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adj. murmurous
(a) without civilizing influences; savage; uncivilized; uncivilised; wild
(b) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; in love; potty; smitten
(c) joined together into a whole; consolidated; fused
(d) characterized by soft sounds; soughing; susurrous
 
adj. halting
(a) lacking intent or capacity to injure
(b) fragmentary from emotional strain
(c) informal terms; quirky; way-out
(d) marked by spirited enjoyment; zesty; barmy
 
adj. inclusive
(a) precisely accurate
(b) lasting for a markedly brief time; momentaneous; momentary
(c) including much or everything
(d) limited in duration to a single episode
 
adj. bucolic
(a) able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
(b) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
(c) destructive of images used in religious worship
(d) feasible; useful; workable; applicable
 
adj. kindred
(a) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate; unrepentant
(b) rendered competent through trial and experience
(c) related by blood or marriage
(d) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

 

n. reconnaissance
(a) tranquility; silence; noiselessness; stillness
(b) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)
(c) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
(d) repetition of a musical theme
 
adj. lugubrious
(a) capable of being assigned or credited to; imputable; referable
(b) excessively mournful
(c) of imposing height; soaring; towering
(d) remote and separate physically or socially
 
adj. subservient
(a) powerfully persuasive; weighty
(b) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; roiled; roily; turbulent
(c) abjectly submissive; submissive
(d) reflecting light; sheeny; shiny; shining
 
adj. sinuous
(a) curved or curving in and out; wiggly
(b) having a common boundary or edge
(c) unpredictably difficult in operation
(d) causing debilitation; enfeebling; weakening
 
adj. phoney
(a) having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
(b) of or for the common people
(c) fraudulent; phony; bastard
(d) marked by changeable fortune

adj. murmurous (d) characterized by soft sounds; soughing; susurrous
adj. halting (b) fragmentary from emotional strain
adj. inclusive (c) including much or everything
adj. bucolic (b) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
adj. kindred (c) related by blood or marriage
n. reconnaissance (b) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)
adj. lugubrious (b) excessively mournful
adj. subservient (c) abjectly submissive; submissive
adj. sinuous (a) curved or curving in and out; wiggly
adj. phoney (c) fraudulent; phony; bastard

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