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adj. nonnatural
(a) in regular succession without gaps; serial; successive
(b) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; preternatural; transcendental
(c) careful and sensible
(d) having a secret or hidden meaning; qabalistic; cryptic; cryptical; sibylline
 
v. exacerbate
(a) become less intense; slacken off
(b) give expression to
(c) exasperate or irritate; aggravate
(d) lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; throw overboard; waive; forego
 
v. defray
(a) remove
(b) bear the expenses of
(c) turn away from by persuasion
(d) strangle with an iron collar; scrag
 
v. goad
(a) tease; drive
(b) derive; conclude
(c) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
(d) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; exuviate; moult
 
n. impending
(a) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound; stridency
(b) a quantity much larger than is needed; surplusage
(c) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants); gripes; griping
(d) approaching; coming soon; looming

 

adj. sallow
(a) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose
(b) obedient; meek, compliant, yielding
(c) unhealthy looking
(d) immaculately clean and unused
 
v. impair
(a) make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate
(b) be false to; be dishonest with; deceive; lead on; delude
(c) write in the Latin alphabet; Latinize; Latinise
(d) decrease in phase
 
n. contriver
(a) a person who makes plans; deviser
(b) a specialist in epistemology
(c) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
(d) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair; twist
 
v. higgle
(a) imply as a possibility
(b) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
(c) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; elude
(d) make watertight; stop up leaks
 
adj. turbid
(a) incongruous; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous
(b) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; purple; royal
(c) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; mirky; murky
(d) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations

adj. nonnatural (b) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; preternatural; transcendental
v. exacerbate (c) exasperate or irritate; aggravate
v. defray (b) bear the expenses of
v. goad (a) tease; drive
n. impending (d) approaching; coming soon; looming
adj. sallow (c) unhealthy looking
v. impair (a) make imperfect; spoil; deflower; vitiate
n. contriver (a) a person who makes plans; deviser
v. higgle (b) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
adj. turbid (c) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; mirky; murky

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