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abase v. To lower in position, the body. accomplish v. To bring to pass.

estimation, or the like; degrade. abscission n. The act of cutting off, as accordion n. A portable free-reed
abbess n. The lady superior of a in a surgical operation. musical instrument.
nunnery. abscond v. To depart suddenly and accost v. To speak to.
abbey n. The group of buildings which secretly, as for the purpose of account n. A record or statement of
collectively form the dwelling-place of escaping arrest. receipts and expenditures, or of
a society of monks or nuns. absence n. The fact of not being business transactions.
abbot n. The superior of a community present or available. accouter v. To dress.
of monks. absent-minded adj. Lacking in accredit v. To give credit or authority
abdicate v. To give up (royal power or attention to immediate surroundings to.
the like). or business. accumulate v. To become greater in
abdomen n. In mammals, the visceral absolution n. Forgiveness, or passing quantity or number.
cavity between the diaphragm and the over of offenses. accuracy n. Exactness.
pelvic floor; the belly. absolve v. To free from sin or its accurate adj. Conforming exactly to
abdominal n. Of, pertaining to, or penalties. truth or to a standard.
situated on the abdomen. absorb v. To drink in or suck up, as a accursed adj. Doomed to evil, misery,
abduction n. A carrying away of a sponge absorbs water. or misfortune.
person against his will, or illegally. absorption n. The act or process of accusation n. A charge of crime,
abed adv. In bed; on a bed. absorbing. misdemeanor, or error.
aberration n. Deviation from a right, abstain v. To keep oneself back (from accusatory adj. Of, pertaining to, or
customary, or prescribed course. doing or using something). involving an accusation.
abet v. To aid, promote, or encourage abstemious adj. Characterized by self accuse v. To charge with wrong doing,
the commission of (an offense). denial or abstinence, as in the use of misconduct, or error.
abeyance n. A state of suspension or drink, food. accustom v. To make familiar by use.
temporary inaction. abstinence n. Self denial. acerbity n. Sourness, with bitterness
abhorrence n. The act of detesting abstruse adj. Dealing with matters and astringency.
extremely. difficult to be understood. acetate n. A salt of acetic acid.
abhorrent adj. Very repugnant; absurd adj. Inconsistent with reason acetic adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the
hateful. or common sense. nature of vinegar.
abidance n. An abiding. abundant adj. Plentiful. ache v. To be in pain or distress.
abject adj. Sunk to a low condition. abusive adj. Employing harsh words or Achillean adj. Invulnerable.
abjure v. To recant, renounce, ill treatment. achromatic adj. Colorless,
repudiate under oath. abut v. To touch at the end or acid n. A sour substance.
able-bodied adj. Competent for boundary line. acidify v. To change into acid.
physical service. abyss n. Bottomless gulf. acknowledge v. To recognize; to admit
ablution n. A washing or cleansing, academic adj. Of or pertaining to an the genuineness or validity of.
especially of the body. academy, college, or university. acknowledgment n. Recognition.
abnegate v. To renounce (a right or academician n. A member of an acme n. The highest point, or summit.
privilege). academy of literature, art, or science. acoustic adj. Pertaining to the act or
abnormal adj. Not conformed to the academy n. Any institution where the sense of hearing.
ordinary rule or standard. higher branches of learning are acquaint v. To make familiar or
abominable adj. Very hateful. taught. conversant.
abominate v. To hate violently. accede v. To agree. acquiesce v. To comply; submit.
abomination n. A very detestable act accelerate v. To move faster. acquiescence n. Passive consent.
or practice. accept v. To take when offered. acquire v. To get as one's own.
aboriginal adj. Primitive; access n. A way of approach or acquisition n. Anything gained, or
unsophisticated. entrance; passage. made one's own, usually by effort or
aborigines n. The original of earliest accessible adj. Approachable. labor.
known inhabitants of a country. accession n. Induction or elevation, as acquit v. To free or clear, as from
aboveboard adv. & adj. Without to dignity, office, or government. accusation.
concealment, fraud, or trickery. accessory n. A person or thing that acquittal n. A discharge from
abrade v. To wear away the surface or aids the principal agent. accusation by judicial action.
some part of by friction. acclaim v. To utter with a shout. acquittance n. Release or discharge
abrasion n. That which is rubbed off. accommodate v. To furnish something from indebtedness, obligation, or
abridge v. To make shorter in words, as a kindness or favor. responsibility.
