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• mighty

  • 1. having, characterized by, or showing superior power or strength: mighty rulers.
    2. of great size; huge: a mighty oak.
    3. great in amount, extent, degree, or importance; exceptional: a mighty accomplishment.
    
• almighty

  • 1. having unlimited power; omnipotent, as God.
    2. having very great power, influence, etc.: The almighty press condemned him without trial.
    3. Informal. extreme; terrible: He's in an almighty fix.

• tinderbox

  • a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable, etc.; a potential source of widespread violence: Berlin was the tinderbox of Europe.
• anew

  • 1. over again; again; once more: to play the tune anew.
    2. in a new form or manner: to write the story anew.
• flared

  • –verb (used without object) 1. to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
    2. to blaze with a sudden burst of flame (often fol. by up): The fire flared up as the paper caught.
    3. to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce activity, passion, etc. (often fol. by up or out): Tempers flared at the meeting. Violence flared up in a new section of the city.
    4. to shine or glow.
    5. to spread gradually outward, as the end of a trumpet, the bottom of a wide skirt, or the sides of a ship.
    
    –verb (used with object) 6. to cause (a candle, torch, etc.) to burn with a swaying flame.
    7. to display conspicuously or ostentatiously.
    8. to signal by flares of fire or light.
    9. to cause (something) to spread gradually outward in form.
    10. Metallurgy. to heat (a high-zinc brass) to such a high temperature that the zinc vapors begin to burn.
    11. to discharge and burn (excess gas) at a well or refinery.
• makeshift

  • 1. a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
• menacing

  • 1. something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
    2. a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
    3. an extremely annoying person.
    
    –verb (used with object) 4. to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
    5. to serve as a probable threat to; imperil.
• manned

  • 1. something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
    2. a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
    3. an extremely annoying person.
    
    –verb (used with object) 4. to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
    5. to serve as a probable threat to; imperil.
• looted

  • 1. spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
    2. anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.: a burglar's loot.
    3. a collection of valued objects: The children shouted and laughed as they opened their Christmas loot.
    4. Slang. money: You'll have a fine time spending all that loot.
    5. act of looting or plundering: to take part in the loot of a conquered city.
• vengeance

  • –noun 1. infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
    2. an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's vengeance.
    3. the desire for revenge: a man full of vengeance.
    4. Obsolete. hurt; injury.
    5. Obsolete. curse; imprecation.
    
    —Idiom6. with a vengeance, a. with force or violence.
    b. greatly; extremely.
    c. to an unreasonable, excessive, or surprising degree: He attacked the job with a vengeance.
• fret

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    fret1  /frɛt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [fret] Show IPA verb, fret⋅ted, fret⋅ting, noun
    Use fret in a Sentence
    –verb (used without object) 1. to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
    2. to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals.
    3. to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.: The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed.
    4. to become eaten, worn, or corroded (often fol. by away): Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain.
    5. to move in agitation or commotion, as water: water fretting over the stones of a brook.
    
    –verb (used with object) 6. to torment; irritate, annoy, or vex: You mustn't fret yourself about that.
    7. to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.: the ocean fretting its shores.
    8. to form or make by wearing away a substance: The river had fretted an underground passage.
    9. to agitate (water): Strong winds were fretting the channel.

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• eerily

  • Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
    Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. See Synonyms at weird.
• shutters

  • noun 1. a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
    2. a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.
    3. a person or thing that shuts.
    4. Photography. a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.
    
    –verb (used with object) 5. to close or provide with shutters: She shuttered the windows.
    6. to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

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• apposite

  • suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt: an apposite answer.
• leery

  • 1. wary; suspicious (usually fol. by of): I'm leery of his financial advice.
    2. Archaic. knowing; alert.

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• fraught

  • 1. wary; suspicious (usually fol. by of): I'm leery of his financial advice.
    2. Archaic. knowing; alert.

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• scraps

  • –noun 1. a small piece or portion; fragment: a scrap of paper.
    2. scraps, a. bits or pieces of food, esp. of leftover or discarded food.
    b. the remains of animal fat after the oil has been tried out.
    
    3. a detached piece of something written or printed: scraps of poetry.
    4. an old, discarded, or rejected item or substance for use in reprocessing or as raw material, as old metal that can be melted and reworked.
    5. chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item.