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n. tirade
(a) the property of flowing easily; liquidity; liquidness
(b) a broken piece of a brittle artifact; fragment
(c) broadside
(d) a covered cistern; sink; sump
 
n. braggadocio
(a) vain and empty boasting; rodomontade; rhodomontade
(b) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
(c) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
(d) a crime less serious than a felony; violation; infringement
 
v. transcribe
(a) make a written or typewritten copy
(b) cut a furrow into a columns
(c) give in, as to influence or pressure; soften
(d) complain; crab; beef; squawk; bellyache; holler
 
n. polity
(a) shrewd or crafty management of public affairs
(b) a desirable state
(c) a capacious bag or basket; tote; tote bag
(d) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
 
v. disport
(a) diminish; decrease
(b) help develop, help grow
(c) play boisterously; lark; rollick; run around
(d) draft into active service; take over

 

adj. spectral
(a) full of or showing high-spirited merriment; jolly; merry; mirthful
(b) resembling or characteristic of a phantom; ghostly; phantasmal; spiritual
(c) conspicuously and offensively loud; clamorous; strident
(d) having an oblique or slanted direction; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping
 
n. misapprehension
(a) understanding and entering into another's feelings
(b) the act of deriding or treating with contempt
(c) a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
(d) an understanding of something that is not correct
 
n. debacle
(a) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; thought process; intellection; mentation
(b) a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping
(c) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
(d) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host; trematode worm
 
adj. jutting
(a) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment; self-reliant
(b) disagreeing, especially with a majority
(c) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved
(d) having branches; ramose; ramous
 
adj. accredited
(a) given official approval to act; licensed; licenced
(b) must be kept sacred
(c) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves; rippled; wavy; wavelike
(d) boisterously and noisily aggressive

n. tirade (c) broadside
n. braggadocio (a) vain and empty boasting; rodomontade; rhodomontade
v. transcribe (a) make a written or typewritten copy
n. polity (a) shrewd or crafty management of public affairs
v. disport (c) play boisterously; lark; rollick; run around
adj. spectral (b) resembling or characteristic of a phantom; ghostly; phantasmal; spiritual
n. misapprehension (d) an understanding of something that is not correct
n. debacle (b) a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping
adj. jutting (c) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; projecting; protruding; relieved
adj. accredited (a) given official approval to act; licensed; licenced

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