keeping the essential features, leaning accompaniment n. A subordinate part acreage n. Quantity or extent of land,
out minor particles. or parts, enriching or supporting the especially of cultivated land.
abridgment n. A condensed form as of leading part. acrid adj. Harshly pungent or bitter.
a book or play. accompanist n. One who or that which acrimonious adj. Full of bitterness.
abrogate v. To abolish, repeal. accompanies. acrimony n. Sharpness or bitterness of
abrupt adj. Beginning, ending, or accompany v. To go with, or be speech or temper.
changing suddenly or with a break. associated with, as a companion. actionable adj. Affording cause for
abscess n. A Collection of pus in a accomplice n. An associate in wrong- instituting an action, as trespass,
cavity formed within some tissue of doing. slanderous words.
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actuality n. Any reality. advisory adj. Not mandatory. receives and transmits the orders of
actuary n. An officer, as of an advocacy n. The act of pleading a the general.
insurance company, who calculates cause. ailment n. Slight sickness.
and states the risks and premiums. advocate n. One who pleads the cause airy adj. Delicate, ethereal.
actuate v. To move or incite to action. of another, as in a legal or akin adj. Of similar nature or qualities.
acumen n. Quickness of intellectual ecclesiastical court. alabaster n. A white or delicately
insight, or discernment; keenness of aerial adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the tinted fine-grained gypsum.
discrimination. air. alacrity n. Cheerful willingness.
acute adj. Having fine and penetrating aeronaut n. One who navigates the albeit conj. Even though.
discernment. air, a balloonist. albino n. A person with milky white
adamant n. Any substance of aeronautics n. the art or practice of skin and hair, and eyes with bright red
exceeding hardness or flying aircraft pupil and usually pink iris.
impenetrability. aerostat n. A balloon or other album n. A book whose leaves are so
addendum n. Something added, or to apparatus floating in or sustained by made to form paper frames for
be added. the air. holding photographs or the like.
addle v. To make inefficient or aerostatics n. The branch of alchemy n. Chemistry of the middle
worthless; muddle. pneumatics that treats of the ages, characterized by the pursuit of
adduce v. To bring forward or name equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical changing base metals to gold.
for consideration. properties. alcohol n. A volatile, inflammable,
adhere v. To stick fast or together. affable adj. Easy to approach. colorless liquid of a penetrating odor
adherence n. Attachment. affect v. To act upon and burning taste.
adherent adj. Clinging or sticking fast. affectation n. A studied or alcoholism n. A condition resulting
adhesion n. The state of being ostentatious pretense or attempt. from the inordinate or persistent use
attached or joined. affiliate n. Some auxiliary person or of alcoholic beverages.
adieu inter. Good-by; farewell. thing. alcove n. A covered recess connected
adjacency n. The state of being affirmative adj. Answering yes; to a with or at the side of a larger room.
adjacent. question at issue. alder n. Any shrub or small tree of the
adjacent n. That which is near or affix v. To fasten. genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
bordering upon. affluence n. A profuse or abundant alderman n. A member of a municipal
adjudge v. To award or bestow by supply of riches. legislative body, who usually exercises
formal decision. affront n. An open insult or indignity. also certain judicial functions.
adjunct n. Something joined to or afire adv. & adj. On fire, literally or aldermanship n. The dignity,
connected with another thing, but figuratively. condition, office, or term of office of
holding a subordinate place. afoot adv. In progress. an alderman.
adjuration n. A vehement appeal. aforesaid adj. Said in a preceding part alias n. An assumed name.
adjutant adj. Auxiliary. or before. alien n. One who owes allegiance to a
administrator n. One who manages afresh adv. Once more, after rest or foreign government.
affairs of any kind. interval. alienable adj. Capable of being aliened
admissible adj. Having the right or afterthought n. A thought that comes or alienated, as lands.
privilege of entry. later than its appropriate or expected alienate v. To cause to turn away.
admittance n. Entrance, or the right or time. alienation n. Estrangement.
permission to enter. agglomerate v. To pile or heap aliment n. That which nourishes.
admonish v. To warn of a fault. together. alkali n. Anything that will neutralize
admonition n. Gentle reproof. aggrandize v. To cause to appear an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
ado n. unnecessary activity or greatly. allay v. To calm the violence or reduce
ceremony. aggravate v. To make heavier, worse, the intensity of; mitigate.
