Improving words (21)

Some more revised word definitions, based on what the words visibly should mean.....

Alternative:  To change an indigenous person

Assurance:  An insurance policy for one's posterior

Chartreuse:  The act of using a map again

Chicken:  Barbie's stylish companion

Converse:  Poetry written by prison inmates

Cornice:  Maize-flavored frozen water

Distort:  To remove from the jurisdiction of civil law

Honored:  The prostitute is not a communist

Hungarian:  A non-trinitarian heretic with a large dong

Inferno:  To deduce that the answer is negative

Insubordination:  Making someone a priest aboard an undersea vessel

Melodious:  As repugnant as Mr Gibson

Merchant:  The mindless recital of slogans by mermaids

Needless:  A female sewing implement

Observatory:  To watch a British conservative

Overcast:  To hire too many actors

Plumage:  An era of juicy fruit

Reproof:  The upper surface of a building which embodies your good name

Romantic:  A twitch typical of an ancient Mediterranean civilization

Surface:  A playing card that rides the waves

Untenable:  Not capable of being put into quantities of almost a dozen

Winnowing:  To fail to be awarded a bird's organ of locomotion

[The previous "improving words" post is here.]