1. debacle
- n. breaking up; downfall
- v. confuse; puzzle
- v. attribute; ascribe
- adj. without feeling
2. cauterize
- n. fitness; talent
- v. burn with hot iron or caustic
- adj. not to be taken away; nontransferable
- n. serious or fatal accident
3. squabble
- n. small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests
- adj. disloyal
- n. minor quarrel; bickering
- v. waste
4. vulpine
- v. reduce; exhaust
- n. projection; conjecture
- n. lavish expenditure; overabundant condition
- adj. like a fox; crafty
5. hibernate
- v. sleep throughout the winter
- adj. deprived of; lacking
- v. worsen; diminish in value
- adj. ordinary; unimaginative
6. gambit
- v. remove (forcible)
- adj. deserving blame
- v. abstain from; resist n. chorus
- n. opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed
7. metallurgical
- adj. lustful
- adj. praising
- adj. at the point of death
- adj. pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores
8. maxim
- n. meeting
- n. proverb; a truth pithily stated
- adj. shining; issuing light
- n. forewarning
9. ephemeral
- adj. confused; discomposed
- adj. short-lived; fleeting
- adj. motionless; stale
- v. provide a refuge for; hide
10. reparable
- adj. pertaining to marriage
- adj. proper; appropriate
- v. recede; lessen
- adj. capable of being repaired
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