disguised (verb)
91weed (the weed) — n 1. marihuana. The plant cannabis sativa, which yields marihuana leaves, grows like a weed in warm dry climates and somewhat resembles nettles. ► They get a £10 bag of weed and put it all in the spliff, then they get catatonic. (Panorama, BBC TV …
92booby-trap — [[t]bu͟ːbi træp[/t]] booby traps, booby trapping, booby trapped also booby trap 1) N COUNT: oft N n A booby trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched. Police were checking… …
93masquerade — [ˌmα:skə reɪd, ˌmas ] noun 1》 a false show or pretence. 2》 the wearing of disguise. ↘chiefly N. Amer. a masked ball. verb pretend to be someone that one is not. ↘be disguised or passed off as something else: the idle gossip that masquerades… …
94booby trap — /ˈbubi træp/ (say boohbee trap) noun 1. an object so placed as to fall on or trip up an unsuspecting person. 2. Military a hidden or disguised bomb or mine so placed that it will be set off by an unsuspecting person. –verb (t) 3. to set with a… …
95travesty — /ˈtrævəsti / (say travuhstee) noun (plural travesties) 1. any grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice. 2. a literary composition characterised by burlesque or ludicrous treatment of a serious work or subject. 3. literary …
96masquerade — ► NOUN 1) a false show or pretence. 2) a masked ball. ► VERB 1) pretend to be someone that one is not. 2) be disguised or passed off as something else. ORIGIN French mascarade, from Italian maschera mask …
97veil — ► NOUN 1) a piece of fine material worn to protect or conceal the face. 2) a piece of fabric forming part of a nun s headdress, resting on the head and shoulders. 3) a thing that conceals, disguises, or obscures. ► VERB 1) cover with or as if… …
98court — [12] Latin cohors designated an ‘enclosed yard’ (it was formed from the prefix com ‘with’ and an element hort which also appears in English horticulture). By extension it came to stand for those assembled in such a yard – a crowd of attendants or …
99current — [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’,… …
100fact — [16] A fact is literally ‘something that is done’. It comes from Latin factum ‘deed’, a noun based on the past participle of facere ‘do’. This verb, a distant relative of English do, has contributed richly to English vocabulary, from obvious… …
