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n. poltroon
(a) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks; mask
(b) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
(c) a small or minor detail
(d) an abject coward; recreant
 
v. memorialize
(a) receive into the mind and retain
(b) commemorate; record
(c) hurl or throw violently
(d) call to mind; paint a picture
 
v. decimate
(a) summarize; conclude
(b) live in a country area
(c) kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; carry off
(d) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; excise
 
n. vise
(a) a holding device attached to a workbench
(b) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
(c) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest; remonstration; objection
(d) floater
 
n. entrepreneur
(a) a reminder of past events
(b) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
(c) a feeling of evil to come; boding
(d) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

 

v. slake
(a) be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get
(b) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
(c) make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; repugn
(d) put forward, as of an idea
 
adj. celestial
(a) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; regal; royal
(b) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy
(c) of heaven or the spirit; supernal
(d) stupid and confused; puddingheaded; muddleheaded
 
n. balderdash
(a) trivial nonsense; piffle
(b) irregular atmospheric motion
(c) abject or cringing submissiveness; subservience
(d) the sound made by beating a drum; drumbeat
 
v. garner
(a) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation; blow; go down on
(b) assemble or get together; collect; pull together
(c) summarize; conclude
(d) move about or proceed hurriedly; skitter; scuttle
 
adj. sodding
(a) presenting or taking the same point of view
(b) without qualification; unadulterated
(c) having a hardened covering
(d) concise and full of meaning

n. poltroon (d) an abject coward; recreant
v. memorialize (b) commemorate; record
v. decimate (c) kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; carry off
n. vise (a) a holding device attached to a workbench
n. entrepreneur (d) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
v. slake (b) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
adj. celestial (c) of heaven or the spirit; supernal
n. balderdash (a) trivial nonsense; piffle
v. garner (b) assemble or get together; collect; pull together
adj. sodding (b) without qualification; unadulterated

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