parsimonious

29 09 2009

Adjectives
1. (adj.) parsimonious, penurious;
  - excessively unwilling to spend;
  - “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner–denying himself every indulgence”;


   


ashen

29 09 2009

Adjectives
1. (adj.) ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white;
  - anemic looking from illness or emotion;
  - “a face turned ashen”; “the invalid’s blanched cheeks”; “tried to speak with bloodless lips”; “a face livid with shock”; “lips…livid with the hue of death”; “lips white with terror”; “a face white with rage”;

2. (adj.) ashen;
  - made of wood of the ash tree;

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audible

29 09 2009

Nouns
1. (n.) audible;
  - a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) audible, hearable;
  - heard or perceptible by the ear;
  - “he spoke in an audible whisper”;

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confinement

28 09 2009

Nouns
1. (n.) childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail;
  - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child;
  - “she was in labor for six hours”;

2. (n.) confinement;
  - the act of restraining of a person’s liberty by confining them;

3. (n.) confinement;
  - the state of being confined;
  - “he was held in confinement”;

4. (n.) confinement, restriction;
  - the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary);
  - “the restriction of the infection to a focal area”;

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falter

28 09 2009

Nouns
1. (n.) falter, faltering, hesitation, waver;
  - the act of pausing uncertainly;
  - “there was a hesitation in his speech”;

Verbs
1. (verb) falter, waver;
  - be unsure or weak;
  - “Their enthusiasm is faltering”;

2. (verb) falter, waver;
  - move hesitatingly, as if about to give way;

3. (verb) bumble, falter, stumble;
  - walk unsteadily;
  - “The drunk man stumbled about”;

4. (verb) bumble, falter, stammer, stutter;
  - speak haltingly;
  - “The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room”;