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1 ingenuous - natural; straightforward.

2 Eulenspiegel - Tyll Eulenspiegel, legendary hero of a folk tale popular in sixteenth-century Germany, relating the pranks, adventures, and misadventures of a wandering jack-of-all-trades

3 scantlings - scrap wood

4augured - gave promise or indication of

5calliope - the muse of heroic poetry

6hoyden – a girl treated like a boy

7bonanza - a situation from which large profits are made

8 stope - a type of excavation for removing ore from the ground

9 accolade - acknowledgement or award

10 beer tube - beer hall

11 unmonitored - unobserved; unwatched

12 vista - outlook; prospect

13 discrepancy - difference

14 acquiescence - passive consent

15 vilify - denounce

16 ambiguous - uncertain; capable of being interpreted in more than one way

17 incongruous - inconsistent

18 inhibited - discouraged; hindered

19 most perspicacious - most able to see clearly; shrewdest; of acute mental discernment

20 admonition - advice or warning

21 belittling - causing to seem less

22 inertia - the inability or unwillingness to act

23 antithesis - direct opposite

24 genesis - origin

25 rationalizations - explanations which are plausible and reasonable but which fail to examine the true, often hidden, motives behind a decision or an action

26 Willie Sutton - for years Sutton had topped the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list. He was arrested in 1952 and spent 17 years in jail

27 rowels - the spiked disks on spurs

28 centaur - in classical mythology, the centaurs were a fabled race of beasts having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the legs and body of a horse

29 fistula – sinus (medical)

30 malignancy - is the tendency of a medical condition, especially tumors, to become progressively worse and to potentially result in death.

31 reminiscent - stimulating memories

32 pungent - sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid

33 succumbed - to yield to disease

34 lurk - to exist unperceived or unsuspected

35 inference - the act or process of inferring

36 plethora - superfluity or excess

37 spatial - having extension in space

38 Adrian Wallwork - a freelance journalist. He has taught English in Italy and is currently writing an English grammar for Italians