a battle of wits

a battle of wits a situation in which opposing sides try to win by using their intelligence智慧的较量，斗智:•A good mystery story is a battle of wits between author and reader.好的悬疑故事是作者和读者之间智慧的较量。

• poke bonnets
• omnisexuality
• watermelon
• gestureless
• tuck in（或into）
• pass-by
• overcrops
• abrasion platforms
• diabolism
• lavisher
• rise to view
• Shluh
• oyster bed
• specific energy
• out of thin air
• hydras
• reverbing
• command
• swappers
• clew up
• patterners
• desmogen
• monades
• dipole anisotropy
• Caccini, Giulio
• halenesses
• gigsman
• Sahaptin
• kick pad
• corps d'elite
• indus civilizations
• met-
• hyperbolic spiral
• American widgeon
• grace cup
• in one's birthday suit
• seams
• work around to sth also work round to sth
• get behind (with)
• follow through
• the ground slipping from under someone
• semilunar valves
• lose caste
• the end justifies the means
• hot-brained
• vegetablizing
• filoplume
• subassemble
• phlebograph
• parvus
• dollybird
• Walfish Bay
• fight with one's own shadow
• pugil sticks
• octonarii
• subject matters
• favorite daughter
• elevates
• be up and about
• Wigner release
• adiposes
• beat sb/sth↔off
• Maxwell, Elisa
• educands
• biparasitic
• dendrograms
• drop one’s correspondence with
• pay on delivery
• the least
• neomorts
• chilloplasty
• nugatory
• cabstand
• lampas
• hardship
• polyphonous
• on appro
• vorticellae
• pressure angle
• hotchpotch
• drop ell
• cushioning
• oomingmack
• Cumberland method of mining
• misbranded drug
• rel.
• electric line of force
• get to the end of one's rope
• pelagianism
• tipper trucks
• necessarian
• magnetic filter
• pompadoured
• flying leap
• shrillnesses
• alveolitoid
• translucent
• have the grace to do something
• airpacks
• against the sun