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adj. judicious
(a) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady
(b) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing
(c) including much or everything
(d) having the characteristics of pitch or tar; resiny; tarry
 
adj. pivotal
(a) suitable for drinking
(b) pale; gray
(c) impervious to correction by punishment
(d) being of crucial importance
 
adj. impregnable
(a) showing pensive sadness
(b) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy
(c) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted
(d) taking delight in beauty
 
adj. berserk
(a) having or covered with hair
(b) showing little emotion
(c) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; stirred; touched
(d) frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal
 
adj. pestilential
(a) unpleasantly loud and harsh
(b) peaceful; charmingly rustic; picturesque
(c) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; pestiferous; plaguey
(d) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy

 

adj. natty
(a) relating to or containing or caused by mercury
(b) having the nature of or resulting from malice
(c) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; hypothetical; hypothetic; supposed; suppositional; suppositious
(d) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy; spruce
 
adj. unassuming
(a) involving risk or danger; wild
(b) not arrogant or presuming
(c) favorable to health of mind or body
(d) not revering god
 
v. logroll
(a) make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate
(b) beat soundly
(c) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes
(d) annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry; plague; provoke
 
adj. contumacious
(a) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt
(b) wilfully obstinate
(c) youthful; immature
(d) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; mossy; stodgy
 
adj. inordinate
(a) small and remote and insignificant; pokey; poky
(b) beyond normal limits; undue; unreasonable
(c) resulting from or employing derivation
(d) showing little emotion

adj. judicious (a) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; heady
adj. pivotal (d) being of crucial importance
adj. impregnable (c) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted
adj. berserk (d) frenzied as if possessed by a demon; demoniac; demoniacal
adj. pestilential (c) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; pestiferous; plaguey
adj. natty (d) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; raffish; rakish; spiffy; snappy; spruce
adj. unassuming (b) not arrogant or presuming
v. logroll (c) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes
adj. contumacious (b) wilfully obstinate
adj. inordinate (b) beyond normal limits; undue; unreasonable

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