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Screen'. 'Queen of the Antilles' was once a nickname of Cuba.
queer adj. 1 odd, strange, different, peculiar, funny, curious,
uncommon, unconventional, unorthodox, atypical, singular,
exceptional, anomalous, extraordinary, unusual, weird, bizarre,
uncanny, unnatural, freakish, remarkable, offbeat, irregular,
unparalleled, incongruous, outlandish, outr‚, exotic, eccentric,
fey, quaint, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, unexampled: How do
you explain Basil's queer behaviour at the office party? Her
attire could only be described as queer, given her age and
status. 2 questionable, dubious, suspicious, suspect, doubtful,
puzzling, mysterious, Colloq fishy, shady: We had a feeling
that something queer was going on when the clocks started
running backwards. 3 (slightly) ill, queasy, sick, unwell,
poorly, faint, uneasy, dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, light-headed:
It's not surprising that you feel queer after drinking all that
wine. 4 mad, unbalanced, unhinged, demented, deranged, insane,
daft, touched, Colloq dotty, potty, nutty, nuts, loony, batty,
cracked: Francis seems to have gone a bit queer - fancies
himself a reincarnation of Cicero.
--v. 5 ruin, spoil, bungle, botch, muddle, muff, mar, wreck,
destroy, Colloq make a hash or mess of, gum up (the works),
Slang muck up, screw up, louse up, US ball up, Taboo slang Brit
balls up: Grimstone queered the deal by telling the buyer the
company was worth half what we were asking.
quell v. 1 suppress, put down, repress, subdue, quash, overcome,
crush, squelch: The army arrived to quell the uprising at the
prison. 2 moderate, mollify, soothe, assuage, alleviate,
mitigate, allay, quiet, calm; pacify, tranquillize, compose:
Any feelings of bitterness were quelled by her comforting words.
quench v. 1 satisfy, slake, sate, surfeit, satiate, allay, appease:
My thirst isn't quenched by those sweet fizzy drinks. 2 put
out, extinguish, douse, smother, snuff out, stifle, kill,
destroy, suppress, squelch, repress, overcome, subdue: Even the
most totalitarian regime cannot entirely quench the fire of
freedom in the hearts of the oppressed.
querulous adj. complaining, carping, critical, criticizing,
hypercritical, fault-finding, finicky, finical, fussy,
over-particular, censorious, petulant, whining, murmuring,