v. fester (a) recover through digging (b) restrain (c) chew (food); manducate; jaw (d) generate pus; rankle; produce irritation or resentment
v. importune (a) make children; engender; sire; generate (b) grant voting rights (c) beg persistently and urgently (d) free from slavery or servitude
v. beset (a) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) (b) repay; refund; compensate for a loss (c) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly (d) beat soundly
v. polarize (a) overeat or eat immodestly (b) take the place or move into the position of; supervene upon; supercede (c) adapt; adjust (d) separate into opposing groups; contrapose
v. splice (a) laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack; gibe (b) place a bet on; stake; game; punt (c) join by interweaving strands (d) make impossible, especially beforehand; close out |
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v. scruple (a) have doubts about (b) become powder or dust; pulverise; powderise (c) stop the flow of a liquid; halt (d) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
v. wallow (a) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality (b) delight greatly in (c) alternate the direction of motion of (d) express strong disapproval of; objurgate; excoriate
adj. despondent (a) incongruous; unsuitable (b) without or almost without hope (c) relating to rural matters (d) having a good reputation
v. leaven (a) influence; cause gradual change (b) separate into opposing groups; contrapose (c) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of (d) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
v. gasp (a) give away information about somebody; tell on; betray; give away (b) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave (c) administer an oil or ointment to; oil; embrocate (d) express a totally negative opinion of; trash |