n. ablution
(a) avoiding detection by moving carefully
(b) process of contesting in a court of law
(c) an occurrence that involves the production of a union; unification
(d) washing
n. barb
(a) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
(b) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye
(c) the environmental condition
(d) a compact mass; lump; clump; chunk
n. madrigal
(a) an educated and intellectual elite
(b) apoapsis in Earth orbit
(c) journey
(d) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices
n. paramour
(a) a woman who cohabits with an important man; doxy
(b) traditional customs of a community
(c) an angry dispute; row; words; run-in
(d) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host; trematode worm
n. amazon
(a) an indirect way of expressing something
(b) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
(c) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
(d) aggressive woman |
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n. ratiocination
(a) a physician who specializes in psychiatry; shrink
(b) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility; bad blood
(c) logical and methodical reasoning
(d) expansion or increase due to gradual buid-up or additions
n. nostalgia
(a) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)
(b) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
(c) longing for something past
(d) shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order
n. tussle
(a) someone new to a field or activity; tiro; initiate
(b) disorderly fighting; dogfight; rough-and-tumble
(c) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular); coin collector
(d) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)
n. jargon
(a) the size of something as given by the distance around it
(b) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)
(c) a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume
(d) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
n. kerfuffle
(a) a person who is tricked or swindled
(b) a disorderly outburst or tumult; commotion; flutter; hurly burly
(c) noisy quarrel; fracas
(d) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone; sophistication |
