n. reticence
(a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance
(b) an idle wanderer
(c) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms
(d) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness
n. telepathy
(a) manner of performance
(b) cheerful willingness
(c) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion
(d) thought-transference
n. calvary
(a) resemblance or correspondence in sound
(b) the place where Christ was crucified
(c) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking
(d) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance
n. mien
(a) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district
(b) female supremacy
(c) the external appearance or manner of a person
(d) an inhabitant; city resident
n. infidel
(a) one who denies the existence of God
(b) a person or thing of little or no account
(c) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension
(d) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself |
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n. colloquialism
(a) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance
(b) a seller
(c) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation
(d) a band of six singers or players
n. calculus
(a) casual occurrence
(b) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns
(c) an unreal image presented to the senses
(d) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness
n. deceit
(a) falsehood
(b) a corrupted substance
(c) life in or fondness for one's home and family
(d) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting
n. stipend
(a) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience
(b) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance
(c) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end
(d) thwarting
n. truculence
(a) ferocity
(b) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman
(c) a portable free-reed musical instrument
(d) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked |
