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adj. militant
(a) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder; psychopathological
(b) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
(c) repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare
(d) engaged in war; war-ridden; warring
 
adj. ostentatious
(a) quick and energetic; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; zippy
(b) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
(c) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
(d) of girls or women who are eligible to marry
 
adj. receptive
(a) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin; pimply; pustulate
(b) able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
(c) of heaven or the spirit; supernal
(d) harsh or corrosive in tone; acerbic; blistering; caustic; sulfurous
 
adj. dire
(a) like a clown; clownlike; zany
(b) existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
(c) causing fear or dread or terror; dreaded; dreadful; horrendous; horrific; terrible
(d) brought low in spirit; crestfallen; deflated
 
adj. mobile
(a) resistant to guidance or discipline; perverse; wayward
(b) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
(c) affording change (especially in social status)
(d) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; backbreaking; hard; heavy

 

v. garotte
(a) render holy by means of religious rites; hallow; sanctify
(b) strangle with an iron collar; scrag
(c) make peace with
(d) defeat someone through trickery or deceit; shaft; screw; chicane; jockey
 
adj. infatuated
(a) having an unpleasant smell; unpleasant-smelling; ill-smelling; stinky
(b) presumptuously arrogant
(c) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; wriggly; writhing
(d) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten
 
adj. hoggish
(a) devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish
(b) worthy of high praise; praiseworthy
(c) defying imitation
(d) resembling swine; piggy; porcine; swinish
 
adj. podgy
(a) generally incompetent and ineffectual
(b) short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly
(c) incapable of being retracted or revoked
(d) difficult to penetrate
 
adj. initiatory
(a) serving to set in motion; first; maiden
(b) extremely cold; gelid; icy; polar
(c) lowered in value
(d) inconceivably extended in space or time

adj. militant (d) engaged in war; war-ridden; warring
adj. ostentatious (c) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
adj. receptive (b) able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
adj. dire (c) causing fear or dread or terror; dreaded; dreadful; horrendous; horrific; terrible
adj. mobile (c) affording change (especially in social status)
v. garotte (b) strangle with an iron collar; scrag
adj. infatuated (d) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten
adj. hoggish (d) resembling swine; piggy; porcine; swinish
adj. podgy (b) short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly
adj. initiatory (a) serving to set in motion; first; maiden

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