n. optimism
(a) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act
(b) the act of pouring from one vessel to another
(c) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character
(d) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best
n. preservation
(a) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone
(b) conservation
(c) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters
(d) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow
n. defamation
(a) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics
(b) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another
(c) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass
(d) a very lascivious person
n. virtu
(a) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something
(b) rare, curious or beautiful quality
(c) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism
(d) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event
n. bristle
(a) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof
(b) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus
(c) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas'
(d) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc |
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n. cynicism
(a) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead
(b) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value
(c) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act
(d) the state or quality of being in accord with
n. refringency
(a) that which may be used to produce light
(b) the beginning
(c) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments
(d) power to refract
n. quietus
(a) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages
(b) historian
(c) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms
(d) a silencing, suppressing or ending
v. educe
(a) assist; aid; stand by
(b) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means
(c) to separate the parts of by violence
(d) to draw out
n. hesitation
(a) ghost
(b) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas
(c) vacillation
(d) a presentation; proposition; offer |
n. optimism (d) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best
n. preservation (b) conservation
n. defamation (b) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another
n. virtu (b) rare, curious or beautiful quality
n. bristle (d) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc
n. cynicism (b) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value
n. refringency (d) power to refract
n. quietus (d) a silencing, suppressing or ending
v. educe (d) to draw out
n. hesitation (c) vacillation
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