crevasse

• The science of organic functions.
• Self-government.
• A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
• An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.

phenomenal

• Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
• Foreign.
• Technical.
• Extraordinary or marvelous.

subterfuge

• Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
• Evasion.
• A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
• A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.

averse

• Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
• A person of between eighty and ninety years.
• Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
• Reluctant.

thereabout

• Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
• Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
• Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
• Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.

evoke

• To call or summon forth.
• To eject.
• To cause to loathe.
• To indulge in profane oaths.

intermediate

• That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
• Offering or tending to produce resistance.
• Tainted.
• Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.

unlawful

• Said in a preceding part or before.
• Untrustworthy.
• Illegal.
• Clandestine.

adjacency

• The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
• The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
• The state of being adjacent.
• An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.

earthenware

• Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
• Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
• A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
• An official.