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v. contend
(a) be engaged in a fight; struggle
(b) reduce the speed of
(c) get better; improve
(d) eliminate from the body; eliminate; pass
 
adj. burnished
(a) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
(b) highly excited
(c) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; lustrous; shining; shiny
(d) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; jaunty; natty; raffish
 
adj. precise
(a) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
(b) annoyed and irritable; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; bad-tempered; ill-tempered
(c) still in existence
(d) unpleasant to look at
 
adj. venial
(a) constituting a tube; tubelike; tube-shaped; vasiform
(b) resembling a fork; branched; forked; fork-like; forficate; pronged; prongy
(c) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; disturbed; upset; worried
(d) pardonable
 
adj. jaundiced
(a) capable of being wounded or hurt
(b) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt
(c) implied by or inferred from actions or statements; understood
(d) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste

 

n. litoral
(a) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual; mannerism
(b) a serviceman in the navy; sailor; sailor boy
(c) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; littoral zone; sands
(d) a short moral story (often with animal characters); allegory
 
n. tyranny
(a) something left after other parts have been taken away; residual; residuum; rest
(b) a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
(c) a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
(d) dominance through threat of punishment and violence; despotism
 
adj. cognitive
(a) reluctant to draw attention to yourself
(b) of or being or relating to or involving cognition
(c) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; grumous; grumose
(d) practicing great self-denial; austere
 
adj. baseless
(a) having or covered with hair
(b) lifeless; spiritless
(c) not easily irritated; good-tempered
(d) without a basis in reason or fact; idle; unfounded; unwarranted; wild
 
adj. carbonic
(a) ending in a sharp point; sharp; needlelike
(b) offensively curious or inquisitive; prying; snoopy
(c) untimely; unsuitable; inappropriate
(d) relating to or consisting of or yielding coal

v. contend (a) be engaged in a fight; struggle
adj. burnished (c) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; lustrous; shining; shiny
adj. precise (a) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
adj. venial (d) pardonable
adj. jaundiced (d) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
n. litoral (c) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; littoral zone; sands
n. tyranny (d) dominance through threat of punishment and violence; despotism
adj. cognitive (b) of or being or relating to or involving cognition
adj. baseless (d) without a basis in reason or fact; idle; unfounded; unwarranted; wild
adj. carbonic (d) relating to or consisting of or yielding coal

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