IVB15 Crossword
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1) The quality or state of being diffident; timidity or shyness.
: the quality or state of being diffident.2) 1 : unhappiness or pain : suffering that affects the mind or body
2 : a very difficult situation in which you do not have enough money, food, etc.
3 of a boat, airplane, etc. : a state of danger or desperate need
The patient showed no obvious signs of distress.
Synonyms: affliction, agony, anguish, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe3) : to cause (something, such as information) to go to many people
▪ The Internet allows us to disseminate information/news/ideas faster. '
: to spread abroad as though sowing seed
Synonyms: broadcast, circulate, spread, propagate4) 1a : to cause to lose bearings : displace from normal position or relationship b : to cause to lose the sense of time, place, or identity
2: confuse
: to make (someone) lost or confused
▪ Thick fog can disorient even an experienced hiker.
Synonyms: addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle5) 1 : relating to or showing direction
▪ We work with maps to improve the students' directional skills. ▪ directional stability ▪ the directional signal lights on an automobile 2 technical : used for receiving sounds, radio signals, etc., that are coming from a particular direction
▪ a directional microphone ▪ The radio has a directional antenna.6) 1: to pass from physical life : expire
2a : to pass out of existence : cease b : to disappear or subside gradually —often used with away, down, or out
Synonyms: check out, conk (out), croak [slang], decease, demise, depart9) 1.tactful: careful to avoid embarrassing or upsetting others
2.good at keeping secrets: careful not to speak about anything that should be secret or confidential
3.subtle and unobtrusive: subtle and circumspect, ensuring that no undue attention is attracted
Synonyms: tactful, circumspect, cautious, careful, diplomatic, judicious, prudent11) : to give dictation
2: to speak or act domineeringly : prescribe
: to speak or read (something) to a person who writes it down or to a machine that records it
▪ She's dictating a letter to her secretary. 2 : to say or state (something) with authority or power
Synonyms: call, decree, command, direct, mandate, ordain, order13) 1a : moving from topic to topic without order : rambling b : proceeding coherently from topic to topic
2: marked by analytical reasoning
3: of or relating to discourse
Synonyms: desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering14) 1.somebody who disagrees: somebody who publicly disagrees with an established political or religious system or organization
: disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
Synonyms: dissentient, dissenting, heretical, heterodox, iconoclastic15) 1a : native crystalline carbon that is the hardest known mineral, that is usually nearly colorless, that when transparent and free from flaws is highly valued as a precious stone, and that is used industrially especially as an abrasive; also : a piece of this substance b : crystallized carbon produced artificially
2: something that resembles a diamond (as in brilliance, value, or fine quality) |
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2) : to free from error, fallacy, or misconception
to show or convince (someone) that a belief is incorrect — + of ▪ He offered to disabuse us of what he called our “cherished myths.”
Synonyms: disillusion, disenchant, undeceive3) : marked by disorder or disarray
: not neat or tidy
1.with messed-up hair or clothes: with messed-up hair or clothes
2.untidy: disordered and untidy
Synonyms: unkempt, wild, tousled, ruffled, untidy, scruffy, unruly5) the word is disingenuous.
: not truly honest or sincere : giving the false appearance of being honest or sincere
▪ Her recent expressions of concern are self-serving and disingenuous.
lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating7) 1: to hide under a false appearance
2: to put on the appearance of : simulate
: to hide your true feelings, opinions, etc.
▪ It's now clear that he dissembled about the risks involved. [=he did not tell the truth about the risks involved]
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, feign, fake, pass8) : to waste time by loitering or delaying : dawdle
: to move or act too slowly : to waste time
▪ We need to stop dillydallying [=dawdling, fooling around] and get to work.
Synonyms: crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, diddle, delay, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry10) : the practice of using signs (such as an arrangement of tea leaves or cards) or special powers to predict the future
▪ the art of reading tea leaves and other forms of divination
: the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers
: unusual insight : intuitive perception
Synonyms: augury12) : decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse
Synonyms: beat-up, bombed-out, shabby, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels14) 1 : harsh or unpleasant in sound
▪ discordant music 2 : not agreeing : not in harmony
▪ She has the difficult task of bringing together a number of discordant elements. ▪ discordant opinions
: being at variance : disagreeing b : quarrelsome
Synonyms: cacophonous, dissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unvocal15) : to take away the peace or tranquillity of : disturb, alarm
: to make (someone) worried or nervous — usually used as (be) disquieted ▪ We were disquieted by the news.
Synonyms: agitate, ail, alarm (also alarum), bother, concern |
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