n. melodrama
(a) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade
(b) liveliness
(c) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents
(d) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet
n. rapine
(a) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively
(b) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein
(c) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war
(d) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness
n. narcissus
(a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles
(b) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection
(c) person who incites to evil
(d) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem
n. sedition
(a) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view
(b) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state
(c) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one
(d) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted
n. oakum
(a) the state of being dispersed or scattered
(b) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal
(c) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them
(d) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope |
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n. pretension
(a) a state of mind indicating lack of interest
(b) a bold or presumptuous assertion
(c) treachery
(d) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong
n. circumference
(a) the boundary-line of a circle
(b) an arsenal
(c) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment
(d) discord
n. disyllable
(a) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle
(b) a word of two syllables
(c) a policy of maintaining great standing armies
(d) an extract or selection from written or printed matter
n. compunction
(a) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail
(b) any strong fortress
(c) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle
(d) remorseful feeling
n. affiliate
(a) an eccentricity
(b) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer
(c) some auxiliary person or thing; partner
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n. melodrama (c) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents
n. rapine (c) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war
n. narcissus (b) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection
n. sedition (b) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state
n. oakum (d) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope
n. pretension (b) a bold or presumptuous assertion
n. circumference (a) the boundary-line of a circle
n. disyllable (b) a word of two syllables
n. compunction (d) remorseful feeling
n. affiliate (c) some auxiliary person or thing; partner
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