adoration n. Profound devotion. or more burdensome. allege v. To assert to be true,
adroit adj. Having skill in the use of aggravation n. The fact of being made especially in a formal manner, as in
the bodily or mental powers. heavier or more heinous, as a crime , court.
adulterant n. An adulterating offense, misfortune, etc. allegory n. The setting forth of a
substance. aggregate n. The entire number, sum, subject under the guise of another
adulterate v. To make impure by the mass, or quantity of something. subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
admixture of other or baser aggress v. To make the first attack. alleviate v. To make less burdensome
ingredients. aggression n. An unprovoked attack. or less hard to bear.
adumbrate v. To represent aggrieve v. To give grief or sorrow to. alley n. A narrow street, garden path,
beforehand in outline or by emblem. aghast adj. Struck with terror and walk, or the like.
advent n. The coming or arrival, as of amazement. alliance n. Any combination or union
any important change, event, state, or agile adj. Able to move or act quickly, for some common purpose.
personage. physically, or mentally. allot v. To assign a definite thing or
adverse adj. Opposing or opposed. agitate v. To move or excite (the part to a certain person.
adversity n. Misfortune. feelings or thoughts). allotment n. Portion.
advert v. To refer incidentally. agrarian adj. Pertaining to land, allude v. To refer incidentally, or by
advertiser n. One who advertises, especially agricultural land. suggestion.
especially in newspapers. aide-de-camp n. An officer who allusion n. An indirect and incidental
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reference to something without amity n. Friendship. criticism or censure.

definite mention of it. amorous adj. Having a propensity for animadvert v. To pass criticism or
alluvion n. Flood. falling in love. censure.
ally n. A person or thing connected amorphous adj. Without determinate animalcule n. An animal of
with another, usually in some relation shape. microscopic smallness.
of helpfulness. amour n. A love-affair, especially one animate v. To make alive.
almanac n. A series of tables giving of an illicit nature. animosity n. Hatred.
the days of the week together with ampere n. The practical unit of annalist n. Historian.
certain astronomical information. electric-current strength. annals n. A record of events in their
aloof adv. Not in sympathy with or ampersand n. The character &; and. chronological order, year by year.
desiring to associate with others. amphibious adj. Living both on land annex v. To add or affix at the end.
altar n. Any raised place or structure and in water. annihilate v. To destroy absolutely.
on which sacrifices may be offered or amphitheater n. An edifice of elliptical annotate v. To make explanatory or
incense burned. shape, constructed about a central critical notes on or upon.
alter v. To make change in. open space or arena. annual adj. Occurring every year.
alteration n. Change or modification. amplitude n. Largeness. annuity n. An annual allowance,
altercate v. To contend angrily or amply adv. Sufficiently. payment, or income.
zealously in words. amputate v. To remove by cutting, as annunciation n. Proclamation.
alternate n. One chosen to act in place a limb or some portion of the body. anode n. The point where or path by
of another, in case of the absence or amusement n. Diversion. which a voltaic current enters an
incapacity of that other. anachronism n. Anything occurring or electrolyte or the like.
alternative n. Something that may or existing out of its proper time. anonymous adj. Of unknown
must exist, be taken or chosen, or anagram n. The letters of a word or authorship.
done instead of something else. phrase so transposed as to make a antagonism n. Mutual opposition or
altitude n. Vertical distance or different word or phrase. resistance of counteracting forces,
elevation above any point or base- analogous adj. Corresponding (to principles, or persons.
level, as the sea. some other) in certain respects, as in Antarctic adj. Pertaining to the south
alto n. The lowest or deepest female form, proportion, relations. pole or the regions near it.
voice or part. analogy n. Reasoning in which from ante v. In the game of poker, to put up
altruism n. Benevolence to others on certain and known relations or a stake before the cards are dealt.
subordination to self-interest. resemblance others are formed. antecede v. To precede.
altruist n. One who advocates or analyst n. One who analyzes or makes antecedent n. One who or that which
practices altruism. use of the analytical method. precedes or goes before, as in time,
amalgam n. An alloy or union of analyze v. To examine minutely or place, rank, order, or causality.
mercury with another metal. critically. antechamber n. A waiting room for
amalgamate v. To mix or blend anarchy n. Absence or utter disregard those who seek audience.
