Vocabulary bits

1. sententious -  Given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
2. elegiac - of, relating to, or comprising elegy or an elegy; especially : expressing sorrow often for something now past
3. palter -  To talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
4. dearth -  scarcity that makes dear; specifically : famine
5. strepitous - boisterous; noisy
6. disapprobation -  the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation
7. quail - to recoil in dread or terror
8. ecru - Very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen
9. celadon - A pale gray-green
10. piceous -  Inflammable; combustible