n. debauchee
(a) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (beneath a church)
(b) the range of vision
(c) a dissolute person; rounder
(d) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; chiseller; chiseler; gouger; scammer; grifter
n. solace
(a) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
(b) the act of consoling
(c) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand; chiromancy
(d) the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
n. paradox
(a) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
(b) statement that seems to be self-contradictory
(c) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; assumption
(d) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; guardianship
n. lagoon
(a) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
(b) hats for women
(c) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral; lagune
(d) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; struma; thyromegaly
n. aureole
(a) reading carefully with intent to remember; poring over; studying
(b) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint; halo; nimbus; glory; gloriole
(c) a sign of something about to happen; presage; prognostic; prognostication; prodigy
(d) organized opposition to authority; revolt; rising; uprising |
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n. martinet
(a) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms; moralist
(b) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft; journeyman; artificer
(c) the act of demolishing
(d) tone of voice; quality of sound
n. regatta
(a) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin
(b) extreme greed for material wealth; covetousness
(c) a meeting for boat races
(d) pretending to be another person
n. rhetoric
(a) footwear usually with wooden soles; patten; sabot
(b) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
(c) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; gas
(d) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
n. languor
(a) a specialist in care for the feet
(b) the collection of rules imposed by authority
(c) social insect living in organized colonies; pismire
(d) inactivity; sluggishness; phlegm; flatness
n. remissness
(a) the quality of being lax and neglectful; slackness
(b) statement that seems to be self-contradictory
(c) respectful deference
(d) adroitness in using the hands |