together in a homogeneous body. of government. antedate v. To assign or affix a date to
amateur adj. Practicing an art or anathema n. Anything forbidden, as earlier than the actual one.
occupation for the love of it, but not by social usage. antediluvian adj. Of or pertaining to
as a profession. anatomy n. That branch of the times, things, events before the
amatory adj. Designed to excite love. morphology which treats of the great flood in the days of Noah.
ambidextrous adj. Having the ability of structure of organisms. antemeridian adj. Before noon.
using both hands with equal skill or ancestry n. One's ancestors antemundane adj. Pertaining to time
ease. collectively. before the world's creation.
ambiguous adj. Having a double anecdote n. A brief account of some antenatal adj. Occurring or existing
meaning. interesting event or incident. before birth.
ambitious adj. Eagerly desirous and anemia n. Deficiency of blood or red anterior adj. Prior.
aspiring. corpuscles. anteroom n. A room situated before
ambrosial adj. Divinely sweet, anemic adj. Affected with anemia. and opening into another, usually
fragrant, or delicious. anemometer n. An instrument for larger.
ambulance n. A vehicle fitted for measuring the force or velocity of anthology n. A collection of extracts
conveying the sick and wounded. wind. from the writings of various authors.
ambulate v. To walk about anesthetic adj. Pertaining to or anthracite n. Hard coal.
ambush n. The act or state of lying producing loss of sensation. anthropology n. The science of man in
concealed for the purpose of anew adv. Once more. general.
surprising or attacking the enemy. angelic adj. Saintly. anthropomorphous adj. Having or
ameliorate v. To relieve, as from pain Anglophobia n. Hatred or dread of resembling human form.
or hardship England or of what is English. antic n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or
amenable adj. Willing and ready to Anglo-Saxon n. The entire English race fantastic action.
submit. wherever found, as in Europe, the Antichrist n. Any opponent or enemy
Americanism n. A peculiar sense in United States, or India. of Christ, whether a person or a
which an English word or phrase is angular adj. Sharp-cornered. power.
used in the United States. anhydrous adj. Withered. anticlimax n. A gradual or sudden
amicable adj. Done in a friendly spirit. animadversion n. The utterance of decrease in the importance or
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impressiveness of what is said. appease v. To soothe by quieting of man.

anticyclone n. An atmospheric anger or indignation. archetype n. A prototype.
condition of high central pressure, appellate adj. Capable of being archipelago n. Any large body of water
with currents flowing outward. appealed to. studded with islands, or the islands
antidote n. Anything that will appellation n. The name or title by collectively themselves.
counteract or remove the effects of which a particular person, class, or ardent adj. Burning with passion.
poison, disease, or the like. thing is called. ardor n. Intensity of passion or
antilogy n. Inconsistency or append v. To add or attach, as affection.
contradiction in terms or ideas. something accessory, subordinate, or arid adj. Very dry.
antipathize v. To show or feel a feeling supplementary. aristocracy n. A hereditary nobility
of antagonism, aversion, or dislike. appertain v. To belong, as by right, aristocrat n. A hereditary noble or one
antiphon n. A response or alteration fitness, association, classification, nearly connected with nobility.
of responses, generally musical. possession, or natural relation. armada n. A fleet of war-vessels.
antiphony n. An anthem or other apposite adj. Appropriate. armful n. As much as can be held in
composition sung responsively. apposition n. The act of placing side the arm or arms.
antipodes n. A place or region on the by side, together, or in contact. armory n. An arsenal.
opposite side of the earth. appraise v. To estimate the money aroma n. An agreeable odor.
antiquary n. One who collects and value of. arraign v. To call into court, as a
examines old things, as coins, books, appreciable adj. Capable of being person indicted for crime, and
medals, weapons, etc. discerned by the senses or intellect. demand whether he pleads guilty or
antiquate v. To make old or out of apprehend v. To make a prisoner of (a not.
date. person) in the name of the law. arrange v. To put in definite or proper
antique adj. Pertaining to ancient apprehensible adj. Capable of being order.
times. conceived. arrangement n. The act of putting in
antiseptic n. Anything that destroys or approbation n. Sanction. proper order, or the state of being put
restrains the growth of putrefactive appropriate adj. Suitable for the in order.
micro-organisms. purpose and circumstances. arrant adj. Notoriously bad.
antislavery adj. Opposed to human aqueduct n. A water-conduit, arrear n. Something overdue and
slavery. particularly one for supplying a unpaid.
