OOTD Vocab

reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps.

• Whittled

• Stale

• Spindled

courteous and polite.

• Civil

• Ancient

• Crouched

risk something, usually a sum of money, against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of a future event, such as the result of a race or game.

• Civil

• Ancient

• Wagering

impale (a piece of paper) on a metal spindle for temporary filing purposes.

• Whittled

• Stale

• Spindled

a slight grimace or shrinking movement caused by pain or distress

• Wince

• Withered

• Searing

make (someone) legally or morally bound to an action or course of action

• Rippled

• Antiseptic

• Obliged

relating to or denoting substances that prevent the growth of disease-causing microorganisms

• Obliged

• Antiseptic

• Rippled

moving down a scale of quality

• Rippled

• Descending

• Antiseptic

remain or stay somewhere

• Sorrow

• Biding

• Excavating

make (a hole or channel) by digging

• Biding

• Sorrow

• Excavating