n. cession
(a) an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition
(b) the act of ordaining
(c) the act of ceding
(d) the act of umpiring; officiating
n. truism
(a) a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon
(b) a cavity or passage in a tubular organ
(c) excessive sternness; harshness; rigor; rigorousness; inclemency; stiffness
(d) an obvious truth
n. dupe
(a) a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
(b) a postulated sequence of possible events
(c) a person who is tricked or swindled
(d) a medicine used to relieve pain; painkiller; pain pill
n. clime
(a) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
(b) a notice of someone's death; necrology
(c) traveler who moves from one region or country to another
(d) avoiding detection by moving carefully
n. clarion
(a) fate; destiny
(b) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
(c) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
(d) edge; brink |
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n. libretto
(a) the words of an opera or musical play
(b) a display of bad temper; scene
(c) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; impasse; stalemate; standstill
(d) a flamboyant deceiver
n. verdancy
(a) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation; verdure
(b) disturbance usually in protest; upheaval; hullabaloo
(c) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); break; severance; falling out
(d) a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
n. millennium
(a) precise detailed study of the surface features of a region
(b) ancestor
(c) one thousand years
(d) someone who educates young people
n. kyphosis
(a) someone who makes wine; wine maker
(b) sound of something in rapid motion; birr
(c) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column; hunchback
(d) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
n. muggins
(a) any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
(b) addition or appendix to a document
(c) a person who lacks good judgment; saphead; tomfool
(d) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; XTC; go; disco biscuit; cristal |
