(s) showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper

(s) bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde

(n) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form

(v) sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"

(s) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling

(s) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

(n) a fervent and even militant proponent of something

(n) a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans

(s) on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two friends"

(s) not growing or changing; without force or vitality

(n) a small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack