n. barrage
(a) the range within which a voice can be heard; hearing
(b) courage; endurance
(c) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; battery; bombardment; shelling
(d) the highest point (of something); apex; acme
n. leeway
(a) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
(b) space or time to maneuver; additional money
(c) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
(d) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; struma; thyromegaly
n. vassal
(a) a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
(b) the act of moving something from one location to another; transfer; transferral; conveyance
(c) a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject; feudatory
(d) a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action
n. centaur
(a) addition or appendix to a document
(b) opposition; refutation; contradiction
(c) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
(d) fabled monster being half man and half horse
n. vendetta
(a) something of little value or significance; frivolity
(b) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other
(c) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language
(d) adroitness and cleverness in reply |
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n. spoonerism
(a) using words that imitate the sound they denote
(b) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
(c) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
(d) infallibleness
n. mischance
(a) group; team; friends
(b) shelter; refuge; mental home
(c) convent; monastery
(d) an instance of misfortune
n. parallelism
(a) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language
(b) similarity by virtue of corresponding
(c) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability; comradeliness; comradery; comradeship
(d) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint
n. blastoderm
(a) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula; blastodisc; germinal area
(b) righteousness by virtue of being pious
(c) equality of distribution; counterbalance
(d) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public
n. tremor
(a) a person who makes a will
(b) a loud resonant repeating noise; clangour; clank; clash; crash
(c) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)
(d) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement |
