adj. plaintive
(a) mournful; sad; moving
(b) secret; hidden; covert; stealthy; underhand
(c) uncultured; crude; clumsy
(d) to be narrow minded or limited
n. cynic
(a) person who believes that others are motivated entirely by selfishness; pessimist
(b) food that is eaten; meal
(c) any private meeting or closed assembly
(d) peace; stillness; harmony; calmness
v. gerrymander
(a) to wince; to drawback; to retreat; to recoil; to shrink
(b) to gain advantage by manipulating unfairly; to falsify; to pervert; to distort
(c) to stay temporarily
(d) to prevent from accomplishing a purpose; to frustrate; to foil
n. acclaim
(a) tough person; hoodlum; hooligan; bully; thug
(b) person who has fallen behind; person who moves slowly
(c) old saying now accepted as being truthful; proverb
(d) loud approval; applause; praise
v. abbreviate
(a) to shorten; to reduce in length compress; to diminish; to make brief
(b) to occupy the whole of; to infiltrate; to spread out; to penetrate
(c) to deny; to refuse to acknowledge; to disclaim; to reject; to repudiate
(d) to walk at a leisurely pace; to stroll; to meander |
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adj. redundant
(a) showing decorum, propriety or good taste; correct; tasteful
(b) calm; not easily excited; composed
(c) inflexible; stubborn
(d) wordy; repetitive; unnecessary; superfluous; plentiful
n. ken
(a) person who goes after high goals; ambitious person
(b) witty or satirical poem or statement; letter; ingenious saying; proverb; phrase
(c) violent or unrestrained anger; fury; rage
(d) one's understanding; perception; consciousness; knowledge; awareness
adj. malicious
(a) mournful; sad; moving
(b) hidden; beyond human understanding; mystical; supernatural; secret
(c) having a smell which is sweet or spicy; fragrant
(d) spiteful; vindictive
v. garner
(a) to organize laws or rules into a systematic collection; to arrange systematically
(b) to free from confusion; to extricate; to unknot; to release; to undo
(c) to gather up and store; to collect; to accumulate; to store
(d) to show clearly; to appear; to prove; to reveal
v. harangue
(a) to condemn; to reject; to denounce
(b) to soften by steeping in liquid; to disintegrate
(c) to pull; to force away by a violent twisting; to kink
(d) to talk or write excitedly; to scold; to lecture |
