v. consort (a) escape, either physically or mentally (b) keep company (c) remove or make invisible; cancel; erase (d) foreshadow or presage; harbinger; foretell; herald
v. squander (a) disturb the composure of; unsettle (b) contribute; add; bring; grant (c) spend extravagantly; waste; ware (d) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results
v. hoard (a) hit hard; whop; whap; bonk (b) get or gather together; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile (c) expose while ridiculing (d) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
v. whittle (a) cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; overturn; rescind; vacate (b) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; lead by the nose; play false (c) cut small bits or pare shavings from (d) be immersed in
v. primp (a) treat with contemptuous disregard (b) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned; cue (c) make a reduction, as in one's workforce (d) dress or groom with elaborate care; plume; dress |
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n. faculty (a) wooden floor (b) a display of bad temper; scene; conniption (c) textual matter that is added onto a publication; postscript (d) the body of teachers and administrators at a school
n. impetus (a) intrigue; plot (b) a natural inclination; leaning (c) the act of applying force suddenly (d) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder; rung
v. stifle (a) be asphyxiated; asphyxiate (b) make weak; drain (c) be false to; cozen (d) record in chronological order
v. sire (a) torture and torment (b) make children; engender; father; mother; generate; bring forth (c) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern (d) revoke formally
v. cocker (a) treat with excessive indulgence; cosset; baby; coddle; mollycoddle; spoil; indulge (b) harass with persistent criticism or carping; razz; rag; cod (c) escape, either physically or mentally (d) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances; tergiversate |