antispasmodic adj. Tending to prevent community from a distance. arrival n. A coming to stopping-place
or relieve non-inflammatory aqueous adj. Of, pertaining to, or or destination.
spasmodic affections. containing water. arrogant adj. Unduly or excessively
antistrophe n. The inversion of terms arbiter n. One chosen or appointed, proud, as of wealth, station, learning,
in successive classes, as in "the home by mutual consent of parties in etc.
of joy and the joy of home". dispute, to decide matters. arrogate v. To take, demand, or claim,
antitoxin n. A substance which arbitrary adj. Fixed or done especially presumptuously or without
neutralizes the poisonous products of capriciously. reasons or grounds.
micro-organisms. arbitrate v. To act or give judgment as Artesian well n. A very deep bored
antonym n. A word directly opposed umpire. well. water rises due to underground
to another in meaning. arbor n. A tree. pressure
anxious adj. Distressed in mind arboreal adj. Of or pertaining to a tree artful adj. Characterized by craft or
respecting some uncertain matter. or trees. cunning.
apathy n. Insensibility to emotion or arborescent adj. Having the nature of Arthurian adj. Pertaining to King
passionate feeling. a tree. Arthur, the real or legendary hero of
aperture n. Hole. arboretum n. A botanical garden or British poetic story.
apex n. The highest point, as of a place devoted to the cultivation of artifice n. Trickery.
mountain. trees or shrubs. artless adj. Ingenuous.
aphorism n. Proverb. arboriculture n. The cultivation of ascendant adj. Dominant.
apiary n. A place where bees are kept. trees or shrubs. ascension n. The act of rising.
apogee n. The climax. arcade n. A vaulted passageway or ascent n. A rising, soaring, or climbing.
apology n. A disclaimer of intentional street; a roofed passageway having ascetic adj. Given to severe self-denial
error or offense. shops, etc., opening from it. and practicing excessive abstinence
apostasy n. A total departure from archaic adj. Antiquated and devotion.
one's faith or religion. archaism n. Obsolescence. ascribe v. To assign as a quality or
apostate adj. False. archangel n. An angel of high rank. attribute.
apostle n. Any messenger archbishop n. The chief of the bishops asexual adj. Having no distinct sexual
commissioned by or as by divine of an ecclesiastical province in the organs.
authority. Greek, Roman, and Anglican church. ashen adj. Pale.
apothecary n. One who keeps drugs archdeacon n. A high official askance adv. With a side or indirect
for sale and puts up prescriptions. administrator of the affairs of a glance or meaning.
apotheosis n. Deification. diocese. asperity n. Harshness or roughness of
appall v. To fill with dismay or horror. archaeology n. The branch of temper.
apparent adj. Easily understood. anthropology concerned with the aspirant n. One who seeks earnestly,
apparition n. Ghost. systematic investigation of the relics as for advancement, honors, place.
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aspiration n. An earnest wish for that audacious adj. Fearless. in which live birds are kept.
which is above one's present reach. audible adj. Loud enough to be heard. avidity n. Greediness.
aspire v. To have an earnest desire, audition n. The act or sensation of avocation n. Diversion.
wish, or longing, as for something high hearing. avow v. To declare openly.
and good, not yet attained. auditory adj. Of or pertaining to awaken v. To arouse, as emotion,
assailant n. One who attacks. hearing or the organs or sense of interest, or the like.
assassin n. One who kills, or tries to hearing. awry adv. & adj. Out of the proper
kill, treacherously or secretly. augment v. To make bigger. form, direction, or position.
assassinate v. To kill, as by surprise or augur v. To predict. aye adv. An expression of assent.
secret assault, especially the killing of Augustinian adj. Pertaining to St. azalea n. A flowering shrub.
some eminent person. Augustine, his doctrines, or the azure n. The color of the sky.
assassination n. Murderer, as by religious orders called after him. Baconian adj. Of or pertaining to Lord
secret assault or treachery. aura n. Pervasive psychic influence Bacon or his system of philosophy.
assay n. The chemical analysis or supposed to emanate from persons bacterium n. A microbe.
testing of an alloy ore. aural adj. Of or pertaining to the ear. badger v. To pester.
assent v. To express agreement with a auricle n. One of the two chambers of baffle v. To foil or frustrate.
