sprinkling with water especially in religious ceremonies”, ” a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone’s reputation”
  12. Tala – “one of the ancient traditional rhythmic patterns of South Asian music”

All definitions are from Merriam-Webster online

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