700+ Rhymes For RESPONSE

• a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather

• a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate

• a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce

• a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light

• fix firmly

• the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries

• the revival of learning and culture

• the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern

• The absence of a response

• a general conscious awareness

• the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

• the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

• sound practical judgment

• a natural appreciation or ability

• perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles

• detect some circumstance or entity automatically

• become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

• discern

• a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses

• someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

• amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

• a detriment or sacrifice

• money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

• reduce the estimated value of something

• a barrier that serves to enclose an area

• a dealer in stolen property

• enclose with a fence

• receive stolen goods

• fight with fencing swords

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• have an argument about something

• (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

• from this place

• from this time

• unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

• possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

• extremely sharp or severe

• (of color) having the highest saturation

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• the action of attacking an enemy

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• set in motion, cause to start

• get off the ground

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• apprehension about what is going to happen

• an uncertain cognitive state

• excited anticipation of an approaching climax

• United States sociologist (1902-1979)

• a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• a message that seems to convey no meaning

• ornamental objects of no great value

• having no intelligible meaning

• your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

• an indication that makes something evident

• (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

• provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes

• provide evidence for

• give evidence

• an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

• the state of being absent

• failure to be present

• the time interval during which something or somebody is away

• the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• the justification for some act or belief

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• protection from harm

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• having high relative density or specific gravity

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• having component parts closely crowded together

• the action of attacking an enemy

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

• secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

• information about recent and important events

• the operation of gathering information about an enemy

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

• electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

• (American football) blocking a player's path with your body

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome