1) Parched, dry; After the unseasonably dry winter the Berkeley hills looked dusty and sere.
2) Winding, twisting; The car swerved at every curve in the serpentine road.
3) Harness, intensity, sternness, austerity.
4) Pretend. She shammed sickness to get out of going to school.
5) Fragment, generally of pottery
6) Bundles of stocks of grain, bundle of things tied together. The lawyer picked up a sheaf of papers as she rose to question the witness
7) Place into a case. As soon as he recognized the approaching friends, he sheathed his dagger and hailed them as friends
8) You will never get the public to buy such shoddy material.
9) Scolding woman; No one wanted to marry Shakespeare's Kate, because she was a shrew
10) Lawyer using questionable methods. |