improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.

To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.

A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.

oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.

the quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion

To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.

simple past tense and past participle of reduce; to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

a skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.

Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.

formed of layers.