n. yeoman
(a) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; flavour
(b) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes; bush
(c) in former times was free and cultivated his own land
(d) a hard mass of fecal matter; faecalith; stercolith
n. quandary
(a) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
(b) the quality of being wordy and talkative; loquaciousness; loquacity; talkativeness
(c) a dissolute person; rounder
(d) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike; rat
n. stricture
(a) severe criticism
(b) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects
(c) correct or appropriate behavior; correctitude
(d) a ruler who is unconstrained by law
n. ethos
(a) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
(b) characteristic nature of a people or community or era
(c) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm
(d) an informal term for a youth or man; bozo
n. impuissance
(a) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act
(b) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
(c) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation; contriteness
(d) physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
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n. foreboding
(a) an arrangement of branching parts
(b) an unfavorable omen
(c) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
(d) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
n. cubicle
(a) someone who educates young people
(b) the act of killing a king
(c) place of purification
(d) small area set off by walls for special use; stall; kiosk
n. ardor
(a) a physician who specializes in psychiatry; shrink
(b) the feeling of being bored by something tedious; tedium
(c) feelings of great warmth and intensity; fervor; fervour; fervency; fire; fervidness
(d) scorn; disdain
n. bubbliness
(a) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
(b) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
(c) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); lyssa; madness
(d) the property of giving off bubbles; frothiness
n. huffing
(a) a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; blowhard; line-shooter; vaunter
(b) the manner in which something is expressed in words; phrasing; phraseology; choice of words
(c) an act of forcible exhalation; snorting
(d) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; outcome; result; event; issue |
