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adj. beneficent
(a) generous in assistance to the poor; eleemosynary; philanthropic
(b) doomed to extinction; undone; washed-up
(c) not injured; unscathed; whole
(d) having a command of or composed in many languages
 
adj. calorific
(a) disposed to venture or take risks; venturesome; venturous
(b) injurious to physical or mental health
(c) heat-generating
(d) shabby; base; despicable
 
adj. profound
(a) not friendly
(b) not returned in kind
(c) situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded
(d) spiteful; harmful; deadly
 
adj. ironic
(a) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is
(b) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; somatic
(c) resulting from or employing derivation
(d) unwisely talking too much; blabby; talkative
 
adj. nomadic
(a) migratory; peregrine; roving; wandering
(b) breathing laboriously or convulsively; short-winded; winded
(c) sanctioned by established authority; authorised
(d) abjectly submissive; submissive

 

adj. provisional
(a) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; provisionary; tentative
(b) like a clown; clownlike; zany
(c) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; dauntless; fearless; intrepid; unfearing
(d) shaped like a pouch; pouchlike; saclike
 
adj. perfervid
(a) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate
(b) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; confounded; confused; lost
(c) characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid
(d) having a bad disposition
 
adj. malefic
(a) incapable of being overcome or subdued; unvanquishable
(b) having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil
(c) stupid and confused; puddingheaded; muddleheaded
(d) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved
 
adj. acrid
(a) of or relating to metallurgy
(b) harsh or corrosive in tone; bitter; blistering; caustic; virulent
(c) taking on different forms
(d) very pleasing to the eye; fair; sightly
 
adj. cuspate
(a) having or showing profound knowledge
(b) having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated
(c) originating outside the body
(d) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced

adj. beneficent (a) generous in assistance to the poor; eleemosynary; philanthropic
adj. calorific (c) heat-generating
adj. profound (c) situated at or extending to great depth; unplumbed; unsounded
adj. ironic (a) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is
adj. nomadic (a) migratory; peregrine; roving; wandering
adj. provisional (a) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; provisionary; tentative
adj. perfervid (c) characterized by intense emotion; fiery; impassioned; torrid
adj. malefic (b) having or exerting a malignant influence; malign; evil
adj. acrid (b) harsh or corrosive in tone; bitter; blistering; caustic; virulent
adj. cuspate (b) having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated

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