n. the act of inventing a word or phrase; coinage (*) corium (*) fracas (*) increment (*) neologism

n. hanging down from something; ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.) (*) pendant (*) shard (*) heresy (*) perversion

n. a person who works only for money (*) demagogue (*) dross (*) moodiness (*) hireling

n. an expression of approval and commendation; extolment (*) millennium (*) befoulment (*) rhomb (*) kudos

n. a crude idol of Krishna (*) transition (*) confrere (*) juggernaut (*) aphasia

n. a desirable state (*) alloy (*) boon (*) audit (*) requisite

n. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) (*) gentry (*) queue (*) fasciculus (*) atrophy

n. the activities of educating or instructing; teaching; didactics; educational activity (*) spate (*) vestige (*) pedagogy (*) hilarity

n. abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; struma; thyromegaly (*) goitre (*) knell (*) yeoman (*) wrath

n. a long noosed rope used to catch animals; riata; reata (*) auspicious (*) amphitheater (*) dolt (*) lariat