EVINCE

Meaning:
• to show or demonstrate in a clear manner
• to make evident, to indicate

IMPRESARIO

Meaning:
• one who sponsors entertainment, especially the director of an opera company
• a manager, producer

TRICE

Meaning:
• a very short period of time, an instant, a moment

DISCOMBOBULATE

Meaning:
• to throw into a state of confusion
• to baffle, befuddle, consternate

HENBANE

Meaning:
• a poisonous plant belonging to the nightshade family, native to temperate Europe and Siberia, and naturalised in Great Britain and Ireland

CANARD

Meaning:
• an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story
• a groundless rumor or belief

DEHISCE

Meaning:
• to split along a natural or built-in line of weakness
• to discharge contents by so splitting, as in a seedpod

ABSCOND

Meaning:
• to leave quickly and secretly as to hide oneself
• to hide, withdraw, or be concealed
• to depart clandestinely

POLTROON

Meaning:
• an utter coward, a dastard, a mean-spirited wretch

SHAMBOLIC

Meaning:
• disorderly
• chaotic
• mismanaged