adj. menial
(a) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; whimsical
(b) not injured; whole
(c) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work); lowly
(d) exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced
adj. concurrent
(a) occurring or operating at the same time; coinciding; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous
(b) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
(c) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
(d) filled with bewilderment; nonplussed; puzzled
adj. patent
(a) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; manifest; plain; unmistakable
(b) worthy of religious veneration
(c) awkward; clumsy
(d) having or causing a whirling sensation; vertiginous
adj. bristling
(a) stiff or rigid with anger
(b) expressing sorrow
(c) extremely conservative; far-right
(d) learned through observation
adj. tangential
(a) touching at a single point
(b) spiteful; harmful; deadly
(c) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; sanguine
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v. ensconce
(a) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment; anathemize; comminate; anathemise; anathematize; anathematise
(b) cancel officially; countermand; reverse; rescind
(c) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
(d) fix firmly
adj. gruff
(a) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
(b) changeable; unstable
(c) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; husky
(d) natural; unaffected; uncultured
adj. glowering
(a) corpse-like; ghastly
(b) having a natural fragrance; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling
(c) foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
(d) showing a brooding ill humor; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen
adj. unharmed
(a) full of or showing high-spirited merriment; jolly; merry; mirthful
(b) not injured; unscathed; whole
(c) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship; keeled
(d) clearly defined or formulated
adj. argent
(a) sturdy; strong
(b) of lustrous grey; silvery; silverish
(c) stale and unclean smelling; frowsty
(d) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed; nonmedicinal |
