missed vocab

profligate

wasteful

terse

brief and to the point

fecund

fertile; productive

infirmity

physical or mental weakness

elegiac

mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful

malady

a sickness, illness, disease, disorder

nuance

a slight or subtle degree of difference

remonstrance

protest

scintillate

to sparkle; to twinkle; to sparkle intellectually

vitiate

to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of