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adj. temperate
(a) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile
(b) worthy of religious veneration
(c) not extreme
(d) showing pensive sadness
 
adj. rakish
(a) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; draped; wrapped
(b) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
(c) having a common boundary or edge
(d) evidencing little spirit or courage
 
adj. taut
(a) found in the ordinary course of events; routine; unremarkable; workaday
(b) produced or growing in extreme abundance; luxuriant; profuse; riotous
(c) subjected to great tension
(d) frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal
 
adj. contentious
(a) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions
(b) involving or likely to cause controversy
(c) unrestrained by convention or propriety; bodacious; brassy; brazen; insolent
(d) matching point for point
 
adj. synoptic
(a) presenting or taking the same point of view
(b) not fully developed or mature; immature
(c) used of decisions and contracts
(d) not practical or realizable; Laputan; windy

 

adj. meteoric
(a) fast and brilliant
(b) alone; unique; unparalleled
(c) basic; elementary; fundamental
(d) characterized by anger
 
adj. negligible
(a) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful
(b) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; slatternly; sluttish
(c) existing in the mind; personal
(d) not worth considering; trifling
 
adj. impeccable
(a) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing
(b) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
(c) not capable of sin
(d) of great mass; giant; jumbo
 
adj. gilt
(a) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment; self-reliant
(b) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
(c) natural; unaffected; uncultured
(d) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; gold; golden
 
adj. aery
(a) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; airy; ethereal
(b) of a path e.g.; winding
(c) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous
(d) having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated

adj. temperate (c) not extreme
adj. rakish (b) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
adj. taut (c) subjected to great tension
adj. contentious (b) involving or likely to cause controversy
adj. synoptic (a) presenting or taking the same point of view
adj. meteoric (a) fast and brilliant
adj. negligible (d) not worth considering; trifling
adj. impeccable (c) not capable of sin
adj. gilt (d) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; gold; golden
adj. aery (a) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; airy; ethereal

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