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adj. studied
(a) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation
(b) arousing to action or rebellion; inflammatory; instigative; rabble-rousing; seditious
(c) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; romantic
(d) used especially of persons
 
adj. wary
(a) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting
(b) fast and brilliant
(c) preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through
(d) exaggeratedly proper; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; tight-laced
 
adj. amphibian
(a) able to live both on land and water
(b) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny; unearthly
(c) of lustrous grey; silvery; silverish
(d) of or pertaining to electric or magnetic induction
 
adj. reactionary
(a) unhealthy looking
(b) without compunction or human feeling; inhuman
(c) unpleasantly loud and harsh
(d) extremely conservative; far-right
 
adj. unwarranted
(a) witty or joking
(b) lacking justification or authorization
(c) sorrowful through loss or deprivation; grief-stricken; grieving
(d) youthful; immature

 

adj. gory
(a) accompanied by bloodshed; sanguineous; slaughterous; butcherly
(b) exaggeratedly proper; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; tight-laced
(c) characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid
(d) of or belonging to or active during the day; having a daily cycle or occurring every day
 
adj. insuperable
(a) meditative; thoughtful; musing
(b) incapable of being surmounted or excelled
(c) not genuine or real; imitation; simulated
(d) dim; dull; very boring
 
adj. assailable
(a) irritable as if suffering from indigestion; liverish
(b) causing awareness of your shortcomings; humiliating; mortifying
(c) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
(d) not defended or capable of being defended; undefended; open
 
adj. unbarred
(a) not firmly fastened or secured; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured
(b) divided into or made up of two parts
(c) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; tabby
(d) resistant to guidance or discipline; perverse; wayward
 
adj. gelid
(a) extremely cold; glacial; icy; polar
(b) of or relating to or used in cooking
(c) discontented as toward authority; malcontent; rebellious
(d) marked by spirited enjoyment; zesty; barmy

adj. studied (a) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation
adj. wary (a) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting
adj. amphibian (a) able to live both on land and water
adj. reactionary (d) extremely conservative; far-right
adj. unwarranted (b) lacking justification or authorization
adj. gory (a) accompanied by bloodshed; sanguineous; slaughterous; butcherly
adj. insuperable (b) incapable of being surmounted or excelled
adj. assailable (d) not defended or capable of being defended; undefended; open
adj. unbarred (a) not firmly fastened or secured; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured
adj. gelid (a) extremely cold; glacial; icy; polar

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