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adj. perspicacious
(a) unequivocally detestable; execrable
(b) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded
(c) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
(d) (of a male) capable of copulation
 
adj. temporal
(a) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; rasping; rough; scratchy
(b) of this earth or world
(c) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
(d) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
 
adj. placid
(a) inconceivably extended in space or time
(b) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful
(c) persistent petty and unjustified criticism; faultfinding
(d) not easily irritated; good-tempered
 
adj. chimerical
(a) totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
(b) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
(c) not genuine or real; imitation; simulated
(d) producing a sizeable profit; remunerative
 
adj. tertiary
(a) of the night
(b) in opposition to a civil authority or government
(c) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
(d) humorously vulgar; ribald

 

adj. facile
(a) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken
(b) in an early stage of development
(c) artificial; man-made
(d) having a bad disposition
 
n. holocaust
(a) book containing the main principles of Christianity
(b) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
(c) a very steep cliff
(d) a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment
 
adj. insensible
(a) full of high-spirited delight; joyful; jubilant
(b) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
(c) having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; cissy; sissified; sissyish; sissy
(d) unresponsive to stimulation
 
adj. demode
(a) exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky
(b) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; sky-blue; bright blue
(c) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee
(d) softly bright or radiant; lucent; luminous
 
adj. bounderish
(a) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace; lowbred; rude; underbred; yokelish
(b) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; blameable; blameful; censurable
(c) deeply agitated especially from emotion
(d) having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; sissified; sissyish; sissy

adj. perspicacious (c) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
adj. temporal (b) of this earth or world
adj. placid (d) not easily irritated; good-tempered
adj. chimerical (b) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
adj. tertiary (c) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
adj. facile (a) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken
n. holocaust (b) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
adj. insensible (d) unresponsive to stimulation
adj. demode (c) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee
adj. bounderish (a) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace; lowbred; rude; underbred; yokelish

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