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- alloy
- v to commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior, unalloyed means pure
- appropriate
- v take for one's own use, confiscate
- arrest, arresting
- v/a to suspend, to engage, holding one's attention, as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
- august
- a majestic, venerable
- bent
- n leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: he had a naturally artistic bent
- broach
- v bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- brook
- v to tolerate, endure, countenance
- cardinal
- a major, as in cardinal sin
- chauvinist
- n a blindly devoted patriot
- color
- v to change as if by dyeing, to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first), yellow journalism colored the truth
- consequential
- a pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following, important)
- damp
- v to dininish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
- die
- n a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop
- essay
- v to test or try, attempt, experiment: the newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps
- exact
- v to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price
- fell
- a inhumanly cruel: fell beasts surrounded the explorers
- flag
- v to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits
- flip
- a sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
- ford
- v to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
- grouse
- v to complain or grumble
- guy
- n/v a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy, think guide
- intimate
- v to imply, suggest or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted
- list
- v to tilt or lean to one side: the ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind
- lumber
- v to move heavily and clumsily: lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers
- meet
- a fitting, proper: it is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
- milk
- v to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: I milked the position for all it was worth
- mince
- v pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe
- nice
- a exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: he made a nice distinction between the two cases
- obtain
- a to be established, accepted or customary: those standards no longer obtain.
- occult
- a hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- pedestrian
- a commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
- pied
- a multicolored, usually in blotches: the pied piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat
- pine
- v to lose vigor (as through grief), to yearn
- plastic
- a modlable, pliable, not rigid
- pluck
- n courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war
- prize
- v to pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils: the information was prized from him
- rail
- v to complain about bitterly: early American progressives railed against the railroad barons
- rent
- v.n torn, past of rend: he rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a large rent in the fabric
- quail
- v to lose courage, turn frightened
- qualify
- v to limit: let me qualify that statement
- sap
- n a fool or nitwit: don't be a sap
- scurvy
- a contemptible, despicable: he was a scurvy old reprobate
- singular
- a exceptional, unusual, odd: he was singularly well-suited for the job
- steep
- v to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: she was steeped in esoteric knowledge
- strut
- n the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
- table
- v to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later
- tender
- v to proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation
- waffle
- v to equivocate: to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much: he can never make up his mind
- wag
- n wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag