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Crosstips helped to find the following words this month:
English (GB)
- tokyo
the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan - redrafted
redraft - a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again;
redraft - A second or subsequent draft; To draft again - neither
not either; not one or the other - regrets
declination: a polite refusal of an invitation - mackintosh
a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric - basic
a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
Français
- ostensoir
(liturgie) pièce d'orfèvrerie qui sert à exposer l'hostie consacrée, dans la religion catholique - artisanale
- émeri
- omise
- phosphorescent
(physique) luminescent - perplexe
indécis, hésitant - perfectionnisme
souci exagéré de la perfection - obier
(botanique) arbrisseau aux fleurs blanches en forme de boule, de la famille des caprifoliacées
English (US)
- external
outward features - awry
away from the correct or expected course - supermarket
a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods - bulfinch
- aura
a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure - tuition
a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education) - burglar
a thief who enters a building with intent to steal - jul
Yule or Yule-tide is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. ... - straddle
a noncommittal or equivocal position - itaipu
Itaipu (Itaipu, Itaipu, Itaipú; , ) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. - starchy
consisting of or containing starch - assuage
pacify: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer";
quench: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" - prosaic
matter-of-fact: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and ...;
pedestrian: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" - orthodoxy
the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) - trounce
flog: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" - orator
a person who delivers a speech or oration - ersatz
an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation - areas
Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum - arc
a continuous portion of a circle - origami
the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) - wreathe
move with slow, sinuous movements - dramatic
suitable to or characteristic of drama - transom
a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door - preceding
existing or coming before - prowl
the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) - squeezing
squeeze: the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze";
In physics, a squeezed coherent state is any state of the quantum mechanical Hilbert space such that the uncertainty principle is saturated. ... - squeeze
the act of gripping and pressing firmly - spineless
lacking spiny processes - spurn
reject: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" - upon
Being the target of an action; Incidental to a specified point in time or order of action; usually combined with here-, there- or where-; Being ... - episode
a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events - spasms
A spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice. It is sometimes accompanied by a sudden burst of pain, but is usually harmless and ceases after a f - splicers
Splicers is a role-playing game using the Palladium Books Megaversal gaming system. The game is set in the midst of a war between humans and a world-wide computer intelligence alternately referred to as the N.E.X.U.S. or the Machine. ... - boycott
a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies - torpor
a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility - governor
the head of a state government - rotisserie
an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns - poignant
keenly distressing to the mind or feelings - kolyma
The Kolyma (pronounced koh-lee-MAH) region (Колыма) is located in the far north-eastern area of Russia in what is commonly known as Siberia but is actually part of the Russian Far East. It is bounded by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean - dogleg
angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog - pontificate
administer a pontifical office - bounded
having the limits or boundaries established - fortissimo
chiefly a direction or description in music - potato
an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland - anticlockwise
counterclockwise: in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move; "please move counterclockwise in a circle!" - enthralls
- encoded
Encoding is the process of transforming information from one format into another. The opposite operation is called decoding. This is often used in many digital devices;
encode - convert information into code; "encode pictures digitally" - incandescent
emitting light as a result of being heated - enlistment
a period of time spent in military service - unenlightened
not enlightened; ignorant - inroads
Inroads is an album by American banjoist Béla Fleck - electrocute
kill by electric shock - alliances
"Alliances" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed ... - flourish
a showy gesture - akimbo
(used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body - zinc
a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende - dislike
a feeling of aversion or antipathy - limb
one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper - diurnal
of or belonging to or active during the day - lingual
a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs - night
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside - tirana
the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country - distance
the property created by the space between two objects or points - pintoes
- pioneer
someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art - threatened
(of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered - shrouded
Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin or Tachrichim (burial s - meadow
hayfield: a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay;
A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants (grassland). It may be cut for hay or grazed by livestock such as cattle, sheep or goats. - deplored
deplore - express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners";
deplore - regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" - eerier
Comparative form of eerie: more eerie;
eerily - in an unnatural eery manner; "it was eerily quiet in the chapel";
eeriness - strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear;
eeriness - The condition of being eerie - segue
the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another - persistence
continuity: the property of a continuous and connected period of time;
doggedness: persistent determination - devastate
overwhelm or overpower - celebrate
have a celebration - peripatetic
a person who walks from place to place - yearling
a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth - demean
take down: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" - mendelssohn
German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847) - deadened
made or become less intense - rejoin
join again - beefier
Comparative form of beefy: more beefy;
beefy - muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" - edict
a formal or authoritative proclamation - icecaps
An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area (usually covering a highland area). Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet. - garibaldi
Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882);
a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers - nautilus
a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power - yammer
howl: cry loudly, as of animals; "The coyotes were howling in the desert";
whine: complain whiningly - narcissus
bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters - sanctimonious
holier-than-thou: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile";
Making a show of being morally better than others; hypocritically pious; Holy, devout - babel
a confusion of voices and other sounds - kalahari
a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana - latex
a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air - panegyric
encomium: a formal expression of praise;
encomiastic: formally expressing praise - rainbows
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. ... - valenti
Valenti was released in 2003 and is BoA's highest selling Japanese album (excluding overseas sales) and sold over 1.2 million copies.Valenti debuted at number on the weekly charts with over 615,000 copies in its first week. ... - marquee
permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. - tadpole
a larval frog or toad - zanier
Comparative form of zany: more zany - hatchet
a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) - lastly
last: the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values";
In a last or final manner; Last in order - languishing
lacking of vigor or spirit;
languish - pine away: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
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