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| foreshadowing, indication, premonition |
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| the quality of being urbane; refined courtesy or politeness; suavity |
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| pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman. |
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| a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money. |
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| the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc. |
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| a person who functions in a specified capacity, esp. in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries. |
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| a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly. |
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| a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer. |
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| an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river. |
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| a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, esp. around the sun or moon. |
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| a line of police, sentinels, military posts, warships, etc., enclosing or guarding an area. |
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| friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere. |
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| to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. |
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| to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money. |
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1. of or pertaining to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
2. beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious. |
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| to pay out (money), esp. for expenses; expend; spend. |
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| partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances" |
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| Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. See Synonyms at appendage. |
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1. to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
2. Metallurgy. to analyze (an ore, alloy, etc.) in order to determine the quantity of gold, silver, or other metal in it. |
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| to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down. |
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| a noisy, disorderly disturbance or fight; riotous brawl; uproar. |
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| to disturb keenly or painfully; distress the mind, feelings, etc., of. |
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| soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated. |
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| to deny, dispute, or contradict. |
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| characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis. |
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