Words that rhyme with mccaig

n 1: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal [syn: plague, pestilence, pest, pestis] 2: any epidemic disease with a high death rate [syn: plague, pestilence, pest] 3: a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers" [syn: infestation, plague] 4: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) 5: an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague" v 1: cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold" [syn: blight, plague] 2: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

n 1: the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: revoke, renege] v 1: fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise" [syn: renege, renege on, renegue on, go back on]

adj 1: not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke [syn: obscure, vague] 2: not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished; "an undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a vague uneasiness" [syn: undefined, vague] [ant: defined] 3: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]