n. incubus
(a) someone who depresses or worries others
(b) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field; pundit
(c) a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
(d) a correction by emending
n. fiat
(a) lack of ornamentation; simplicity; simpleness
(b) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift; conferral
(c) decree; command
(d) everyone being of one mind
n. pyre
(a) a trait of dignified seriousness; solemnity; solemness
(b) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; coefficient
(c) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
(d) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
n. paleontology
(a) disturbance usually in protest; upheaval; hullabaloo
(b) any substance that propels
(c) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains; fossilology
(d) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; kt
n. kleptomaniac
(a) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive
(b) skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
(c) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
(d) pang of the conscience; regret; sorrow |
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n. provender
(a) a feeling of alarm or dread
(b) an abject coward; recreant
(c) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula; blastodisc; germinal area
(d) a stock or supply of foods; viands; victuals
n. ictus
(a) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
(b) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
(c) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; raptus
(d) compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
adj. scurvy
(a) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; whimsical
(b) of the most contemptible kind; low-down; miserable; scummy
(c) furnishing added support; adjuvant; appurtenant; auxiliary
(d) suitable for cutting or piercing
n. agnate
(a) use of physical or mental energy; travail; sweat
(b) one related on the father's side; patrilineal kin; patrisib; patrilineal sib
(c) interpretation
(d) a sudden outburst (as of protest)
n. phaeton
(a) partly lighted area around any shadow
(b) a person who makes plans; deviser
(c) a flamboyant deceiver
(d) large open car seating four with folding top; tourer |
