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n. refectory
(a) an appearance of reflected light; glow
(b) a person who shows no gratitude; ungrateful person
(c) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner; indoor garden
(d) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
 
n. reprobation
(a) tranquility; silence; noiselessness; stillness
(b) the characteristic sounds made by a horse; whicker; whinny
(c) severe disapproval
(d) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
 
n. calligraphy
(a) the quality of being lax and neglectful; slackness
(b) beautiful handwriting; chirography
(c) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof
(d) abstaining from excess
 
n. sage
(a) any of various plants of the genus Salvia
(b) a list of names
(c) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon; olefin
(d) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
 
n. intelligentsia
(a) understanding and entering into another's feelings
(b) senility; infatuation
(c) an educated and intellectual elite
(d) beautiful handwriting; chirography

 

n. ovation
(a) a stipulated condition
(b) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
(c) the action of bruising
(d) enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)
 
n. optician
(a) lack of honesty
(b) female sheep
(c) a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family
(d) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
 
v. facilitate
(a) cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast
(b) bear the expenses of
(c) make easy; assist forward; promote
(d) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; piffle; palaver; tittle-tattle
 
v. deviate
(a) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
(b) hew; chisel; dig; excavate
(c) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law
(d) say, state, or perform again; iterate; restate; retell
 
n. tepidity
(a) an idea that is implied or suggested
(b) pang of the conscience; regret; sorrow
(c) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin; tepidness
(d) a surrounding or nearby region; neighborhood; neighbourhood; neck of the woods

n. refectory (d) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
n. reprobation (c) severe disapproval
n. calligraphy (b) beautiful handwriting; chirography
n. sage (a) any of various plants of the genus Salvia
n. intelligentsia (c) an educated and intellectual elite
n. ovation (d) enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)
n. optician (d) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
v. facilitate (c) make easy; assist forward; promote
v. deviate (a) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
n. tepidity (c) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin; tepidness

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