Informal language |
SLANG |
Interim, temporary |
MAKESHIFT |
Involving meeting or contact |
PERSONTOPERSON |
Lead sulphide mineral |
GALENA |
Lustrous, glossy |
SHINY |
Make an impromptu speech |
ADLIB |
Make less stale |
FRESHEN |
Military encirclement |
SIEGE |
Mosque towers |
MINARETS |
Occurring over and over again |
REPETITIVE |
One raising game birds |
BEATER |
One speaking with another |
COLLOCUTOR |
One who takes time to do things |
SLOWCOACH |
Painting genre |
STILLLIFE |
Part of most addresses |
STREETNAME |
Pick-me-up |
TONIC |
Plant fibre |
SISAL |
Pretending to sing |
MIMING |
Reducing sexual desire |
ANAPHRODISIAC |
Rescued, retrieved |
SALVAGED |
Russian author (Fathers and Sons) |
TURGENEV |
School subject |
MATHS |
Seasoning gathered by evaporation |
SEASALT |
Strong emotion |
PASSION |
Surround |
ENCIRCLE |
US president and general |
EISENHOWER |
Where washing dries |
CLOTHESLINES |
Wiltshire town |
SWINDON |
Wrongly understood |
MISINTERPRETED |
—, Lake and Palmer, rock group |
EMERSON |