IVB13 Crossword
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1) 1a : to act playfully; especially : to play amorously b : to deal lightly : toy
2a : to waste time b : linger, dawdle
to do something slowly or too slowly
▪ Don't dally [=dawdle] on the way home.
to do something slowly or too slowly
▪ Don't dally [=dawdle] on the way home. —
Synonyms: play, disport, frolic, recreate, rollick, skylark, sport, toy2) : the act of delaying or postponing; specifically : official postponement of military service
/3) 1.decorative bottle for serving drinks: a decorative bottle with a stopper, used for holding and serving alcoholic drinks
Synonyms: carafe, flask, vessel, bottle, pitcher, container4) 1: a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
2: a violent disruption (as of an army) : rout
3a : a great disaster - a great disaster or complete failure
▪ After the debacle of his first novel, he had trouble getting a publisher for his next book.
Synonyms: apocalypse, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster (also débâcle), tragedy6) 1: one who has not paid for a ticket
2: a dull or stupid person
3: a partially submerged log
Synonyms: airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead7) 1: a stage setting
2a : decoration 2 b : the style and layout of interior furnishings
Synonyms: scenery (or décor), mise-en-scène, scene, set8) : to use logic or reason to form (a conclusion or opinion about something) : to decide (something) after thinking about the known facts
▪ Scientists use several methods to deduce [=determine] the age of ancient objects
to determine by deduction; specifically : to infer from a general principle
Synonyms: conclude, decide, infer, derive, extrapolate, gather, judge, make out, reason, understand9) 1 : correct or proper behavior that shows respect and good manners
▪ He has no sense of decorum: literary and dramatic propriety : fitness
2: propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance
3: orderliness
Synonyms: decency, form, propriety10) : a raised platform (s in a hall or large room) where peole stand on when performing or speaking to a audience.
Synonyms: platform, stage, podium, stand, pulpit12) 1: to spend time idly
2: to move lackadaisically
: to move or act too slowly
▪ Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle. ▪ Come home immediately after school, and don't dawdle. ▪ She dawdled [=lingered] over her breakfast.
Synonyms: crawl, creep, dally, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag13) : something (as a decorative object) considered novel, rare, or bizarre : curiosity; also : an unusual or bizarre person
: a small and unusual object that is considered interesting or attractive
▪ She loves to browse the shops in small towns, looking for curios.
Synonyms: bauble, bibelot, knickknack, curiosity, doodad, gaud, gewgaw |
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2) : the state or condition of not having enough of something : lack — + of ▪ The dearth [=scarcity] of jobs in the city forced many families to leave the area. ▪ a dearth of evidence
: an inadequate supply : lack
Synonyms: crunch, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy3) : unpleasantly moist or wet
: wet and cold in a way that is unpleasant
▪ a dark dank cave
Synonyms: damp, dampish, moist, wettish4) 1: any of numerous usually cloudy and rounded spots or patches of a color or shade different from their background
2: the quality or state of being dappled
< a dappled animal>
Synonyms: blotch, spot, dot, eyespot, fleck, mottle, patch, pip, point, speck, speckle, splotch5) sorry, the word is decimate.
: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2: to exact a tax of 10 percent from
3a : to reduce drastically especially in number b : to cause great destruction or harm to
Synonyms: annihilate, cream, destroy, demolish, desolate11) 1.postpone: to put something off until a later time
2.postpone military service: to allow somebody to postpone conscription into the armed forces
Synonyms: put off, reschedule, adjourn, suspend, put back12) : having low morals and a great love of pleasure, money, fame, etc.
▪ The book condemns some of society's wealthiest members as decadent fools.
b : attractive to people of low morals : marked by decay or decline
2: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the decadents
Synonyms: effete, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up13) : the end or final result of something
1.highest point: the highest, most important, or final point of an activity
2.act of culminating: the arrival at, or the bringing of something to, a climax
3.highest or lowest altitude: the highest or, less commonly, the lowest point in the sky that an astronomical object reaches relative to an observer's horizon
Synonyms: conclusion, finale, peak, height, zenith, result, end, termination, climax, apex, apogee, consummation14) 1: emperor; specifically : the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
2: one having great power or authority
a very powerful person in a particular business or activity
— used as an unofficial title for the person who is in charge of a government office or department ▪ The President has appointed a new drug czar.
: The one who a high power or authority
Synonyms: baron, captain, magnate (also tsar or tzar), king, lion, lord, mogul, monarch, Napoleon, prince, tycoon15) : to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part
: to reduce or limit (something)
The new laws are an effort to curtail illegal drug use.
Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, shorten, cut back, dock, elide, syncopate, truncate
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