(verb) Study intensively, as before an exam.
Synonyms: bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up
Usage: I spent the week before my Latin final exam cramming, a strategy that paid off when I aced the class.
(adjective) Arousing fear or awe.
Synonyms: formidable, unnerving
Usage: On his comely head he set his helmet, well-wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.
(noun) A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
Synonyms: fashion model, model
Usage: She longed to become a mannequin and preened for hours before going out in public.
(verb) Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm.
Synonyms: cantillate, chant
Usage: I heard the eight singers of the King of Sicily intone the first verse of seven o'clock mass in the Sainte-Chapelle.
