n. the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law (*) desperado (*) usury (*) satire (*) solder

n. a total departure from one's faith or religion (*) precedence (*) editorial (*) apostasy (*) junta

v. to award or bestow by formal decision (*) gibe (*) adjudge (*) undervalue (*) mediate

n. a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience (*) foreigner (*) precedent (*) proverb (*) compulsion

n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure (*) casualty (*) vacuum (*) barograph (*) homogeneity

adv. once more (*) severely (*) anew (*) forthright (*) forby

n. a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents (*) calvinism (*) obstruction (*) melodrama (*) chivalry

v. to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions (*) stifle (*) garrote (*) ramify (*) imply

n. a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical (*) plummet (*) botany (*) controller (*) municipality

n. exultation (*) aristocracy (*) jubilation (*) alternate (*) self-respect