n. apiary
(a) a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
(b) exceeding in heaviness
(c) the act of someone who floats on the water
(d) a shed containing a number of beehives
n. colloquy
(a) a name given to a product or service; brand
(b) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall; cope
(c) a large gathering of people; concourse
(d) formal conversation
n. circumlocution
(a) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
(b) a rise in the temperature of the body; pyrexia; feverishness
(c) an indirect way of expressing something
(d) traveling or wandering around
n. genesis
(a) compulsory force or threat
(b) dominance through threat of punishment and violence; despotism
(c) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
(d) the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation
n. yokel
(a) animal hunted or caught for food
(b) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; hick; yahoo; hayseed; bumpkin; chawbacon
(c) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
(d) the analysis of a vector field; disintegration; the organic phenomenon of rotting; decay |
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n. anguish
(a) premise; basic assumption
(b) a flowing together; merging
(c) wandering from the main path of a journey
(d) extreme distress of body or mind
n. dallier
(a) someone who wastes time; mope; lounger
(b) moral weakness
(c) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
(d) the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected
n. limner
(a) the property of being very small in size; tininess; weeness
(b) a painter or drawer of portraits; portrayer
(c) doubt about the truth of something; skepticism; mental rejection
(d) a building where birds are kept; volary
n. tanginess
(a) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
(b) a tart spicy quality; piquancy; piquantness; zest
(c) study of poetic meter
(d) a full supply; plenteousness; plentitude
n. jongleur
(a) the act of becoming more distant
(b) a singer of folk songs; minstrel; poet-singer; troubadour
(c) an offering of a tenth part of some personal income
(d) a street with only one way in or out; dead-end street |
