n. mimicry
(a) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices; rabble-rouser
(b) a family of similar musical instrument playing together
(c) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects
(d) lack of sophistication or worldliness; naiveness
v. mire
(a) form granulating tissue
(b) make a face indicating disgust or dislike
(c) soil with mud or muck; muck up
(d) approach with an offer of sexual favors
n. fanaticism
(a) excessive intolerance of opposing views; zealotry
(b) act of plotting or scheming; conspiracy
(c) military officer below the rank of captain
(d) the appearance of truth
adj. gullible
(a) showing; pointing out; suggestive
(b) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness
(c) easily tricked because of being too trusting
(d) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation
n. gazette
(a) a newspaper or official journal
(b) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
(c) a person holding a fief; liegeman; liege subject; feudatory
(d) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension; separator |
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v. lampoon
(a) divulge confidential information or secrets; let the cat out of the bag; talk
(b) remove the entrails of; draw
(c) ridicule with satire
(d) save up as for future use; cache; lay away; hive up; squirrel away
adj. distant
(a) filled or abounding with fog or mist; hazy; misty
(b) easily squashed; spongelike
(c) having an oblique or slanted direction; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping
(d) located far away spatially
n. polemic
(a) violent pangs of suffering
(b) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
(c) absentminded dreaming while awake; daydream; daydreaming; air castle; castle in the air; castle in Spain
(d) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit; scholastic
n. curmudgeon
(a) a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
(b) informing by words; notification
(c) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
(d) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal; plaster
adj. enceinte
(a) flossy; fluffy
(b) in an advanced stage of pregnancy; expectant; gravid
(c) being of crucial importance
(d) known as; regarded as |
