n. treatise
(a) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner; slogger
(b) a formal exposition
(c) an idle slothful person
(d) an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; bricole; mangonel; onager
adj. boisterous
(a) excessively unwilling to spend
(b) serving to warn; monitory
(c) of or being or relating to or involving cognition
(d) violently agitated and turbulent; rough
n. audit
(a) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
(b) a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation
(c) an insufficient quantity or number
(d) a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
n. cognizance
(a) expression; set phrase
(b) range or scope of what is perceived
(c) traveler who moves from one region or country to another
(d) a person without moral scruples
v. rusticate
(a) be a precursor of; introduce
(b) excite pleasurably or erotically
(c) add details to; lard; embellish; aggrandise; blow up; dramatize
(d) live in a country area |
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adj. concluding
(a) not firmly fastened or secured; unlatched; unlocked; unsecured
(b) occurring at or forming an end or termination; last; terminal
(c) short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly
(d) annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered
adj. preeminent
(a) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; tumid; turgid
(b) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
(c) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy
(d) bound by contract; bound; indentured
v. abase
(a) expel from a community or group; ostracize; ostracise; cast out; blackball
(b) give a description of; describe; make a portrait of; portray
(c) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; sweep; sweep up; drag; drag in
(d) cause to feel shame; chagrin; humble
v. tender
(a) offer formally; suggest
(b) cancel officially; lift; countermand; reverse; repeal; overturn; vacate
(c) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
(d) make a deposition; depone
n. howling
(a) a current state of general acceptance and use
(b) a long loud emotional utterance; ululation
(c) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower
(d) an effortful attempt to attain a goal; pains; strain |
