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adj. universal
(a) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
(b) artificial; man-made
(c) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; harried; pestered; vexed
(d) characterized by friendship and good will
 
adj. obtuse
(a) marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous
(b) characterized by a buoyant rhythm; swingy; tripping
(c) shaped like a pouch; pouchlike; saclike
(d) slow to learn or understand; dull; dumb; slow
 
adj. prodigal
(a) readily reacting to suggestions and influences
(b) recklessly wasteful; profligate; spendthrift
(c) having unnatural mannerisms
(d) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee
 
adj. disputatious
(a) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; disputative; litigious
(b) deliberately impassive in manner; impassive; poker-faced; unexpressive
(c) presenting or taking the same point of view
(d) not fully developed or mature; immature
 
adj. lilliputian
(a) having hair on the cheeks and chin; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery
(b) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
(c) small; tiny
(d) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; double-dealing; duplicitous

 

n. culmination
(a) a crude idol of Krishna
(b) a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action
(c) the highest point (of something); apex; acme
(d) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
 
adj. irreverent
(a) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; draped; wrapped
(b) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit
(c) used of riotously drunken merrymaking; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic
(d) not revering god
 
adj. inanimate
(a) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
(b) observant; conservative
(c) lifeless; spiritless
(d) concise and full of meaning
 
adj. urbane
(a) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; svelte
(b) being sour to the taste; acidulent
(c) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; hypothetical; hypothetic; supposed; suppositional; suppositious
(d) behaving wildly; abundant
 
adj. stainless
(a) unpleasantly cold and damp; raw
(b) (of reputation) free from blemishes; unsullied; untainted; untarnished
(c) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded; passe; passee
(d) uncomfortably or inconveniently small

adj. universal (a) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
adj. obtuse (d) slow to learn or understand; dull; dumb; slow
adj. prodigal (b) recklessly wasteful; profligate; spendthrift
adj. disputatious (a) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; disputative; litigious
adj. lilliputian (c) small; tiny
n. culmination (b) a final climactic stage; apogee; a concluding action
adj. irreverent (d) not revering god
adj. inanimate (c) lifeless; spiritless
adj. urbane (a) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; svelte
adj. stainless (b) (of reputation) free from blemishes; unsullied; untainted; untarnished

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