| 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 |
