| Advance measure taken against an undesirable development |
PRECAUTION |
| American cab rank |
taxi stand |
| Awareness of one’s place in the social hierarchy |
class-consciousness |
| Blissfully happy |
ECSTATIC |
| Block of steel or gold |
INGOT |
| Blood feud |
VENDETTA |
| Brawniness; substance |
MEATINESS |
| Cargoes; lots |
LOADS |
| Causing great sadness or distress |
heart-rending |
| Concerned with the appreciation of beauty |
AESTHETIC |
| Concisely comprehensive |
compendious |
| Detailed development |
ELABORATION |
| Dickensian miser |
SCROOGE |
| Done without good reason; free |
GRATUITOUS |
| East European pancakes |
BLINI |
| Electrical device used to change voltage |
TRANSFORMER |
| Ernie’s comic partner |
ERIC |
| Express concisely and succinctly |
ENCAPSULATE |
| Former college |
POLYTECHNIC |
| Freshly generated |
NASCENT |
| In accord |
of a mind |
| Intoxicate |
INEBRIATE |
| Jousting event |
TOURNAMENT |
| Kind and unselfish |
good-natured |
| Lacking luxuries |
AUSTERE |
| Lizard able to change its colour |
CHAMELEON |
| Long stretch of open seafront for walking or driving |
ESPLANADE |
| Lovong |
AMOROUS |
| Make excessive demands on (a person’s abilities) |
OVERTAX |
| Material used to cover a tear |
PATCH |
