v. gestate
(a) be pregnant with; carry; expect
(b) look at with amorous intentions
(c) command against; proscribe; veto; disallow; nix
(d) get worse or fall back to a previous condition; retrogress
v. flinch
(a) draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil; quail
(b) send by train; construct a fence
(c) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
(d) deprive of by deceit; swindle; goldbrick; defraud; scam
v. invalidate
(a) take away the legal force of or render ineffective; vitiate
(b) barbecue; interrogate; cross-examine
(c) help develop, help grow
(d) soil with mud or muck; muck up
v. impinge
(a) flee; run; turn tail; lam; run away; escape
(b) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
(c) advance beyond the usual limit
(d) grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
n. anodyne
(a) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
(b) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
(c) a medicine used to relieve pain; painkiller; pain pill
(d) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together |
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n. lectern
(a) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
(b) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
(c) the words of an opera or musical play
(d) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers; athar; ottar
adj. finicky
(a) exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky
(b) using or containing too many words; verbose; windy
(c) incomplete; biased; having a liking for something
(d) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; imperious; lordly; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering
v. capsulate
(a) send to an address
(b) suffer from intense heat
(c) enclose in a capsule; capsulize; capsulise
(d) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
v. oxygenate
(a) impregnate; aerate
(b) act or move at high speed; hurry; look sharp
(c) purge; cast; sick; chuck; honk; hrow up
(d) frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding
v. cark
(a) decree or designate beforehand; doom; designate
(b) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; disquiet; trouble; distract; disorder
(c) travel by getting free rides from motorists; thumb
(d) give off (water) through the skin |
