n. quirk
(a) a person who is tricked or swindled
(b) a narrow groove beside a beading
(c) the closing section of a musical composition
(d) a person skilled in telling anecdotes
n. anarchist
(a) informal terms for a (young) woman; skirt; chick; bird
(b) the quality of being something that holds you back
(c) the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
(d) an advocate of anarchism; syndicalist
n. lineaments
(a) facial details; characteristics
(b) witty remark; sally
(c) severe disapproval
(d) a wad of something chewable as tobacco; cud; quid; plug; wad
n. encomium
(a) a formal expression of praise; panegyric; paean; pean
(b) floater; vagabond
(c) a trader who exchanges goods and not money
(d) right associated with ownership of property
n. calamity
(a) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
(b) a person who refuses to comply; noncompliant
(c) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm
(d) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research |
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n. tryst
(a) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
(b) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
(c) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power
(d) a metric unit of volume (capacity)
n. cynosure
(a) animal hunted or caught for food
(b) atrociousness; offensiveness
(c) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation
(d) something that strongly attracts attention and admiration
n. momentum
(a) a crude idol of Krishna
(b) a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
(c) the product of a body's mass and its velocity
(d) a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme
n. chirology
(a) powerful and effective language; smoothness
(b) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
(c) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
(d) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand; chiromancy
n. consort
(a) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; burnouse
(b) a family of similar musical instrument playing together
(c) seasoning
(d) distance travelled per unit time |
