v. slacken
(a) slow down; decelerate
(b) scar; burn; brand
(c) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; moult; slough
(d) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
adj. catholic
(a) free from provincial prejudices or attachments
(b) cheap and shoddy
(c) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile
(d) totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
v. dissuade
(a) turn away from by persuasion
(b) tear down so as to make flat with the ground; rase; dismantle; tear down; take down; pull down
(c) laugh at with contempt and derision; barrack; gibe
(d) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; endure; stick out
n. isthmus
(a) an act of economizing
(b) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; patronage
(c) a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject
(d) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
adj. demotic
(a) free of deceit
(b) concerned with or related to the past
(c) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady
(d) of or for the common people |
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n. quiver
(a) the act of vibrating; shiver
(b) a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata
(c) trick; magic; conjuration; illusion; deception
(d) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other
n. orifice
(a) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
(b) the study of the sources and development of words
(c) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; porta
(d) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
v. plonk
(a) shower with love
(b) make sensitive or aware; sensibilize; sensibilise
(c) wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; ambuscade; lie in wait
(d) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; plop; plunk; plump down; plunk down; plump
v. jell
(a) be lazy or idle; bum around; loaf; frig around; lounge about
(b) express in words
(c) become gelatinous; congeal
(d) call together
v. vacillate
(a) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; waver
(b) stoop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil
(c) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; disquiet; trouble; distract; disorder
(d) catch sight of; espy; spy |
