- Conceited - Excessively proud - Fruitless - Futile - Having an exaggerated sense of self importance - Image-conscious Virginia goes on in - It is no use being so conceited
- An investigator - Crime investigator - person looking for someone or something that's missing - Shamus - Sleuth - Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in
detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer. - One who business it is so detect criminals or discover
matters of secrecy.
- The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the
expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of
sustaining life; miscarriage. - The immature product of an untimely birth. - Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an
imperfect formation or is absorbed. - Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or
anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a
complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.
- One who, or that which, booms. - A North American rodent, so named because it is said to
make a booming noise. See Sewellel. - A large male kangaroo. - One who works up a "boom".