| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ADOPTING | Assimilating | |
| LEAVEN | Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. | |
| ASSIMILATE | To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body. | |
| INCONGRUOUS | Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitti... | |
| ASSIMILATION | The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. | |
| LIVE | To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilat... | |
| AD- | As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad... | |