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Crosstips helped to find the following words this month:
English (GB)
- succeeds
succeed - attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her ... - psyche
(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul - ci
curie: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second;
hundred and one: being one more than one hundred - farewell
an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
Français
- exauces
- luxuriance
grande abondance;
état de ce qui est luxuriant - ester
(chimie) corps résultant de l'action d'un acide sur un alcool avec élimination d'eau;
poursuivre en justice;
soutenir une action en justice - tri
action de trier; triage (le tri des lettres; centre de tri postal);
(informatique) fait de classer des informations;
préfixe signifiant trois - ergoteur
qui aime ergoter, chicaner pour des broutilles, contester mal à propos;
celui qui aime ergoter - groseilliers
- bouquetin
(zoologie) chèvre sauvage à longues cornes, de la famille des bovidés - bonjour
salutation lorsque l'on rencontre une personne pour la première fois dans une journée (également " au revoir " au Canada);
salutation (" donner le bonjour ");
familièrement ça va mal se passer, il va y avoir de la casse - amants
English (US)
- uzi
a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel - exiled
My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality series documenting the lives of teenagers, usually in the United States and UK, who usually have wealthy parents that throw huge coming of age celebrations. ... - evade
practice evasion - ivies
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. ...;
ivy - Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits - overt
open and observable; not secret or hidden - quasi
having some resemblance - wuss
weakling: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual;
Pussy is an English word meaning cat. It may also refer to the female genitalia in slang, or be used as a pejorative term that implies cowardice or weakness. - strop
a leather strap used to sharpen razors - stoic
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno - espionage
the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets - osier
flexible twig of a willow tree - users
The Users were a punk rock band formed in Cambridge, UK, that was active between 1977 and 1979.;
The standard Unix command who displays a list of users who are currently logged into a computer. - aron
At the core of the multi-billion dollar Pokémon media franchise of various electronic games, ongoing anime, several manga series, collectible trading card games, and other media are 493 distinctive fictional species classified as the titular Pok - iraq
a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq - privileged
blessed with privileges - sq
SQ was a program used in the early 1980s on both MS-DOS and CP/M computer systems to compress files so they use less space. ...;
Sûreté du Québec - the Quebec provincial police force;
Subcutaneous,injection given in the tissue just under the skin - upend
become turned or set on end - copse
brush: a dense growth of bushes;
A thicket of small trees or shrubs;
A very small, broad-leaved woodland originally derived from coppicing but now the term is used more widely. - gondola
long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice - howitzer
mortar: a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range - anton
Anton is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York. It is a special-purpose system for molecular ... - instil
instill: enter drop by drop; "instill medication into my eye";
Alternative spelling of instill;
instilment - instillation: the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop - enough
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose - engine
motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work - impend
be imminent or about to happen - globule
a small globe or ball - elul
the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September) - slapdash
in a careless or reckless manner - altercation
affray: noisy quarrel;
Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest - elixir
a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste - glissandi
A glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the ... - alliteration
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse - violets
The Violets are a post punk/indie/pop band from the New Cross area of London. Formed initially as a bassless garage punk trio, The Violets early ...;
violet - any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers - timber
a beam made of wood - cid
Criminal Investigation Command: the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations ... - ahoy
Ahoy! was a magazine published between January 1984 and January 1989 that focused on all Commodore International color computers, but especially ... - chide
call on the carpet: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime ... - pencil
a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood - determinate
precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause - remorse
compunction: a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed);
Remorse is an emotional expression of personal regret felt by a person after he or she has committed an act which they deem to be shameful ... - sepoy
A sepoy (from Persian سپاهی Sipâhi meaning "soldier") was a native of India, a soldier allied to a European power, usually the United ... - deepens
deepen - intensify: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot ...;
deepen - make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it" - benign
not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) - pepys
English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703) - legato
(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected - idle
the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling - acrobat
an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination - obverse
the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides - yaqui
The "Yoeme" or Yaqui are a Native American tribe who originally lived in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and ... - cache
a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) - raiment
dress: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child";
array: especially fine or decorative clothing - table
a set of data arranged in rows and columns - saladin
sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193) - karma
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
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