WordMasters Meet #3

Created by: Christopher Bravo

Pluck (V.)/(N.)

• To pull off or out from the place of growth
• To give a pull at; grasp
• To pull with sudden force or with a jerk
• Act of plucking
• A quality that makes someone determined

WREST (v.)/(n.)

• To twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist
• To take away by force
• A wresting; twist or wrench

Brazen (ADJ.)/(V.)

• Shameless or impudent
• Made of brass
• To make brazen or bold

Harridan (n.)

• A scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew

Encumber (v.)

• To impede or hinder; retard
• To block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous
• To burden or weigh down

Ploy (N.)/(V.)

• A maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage
• To move (troops) from a line into a column

Jostle (V.)/(N.)

• To bump, shove, push, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely
• To drive or force by, or as if by, pushing or shoving
• A shock, push, bump, or brush against someone or something

STRINGENT (ADJ.)

• Rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe
• Compelling, constraining, or urgent
• Convincing or forcible

Wan (ADJ.)/(V.)

• Of unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color
• Showing or suggesting ill health; fatigue, unhappiness
• To become or make wan

Catastrophe (N.)

• A sudden and widespread disaster
• Any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco
• A final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end

Nettle (N.)/(V.)

• Any plant of the genus "Urtica" covered with stinging hairs
• Any of various allied or similar plants
• To irritate, annoy, or provoke

Ostentatious (ADJ.)

• Characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others

Glut (V.)/(N.)

• To feed or fill to satiety; sate
• To feed or fill to excess
• A full supply

Incense (N.)/

• An aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
• The perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned
• To perfume with incense
• To enflame with wrath

Severe (ADJ.)

• Harsh; unnecessarily extreme
• Serious or stern in manner or appearance
• Grave; critical

Precipice (N.)

• A cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face
• A situation of great peril

Retaliate (V.)

• To return like for like, especially evil for evil
• To requite or make return for (a wrong or injury) with the like

Peevish (ADJ.)

• Cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent
• showing annoyance, irritation, or bad mood
• perverse or obstinate

Verge (N.)

• The edge, rim, or margin of something
• The limit or point beyond which something begins or occurs; brink
• A limiting belt, strip, or border of something

REHABILITATE (V.)

• To restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like
• To restore to good condition, operation, or management
• To reestablish the good reptutation of

Pacific (ADJ.)

• Tending to make or preserve peace; conciliatory
• Not warlike; peaceable

Toady (N.)/(V.)

• An obsequious flatterer; sychophant
• To be the toady to
• To be a a toady

Endow (V.)

• To provide with a permanent fund or source of income
• To furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip
• To provide with a dower

Obsequious (ADJ.)

• Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference
• Servilely compliant or deferential
• Obedient; dutiful

Rectify (V.)

• To make, put, or set right; remedy; correct
• To put right by adjustment or calculation
• To purify by repeated distillation