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v. knead
(a) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes
(b) enumerate
(c) accord or comport with; beseem
(d) fix firmly
 
v. desecrate
(a) beat through cleverness; outsmart; outfox; beat
(b) move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; worm; squirm; twist
(c) command against; proscribe; veto; disallow; nix
(d) remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate
 
v. rile
(a) exalt to the position of a God
(b) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
(c) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
(d) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
 
v. daub
(a) bother; harass
(b) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
(c) coat with plaster; plaster; smear
(d) grant in a condescending manner
 
v. thwart
(a) yield (to)
(b) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross
(c) make complete or perfect
(d) bear; deport; conduct; carry

 

v. accost
(a) approach with an offer of sexual favors
(b) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
(c) keep in one's mind
(d) bring up a topic for discussion
 
adj. muggy
(a) hot or warm and humid; sticky
(b) resembling or characteristic of a fox
(c) parallel; similar
(d) very small; lilliputian; midget; petite; tiny; flyspeck
 
v. alienate
(a) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
(b) exalt to the position of a God
(c) confirm; sanction; legalize
(d) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
 
v. stoke
(a) stir up or tend
(b) defeat someone through trickery or deceit; shaft; screw; chicane; jockey
(c) mistake one thing for another
(d) call together
 
v. neigh
(a) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
(b) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; scant
(c) turn away or aside
(d) make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker; whinny

v. knead (a) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes
v. desecrate (d) remove the consecration from a person or an object; deconsecrate
v. rile (c) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
v. daub (c) coat with plaster; plaster; smear
v. thwart (b) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross
v. accost (a) approach with an offer of sexual favors
adj. muggy (a) hot or warm and humid; sticky
v. alienate (d) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
v. stoke (a) stir up or tend
v. neigh (d) make a characteristic sound, of a horse; whicker; whinny

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