1.Curb : n : 2.Off-colour : adj : Not feeling well . 3.Baptism of fire : idm : 4.Do a slow burn : 5.Bear fruit : 6.

it : 6.Catch something off guard : 7.Making a killing :

8.Aureate \AWR-ee-it\, adjective: 1. Characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking. 2. Golden or gilded. 3. Brilliant; splendid.
9. rite

noun 1 a religious or other solemn ceremony or act. 2 a body of customary observances characteristic of a Church or a part of it. PHRASES rite of passage a ceremony or event, e.g. marriage, marking an important stage in someone's life. 10. hacienda \hah-see-EN-duh\, noun: A large estate, especially one used for farming or ranching. He gritted his teeth and turned his stallion's head toward the hacienda. -- Linda Ladd, Midnight Fire As swiftly as it had come, the tornado turned and headed away, leaving the village beyond the hacienda untouched. -- Joan Johnston, Texas Woman

11. robust

adjective (robuster, robustest) 1 sturdy or resilient. strong and healthy. 2 not perturbed by or attending to subtleties.

3 (of wine or food) strong and rich in flavour or smell.

DERIVATIVES

robustly adverb 12. mantic \MAN-tik\, adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to divination. 2. Having the power of divination. "She spent some evenings secretly working to expand the ever-present taint of the mantic sight still trapped within her." -- Barb Hendee, J. C. Hendee, In Shade and Shadow "It is these mantic responses that alert the intelligence to the presence of something that calls for interpretation." -- M. R. Wright, Andrew Barker, Reason and Necessity: Essays On Plato's Timaeus 13. epicenter : ivsifA[dkcsufr/ 14. shimmer verb shine with a soft tremulous light. noun a light with such qualities. 15. fidget
verb (fidgets, fidgeting, fidgeted) make small movements through nervousness or impatience. noun a person who fidgets. (usually fidgets) mental or physical restlessness.

16. wiggle verb move with short movements up and down or from side to side. noun a wiggling movement. 17. mar

verb (mars, marring, marred) impair; spoil.

18. collogue \kuh-LOHG\, verb: To confer secretly.

But come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton I lay patiently, gradually recovering, while they took it in turns to look into my eye and then collogue over me. -- William Cooper, Scenes from married life 19. monetary unit n (1810) : the standard unit of value of a currency. 20. recondite 21. abstraction

adjective (of a subject or knowledge) obscure.robustness noun

noun 1 the quality or process of treating something in a theoretical way. something which exists only as an idea. 2 a state of preoccupation. 3 abstract qualities in art. 4 the process of abstracting something. 22. deject verb [usually as adjective dejected] make sad or dispirited.
DERIVATIVES

dejectedly adverb dejection noun

ORIGIN

Middle English: from Latin deject-, deicere 'throw down', from de- 'down' + jacere 'to throw'. 23. come under fire

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24. Light a fire under someone - 25. strike gold -

26. Grass roots -

27. Look before you leap