A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)

by Piers Anthony

nadir

temerity,

invidious

verisimilitude

Magic makes remarkable things possible.”

miscegenation

inexorably.

indomitable

girt

paroxysms.

tacit

abrogated.

boles

chagrin.

fishwife

hippocampus

expiated

ignobility.

vitiate

How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.