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n. podiatrist
(a) a specialist in care for the feet
(b) characteristic nature of a people or community or era
(c) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat; cough drop; troche
(d) coloring material used as paint or dye
 
n. carnage
(a) the savage and excessive killing of many people; mass murder; butchery
(b) a songbook containing a collection of hymns; hymnary
(c) a young oyster or other bivalve
(d) food fed to livestock
 
n. husbandry
(a) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
(b) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
(c) the state of being polluted; pollution
(d) the product of a body's mass and its velocity
 
n. interloper
(a) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)
(b) variation
(c) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy; lethargy; slackness
(d) trespasser
 
n. litigation
(a) process of contesting in a court of law
(b) influencing strongly; impact
(c) an unpaid overdue debt
(d) the back side of the neck; nucha

 

n. ramp
(a) something causing misery or death; scourge; nemesis
(b) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement
(c) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
(d) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
 
n. presentiment
(a) extravagant exaggeration
(b) a feeling of evil to come; boding
(c) approaching; coming soon; looming
(d) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); vigour; vim
 
n. epoch
(a) a painter or drawer of portraits; portrayer
(b) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
(c) period; era
(d) a purging medicine; physic; aperient
 
n. inkling
(a) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste)
(b) the act of fusing (or melting) together
(c) a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer
(d) the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution
 
n. prestige
(a) fanatical patriotism; superpatriotism; ultranationalism
(b) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins); ire; ira
(c) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
(d) an algebraic equation of the fourth degree; quartic; fourth power

n. podiatrist (a) a specialist in care for the feet
n. carnage (a) the savage and excessive killing of many people; mass murder; butchery
n. husbandry (b) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
n. interloper (d) trespasser
n. litigation (a) process of contesting in a court of law
n. ramp (d) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
n. presentiment (b) a feeling of evil to come; boding
n. epoch (c) period; era
n. inkling (c) a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer
n. prestige (c) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.

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