(noun)
A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.
What is an IMMIGRANT?
100
(verb)
To prevent someone from doing something; to keep under control.
SYNONYMS: repress, stifle, tether, chain up
What is RESTRAIN?
100
(verb)
To persistently avoid, ignore or reject someone.
SYNONYMS: avoid, evade, eschew
What is SHUN?
100
(noun)
The loan on a house or land.
What is MORTGAGE?
100
(noun)
A discordant ringing sound
SYNONYM: jingle
What is JANGLE?
200
(noun)
A common expression that is not to be taken literally, such as: “She cried her eyes out,” or “Over my dead body,” or “Thrilled to pieces.”
What is an IDIOM?
200
(ADJECTIVE)
To be having or showing a serious manner that is worthy of respect.
SYNONYMS: proud, formal, proper
What is DIGNIFIED?
200
(adjective)
To be lacking excitement
SYNONYMS: dull; boring
What is HUMDRUM?
200
(verb, noun)
Verb: To smile in an irritatingly smug, conceited, or silly way.
Noun: A smug, conceited or silly smile.
What is SMIRK?
200
noun)
A general truth or fundamental principle; a rule of conduct.
What is a PROVERB?
300
(verb)
To go without
SYNONYMS: give up, sacrifice
What is FORGO?
300
(NOUN)
A very strong wind
What is a GALE?
300
(adjective)
A questionable or uncertain outcome.
SYNONYM: doubtful
What is DUBIOUS?
300
(adjective)
To be feeling or showing misery, unhappiness or loneliness
What is DESOLATE?
300
(verb)
To annoy, to irritate, to irk
What is VEX?
400
(verb)
To fill to overflowing.
What is TEEMING?
400
(NOUN)
A table or flat-topped block used as the focus for religious ritual.
What is an ALTAR?
400
(adjective)
To be starvingly skinny
What is EMACIATED?
400
(verb, noun)
Verb: To provoke or annoy.
SYNONYM: prod
Noun: A thing that stimulates someone into action
What is GOAD?
400
(NOUN)
An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
SYNONYM: relic
What is an ARTIFACT?
500
(verb)
To long urgently for something.
What is YEARN?
500
(NOUN)
The belief that any type of violence or war is unacceptable and problems should be settled through peaceful means.
SYNONYMS: peacemaking, nonviolence
What is PACIFISM?
500
(adjective)
To be done with extreme care about details, precise, thorough, picky, finicky
What is METICULOUS?
500
(adjective)
Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.
SYNONYMS: inflexible; unwavering, insistent
What is ADAMANT?
500
(VERB)
To make a hole by digging.
SYNONYMS: dig up, uncover, burrow