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adj. execrable
(a) having a hardened covering
(b) concerned with theories rather than their practical applications
(c) deserving a curse
(d) lost in thought; scatty
 
adj. amiable
(a) diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial
(b) used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed
(c) of girls or women who are eligible to marry
(d) lacking moral discipline
 
adj. irrevocable
(a) devouring or craving food in great quantities; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish
(b) out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded
(c) exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced
(d) incapable of being retracted or revoked
 
adj. amoral
(a) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous
(b) lying outside the sphere of morals
(c) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
(d) general; of or pertaining to a class or kind
 
adj. unprecedented
(a) novel; unexampled
(b) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan
(c) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; lustrous; shining; shiny
(d) marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous

 

n. pragmatist
(a) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition (logic)
(b) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
(c) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled; rowboat
(d) a downward slope or bend; fall; decline; declination; declension; downslope
 
adj. immoveable
(a) easy to get along with or talk to
(b) fixed in place; unchangeable
(c) stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding
(d) having existed from the beginning; primeval; primordial
 
adj. bendable
(a) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); swayback; swaybacked
(b) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy
(c) having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; cissy; sissified; sissyish; sissy
(d) having or showing profound knowledge
 
adj. bonnie
(a) impossible to understand
(b) pertaining to or resembling amoebae; amoeban; amoebous; amebous
(c) very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly
(d) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; florid
 
adj. demonic
(a) extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy
(b) devoted to a cause or party
(c) characterized by soft sounds; soughing; susurrous
(d) of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring

adj. execrable (c) deserving a curse
adj. amiable (a) diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial
adj. irrevocable (d) incapable of being retracted or revoked
adj. amoral (b) lying outside the sphere of morals
adj. unprecedented (a) novel; unexampled
n. pragmatist (b) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions
adj. immoveable (b) fixed in place; unchangeable
adj. bendable (b) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy
adj. bonnie (c) very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly
adj. demonic (a) extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy

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