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n. clamor
(a) revelry in drinking; bender; toot; booze-up
(b) a contrived or fantastic idea
(c) a specialist in the care of babies; pediatrist; paediatrician
(d) loud and persistent outcry from many people; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry
 
n. trinket
(a) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; fallal
(b) the activities of educating or instructing; teaching; didactics; educational activity
(c) fabled monster being half man and half horse
(d) noisy talk; yakety-yak; chatter; cackle
 
n. sobriety
(a) abstaining from excess
(b) a purging medicine; physic; aperient
(c) a very boastful and talkative person; boaster; blowhard; line-shooter; vaunter
(d) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
 
n. kudos
(a) the activeness of an energetic personality; oomph; zing
(b) an expression of approval and commendation; extolment
(c) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
(d) small crude shelter used as a dwelling; hutch; shack; shanty
 
n. appurtenances
(a) a short passage added at the end of a literary work
(b) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; throwback
(c) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; coefficient
(d) right associated with ownership of property

 

n. pyromaniac
(a) a person with an obsessive desire to light fires
(b) a stupid mistake; folly; foolishness; imbecility
(c) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments
(d) the act of detecting something; spying; spotting
 
n. acumen
(a) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; beast; brute; creature
(b) a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer
(c) a feeling of righteous anger
(d) shrewdness shown by keen insight
 
n. foray
(a) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
(b) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
(c) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
(d) someone who kills by strangling; strangler; throttler; choker
 
n. virus
(a) passing reference or indirect mention
(b) the process of flowing in
(c) microorganism which functions as an infectious agent
(d) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
 
n. assiduity
(a) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin; tepidness
(b) excessive sternness; severeness; harshness; inclemency; hardness; stiffness
(c) great and constant diligence and attention; concentration
(d) the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses

n. clamor (d) loud and persistent outcry from many people; clamour; clamouring; hue and cry
n. trinket (a) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; fallal
n. sobriety (a) abstaining from excess
n. kudos (b) an expression of approval and commendation; extolment
n. appurtenances (d) right associated with ownership of property
n. pyromaniac (a) a person with an obsessive desire to light fires
n. acumen (d) shrewdness shown by keen insight
n. foray (c) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
n. virus (c) microorganism which functions as an infectious agent
n. assiduity (c) great and constant diligence and attention; concentration

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