verb

to commingle: to debase by mixing with something inferior

unalloyed means pure

verb

to take for one's own use, confiscate

verb

to suspend, to engage, holding one's attention

adj

majestic venerable

August Rush: Magestic movie, truly august

noun

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

She's bent on being a bitch.

verb

bring up, announce, bring to talk about

We recently broached the topic of...

verb

to tolerate, endure, countenance

adj

major, as in cardinal sin

noun

a blindly devoted patriot

EEUU are generally a chauvinist bunch, espeically when they travel

verb

to change as if by dyeing, to distort or gloss

Yellow journalism colored the truth

adj

pompous, self-important

(primary defintions: logically following, important)

Javier thinks that his views are the most consequential

verb

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

You need to damp the bass, I can't hear anything!

noun

a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

Can you hand me the die? I need to chissel this guy's face.

verb

to test or try, attempt, experiment

The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps

verb

to demand, call for, require, take

Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price

verb

to cause to fall by striking

The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees

adj

inhumanly cruel

Fell beasts surrounded the explorers

verb

to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline

Think of a flag on a windless day

verb

sacrastic, impertinent, as in flippant

"a flip remark"

verb

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

verb

to complain or grumble

"That´s grouse"

noun/verb

a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide, to steady of reinforce using a guy

Think of a guy supporting his girlfriend with a rope

verb

to imply or insinuate

"Are you intimating that I can´t be trusted?"

verb

to tilt or lean to one side

"The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind"

verb

to move heavily and clumsily

"Walruses are lumbering giants on land, not in the water"

adj

fitting, proper

"It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame"

"It is meet that Chileans love Choripan, they love meat!"

verb

pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully

"Don't mince words during your speech"

to take tiny steps, tiptoe

adj

exactlying, fastidious, extremely precise

"He made a nice distinction between the two cases. A bit exagerated I thought."

adj

to be established, accepted, or customary

Those standards no longer obtain. Now Panera is working under new Red Robin's obtained standards.

adj

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

adj

commonplace, trite, quotidian

Walking is so pedestrain. Now everyone drives in cars.

adj

multicolored, usually in blotches

"Joseph and the Pied Dreamcoat"

verb

to lose vigor (as through grief), to yearn

I pined for the smell of pine during Christmas in Santiago

adj

moldable, pliable, not rigid

Plastic has a plastic quality when placed under heat.

noun

courage, spunk, fortitude

"Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war"

"Obama inspires the pluck of many Americans during this time of economic crisis"

verb

to pry, to press or force with a lever: something taken by force or spoils

"Tortured, the information was prized from him."

verb

to complain about bitterly

"Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons"

verb/noun

torn, past of rend

an opening or tear caused by such

"No one will rent to dog owners because they rent up all their hardwood floors"

verb

to lose courage, turn frightened

The quail birds quail at the sight of a cat.

verb

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

"That race sapped my strength"

verb

to limit

"Let me qualify that statement. To qualify, one be meet these limiting standards"

noun

a fool or a nitwit

"Don't be a sap!"

adj

comtemptible, despicable

His scurvy frightened everyone as his skin was so scurvy.

adj

exceptional, unusual, odd

"He was singularly well-suited for the job."

noun

a group of trees

The stand made the kids stare in awe at the wilderness.

Trees stand tall.

The treehouse is in a stand.

verb

to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

"She was steeped in esoteric knowledge"

noun

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

"Birds can't strut if their strut is broken!"

verb

to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

"They tabled the motion and will consider it again later"

"The motion was tabled, shoving it down the table"

verb

to proffer or offer

He tendered his resignation.

verb

to equivocate, to change one's postion

Picture John Kerry downing waffles.

noun

wit, joker

Every office has their own wag to keep everyone happy!