Privacy:
| adjective | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | too nice about his food to take to camp cooking|so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow |
| noun | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge|the holding company was just a blind |
| verb | express strong disapproval of | We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners |
| verb | regret strongly | I deplore this hostile action|we lamented the loss of benefits |
| adjective | slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | so dense he never understands anything I say to him|never met anyone quite so dim|although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick|dumb officials make some really dumb decisions|he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse|worked with the slow students |
| adjective | lacking in insight or discernment | too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior|a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin |
| adjective | of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees | |
| adjective | (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex |
| noun | weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | |
| noun | a feeling of lack of interest or energy | |
| noun | a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) |
| verb | provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating|She treated her houseguests with good food every night |
| adjective | marked by care and persistent effort | her assiduous attempts to learn French|assiduous research|sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles |
| noun | a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution |
| adjective | having strong sexual appeal | juicy barmaids|a red-hot mama|a voluptuous woman|a toothsome blonde in a tight dress |
| adjective | extremely pleasing to the sense of taste |
| adjective | violently agitated and turbulent | boisterous winds and waves|the fierce thunders roar me their music|rough weather|rough seas |
| adjective | noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | a boisterous crowd|a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand|a robustious group of teenagers|beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings|an unruly class |
| adjective | full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | boisterous practical jokes|knockabout comedy |
| noun | courtesy towards women | |
| noun | the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct |
| adjective | muscular and heavily built | a beefy wrestler|had a tall burly frame|clothing sizes for husky boys|a strapping boy of eighteen|`buirdly' is a Scottish term |
| n | a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | |
| s | greatest in status or authority or power | a supreme tribunal |
| s | (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | an autonomous judiciary|a sovereign state |
| a | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude|I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part |
| s | not of the nobility | of ignoble (or ungentle) birth|untitled civilians |
| n | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | |
| n | intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) |
| a | submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior | spoke in a servile tone|the incurably servile housekeeper|servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work |
| s | relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants | Brown's attempt at servile insurrection|the servile wars of Sicily|servile work |
| s | attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner | obsequious shop assistants |
| s | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
