n. miscreant
(a) a senior clergyman and dignitary; high priest; primate
(b) a person without moral scruples
(c) the outside boundary or surface of something; outer boundary
(d) genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds
n. nonchalance
(a) the act of umpiring; officiating
(b) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; indifference
(c) someone who tries to bring peace; pacifier; peacemaker
(d) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; rickshaw
n. animus
(a) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
(b) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood
(c) gullet
(d) a major division of a long poem
n. argot
(a) loud and persistent outcry from many people; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry
(b) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
(c) the act of detonating an explosive
(d) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); jargon; lingo; patois; vernacular
n. epistemologist
(a) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
(b) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar; preserves
(c) a specialist in epistemology
(d) brief description accompanying an illustration |
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n. flick
(a) the environmental condition
(b) film; moving picture; motion-picture show
(c) the act of someone who floats on the water
(d) great merriment; glee; gleefulness
n. throng
(a) liveliness and energy; ginger
(b) a large gathering of people; concourse
(c) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; hick; yahoo; hayseed; bumpkin; chawbacon
(d) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
adj. barbate
(a) being of the underworld
(b) having hair on the cheeks and chin; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery
(c) engaged in war; war-ridden; warring
(d) marked by a lack of interest
n. euphemism
(a) an indifference to pleasure or pain; stolidness
(b) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
(c) a quick and penetrating intelligence; sharpness; keenness
(d) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
n. adjutant
(a) propriety in manners and conduct
(b) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; numbness; spiritlessness
(c) assistant to a commanding officer
(d) the quality of disagreeing |
