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v. procrastinate
(a) postpone; put off until a later time; delay
(b) indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; betoken; foreshadow
(c) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
(d) put a law into effect by formal declaration
 
v. wither
(a) place on top of; lay over
(b) coat with plaster; plaster; smear
(c) censure severely or angrily; rebuke; lecture; reprimand; scold; berate; bawl out
(d) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
 
n. xenophobia
(a) a fear of foreigners or strangers
(b) a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon
(c) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants; dasheen
(d) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; peyote; Lophophora williamsii
 
adj. ingenious
(a) purported
(b) shockingly repellent; grisly; macabre; sick
(c) not friendly
(d) showing inventiveness and skill
 
adj. maniacal
(a) involving the joint activity of two or more; conjunctive; cooperative
(b) long and slender with a very small internal diameter
(c) spitefully sarcastic
(d) wildly disordered

 

adj. salutary
(a) tending to reserve or introspection
(b) not having control over urination and defecation
(c) given to merry frolicking; frolicky; rollicking
(d) tending to promote physical well-being
 
adj. germinal
(a) expressing offensive reproach
(b) containing seeds of later development; seminal
(c) must be kept sacred
(d) repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare; timeworn
 
n. pittance
(a) a building where animals are butchered; slaughterhouse
(b) instability; unequal distribution of weight
(c) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
(d) an inadequate payment
 
n. callowness
(a) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life; juvenility
(b) an expression of approval and commendation; kudos
(c) the act of making a noisy disturbance; ruction; ruckus; rumpus; tumult
(d) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; flavour
 
adj. fulsome
(a) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous
(b) teasing
(c) not convinced
(d) having or covered with hair

v. procrastinate (a) postpone; put off until a later time; delay
v. wither (d) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
n. xenophobia (a) a fear of foreigners or strangers
adj. ingenious (d) showing inventiveness and skill
adj. maniacal (d) wildly disordered
adj. salutary (d) tending to promote physical well-being
adj. germinal (b) containing seeds of later development; seminal
n. pittance (d) an inadequate payment
n. callowness (a) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life; juvenility
adj. fulsome (a) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous

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