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• an antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure

• a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

• a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party

• making a false outward show

• take part in a masquerade

• pretend to be someone or something that you are not

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

• declare a child to be illegitimate

• peel off in scales

• a sulfa drug used in treating meningitis and pneumonia and other infections

• brought into conformity with a standard

• capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability

• loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a lack of competence

• unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate