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adj. avid
(a) performed in a systematic way; orderly
(b) expressing earnest entreaty
(c) pleasing to the sense of taste; savoury
(d) marked by active interest and enthusiasm
 
adj. primordial
(a) having a large belly; paunchy; potbellied
(b) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; backbreaking; hard; heavy
(c) serving to make up for or atone
(d) having existed from the beginning; primeval; primaeval
 
adj. venturesome
(a) open to taking risks; willing to experience new things
(b) being of the underworld
(c) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
(d) characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid
 
adj. pendulous
(a) applauding; commending
(b) generally incompetent and ineffectual
(c) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband
(d) swinging; hanging loosely
 
adj. sportive
(a) markedly different from an accepted norm; deviate
(b) ludicrously odd; fantastical
(c) short and plump; pudgy; tubby; roly-poly
(d) given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking

 

adj. optional
(a) in the current fashion or style
(b) extremely cold; glacial; icy; polar
(c) possible but not necessary
(d) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves; rippled; wavy; wavelike
 
adj. cringing
(a) not having control over urination and defecation
(b) totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
(c) impossible to repair, rectify, or amend
(d) coming at a subsequent time or stage; posterior
 
adj. lateral
(a) sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; obscure and mysterious; occult
(b) of or near the belly
(c) lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
(d) of lustrous grey; silvery; silverish
 
adj. filiform
(a) thin in diameter; filamentlike; threadlike; thready
(b) incongruous; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous
(c) not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
(d) constituting a separate entity or part
 
adj. maltreated
(a) unwisely talking too much; blabby; talkative
(b) characterized by jokes and good humor; joking
(c) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy; spruce
(d) subjected to cruel treatment; mistreated

adj. avid (d) marked by active interest and enthusiasm
adj. primordial (d) having existed from the beginning; primeval; primaeval
adj. venturesome (a) open to taking risks; willing to experience new things
adj. pendulous (d) swinging; hanging loosely
adj. sportive (d) given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking
adj. optional (c) possible but not necessary
adj. cringing (b) totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
adj. lateral (c) lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
adj. filiform (a) thin in diameter; filamentlike; threadlike; thready
adj. maltreated (d) subjected to cruel treatment; mistreated

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