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Down: 1) 1: a crime less serious than a felony 2: misdeed : a crime that is not very serious : a crime that is less serious than a felony ▪ He was charged with (committing) a misdemeanor. less serious crime: a crime less serious than a felony and resulting in a less severe punishment minor misdeed: a relatively minor misdeed Synonyms: petty larceny, crime, offense, malfeasance, transgression, infringement, violation2) expose scandal: to seek out and publicize misconduct by prominent people rake for manure: a rake used to spread manure or compost : to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business 4) 1: a servile dependent, follower, or underling 2: one highly favored : idol 3: a subordinate or petty official : someone who is not powerful or important and who obeys the orders of a powerful leader or boss ▪ one of the boss's minions assistant: a servile or slavish follower of somebody generally regarded as important servant: a servant or slave favorite: a favored person Synonyms: darling, fave, favorite, pet, preference, speed 5) : having a menacing quality : threatening menacing: menacing or threatening Synonyms: baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening 6) misunderstand or misinterpret: to understand or interpret something incorrectly Synonyms: misinterpret, misunderstand, misread, get the wrong idea about, get the wrong impression about, get the wrong end of the stick, misapprehend, miscomprehend9) 1: variegated in color 2: composed of diverse often incongruous elements : made up of many different people or things ▪ a motley collection of junk▪ a motley crew/group of musicians a motley collection of junk Synonyms: assorted, eclectic, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kitchen-sink, magpie, mixed, miscellaneous, patchwork, piebald, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, ragtag, varied 10) : beginning to exist : recently formed or developed : coming or having recently come into existence The actress is now focusing on her nascent singing career. Synonyms: aborning, budding, inceptive, inchoate, incipient 11) : of, relating to, or resembling a mouse: as a : quiet, stealthy b : timid, retiring c : grayish brown : shy and quiet ▪ The movie is a fantasy about a mousy housewife who is transformed into a glamorous star. 2of hair: dull brown in color ▪ mousy [=drab] brown hair Synonyms: fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, shy (or mousey), scary, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous 12) 1: an air or attitude of mystery and reverence developing around something or someone 2: the special esoteric skill essential in a calling or activity : a special quality that makes a person or thing interesting or exciting ▪ There's a certain mystique to/about people who fight fires. the mystique of mountain climbing Synonyms: air of mystery, air of secrecy, aura, charisma, magic, charm, inscrutability, mysteriousness, secretiveness13) 1obsolete : made by melting and casting 2: fused or liquefied by heat : melted 3: having warmth or brilliance : glowing : melted by heat ▪ molten metal/glass/lead▪ molten lava melted: changed into liquid form by heat molded: produced by melting a material and then shaping it in a mold glowing: glowing with great heat 14) arguable: open to argument or dispute not relevant: irrelevant or unimportant not legally relevant: legally insignificant because of having already been decided or settled : argument, discussion Synonyms: debatable, arguable, doubtful, controversial, unresolved, disputable, unlikely, unsettled15) 1a : of, relating to, or characteristic of disease b : affected with or induced by disease c : productive of disease 2: abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings 3: grisly, gruesome : relating to unpleasant subjects (such as death) ▪ She has a morbid interest in funerals. : not healthy or normal ▪ suffering from a morbid condition Synonyms: black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn Across: 3) 1 a : disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious b : turbulent, unruly 2: of, relating to, or constituting mutiny involving mutiny: plotting, participating in, or typical of a mutiny refusing to obey: refusing to obey or submit to control, especially military control Synonyms: insurgent, insurrectionary, rebellious, revolutionary 7) 1a : the quality or state of being modal b : a modal quality or attribute : form 2: the classification of logical propositions according to their asserting or denying the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content 3: one of the main avenues of sensation (as vision) 4: a usually physical therapeutic agency concept expressed by modal verb: the idea or concept that a modal auxiliary verb expresses propositions of necessity or possibility: the purely logical classification of propositions that relate to necessity or possibility treatment: something used in the treatment of a disorder, e.g. surgery or chemotherapy 8) 1: a provincial governor of the Mogul empire in India 2: a person of great wealth or prominence : a very rich or important person ▪ corporate nabobs Synonyms: big, big boy, big cheese, bigfoot, biggie, big gun, big leaguer, big-timer, big wheel, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck (or high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfishSynonyms: big, big boy, big cheese, bigfoot, biggie, big gun, big leaguer, big-timer, big wheel, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck (or high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish9) 1: the primate of an ecclesiastical province 2: one who lives in a metropolis or displays metropolitan manners or customs forming large city: constituting a large urban area, usually one that includes a city and its suburbs and outlying areas characteristic of metropolis: characteristic of a metropolis in scale, variety, or sophistication domestic and internal: relating to the home territory of a country rather than to its territories elsewhere Synonyms: city slicker, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, slicker, sophisticate 12) money supply theory: the theory that inflation and other economic variations are caused by changes in the money supply control of money supply: the policy of controlling an economic system by increasing or decreasing the money supply, especially in a gradual manner : a theory in economics that stable economic growth can be assured only by control of the rate of increase of the money supply to match the capacity for growth of real productivity 16) 1: a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects 2: a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something medical: a condition of the eye that makes it difficult to see objects that are far away :nearsightedness ▪ She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia Synonyms: nearsightedness, poor sight, short-sightedness17) 1a : a minute portion or point of time : instant b : a comparatively brief period of time 2a : present time b : a time of excellence or conspicuousness 3: importance in influence or effect 4obsolete : a cause or motive of action 5: a stage in historical or logical development 6a : tendency or measure of tendency to produce motion especially about a point or axis b : the product of quantity (as a force) and the distance to a particular axis or point 7a : the mean of the nth powers of the deviations of the observed values in a set of statistical data from a fixed value b : the expected value of a power of the deviation of a random variable from a fixed value short time: a very short interval of time particular instant: a particular instant in time present: the present time Synonyms: occasion, time18) : the production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas 2a : a literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or less heterogeneous elements b : a composite picture made by combining several separate pictures 3: a heterogeneous mixture : jumble : a work of art that is made up of several different kinds of things (such as strips of newspaper, pictures, or pieces of wood) [count] ▪ a photographic montage [noncount] ▪ a photographer who often uses montage in her pictures :[count] : a mixture of different things — usually + of▪ a montage of emotions/sounds/images Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomeration, alphabet soup, assortment, botch, clutter, collage, crazy quilt, farrago, gallimaufry, grab bag, gumbo, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jambalaya, jumble, jungle, litter, macédoine, medley, mélange, menagerie, miscellanea, mishmash, mixed bag, miscellany, motley, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, ragout, rummage, salad, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, smorgasbord, stew, tumble, variety, welter
 

 

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