adj. imponderable
(a) difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
(b) pertaining to or resembling amoebae; amoeban; amoebous; amebous
(c) known as; regarded as
(d) serving as an introduction or preface
n. apathy
(a) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; numbness; spiritlessness
(b) a smooth three-beat gait
(c) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people
(d) a state of extreme confusion and disorder; bedlam; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness
adj. barefaced
(a) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
(b) unrestrained by convention or propriety; bodacious; brassy; brazen; insolent
(c) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
(d) characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
v. vouchsafe
(a) strip the skin off
(b) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
(c) grant in a condescending manner
(d) spread negative information about; vituperate; rail
n. turncoat
(a) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
(b) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians
(c) a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities
(d) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.; renegade; recreant; ratter |
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n. talisman
(a) an impression that something might be the case; suspicion
(b) a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
(c) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease
(d) a parallelogram with four equal sides; diamond
adj. prefatory
(a) very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly
(b) serving as an introduction or preface
(c) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied
(d) dry; withered
adj. shrewd
(a) used of persons; conniving; scheming
(b) spitefully sarcastic
(c) characterized by abundance of verdure
(d) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
v. presage
(a) indicate by signs; portend; prognosticate; omen; betoken; foreshadow
(b) make wet and dirty, as from rain
(c) carry with difficulty; tug
(d) move along rapidly and lightly; fleet; dart
n. cacography
(a) a tart spicy quality; piquancy; piquantness; zest
(b) poor handwriting; scrawl
(c) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; beginning rhyme; head rhyme
(d) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host; trematode worm |
