(n.) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure;

(v.) to waste away

Syn: (n.) degeneration, deterioration; (v.) wither

(n.) a fortified place, stronghold

Syn: citadel, rampart, bulwark, parapet

(n.) a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

(adj.) complete or perfect in the highest degree;

(v.) to bring to a state of completion or perfection

Syn: (adj.) masterful; (v.) clinch, conclude

(n.) disorder, confusion;

(v.) to throw into disorder

Syn: (n.) disorganization; (v.) dishevel, mess up

(n.) urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency

Syn: requirement, crisis

(n.) floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

Syn: floating wreckage

(adj.) frenzied, highly agitated

Syn: fantic, overwrought

(v.) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

Syn: collect, cull, pick up

(n.) a type of game bird; a complaint;

(v.) to complain, grumble

Syn: (v.) gripe, kvetch, bellyache

(v.) to imprison, confine, fail

Syn: intern, immure

(adj.) obligatory, required;

(n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

Syn: (adj.) mandatory, necessary

(adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

Syn: waggish, facetious, droll, witty

(adj.) ridiculous, laughable, absurd

Syn: risible, preposterous

(adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

Syn: acrimonious, acidulous, sardonic, scathing

(n.) a prickly or stinging plant;

(v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely

Syn: (v.) peeve, annoy, incense, gall, irk

(adj.) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

Syn: monetary, financial

(adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

Syn: craven, lily-livered

(adj.) in a reclining postion, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

Syn: prone, prostrate, supine, inactive

(n.) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

Syn: ruse, trick, ploy, subterfuge