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adj. meddlesome
(a) commonly used or practiced; usual; accustomed; customary; habitual
(b) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; mesmerizing; spellbinding
(c) uncertain how to act or proceed
(d) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious; busy; busybodied
 
v. depict
(a) moo
(b) show submission or fear; creep; cringe; cower
(c) give a description of; describe; make a portrait of; portray
(d) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; expurgate; castrate; shorten
 
n. pendant
(a) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
(b) encouraging; helpful
(c) hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.)
(d) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
 
v. vex
(a) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross
(b) draw back, as with fear or pain; funk; cringe; shrink; wince; recoil
(c) attach or become attached to a stem word
(d) be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get
 
n. cessation
(a) a disposition to behave in a certain way
(b) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); break; severance; falling out
(c) a stopping
(d) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood

 

adj. practical
(a) feasible; useful; workable; applicable
(b) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water
(c) stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding
(d) sincerely or intensely felt
 
adj. dyspeptic
(a) irritable as if suffering from indigestion; liverish
(b) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
(c) allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through
(d) powerful; forceful
 
adj. subsidiary
(a) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; blameable; blameful; censurable
(b) lacking grace in movement or posture; clunky; ungainly; unwieldy
(c) functioning in a supporting capacity; supplemental; supplementary
(d) impudent; smart; saucy; sassy; wise
 
v. recidivate
(a) gather, as of natural products
(b) belittle; vilipend
(c) free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
(d) go back to bad behavior; regress; retrogress; fall back
 
n. guffaw
(a) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; detritus
(b) the act of inhaling; intake; breathing in
(c) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter
(d) a difficult problem; brain-teaser

adj. meddlesome (d) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; officious; busy; busybodied
v. depict (c) give a description of; describe; make a portrait of; portray
n. pendant (c) hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.)
v. vex (d) be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get
n. cessation (c) a stopping
adj. practical (a) feasible; useful; workable; applicable
adj. dyspeptic (a) irritable as if suffering from indigestion; liverish
adj. subsidiary (c) functioning in a supporting capacity; supplemental; supplementary
v. recidivate (d) go back to bad behavior; regress; retrogress; fall back
n. guffaw (c) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter

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