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Snare
- noun - a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
- a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
- a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"
- entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"
- strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
Snarf
- verb - make off with belongings of others
Snark
- unknown - Carroll's mythical animal
Snarl
- noun - a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us"
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us"
Snary
- - Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.
Soars
- noun - fly a plane without an engine
- fly by means of a hang glider
- fly upwards or high in the sky
- go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced"
- rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen"
- the act of rising upward into the air
Spare
- adjective - a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was s
Spark
- noun - a momentary flash of light
- a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency"
- a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
- put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
- Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)
Spars
- noun - a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
- any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- box lightly
- fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
- fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
- furnish with spars
- making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer