| Able to bounce back from adversity |
RESILIENT |
| Able to live on land and in water |
AMPHIBIAN |
| Adhesive strip |
SELLOTAPE |
| Adorn eel, badly, with this shrub |
OLEANDER |
| Apex, climax |
APOGEE |
| Baby bear, say |
CUB |
| Bodily or mental shock |
TRAUMA |
| Body of water |
SEA |
| Calm, placid |
TRANQUIL |
| Deed |
ACTION |
| Described roughly or briefly |
OUTLINED |
| Dispensed with or forfeited |
WAIVED |
| Elementary particle with negative charge |
ELECTRON |
| Expensive gems and card suit |
DIAMONDS |
| False and malicious publication to defame |
LIBEL |
| French general and president |
DEGAULLE |
| Gradually sinking to a lower level |
SETTLING |
| Hang back, linger |
DAWDLE |
