n. derision
(a) balm; ointment
(b) the act of deriding or treating with contempt
(c) a flowing together; merging
(d) understanding and entering into another's feelings
adj. virile
(a) resembling a fork; branched; forked; fork-like; forficate; pronged; prongy
(b) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
(c) (of a male) capable of copulation
(d) constituting a tube; tubelike; tube-shaped; vasiform
n. lexicographer
(a) person who writes or compiles a dictionary
(b) a period of calm weather
(c) an expression of strong disapproval
(d) getting something back again; restoration; regaining
n. misdemeanor
(a) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; catholicon; cure-all
(b) slope; grade; slant
(c) a zoologist who studies birds
(d) a crime less serious than a felony; infraction; violation; infringement
v. annihilate
(a) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
(b) kill in large numbers; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; decimate; carry off
(c) stop functioning or cohering as a unit
(d) become thin; diminish |
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n. harping
(a) favorable; beneficent
(b) tedious dwelling on a subject
(c) a small cave (usually with attractive features)
(d) a display of bad temper; scene; conniption
adj. qualified
(a) devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish
(b) certified; licensed
(c) not serious in content or attitude or behavior
(d) in regular succession without gaps; serial; successive
v. crimson
(a) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; flush; redden
(b) pass through an enemy line
(c) ask for or request earnestly; adjure; press; conjure
(d) serve as the inciting cause of
n. propriety
(a) a person who does not acknowledge your god; gentile; infidel
(b) correct or appropriate behavior; correctitude
(c) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)
(d) a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business
n. weft
(a) law; statute; regulation
(b) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving; filling; pick
(c) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
(d) partly lighted area around any shadow |
