n. daftness
(a) the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
(b) a cruel and oppressive dictator; despot
(c) informal terms for insanity; flakiness
(d) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect
n. protuberance
(a) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
(b) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); guile; wile; shenanigan
(c) the condition of being protuberant
(d) the state of being anonymous
n. legerdemain
(a) the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
(b) an autocracy governed by a king who usually inherits the authority
(c) trick; magic; conjuration; illusion; deception
(d) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
n. declivity
(a) apprehension; worry; doubt
(b) a downward slope or bend; fall; decline; declination; declension; downslope
(c) a butcher's knife having a large square blade; chopper
(d) a midday meal; tiffin
n. din
(a) propriety in manners and conduct
(b) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair); hair style
(c) unrestrained merrymaking
(d) the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus; tumult |
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adj. foppish
(a) abounding in rocks or stones; stony
(b) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
(c) (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
(d) occurring or operating at the same time; concurrent; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous
n. breadth
(a) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; numbness; spiritlessness
(b) the extent of something from side to side
(c) a hard mass of fecal matter; faecalith; stercolith
(d) that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
n. solemnity
(a) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease
(b) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
(c) gravity; seriousness; formality
(d) a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
n. czarina
(a) the wife or widow of a male monarch or emperor
(b) a noisy riotous fight; battle royal
(c) period; era
(d) a long narrow opening; crevice; fissure; scissure
n. yield
(a) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit
(b) a notation used by choreographers
(c) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); production
(d) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son |
