n. ford (a) a socially awkward or tactless act; solecism; slip; gaucherie (b) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse (c) a person who makes maps (d) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence
n. minutia (a) an unpaid overdue debt (b) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); exclusive right (c) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs (d) a small or minor detail
n. tarantula (a) a musical work that has been created; composition; piece; piece of music (b) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites (c) mutual accusations (d) the act of collecting in a mass
n. opprobrium (a) apprehension; worry; doubt (b) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline; derivation; filiation (c) a state of extreme dishonor (d) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone; bourdon
n. inertia (a) mixed feelings or emotions (b) the feeling of a hostile person; ill will (c) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances (d) inactivity; immobility |
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n. cavalier (a) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War (b) any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) (c) a spear with three prongs (d) correct or appropriate behavior; correctitude
n. aperient (a) a purging medicine; physic (b) group; team; friends (c) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal; plaster (d) flourish played by trumpets
n. cameo (a) a quick and penetrating intelligence; sharpness; keenness (b) engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring) (c) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery (d) a state of extreme dishonor
n. trudger (a) scorn; disdain (b) fear resulting from the awareness of danger (c) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner; slogger (d) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
n. flatulency (a) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); self-reproach (b) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy (c) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; gas (d) facial features |