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Cartes-fiches
., pl. -nies. 1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails. 2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday. 3. Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.
adj. 1. highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior. 2. annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself: an obnoxious little brat. 3. Archaic. exposed or liable to harm, evil, or anything objectionable. 4. Obs. liable to punishment or censure; reprehensible.
n. 1. a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks. 2. a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble. 3. a sudden twist or turn: He lost his money by a quirk of fate. 4. a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing. 5. Archit. a. an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding or one dividing a flush bead from the adjoining surfaces.
v.t. 1. to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment. 2. to regain or recover. 3. to reimburse or indemnify; pay back: to recoup a person for expenses. 4. Law. to withhold (a portion of something due), having some rightful claim to do so. –v.i. 5. to get back an equivalent, as of something lost. 6. Law. to plead in defense a claim arising
n., pl. -men. an imaginary evil character of supernatural powers, esp. a mythical hobgoblin supposed to carry off naughty children.
n., v., -sured, -sur·ing. –n. 1. a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts. 2. cleavage (def. 1). 3. Anat. a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain. –v.t. 4. to make fissures in; cleave; split. –v.i. 5. to open in fissures; become split.
a pt. and pp. of bespeak. –adj. 2. Brit. a. (of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket. b. making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor. 3. Older Use. engaged to be married; spoken for.
.i. 1. to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory. –v.t. 2. to raid for plunder (often used passively): At the war's end the country had been marauded by returning bands of soldiers. –n. 3. Archaic. the act of marauding.
noun noun: emoji; plural noun: emojis a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication.
adj., spunkier, spunkiest. plucky; spirited.
noun noun: tranche; plural noun: tranches a portion of something, especially money. "they released the first tranche of the loan"
(in sipÆid), adj. 1. without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality. 2. without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
adj. 1. disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved. 2. reluctant or restrained.
poised, pois·ing. –n. 1. a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise. 2. a dignified, self-confident manner or bearing; composure; self-possession: to show poise in company. 3. steadiness; stability: intellectual poise. 4. suspense or wavering, as between rest and motion or two phases of motion: the poise of the tides.
adj. 1. characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe. 2. bending readily; flexible; pliant. –v.i. 3. to make oneself limber (usually fol. by up): to limber up before the game. –v.t. 4. to make (something) limber (usually fol. by up): She tried to limber up her wits before the exam.
n. a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, esp. in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.
v.i. 1. to suffer from oppressive heat. –v.t. 2. to oppress with heat. 3. Archaic. to exude, as venom.
n. 1. Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair. 2. a plait or braid of hair.
adv. 1. with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste. –n. 2. Archaic. great haste.
JaccordionJ(Ã kôrÆd" Ãn), n. Music. 1. Also called piano accordion. a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons for sounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand. 2. a similar instrument having single-note buttons instead of a keyboard. -adj. 3. having a fold or folds like the bellows of an accordion: accordion roof; accordion panel.
v.i. 1. to make an effort to raise phlegm from the throat; clear the throat noisily. –v.t. 2. to raise by hawking: to hawk phlegm up. –n. 3. a noisy effort to clear the throat.
n. 1. a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc. 2. a small piece, quantity, or amount of anything; scrap; bit. 3. something very appetizing; treat or tidbit. 4. a person or thing that is attractive or delightful. –v.t. 5. to distribute in or divide into tiny portions (often fol. by out): to morsel out the last pieces of meat.
n. 1. a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns. 2. any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women. 3. a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law. 4. Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail. 5. Brit. the rank or position of a sergeant at
n. 1. any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern. 2. a pattern of this kind. 3. a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usually with such a pattern and worn across the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders. –adj. 4. having the pattern of a plaid.
n. 1. a color having a soft, subdued shade. 2. a kind of dried paste made of pigments ground with chalk and compounded with gum water. 3. a chalklike crayon made from such paste. 4. the art of drawing with such crayons. 5. a drawing so made. 6. a short, light prose study or sketch. –adj. 7. having a soft, subdued shade. 8. drawn with pastels: a pastel portrait.
n. 1. a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc. 2. Also called masking frame. Photog. a frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.
v.t. 1. to impede or hinder; hamper; retard: Red tape encumbers all our attempts at action. 2. to block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous: a mind encumbered with trivial and useless information. 3. to burden or weigh down: She was encumbered with a suitcase and several packages. 4. to burden with obligations, debt, etc.
n. 1. a cistern, well, or pit for retaining the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house. 2. any filthy receptacle or place. 3. any place of moral filth or immorality: a cesspool of iniquity.
adj. 1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a man; masculine; manly: virile strength. 2. having or exhibiting masculine energy, forcefulness, or strength in a marked degree. 3. characterized by a vigorous, masculine spirit: a virile literary style. 4. of, pertaining to, or capable of procreation.
adj. lively; animated; gay: a vivacious folk dance.
n. 1. the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness. 2. the period during which one is convalescing.
v.t., -dled, -dling. 1. to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises. 2. to make stupidly drunk.
v.t., v.i., -cated, -cating. 1. to chew. 2. to reduce to a pulp by crushing or kneading, as rubber.
adj. 1. in a dying state; near death. 2. on the verge of extinction or termination. 3. not progressing or advancing; stagnant: a moribund political party.
voracious adj. 1. craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite. 2. exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.
v.t., -suaged, -suag·ing. 1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain. 2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger. 3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
adj. 1. unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development: a precocious child. 2. prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc. 3. of or pertaining to premature development. 4. Bot. a. flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit. b. bearing blossoms before leaves, as
n. 1. loss of appetite and inability to eat. 2. Psychiatry. See anorexia nervosa.
adj. Informal. worn-out; fatigued: a party that left us frazzled.
adj. that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
