n. a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping (*) carapace (*) debacle (*) auspices (*) roving

n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; core; center (*) gist (*) verdancy (*) acuity (*) witticism

n. the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) (*) restitution (*) satire (*) pastiche (*) reconnaissance

n. vengeful opponent (*) luster (*) nemesis (*) gadfly (*) embonpoint

n. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; extension (*) hinterlands (*) caviler (*) denotation (*) codicil

n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape (*) arbour (*) apparition (*) opus (*) bureaucracy

adj. incapable of being placated (*) rabid (*) roiling (*) implacable (*) inordinate

adj. inconspicuous (*) unobtrusive (*) dipped (*) ludicrous (*) pragmatic

n. large open car seating four with folding top; tourer (*) phaeton (*) decomposition (*) paleontology (*) witticism

n. an act of forcible exhalation; snorting (*) phaeton (*) ferment (*) feudatory (*) huffing