n. frailty
(a) trivial nonsense; piffle
(b) moral weakness
(c) reading carefully with intent to remember; poring over; studying
(d) a songbook containing a collection of hymns; hymnary
n. nostrum
(a) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
(b) a zoologist who studies birds
(c) the study of the sources and development of words
(d) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
n. incredulity
(a) opposition; refutation; contradiction
(b) doubt about the truth of something; skepticism; mental rejection
(c) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men; vamp; vamper; minx; tease; prickteaser
(d) an abject coward; recreant
n. miasma
(a) the act of ceding
(b) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body; pecking order
(c) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; wall
(d) unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources
n. brocade
(a) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
(b) disgrace or shame
(c) the state of being under the control of another person; vassalage
(d) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern |
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n. inequity
(a) hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.)
(b) a very steep cliff
(c) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
(d) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards
n. insularity
(a) a stock or supply of foods; viands; victuals
(b) the state of being isolated or detached; insularism; detachment
(c) a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
(d) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual; mannerism
n. theocracy
(a) the belief in government by divine guidance
(b) a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
(c) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
(d) a point conceded or yielded
n. befoulment
(a) the state of being polluted; pollution
(b) showing your contempt by derision; mockery; scoff; scoffing
(c) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; interpretation
(d) a notice of someone's death; necrology
n. penchant
(a) an act of economizing
(b) a strong liking; predilection; taste
(c) variable which determines the form of a function
(d) aim; purpose; goal |
