n. endearment
(a) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
(b) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
(c) the act of showing affection
(d) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth); tweediness
n. retraction
(a) the worship of idols
(b) infection by a disease-causing ameba; amebiosis; amoebiosis
(c) a club used as a weapon
(d) the process of pulling or holding or drawing a part back
n. coda
(a) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease
(b) the closing section of a musical composition
(c) bowl-shaped strainer
(d) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; gall; rancor
n. delta
(a) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner; slogger
(b) the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
(c) a tart spicy quality; piquancy; piquantness; zest
(d) someone who depresses or worries others
n. caption
(a) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; turncoat; recreant; ratter
(b) someone new to a field or activity; tyro; initiate
(c) brief description accompanying an illustration
(d) any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) |
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n. imperiousness
(a) a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping
(b) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
(c) overbearingness
(d) the act of inducing hypnosis; suggestion
n. automation
(a) vengeful opponent
(b) variable which determines the form of a function
(c) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; beginning rhyme; head rhyme
(d) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation
adj. soporific
(a) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
(b) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; clumsy; ungainly
(c) spreading or spread throughout; permeative
(d) inducing mental lethargy
n. empathy
(a) understanding and entering into another's feelings
(b) heavenly state that exists beyond the cycle of reincarnation
(c) a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; magnate; power; top executive; tycoon
(d) a person having a strong liking for something
n. soliloquy
(a) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
(b) flowering plant with two cotyledons; magnoliopsid; exogen
(c) a swaggering show of courage
(d) a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey |
