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n. expense
(a) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength
(b) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit
(c) change for the better
(d) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church
 
n. breach
(a) a detailed account or diary of a journey
(b) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints
(c) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand
(d) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation
 
n. demurrage
(a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing
(b) a sense of injury
(c) a young girl; sweetheart
(d) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation
 
n. conscience
(a) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct
(b) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge
(c) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk
(d) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles
 
n. efficiency
(a) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms
(b) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance
(c) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region
(d) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty

 

n. attorney-general
(a) the chief law-officer of a government
(b) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind
(c) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy
(d) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things
 
n. felony
(a) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment
(b) advancement
(c) any impulse or incentive
(d) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things
 
adj. sentient
(a) having no fixed abode
(b) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc
(c) antiquated
(d) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception
 
n. deference
(a) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms
(b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment
(c) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster
(d) the act or sensation of hearing
 
n. pedant
(a) misfortune
(b) a person having charge as of a library or museum
(c) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
(d) cultivation

n. expense (a) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength
n. breach (d) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation
n. demurrage (a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing
n. conscience (a) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct
n. efficiency (d) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty
n. attorney-general (a) the chief law-officer of a government
n. felony (a) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment
adj. sentient (d) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception
n. deference (b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment
n. pedant (c) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning

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