A & B Flashcards

Question

bowdlerize

Answer 1

verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive

Answer 2

aid (usually in doing something wrong)

Answer 3

suspended action

Answer 4

abandon forever

Answer 5

washing or cleansing of the body

Answer 6

act of waiting

Answer 7

wear away by friction

Answer 8

leave quickly

Answer 9

moderation in eating or drinking

Answer 10

border upon lie adjacent touch at one end or side

Answer 11

agree give consent

Answer 12

upward slope

Answer 13

equip provide with military equipment

Answer 14

growth or increase in size by external addition, fusion or inclusion

Answer 15

bitterness in speech and temper

Answer 16

room that makes easy or hard to hear in

Answer 17

agree without protesting

Answer 18

fear of the heights

Answer 19

calculating pertaining to statistics

Answer 20

something to be added or to be added

Answer 21

drive crazy become confused

Answer 22

be next to

Answer 23

hear and settle a case by judicial procedure

Answer 24

cautionary advice or warning

Answer 25

clay/brick

Answer 26

skilful and adept under pressing conditions

Answer 27

make impure by adding inferior substances

Answer 28

give hint or indication of something

Answer 29

coming or arrival

Answer 30

accidental

Answer 31

nest of bird

Answer 32

easily approachable

Answer 33

collection

Answer 34

extend intensify

Answer 35

one who is skeptical in the existence of God

Answer 36

medieval chemistry

Answer 37

small, recessed section of a room

Answer 38

providing nourishment

Answer 39

calm pacify

Answer 40

suggestion without proof that someone has done something wrong

Answer 41

friendship

Answer 42

moved by sexual love

Answer 43

having time error in a story in wrong time

Answer 44

serving to reduce sensibility to pain without the loss of consciousness

Answer 45

solemn curse someone or something regarded as a curse

Answer 46

serving as aid or accessory

Answer 47

feeling of enmity or ill will

Answer 48

source of relaxation or comfort medicine that relieves pain

Answer 49

deviating from normal or common order, form or rule

Answer 50

precede go before in time

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preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later ancestors or early background

Answer 52

be earlier in time go back further

Answer 53

extremely old and ancient belonging to very ancient times

Answer 54

book of literary sections by various authors

Answer 55

regarding human beings as the centre of the universe

Answer 56

having human form or characteristics

Answer 57

letdown in thought or emotion

Answer 58

heavy block of iron or steel that is smooth onto which metals are hammered into to form a certain shape

Answer 59

alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer

Answer 60

opening hole

Answer 61

highest point

Answer 62

loss of speech due to injury or illness

Answer 63

tersely (concisely) phrased statement of truth or opinion

Answer 64

place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where beehives are raised for their honey

Answer 65

poise self-confident assurance

Answer 66

untrue fictitious

Answer 67

the highest point

Answer 68

person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as doctrine, policy or institution

Answer 69

one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs

Answer 70

elevation to godhood fact or action of becoming a god

Answer 71

ghostly figure

Answer 72

name/title

Answer 73

strikingly appropriate and relevant well-suited

Answer 74

funding money set aside for a specific purpose

Answer 75

curved or hooked like an eagle's beak

Answer 76

fit for growing crops

Answer 77

judge (as in person with power to decide a dispute)

Answer 78

treelike living in trees

Answer 79

place where different tree varieties are exhibited

Answer 80

secret mysterious

Answer 81

original model or type, which other similar things are patterned prototype: early sample or release of a product

Answer 82

a group of closely related islands

Answer 83

passionate

Answer 84

demanding great effort

Answer 85

a fleet of warships

Answer 86

officially charge someone in a court of law

Answer 87

being in debt unpaid, overdue debt

Answer 88

claim without justification

Answer 89

manually skilled worker

Answer 90

utterly stupid or silly

Answer 91

sharpness of temper

Answer 92

deprive of oxygen to the extent of producing death

Answer 93

assault (attack with violent blows)

