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n. swindler
(a) the most powerful members of a society
(b) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; chiseller; chiseler; gouger; scammer; grifter
(c) a short passage added at the end of a literary work
(d) the white part of an egg; albumen
 
n. indignity
(a) an obvious truth
(b) broadside
(c) humiliation; insult
(d) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities
 
adj. rancid
(a) characterized by profanity or cursing; profane
(b) having the back and shoulders rounded; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping; crooked
(c) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
(d) smelling of fermentation or staleness
 
n. gnome
(a) an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
(b) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
(c) a disrespectful laugh; snigger
(d) excessive sternness; harshness; rigor; rigorousness; inclemency; stiffness
 
adj. schematic
(a) spreading or spread throughout; permeative
(b) motionless; inactive
(c) diagrammatic
(d) unrestrainable; uncontrollable

 

n. verisimilitude
(a) any substance that propels
(b) reply; answer; response
(c) the appearance of truth
(d) someone who creates new things; mastermind
 
adj. perverse
(a) reflecting light; lustrous; sheeny; shiny; shining
(b) resembling sculpture; sculptured; sculpturesque
(c) completely wanting or lacking; free; innocent
(d) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; perverted; reprobate
 
v. collaborate
(a) undergo necrosis; mortify; sphacelate
(b) cause to lose courage; scare off; pall; frighten off; scare away; frighten away; scare
(c) cooperate as a traitor
(d) laugh at with contempt and derision; flout; barrack; gibe
 
n. natator
(a) crossbreed
(b) style; way; manner; fashion
(c) a person who travels through the water by swimming; bather
(d) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; moralist
 
v. beget
(a) place in a grave or tomb; inhume; lay to rest
(b) make children; engender; sire; generate
(c) divide into pieces; discerp
(d) relinquish possession or control over; deliver; give up

n. swindler (b) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; chiseller; chiseler; gouger; scammer; grifter
n. indignity (c) humiliation; insult
adj. rancid (d) smelling of fermentation or staleness
n. gnome (b) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
adj. schematic (c) diagrammatic
n. verisimilitude (c) the appearance of truth
adj. perverse (d) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; perverted; reprobate
v. collaborate (c) cooperate as a traitor
n. natator (c) a person who travels through the water by swimming; bather
v. beget (b) make children; engender; sire; generate

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