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adj. therapeutic
(a) impossible to achieve; unrealizable
(b) relating to or involved in therapy
(c) deficient in alertness or activity
(d) general; of or pertaining to a class or kind
 
adj. presumptuous
(a) excessively forward
(b) legendary creature believed to be a rejuvenated corpse who sucks people's blood at night
(c) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
(d) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting; wary
 
adj. waggish
(a) witty or joking
(b) causing dejection; dark; disconsolate; gloomy; grim
(c) dirty; stained
(d) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile
 
adj. homespun
(a) used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed
(b) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; marine
(c) hand-woven
(d) foul and run-down and repulsive; sordid
 
adj. momentous
(a) puffy; swollen
(b) gray; white; ancient; old
(c) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady
(d) of very great significance

 

adj. saccharine
(a) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; stupendous
(b) overly sweet; syrupy; treacly
(c) without compunction or human feeling; inhuman
(d) mild and pleasant; soft
 
adj. alluvial
(a) having a command of or composed in many languages
(b) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; effusive; gushing
(c) uncertain how to act or proceed
(d) of or relating to alluvium
 
v. bamboozle
(a) subsist on a meager allowance; skimp
(b) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false
(c) surround so as to force to give up; surround; hem in; circumvent
(d) release from entanglement of difficulty; disentangle; disencumber
 
n. waggle
(a) mutual accusations
(b) someone who dislikes people in general
(c) causing to move repeatedly from side to side; shake
(d) a person who operates a farm; sodbuster
 
adj. plaintive
(a) applauding; commending
(b) expressing sorrow
(c) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute
(d) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

adj. therapeutic (b) relating to or involved in therapy
adj. presumptuous (a) excessively forward
adj. waggish (a) witty or joking
adj. homespun (c) hand-woven
adj. momentous (d) of very great significance
adj. saccharine (b) overly sweet; syrupy; treacly
adj. alluvial (d) of or relating to alluvium
v. bamboozle (b) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false
n. waggle (c) causing to move repeatedly from side to side; shake
adj. plaintive (b) expressing sorrow

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