Comport
To conduct or bear oneself
Brevity
Shortness
Concise
Expressing much in few words
Demure
Sober or serious in manner
Depreciation
A lessening in value
Deteriorate
To lower in quality or value
Divulge
To tell, reveal
Enlightened
Free from ignorance and false ideas
Forestall
To prevent by acting first
Garble
To distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
Proponent
One who puts forward a proposal
Quaver
To shake
Recoil
To spring back
Recoup
To make up for
Reek
An unpleasant smell
Relentless
Unyielding
Rivulet
A small stream
Squander
Waste
Staccato
Detached from style
Statute
A law