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n. personage
(a) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed
(b) an undue display of modesty or delicacy
(c) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station
(d) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege
 
n. cadenza
(a) wickedness
(b) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface
(c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument
(d) process of breaking up of a union of persons
 
n. counting-house
(a) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries
(b) recklessness
(c) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science
(d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
 
n. soprano
(a) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical
(b) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign
(c) a woman's or boy's voice of high range
(d) open robbery, as in war
 
n. cygnet
(a) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority
(b) a young swan
(c) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs
(d) the division of society on artificial grounds

 

n. mulatto
(a) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation
(b) conservation
(c) gross wrong or injustice
(d) the offspring of a white person and a black person
 
n. livelihood
(a) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body
(b) pastime
(c) means of subsistence
(d) extreme misery or unhappiness
 
n. insufficiency
(a) inadequacy
(b) person who endeavors to help his fellow men
(c) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally
(d) excessive fatness
 
n. pseudonym
(a) person who is among the first to explore a country
(b) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer
(c) line of motion or direction
(d) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation
 
n. duplicity
(a) double-dealing
(b) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related
(c) person who joins or supports others
(d) the state of being dormant

n. personage (c) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station
n. cadenza (c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument
n. counting-house (d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
n. soprano (c) a woman's or boy's voice of high range
n. cygnet (b) a young swan
n. mulatto (d) the offspring of a white person and a black person
n. livelihood (c) means of subsistence
n. insufficiency (a) inadequacy
n. pseudonym (b) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer
n. duplicity (a) double-dealing

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