13 may
Terms
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- punnet
- small basket for fruit
- bittern
- relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry
- jocose
- characterized by jokes and good humor
- pulverize
- reduce to fine pieces
- placid
- taking life easy
- lampoon
- a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
- prolix
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length;verbose
- nab
- take into custody
- pick-me-up
- stimulating drink; tonic inf
- precipitate
- bring about abruptly
- pluck
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- pilfer
- to steal insignificant iteams- v.
- appease
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- procrastinate
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- keep someone posted
- supply someone regulary with the latest information
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- progeny
- the immediate descendants of a person
- lore
- knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
- posy
- an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
- skimmer
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- potty
- crazy, silly
- pundit
- expert who speaks publicly on a subject
- muggins
- a person who lacks good judgment
- blackbird
- common black European thrush
- egret
- any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- jolt
- an abrupt spasmodic movement
- judder
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- jay
- crested largely blue bird
- languish
- become feeble
- pollarded
- cut of tree top
- lash out
- attack in speech or writing
- numskull
- these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
- placate
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- robin
- large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen
- pinchbeck
- an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
- mulbery
- morwa
- finch
- any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
- muggins
- a person who lacks good judgment
- powwow
- talk, conference-noun
- piffle
- trivial nonsense
- praxis
- translating an idea into action
- hick
- not very intelligent or interested in culture
- mutt
- an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
- placate
- cause to be more favorably inclined
- propitiate
- v to soothe mollify;appease
- punter
- person who bets
- loon
- large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back
- quail
- small gallinaceous game birds
- potluck
- whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all
- punctilious
- paying great attention to correctness in etiquette; careful about small details
- nitty-gritty
- basic facts
- coot
- slaty-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks