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adj. refractory
(a) furnishing added support; adjuvant; appurtenant; auxiliary
(b) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband
(c) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; luxuriant; sybaritic; voluptuary
(d) stubborn; obstinate
 
v. wane
(a) polish and make shiny; furbish
(b) decrease in phase
(c) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; spoil; scotch; cross
(d) cause to separate and go in different directions; break up; scatter
 
adj. hermetic
(a) sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult
(b) formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious
(c) heavenly; light; airy
(d) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; plundered; ransacked
 
adj. contiguous
(a) disposed or willing to comply
(b) having a common boundary or edge
(c) imposing in size or bulk or solidity
(d) not easy to combine harmoniously; unsuited
 
adj. lethal
(a) of or relating to the scientific study of language
(b) of an instrument of certain death
(c) existent everywhere at all times
(d) composed of or containing bone; bony

 

n. posterity
(a) the act of rubbing together
(b) written statement made under oath
(c) all future generations
(d) atrociousness; offensiveness
 
adj. petulant
(a) lacking foresight or scope; unforesightful
(b) corresponding in size or degree or extent
(c) easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish
(d) increasing by successive addition
 
adj. nonionized
(a) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; butterfingered; ham-fisted; ham-handed; handless; heavy-handed; left-handed
(b) not converted into ions; unionized; unionised; nonionic
(c) related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature
(d) without a basis in reason or fact; idle; unfounded; unwarranted; wild
 
n. scamper
(a) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
(b) rushing about hastily in an undignified way; scurry
(c) brief description accompanying an illustration
(d) the atmosphere of an environment
 
n. floridity
(a) equality of distribution; counterbalance
(b) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; gas
(c) the act of demolishing
(d) extravagant elaborateness; showiness

adj. refractory (d) stubborn; obstinate
v. wane (b) decrease in phase
adj. hermetic (a) sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult
adj. contiguous (b) having a common boundary or edge
adj. lethal (b) of an instrument of certain death
n. posterity (c) all future generations
adj. petulant (c) easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish
adj. nonionized (b) not converted into ions; unionized; unionised; nonionic
n. scamper (b) rushing about hastily in an undignified way; scurry
n. floridity (d) extravagant elaborateness; showiness

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