Multi-Meaning Words
To drain, example: energy or fluid from a maple tree.
What is sap?
To destroy.
What is obliterate?
To answer back angrily or sharply.
What is retort?
Attractive or suitable, mostly in appearance.
What is comely?
To completely destroy something. Example: to completely destroy a building
What is raze?
A homeless child or a sea creature.
What is urchin?
An action or a gesture carried out with minimum effort or reflection.
What part of speech is this?
What is perfunctory?
An expert in a particular subject or field that is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public.
What is pundit?
Disorganized, untidy, or incomplete.
What is scrappy?
Make less severe, serious, painful.
What is to mitigate?
The central stone at the top of an arch or something in which other things depend on for support
What is keystone?
A piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his lover.
What is serenade?
What part of speech is this?
A glass vessel with a round bulb and long tapering neck that is bent down, used especially in a laboratory for distillation.
What is retort?
Sparing or economical with regard to money or food. Not wanting to spend much money. Spending as little money as possible.
What is frugal?
To spend time making minor adjustments to one's hair, makeup, or clothes.
What is primp?
Strict in attitude and appearance or to have a humble life style or to live a hard life with no luxuries or comfort.
What is austere?
To invent something, such as a lie.
What is to fabricate.
A musical lament for the dead, especially one preforming for a funeral rite (a service, a mass, a memorial). It is often written in a minor key.
What is dirge?
Existing or occurring at or on the surface. e.x. a wound
What is superficial?
Use up the supply or resources of or diminish the number or quantity.
What is deplete?
To finish the supply or resources of or to get rid of the amount.
What is deplete?
Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
What is erudite?
A violent criminal or troublemaker.
What is a ruffian?
Not showing proper respect.
What is impertinent?
The pin that goes in the center of a wheel to keep it in place or a person or thing vital to an enterprise or an organization.
What is linchpin?