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v. entice
(a) compose; write in words
(b) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; tempt
(c) injure badly by beating
(d) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
 
v. shun
(a) describe; portray
(b) expel from a community or group; ostracize; ostracise; cast out; blackball
(c) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
(d) make radioactive by adding radioactive material
 
v. sate
(a) fill to satisfaction; replete; fill
(b) put into a bad mood or into bad humour
(c) be wide open; yaw
(d) accuse; serve as evidence against
 
n. codicil
(a) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
(b) addition to a will
(c) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; burl
(d) an established custom
 
n. congruence
(a) the state of being polluted; pollution
(b) a person who travels through the water by swimming; bather
(c) the quality of agreeing
(d) a duplicate copy; twin

 

n. frond
(a) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
(b) compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
(c) any thick, viscous matter; goop; gook; muck; ooze
(d) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery
 
n. tributary
(a) a slight suggestion or vague understanding; glimmering; glimmer
(b) the act of collecting in a mass
(c) any structure that makes progress difficult; obstructer
(d) a branch that flows into the main stream; confluent; affluent
 
adj. fabricated
(a) curving outward; bulbous; bulging; bulgy; protuberant
(b) formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious
(c) serving to bring to mind; remindful; reminiscent
(d) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; willful; wilful
 
n. dapperness
(a) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance; rakishness
(b) voiced or written song of rejoicing
(c) an unrestrained expression of emotion; outburst; blowup
(d) a name that has been assumed temporarily; false name
 
v. scrimp
(a) slow down; decelerate
(b) yield (to)
(c) subsist on a meager allowance; skimp
(d) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation; blow; go down on

v. entice (b) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; tempt
v. shun (b) expel from a community or group; ostracize; ostracise; cast out; blackball
v. sate (a) fill to satisfaction; replete; fill
n. codicil (b) addition to a will
n. congruence (c) the quality of agreeing
n. frond (b) compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
n. tributary (d) a branch that flows into the main stream; confluent; affluent
adj. fabricated (b) formed or conceived by the imagination; fictional; fictitious
n. dapperness (a) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance; rakishness
v. scrimp (c) subsist on a meager allowance; skimp

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