adj. diabolical
(a) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; disastrous; fatal; fateful
(b) marked by a ready flow of speech
(c) foreseeing the future; second-sighted
(d) extremely evil or cruel; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy
n. coquette
(a) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects
(b) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men; vamp; vamper; minx; tease; prickteaser
(c) an arrangement of branching parts
(d) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
adj. dulcet
(a) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; spurting; squirting
(b) of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning
(c) used of persons or behavior
(d) pleasing to the ear; mellifluous; mellisonant; sweet
n. ambrosia
(a) dullness owing to length or slowness; tiresomeness
(b) a disposition to be ill-tempered; crossness
(c) the attribute of being brief or fleeting; transience
(d) legendary food of the gods; something that tastes wonderful
v. nonplus
(a) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; establish; show
(b) be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get
(c) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
(d) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law |
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adj. sylvan
(a) profoundly honored
(b) lofty in style; tall
(c) sensible and practical
(d) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
adj. inane
(a) sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult
(b) clearly or sharply defined to the mind
(c) marked by utter benignity; saintlike; saintly; sainted
(d) devoid of intelligence; mindless; vacuous
adj. famished
(a) of a color at the end of the color spectrum; blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; crimson
(b) extremely hungry; sharp-set; starved; esurient
(c) skillful in physical movements; dextrous
(d) stiff or rigid with anger
n. avaritia
(a) a person who dribbles; slobberer
(b) reprehensible acquisitiveness; covetousness; rapacity
(c) the act of procrastinating; shillyshally
(d) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another; attendant; co-occurrence
adj. bootleg
(a) showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen
(b) highly imaginative but unlikely
(c) distributed or sold illicitly; black-market; contraband; smuggled
(d) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile |
