n. aphorism
(a) a person having a strong liking for something
(b) the act of coming (or going) out; emergence
(c) manner of speaking which uses a negative to state a positive
(d) a short pithy instructive saying; apophthegm
n. perimeter
(a) the size of something as given by the distance around it
(b) assistance in time of difficulty; succour; ministration
(c) the act of moving something from one location to another; transfer; transferral; conveyance
(d) a raised or strengthened seam
n. vanguard
(a) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; foretoken; preindication
(b) the position of greatest importance or advancement; cutting edge
(c) the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food
(d) verbal punishment
n. semblance
(a) a disputant who quibbles; pettifogger
(b) wrongful conduct by a public official
(c) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin; derma
(d) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
n. murkiness
(a) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
(b) a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
(c) an unpaid overdue debt
(d) the quality of being cloudy; muddiness |
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adj. myopic
(a) resulting from or employing derivation
(b) impossible to avoid or evade:; unavoidable
(c) mild and pleasant; soft
(d) lacking foresight or scope; unforesightful
n. espial
(a) ointment; cream; lotion
(b) a newspaper or official journal
(c) the act of detecting something; spying; spotting
(d) a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata
n. defamation
(a) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
(b) a (usually) large and scholarly book
(c) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; slander; denigration
(d) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; kt
n. chapiter
(a) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
(b) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt
(c) banality; commonplace; bromide
(d) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; cap
n. delusion
(a) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
(b) an idle slothful person
(c) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; hallucination
(d) expansion or increase due to gradual buid-up or additions |
