adj. aquiline
(a) suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose
(b) curved down like an eagle's beak
(c) covered with bright patches (often used in combination); splashed; splattered
(d) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; sober; solemn
n. disdain
(a) use of physical or mental energy; exertion; sweat
(b) restoration to good condition; renewal
(c) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; patronage
(d) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); simulacrum
n. cathartic
(a) collection of records especially about an institution
(b) persistent determination; persistence; persistency; tenaciousness; pertinacity
(c) a purging medicine; physic; aperient
(d) favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)
n. conifer
(a) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
(b) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
(c) inheritance; bequest
(d) large mackerel with long pointed snout; cero
v. pulsate
(a) make peace with
(b) make weak; drain
(c) restore to a state of good condition or operation
(d) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses |
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n. casualty
(a) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass
(b) a person who is member of one's class or profession; fellow
(c) the condition of prospering
(d) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
adj. insouciant
(a) peculiar to the individual
(b) involving or likely to cause controversy
(c) capable of igniting and burning
(d) marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant
v. vegetate
(a) cry or whine with snuffling; blubber; blub; snuffle
(b) make a groove in
(c) let off the hook; free
(d) grow
adj. diffusing
(a) impudent; smart; saucy; sassy; wise
(b) spreading by diffusion; dispersive; disseminative
(c) extremely hungry; sharp-set; starved; esurient
(d) lowered in value
v. empale
(a) be silly or tease one another; josh; banter
(b) pierce with a sharp stake or point; spike
(c) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
(d) make subservient |
