noun

1.a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully.

noun

1.alavish meal; feast.

2. a ceremonious public dinner, especially one honoring a person, benefiting a charity, etc.

verb

3. to entertain or regale with a special dinner: They  _________ the visiting prime minister in grand style.

verb  

1.to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.

2. to cause to start involuntarily, by or as by a sudden shock.

noun

3. a sudden shock of surprise, alarm, or the like.

adjective

1.without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a __________  attempt.

2. lazy; indolent: a ___________ fellow.

noun ()

1.a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.

2. the business with which such a group is charged.

3.an operation designed to carry out the goals of a specific program: a space ________.

4.a group of persons sent by a church to carry on religious work, especially evangelization in foreign lands, and often to establish schools, hospitals, etc.

5.asending or being sent for some duty or purpose.

6. noting or pertaining to a style of American furniture of the early 20th century, created in supposed imitation of the furnishings of the Spanish missions of California and characterized by the use of dark, stained wood, by heaviness, and by extreme plainness.

noun

1.a fight, battle, or skirmish. Synonyms: altercation, combat, war, clash, encounter, set-to.

2.a competition or contest, especially in sports. Synonyms: tournament, match, meet, tourney.

3.a noisy quarrel or brawl. Synonyms: fight, dispute, tiff, spat, squabble; riot, fracas, tussle, rumpus.

noun

1.the act of a person or thing that agitates.

2.the butter made at any one time.

3. toshake or agitate with violence or continued motion: My stomach is  __________.

noun

1. the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.

2. the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light prevails.

3. a terminal period, especially after full development, success, etc.: the _________ of his life.

4. a state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.

adjective

5. of, pertaining to, or resembling soft difused light; dim; obscure.

verb

1. to furnish or fill with glass: to ______ a window.

2. to give a vitreous surface or coating to (a ceramic or the like), as by the application of a substance or by fusion of the body.

3. to cover with a smooth, glossy surface or coating.

4. Cookery . to coat (a food) with sugar, a sugar syrup, or some other glossy, edible substance.

verb

9.to become glassy: Their eyes ____________ over as the lecturer droned on.

adjective

1. capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a __________ ruler.

2. susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable: a _____________ schedule.

3. willing or disposed to yield; pliable: a ____________ personality.

noun

1. the place to which a person or thing travels or is sent: Her ___________________ was Rome.

2. the purpose for which something is planned

adjective

3. noting an attraction or event that people are willing to travel a long distance to get to, either because it is very good or distinctive or because it is located in a popular and interesting place: a _______________ wedding in the Caribbean.

noun

1.  a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.

2. any brisk conflict or encounter: She had a ___________ with her landlord about the rent.

noun

1. something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goa;; target:

adjective

4. being the goal of one's efforts or actions.

5. not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an _________ opinion.

noun

1. earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.

verb

1. to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching.

2. to manipulate by similar movements, as the body in a massage.

3. to make by folding and stretching: to _____ bread.

4. to make pressing movements with: She ________ her fist into her palm.

adjective

1. having gray or partly gray hair.

2. gray or partly gray.

verb  

1. to complain; whimper; whine.

2. to laugh or grin in mockery; sneer.

noun

1. a low or subdued tones.

2. an unobtrusive or background sound: an _______________of static from the receiver.

3. an underlying quality or element; undercurrent: There was an _______________ of regret in his refusal.

4. a subdued color; a color modified by an underlying color.

verb

to fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze: Her easy humor and keen intellect ____________ me.

adjective,

1.harsh; gratinG.

2. easily annoyed; irritable.

noun

1. a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

2. a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.

3. a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

verb  

6. to make or take a journey; travel.

verb

1. to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.

2. to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration: Hatred  ______________beneath a polite surface.

3. to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like: to _________________ with rage.

adjective

1. stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a _____strip of metal.

2. firmly fixed or set.

3. inflexible, strict, or severe: _______ rules of social behavior.

4. exacting; thorough; rigorous: a _______ examination.

5. so as to meet precise standards; stringent: lenses ground to _______ specifications.

noun

1. the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.

2. straw cut up for fodder.

3. worthless matter; refuse.

4. the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.

noun

1. a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.

2. a framework of parallel or crossed bars, used as a partition, guard, cover, or the like;

3. a fireplace.

verb

to have an irritating or unpleasant effect: His constant chatter _________ on my nerves.

5. to reduce to small particles by rubbing against a rough surface or a surface with many sharp-edged openings: to ________ a carrot.

6. to rub together with a harsh, jarring sound: to ______ one's teeth.

7. to irritate or annoy.

adjective

1. made of silk.

2. like silk in smoothness, softness, glossiness, or delicateness.

3. smoothly persuasive

5. elegant; luxurious.