Look at differences and similarities between (things) |
COMPARE |
Loud or disturbing sound |
NOISE |
Making less likely to bend |
stiffening |
Mounted soldier |
CAVALRYMAN |
Moving in a sole direction |
one-way |
Name of Beethoven’s third symphony |
EROICA |
Non-attendance |
ABSENCE |
Ordinary spoken or written language |
PROSE |
Penitent’s attire |
SACKCLOTH |
Pipe instrument |
ORGAN |
Plant eater |
HERBIVORE |
Pleasant or pleasing |
AGREEABLE |
Preventing (someone doing something) |
THWARTING |
Required standard of workmanship for an item |
SPECIFICATION |
Resident caretaker |
CONCIERGE |
Resonant; phoning |
RINGING |
Simple hymn tune |
CHORALE |
Sitting in the intervening spaces |
interstitial |
Small case for needles, etc |
ETUI |
Spanish cape; shipping forecast area now renamed FitzRoy |
FINISTERRE |
Spiny succulents |
CACTI |
Study further |
re-examine |
Support; rear |
BACK |
Surprise attack |
RAID |
Technical-looking mumbo-jumbo |
pseudo-science |
Unparalleled |
in a class of its own |
Vacant |
EMPTY |
Very strict, censorious |
PURITANICAL |
Wide continuous area |
EXPANSE |
Worshipped image |
IDOL |