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n. pallet
(a) someone who designs clothing; clothes designer; designer
(b) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
(c) hard monotonous routine work; grind; donkeywork
(d) someone who expresses strong approval; indorser
 
adj. precarious
(a) surpassing what is common or usual or expected
(b) not secure
(c) clearly defined or formulated
(d) full of or giving praise; praising
 
n. disarray
(a) one related on the father's side; patrilineal kin; patrisib; patrilineal sib
(b) a formal written statement of relinquishment; discharge
(c) footwear usually with wooden soles; patten; sabot
(d) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)
 
adj. sectarian
(a) narrow-minded; having a limited perspective
(b) exposing human folly to ridicule
(c) without mercy or pity; unpitying
(d) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed; jaggy; notched; toothed
 
n. silt
(a) a specialist in epistemology
(b) an office that involves minimal duties
(c) the feeling of being bored by something tedious; tedium
(d) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

 

adj. leery
(a) kind; favorable; gentle
(b) tending to promote physical well-being
(c) concerned with theories rather than their practical applications
(d) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting; wary
 
v. swathe
(a) chew cud
(b) wrap in swaddling clothes
(c) beat through cleverness; outsmart; outfox; beat
(d) divest of church officials
 
adj. noxious
(a) not having a material body; bodiless; unbodied; disembodied
(b) having self-possession upset
(c) injurious to physical or mental health
(d) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
 
v. affront
(a) contribute; add; bring; grant
(b) give long speeches in order to delay or prevent a decision from being made
(c) treat, mention, or speak to rudely
(d) defeat disastrously
 
n. refereeing
(a) pompous or pretentious talk or writing; rant; claptrap; blah
(b) the act of umpiring; officiating
(c) someone who designs clothing; clothes designer; designer
(d) trivial nonsense; piffle

n. pallet (b) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
adj. precarious (b) not secure
n. disarray (d) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)
adj. sectarian (a) narrow-minded; having a limited perspective
n. silt (d) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
adj. leery (d) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; suspicious; untrusting; wary
v. swathe (b) wrap in swaddling clothes
adj. noxious (c) injurious to physical or mental health
v. affront (c) treat, mention, or speak to rudely
n. refereeing (b) the act of umpiring; officiating

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