IVB41 Crossword
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Down:
1) : a written promise to pay an amount
: a written promise to pay at a fixed or determinable future time a sum of money to a specified individual or to bearer money before a particular date
2) : to be slow or late about doing something that should be done : to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.
▪ He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.
: to put off intentionally and habitually
postpone doing something: to postpone doing something, especially as a regular practice
Synonyms: delay, postpone, adjourn, take a raincheck, dally, drag your feet, hang fire, defer, put off, dawdle
6) To get by special effort; obtain or acquire: managed to procure a pass.
2. To bring about; effect: procure a solution to a knotty problem.
3. To obtain (a sexual partner) for another.
v.intr.
acquire something: to obtain something, especially by effort
provide prostitutes: to provide somebody for prostitution
Synonyms: acquire, obtain, get hold of, get, land, buy, gain, attain, pick up, secure |
Across:
1) 1a obsolete : being an omen : portentous b : resembling or befitting a prodigy : strange, unusual (see prodigy)
2: exciting amazement or wonder
3: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree : enormous
: amazing or wonderful : very impressive
▪ a prodigious achievement/effort/talent
: very big
▪ a prodigious amount
2) 1a : an ancestor in the direct line : forefather b : a biologically ancestral form
2: precursor, originator
: someone who first thinks of or does something : a person who begins something
: something that is a model for something else : something that begins the development of something else
▪ a mechanical progenitor [=precursor] of the modern computer
: a person or animal in the past that is related to a person or animal living now :ancestor
▪ wild cats that were the progenitors of the house cat
Synonyms: father, forebear (also forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, primogenitor, ancestor
3) 1: a doctor's opinion about how someone will recover from an illness or injury
▪ Right now, doctors say his prognosis is/isn't good. — compare diagnosis
2: a judgment about what is going to happen in the future
▪ The president had a hopeful prognosis about the company's future
Synonyms: auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prediction, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication4) : supervisor, monitor; specifically : one appointed to supervise students (as at an examination)
supervisor at examination: somebody who supervises students at an examination
dormitory supervisor: at some schools and universities, a supervisor in a dormitory
supervise exam: to supervise an examination, especially in order to prevent cheating
Synonyms: screen, display, television, video display unit, closed-circuit television, CCTV, VDU
5) 7) trading of stock by computer: the automatic buying and selling of large quantities of stock using computer programs that monitor price changes
8) make excessive profits: to make excessive profits by charging high prices for scarce, necessary, or rationed goods
Synonyms: swindler, racketeer, con man, scammer, crook, embezzler |
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