adj. containing salt (*) saline (*) checkered (*) molten (*) distant

n. powerful and effective language; smoothness (*) grandeur (*) heckler (*) postulate (*) eloquence

v. cause to become widely known; circularize; propagate; broadcast (*) slough (*) beleaguer (*) exonerate (*) disseminate

adj. repeated too often; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; threadbare (*) supple (*) monolithic (*) hackneyed (*) oblique

n. a basis for comparison; measure (*) touchstone (*) introvert (*) pyromaniac (*) presentiment

n. use of physical or mental energy; travail; sweat (*) gruel (*) tutelage (*) exertion (*) scad

n. an act of undue intimacy; indecorum; liberty (*) preponderance (*) perimeter (*) impropriety (*) sedative

adj. coming at a subsequent time or stage; posterior (*) vindictive (*) ulterior (*) inanimate (*) contrite

n. a songbook containing a collection of hymns; hymnary (*) masochist (*) enate (*) hymnal (*) condiments

n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt (*) derision (*) rotunda (*) largess (*) callowness