amenable

link: mean bull

"The matador tried to be amenable to the mean bull."

agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, willing to give in to the wishes of another

precarious

link: carry us

"To escape the dinosaur, Mississippi Jones carried us to safety across a precarious bridge."

unsafe, unsteady, unstable

criterion

link: librarian

"A criterion for any librarian is that she must know how to read."

a standard or rule by which something can be judged; a basis for judgement

guise

link: disguise

"A master of disguise, sherlock Holmes concealed his real guise."

appearance, semblance

lesion

link: legion

"Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion suffering from their lesions."

wound, injury; especially one created by a disease

gird

link: herd

"Curly girded the herd with his trusty lasso."

to encircle as with a belt; to prepare as for action

fetish

link: British

"The British, they say, have an absolute fetish for tea."

an object of unreasonable obsessive reverance or attention

disperse

link: purse

"When the thug grabbed Dee's purse, all its contents were dispersed."

to scatter in various directions; distribute widely

dissolution

link: solution

"When the heirs to the estate were unable to agree on dissolution of their parents' home, the judge's solution was to divide it into equal parts."

the breaking up into parts; termination of a legal bond or contract

forage

link: forest

"Wild animals foraging for food in the forest."

to search or hunt for food and provision