n. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
(a) gazette
(b) stalemate
(c) sceptic
(d) repertoire
n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language
(a) terminology
(b) lambency
(c) tryst
(d) casualty
v. diminish; decrease
(a) mewl
(b) bate
(c) converge
(d) premeditate
v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch
(a) sully
(b) liquidate
(c) ruminate
(d) cajole
adj. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
(a) opaque
(b) rancid
(c) brackish
(d) debonair |
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n. a miserly person
(a) fulcrum
(b) friskiness
(c) pastorale
(d) tightwad
n. a person who is markedly small; nanus
(a) runt
(b) holocaust
(c) midget
(d) garrulity
adj. corpse-like; ghastly
(a) cadaverous
(b) contiguous
(c) bounderish
(d) obtrusive
adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony
(a) parched
(b) nitwitted
(c) portly
(d) flint
n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
(a) inerrancy
(b) fancier
(c) impinging
(d) maxillary |
