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n. regime
(a) pompous walk; supporting bar
(b) the state of being isolated or detached; insularism; detachment
(c) mode of rule; system of government
(d) person who ruins the fun or enjoyment of others
 
v. swill
(a) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity; descend
(b) use up (resources or materials); use up; eat
(c) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
(d) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; moult; slough
 
v. proliferate
(a) walk as if unable to control one's movements; lurch; swag; careen
(b) make obscure or unclear
(c) cause to grow or increase rapidly
(d) fill to satisfaction; replete; fill
 
adj. atheistic
(a) pertaining to the belief that God does not exist
(b) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; unperturbed; unruffled
(c) sticking out
(d) marked by a ready flow of speech
 
adj. inept
(a) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
(b) easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish
(c) consisting of or forming human or animal figures
(d) lost in thought; scatty

 

n. awe
(a) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; veneration
(b) an awkward stupid person; oaf; lubber; lump; gawk
(c) the property of being extremely abundant; richness; cornucopia
(d) one whose business is the management of funerals; funeral undertaker; funeral director
 
v. debunk
(a) feel or express sympathy or compassion; sympathise
(b) regret strongly; bewail; bemoan
(c) expose while ridiculing
(d) use up (resources or materials); use up; eat
 
n. lariat
(a) a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
(b) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; cap
(c) beautiful handwriting; chirography
(d) a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata
 
adj. precedent
(a) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; shrunken; withered
(b) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
(c) in the current fashion or style
(d) preceding in time, order, or significance
 
adj. condign
(a) fitting or appropriate and deserved
(b) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; sneaky; surreptitious
(c) extremely evil or cruel; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy
(d) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; harried; pestered; vexed

n. regime (c) mode of rule; system of government
v. swill (c) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
v. proliferate (c) cause to grow or increase rapidly
adj. atheistic (a) pertaining to the belief that God does not exist
adj. inept (a) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
n. awe (a) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; veneration
v. debunk (c) expose while ridiculing
n. lariat (d) a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata
adj. precedent (d) preceding in time, order, or significance
adj. condign (a) fitting or appropriate and deserved

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