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n. servility
(a) the product of a body's mass and its velocity
(b) having temperamental and changeable moods
(c) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; XTC; go; disco biscuit; cristal
(d) abject or cringing submissiveness; subservience
 
n. writ
(a) legal order
(b) quality of being quick to react
(c) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
(d) large strong hand (as of a fighter); maulers
 
n. emolument
(a) state of oblivion
(b) an act of atrocious cruelty
(c) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
(d) an appearance of reflected light; glow
 
n. revelry
(a) unrestrained merrymaking
(b) thick cushion used as a seat; puff; hassock
(c) the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
(d) a strong liking; taste
 
n. itinerary
(a) a proposed route of travel
(b) any collection of diverse things
(c) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation
(d) a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm

 

n. jingoism
(a) overbearingness
(b) the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus
(c) fanatical patriotism; superpatriotism; ultranationalism
(d) a sudden jarring impact; shock
 
n. obsequy
(a) funeral ceremony
(b) a light shade of blue; sapphire; lazuline; sky-blue
(c) the manner in which something is expressed in words; phrasing; phraseology; choice of words
(d) the quality of not moving
 
n. infirmity
(a) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); debility; feebleness; frailness; valetudinarianism
(b) a street with only one way in or out; dead-end street
(c) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; umpire
(d) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
 
n. ichthyology
(a) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
(b) a passage selected from a larger work; extract; selection
(c) a trip taken by an official at public expense
(d) the branch of zoology that studies fishes
 
n. indolence
(a) absentminded dreaming while awake; daydream; daydreaming; air castle; castle in the air; castle in Spain
(b) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
(c) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack
(d) a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen

n. servility (d) abject or cringing submissiveness; subservience
n. writ (a) legal order
n. emolument (c) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
n. revelry (a) unrestrained merrymaking
n. itinerary (a) a proposed route of travel
n. jingoism (c) fanatical patriotism; superpatriotism; ultranationalism
n. obsequy (a) funeral ceremony
n. infirmity (a) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); debility; feebleness; frailness; valetudinarianism
n. ichthyology (d) the branch of zoology that studies fishes
n. indolence (b) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

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