Waive - lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
Vagrant - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Anecdote - short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Hone - sharpen with a hone
Stealth - avoiding detection by moving carefully
Habitué - a regular patron
Cantankerous - stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Arraignment - a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Pugnacious - ready and able to resort to force or violence
Sartorial - of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring
Unpretentious - lacking pretension or affectation
Elicit - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Vicissitude - a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
Beleaguer - surround so as to force to give up
Rebuff - reject outright and bluntly
Prevaricate - be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Contrition - sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Lithe - moving and bending with ease
Ostensibly - from appearances alone
Predisposed - made susceptible
Erratic - liable to sudden unpredictable change
Innocuous - lacking intent or capacity to injure
Prevalence - the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
Hiatus - an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
Callous - make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
Unctuous - unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
Pinion - bind the arms of
Complacency - the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself\
Malodorous - having an unpleasant smell
Travesty - a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
Progeny - the immediate descendants of a person
Phlegmatic - showing little emotion
Collusion - secret agreement
Habeas corpus - a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
Allegation - (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)
Reprieve - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
Limbo - the state of being disregarded or forgotten
Commodious - large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
Manacle - shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs