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adj. lilting
(a) of trifling worth
(b) darkened by clouds; sullen; threatening
(c) shaped like a ring; annulated; circinate; ringed; ring-shaped; doughnut-shaped
(d) characterized by a buoyant rhythm; swingy; tripping
 
adj. obligatory
(a) required by obligation or compulsion or convention
(b) being sour to the taste; acidulous
(c) spreading or spread throughout; permeative; pervasive
(d) sticking out
 
adj. practicable
(a) following or accompanying as a consequence; accompanying; concomitant; ensuant; resultant; sequent
(b) very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly
(c) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; viable; workable
(d) meditative; thoughtful; musing
 
adj. redoubtable
(a) full of juice
(b) devouring or craving food in great quantities; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish
(c) old-fashioned and out of date; unprogressive; nonprogressive
(d) worthy of respect or honor
 
adj. succulent
(a) being sour to the taste; acidulent
(b) full of juice
(c) lacking distinct or individual characteristics
(d) curving or bulging outward

 

adj. willful
(a) relevant and appropriate
(b) irritable as if suffering from indigestion; dyspeptic; liverish
(c) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; wilful
(d) totally submissive; grovelling; wormlike; wormy
 
adj. morose
(a) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan; ethnic
(b) showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen
(c) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
(d) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; sibylline; sibyllic; vatic; vatical
 
adj. salving
(a) intended to deceive
(b) poker-faced; unexpressive; apathetic
(c) affected with madness or insanity; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged
(d) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin; softening
 
adj. crescent
(a) of great force or power
(b) resembling the new moon in shape; semilunar; lunate
(c) showing little if any change; unchanging
(d) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); spooky; nervous
 
adj. twisting
(a) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; suave; bland
(b) presaging ill fortune
(c) able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
(d) marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous

adj. lilting (d) characterized by a buoyant rhythm; swingy; tripping
adj. obligatory (a) required by obligation or compulsion or convention
adj. practicable (c) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; viable; workable
adj. redoubtable (d) worthy of respect or honor
adj. succulent (b) full of juice
adj. willful (c) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; self-willed; wilful
adj. morose (b) showing a brooding ill humor; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen
adj. salving (d) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin; softening
adj. crescent (b) resembling the new moon in shape; semilunar; lunate
adj. twisting (d) marked by repeated turns and bends; twisty; winding; voluminous

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