apologies β a written or spoken expression of one's regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another: He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.
arguments β an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation: a violent argument.
pleas β an appeal or entreaty: a plea for mercy.
replies β to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
responses β an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
stories β a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
appearances β the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in AΓ―da; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
bluffs β good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
colors β the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
devices β a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
feints β the impure spirit produced in the first and last stages of the distillation of whiskey.
acquisitions β An asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum.
interests β the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
productions β the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
receipts β a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
savings β tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
values β relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.
gross β without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
uses β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.