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• lore: He knew there must be one eventually for in his life he had been a Master of arcane lore.
• ritual: We are not a group of extremists dealing with arcane rituals.
• magic: You are among those gifted few who have learned to channel arcane magic, shaping it to serve your creative or destructive whims.
• mystery: Secrets and arcane mysteries have their place, but they are no substitute for practice.
• vocabulary: Indeed, it seemed part of an arcane vocabulary that we preachers should be trying to avoid.
• symbol: The boy had not understood the arcane symbols of burning towers and horned beasts.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: To avoid ambiguity, this somewhat arcane note needs to be here.
• rather: It is the equivalent, in this rather arcane context, of the delivery up of infringing goods.
• slightly: This slightly arcane sequence creates a global abbrev, which will apply in all modes.
• quite: Given Oxford’s status as an international research institution, tutors can often be found in quite arcane subject areas.
• too: The whole subject of firearms seems a bit too arcane for the common man.
• seemingly: This seemingly arcane finding could be of significance where an insurance claim is being made.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The issue might have seemed arcane - would they be allowed to borrow off balance sheet?
• become: By liberating the books from the offices and putting them in the public domain the Museum is opening up, becoming less arcane.

Adjective modifier

• such: Such gross impiety will not be condoned by the Vatican.

• comment: Surely you must agree that his statement is a puerile comment from a man who should know better.
• way: And it simply isn’t an appropriate answer to say in a puerile way, ‘ Well, they started it!
• humor: Not for the over-sensitive, South Park tackles pretty much any taboo you can think of with typically cynical and puerile humor.
• gag: The best thing about it: Puerile schoolboy gags - they never get old.
• banter: Every other thread both on here and the other place seem to contain a load of puerile banter about WAL and Shakerbaby.
• joke: The rather touching concern from the other participants took the form of a string of predictably puerile jokes.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Three young couples, engaging in rather puerile and absurd conversations.
• so: On the other hand would he be so puerile as to put blobs of red paint on one of my canvasses?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Plato seemed puerile, whimsical, full of unintelligible jargon.
• become: The workers got quite tactile While they tried to keep their pride; And the humor became puerile When we ended up inside.

Converse of object

• infect: Influenza A(H5N1 ) viruses normally circulate among wild birds but can infect poultry and rarely have infected people in the past.
• cook: Would the virus be killed by cooking poultry properly?
• eat: Can the virus be passed on through eating poultry or eggs?
• rear: They not only grew food, but also reared poultry, pigs, goats and even donkeys.
• affect: The disease particularly affects poultry, which includes chicken, duck, goose, turkey and guinea fowl.
• kill: My real concern is the blessed government over-reacting and running round killing domestic poultry when the disease is spread by wild birds.

Adjective modifier

• free-range: Also, free-range poultry keeping will become a ‘ thing of the past ‘ .
• undercooked: Do not eat uncooked or undercooked poultry or poultry products including food with uncooked poultry blood.
• infected: Almost all are thought to have caught the disease directly from infected poultry.
• diseased: To date, all evidence indicates that patients have acquired their infections following close contact with diseased poultry.
• frozen: Always follow the cooking instructions on ready stuffed fresh and frozen poultry.
• domestic: The worry was that wild birds - such as the swan - could spread the virus to domestic poultry flocks.

Modifies a noun

• keeper: With these partners we have issued leaflets and posters to poultry keepers on how they can protect their flocks.
• manure: A few shovels of manure, straw and poultry manure pellets thrown over the top will create extra warmth to speed up the process.
• meat: We are not aware of people handling poultry meat getting infected.
• slaughterhouse: Post mortem condemnation returns from poultry slaughterhouses in England and Wales.
• farming: Would we be facing a summer empty of birdsong after a cull of wild birds to protect poultry farming?
• breeder: But still at a price and simplicity to be attractive to the domestic poultry breeder, too.

Noun used with modifier

• backyard: There are between 25 and 40 million village backyard poultry farmers in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Thailand and Viet Nam.
• range: There is a menagerie of free range poultry on the farm and anyone wishing to help collect the eggs would be most welcome!

• apology: I expected, at the very least, a groveling apology from Tony Blair.
• tribute: Amid all the groveling, hypocritical tributes paid to her this week, here are some facts to remember.

Preposition: at

• end: The water disappears into a grovel at the downslope end, and possibly ( ?

Modifying Another Word

• not: Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel.
• n’t: Mind you I didn’t think Emma took it in she was n’t groveling enough.
• enough: Mind you I didn’t think Emma took it in she wasn’t groveling enough.
• about: My last glimpses were that of a pitiful human being, groveling about on all fours, vomiting out large volumes of blood.
• so: He thought of spirits, but the sounds were so groveling and dog like that he was disgusted at the idea.
• sufficiently: If anyone failed to grovel sufficiently a servant was brought out and nailed to the wall.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Beats groveling around on frozen tarmac freezing half to death!

Preposition: before

• priest: This in spite of the fact that 95 % of the population no longer grovel before priests.

Preposition: in

• dust: In the great mountain ranges, let the teeming multitudes grovel in the dust for her.
• gravel: I can see the headline ‘ GP gets rocks off groveling in gravel ‘ .
• front: It screamed, with a photo of two white men yoked and forced to grovel in front of a black man.

Modifies a noun

• bed: Underneath the box bed is a truckle bed drawn out at night, where the younger children could sleep.

Noun used with modifier

• Cheddar: Each cheddar truckle is approximately 40cm in diameter, 30cm high, 25kg in weight and has a fat content of 48 % .