1. Unwilling; disinclined: reluctant to help.
2. Exhibiting or marked by unwillingness: a reluctant smile.
3. Offering resistance; opposing.
1. Overtaken by night or darkness.
2. Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.
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a. Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.
b. Money or gifts bestowed.
2. Generosity of spirit or attitude.
1. The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes.
2. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism. Also called throwback.
3. The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.
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interlocutor – the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
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interlocutor – a person who takes part in a conversation
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parsimonious – excessively unwilling to spend; “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner–denying himself every indulgence”
Very talkative; garrulous.
1. A conspiratorial group of plotters or intriguers: “Espionage is quite precisely it
a cabal of powerful men, working secretly” Frank Conroy.
2. A secret scheme or plot.
1. Having or emitting fragrance; aromatic.
2. Suggestive; reminiscent: a campaign redolent of machine politics.
1. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.
2. Archaic To predict; foretell.
v.intr.
To be an omen; portend: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.
