inhumanely cruel

(Fell beasts surrounded the explorers)

sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant

(a flip remark)

a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to stead or reinforce using a guy:

Think guide

to imply, suggest, or insinuate:

Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?

to tilt or lean to one side

The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind

to move heavily and clumsily:

Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers

fitting, proper:

It is altoghether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.

to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

I milked the position for all that it was worth

pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully

Don't mince words.

Also to take tiny steps, or to tiptoe.

exacting, fastidious, extremelky precise.

He made a nice distinction between the two cases.

to be established, accepted, or customary

Those standards no longer obtain.

multicolored, usually in blotches:

The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.

courage, spunk, fortitude:

Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war

torn, past of rend:

he rent is garments

an opening or tear caused by such

to limit

Let me qualify that statement

to enervate or weaken the vitality of:

That race sapped my strength