Theriomorphic

Having an animal form

Uxoricide

1. The killing of a wife by her husband
2. A man who kills his wife

Fungible

adj- Interchangeable

Fubsy

adj.
- chubby and somewhat squat

Hornswoggled

1. Bamboozled

2. Duped

Tergiversate

–verb (used without object), -sat·ed, -sat·ing.

1.

to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.

2.

to turn renegade.

Pedant

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
3. A person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail.

De Novo

Latin expression meaning "beginning anew", "afresh".

bildungsroman

A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.

Sisyphean

1. of or pertaining to Sisyphus.
2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.