Answer 94

analyze evaluate

Answer 95

unceasing or persistent

Answer 96

ease or lessen the pain

Answer 97

causing contraction (effect of drawing tissue together) stern or austere

Answer 98

into separate parts or pieces apart

Answer 99

resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents

Answer 100

make slender, fine or small weaken

Answer 101

gradual decrease in numbers

Answer 102

make greater in size

Answer 103

sign of something coming

Answer 104

the outermost region of sun's atmosphere

Answer 105

characteristic of dawn

Answer 106

mechanism that imitates the actions of humans

Answer 107

radically new or original

Answer 108

greediness for wealth

Answer 109

declare to be true

Answer 110

reluctant unwilling

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activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession

Answer 112

declare openly

Answer 113

matter pertaining to uncle kind, genial, benevolent or tolerant

Answer 114

roof-like cover, usually of canvas, as a shelter from sun or wind

Answer 115

in a position that is turned toward one side away from correct course

Answer 116

self-evident truth requiring NO proof

Answer 117

good-humoured, playful conversation

Answer 118

a bundle of package of goods in a cloth clover, and corded for storage or transportation

Answer 119

harmful in intent or effect

Answer 120

stop short and refuse to go on

Answer 121

heavy substance used to add stability or weight

Answer 122

obvious and dull

Answer 123

cutting or stinging

Answer 124

complex or bizarre irregular in shape

Answer 125

artificial obstruction

Answer 126

luxuriate take pleasure in warmth

Answer 127

let down restrain

Answer 128

small, showy ornament of little value

Answer 129

completely happy and contented showing or producing exalted joy

Answer 130

keep from motion, or stop progress of make calm or still

Answer 131

make less visible

Answer 132

ornament in something showy, tasteless

Answer 133

wet thoroughly stain with mud

Answer 134

produce give rise to

Answer 135

harass surround with troops

Answer 136

contradict give a false impression

Answer 137

warlike or hostile in manner or temperament

Answer 138

inclined or eager to fight (aggressive)

Answer 139

regret strongly express disapproval of

Answer 140

inheritance

Answer 141

deprive of

Answer 142

space for ship to dock or anchor

Answer 143

surround with armed forces

Answer 144

soil or to smear as to make dirty

Answer 145

give as a gift

Answer 146

signify indicate a visible sign of

Answer 147

lead to in confusion

Answer 148

every two years

Answer 149

suffering from indigestion sickly

Answer 150

swelling out in waves stormy

Answer 151

a site where people on holiday can pitch tent

Answer 152

cause to turn white or become pale

Answer 153

draw back, from lack of courage turn pale due to fear

Answer 154

suffering from a disease destroyed or ruined

Answer 155

gay, joyous

Answer 156

short, heavy club

Answer 157

support or prop up

Answer 158

attack with missiles

Answer 159

handsome, beautiful

Answer 160

rude and clumsy in behaviour

Answer 161

incorporated town that is not a city

Answer 162

liberal in charity free in bestowing gifts

Answer 163

edit by omitting or modifying parts that are considered vulgar and offensive

Answer 164

shady or leafy shelter

Answer 165

invigorating (refreshing)

Answer 166

raise and move in various directions

Answer 167

defiant in behaviour

Answer 168

of brownish colour

Answer 169

showing irritation

Answer 170

covered in barbs very irritable

Answer 171

abrupt and curt in manner

Answer 172

rustic, agricultural

Answer 173

gold and silver in the form of bars

Answer 174

person who defends

Answer 175

offensively self-assertive

Answer 176

mismanage work awkwardly or clumsily

Answer 177

grow forth grow or develop rapidly

Answer 178

give an imitation that ridicules (mocking)

Answer 179

treasurer or keeper of funds

Answer 180

support physically support something or someone by evidence

Answer 181

healthily plump and ample of figure

A & B Flashcards

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