statement or matter of opinion. the heart which receives the blood bailiff n. An officer of court having
assess v. To determine the amount of from the veins. custody of prisoners under
(a tax or other sum to be paid). auricular adj. Of or pertaining to the arraignment.
assessor n. An officer whose duty it is ear, its auricle, or the sense of baize n. A single-colored napped
to assess taxes. hearing. woolen fabric used for table-covers,
assets n. pl. Property in general, auriferous adj. Containing gold. curtains, etc.
regarded as applicable to the payment aurora n. A luminous phenomenon in bale n. A large package prepared for
of debts. the upper regions of the atmosphere. transportation or storage.
assiduous adj. Diligent. auspice n. favoring, protecting, or baleful adj. Malignant.
assignee n. One who is appointed to propitious influence or guidance. ballad n. Any popular narrative poem,
act for another in the management of austere adj. Severely simple; often with epic subject and usually in
certain property and interests. unadorned. lyric form.
assimilate v. To adapt. autarchy n. Unrestricted power. balsam n. A medical preparation,
assonance n. Resemblance or authentic adj. Of undisputed origin. aromatic and oily, used for healing.
correspondence in sound. authenticity n. The state or quality of banal adj. Commonplace.
assonant adj. Having resemblance of being genuine, or of the origin and barcarole n. A boat-song of Venetian
sound. authorship claimed. gondoliers.
assonate v. To accord in sound, autobiography n. The story of one's barograph n. An instrument that
especially vowel sound. life written by himself. registers graphically and continuously
assuage v. To cause to be less harsh, autocracy n. Absolute government. the atmospheric pressure.
violent, or severe, as excitement, autocrat n. Any one who claims or barometer n. An instrument for
appetite, pain, or disease. wields unrestricted or undisputed indicating the atmospheric pressure
astringent adj. Harsh in disposition or authority or influence. per unit of surface.
character. automaton n. Any living being whose barring prep. Apart from.
astute adj. Keen in discernment. actions are or appear to be baritone adj. Having a register higher
atheism n. The denial of the existence involuntary or mechanical. than bass and lower than tenor.
of God. autonomous adj. Self-governing. bask v. To make warm by genial heat.
athirst adj. Wanting water. autonomy n. Self-government. bass adj. Low in tone or compass.
athwart adv. From side to side. autopsy n. The examination of a dead baste v. To cover with melted fat,
atomizer n. An apparatus for reducing body by dissection to ascertain the gravy, while cooking.
a liquid to a fine spray, as for cause of death. baton n. An official staff borne either
disinfection, inhalation, etc. autumnal adj. Of or pertaining to as a weapon or as an emblem of
atone v. To make amends for. autumn. authority or privilege.
atonement n. Amends, reparation, or auxiliary n. One who or that which battalion n. A body of infantry
expiation made from wrong or injury. aids or helps, especially when composed of two or more companies,
atrocious adj. Outrageously or regarded as subsidiary or accessory. forming a part of a regiment.
wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or avalanche n. The fall or sliding of a batten n. A narrow strip of wood.
cruel. mass of snow or ice down a mountain- batter n. A thick liquid mixture of two
atrocity n. Great cruelty or reckless slope, often bearing with it rock. or more materials beaten together, to
wickedness. avarice n. Passion for getting and be used in cookery.
attache n. A subordinate member of a keeping riches. bauble n. A trinket.
diplomatic embassy. aver v. To assert as a fact. bawl v. To proclaim by outcry.
attest v. To certify as accurate, averse adj. Reluctant. beatify v. To make supremely happy.
genuine, or true. aversion n. A mental condition of fixed beatitude n. Any state of great
attorney-general n. The chief law- opposition to or dislike of some happiness.
officer of a government. particular thing. beau n. An escort or lover.
auburn adj. Reddish-brown, said avert v. To turn away or aside. becalm v. To make quiet.
usually of the hair. aviary n. A spacious cage or enclosure beck v. To give a signal to, by nod or
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gesture. as a horse. bodily adj. Corporeal.

bedaub v. To smear over, as with bethink v. To remind oneself. boisterous adj. Unchecked merriment
something oily or sticky. betide v. To happen to or befall. or animal spirits.
bedeck v. To cover with ornament. betimes adv. In good season or time. bole n. The trunk or body of a tree.
bedlam n. Madhouse. betroth v. To engage to marry. bolero n. A Spanish dance, illustrative
befog v. To confuse. betrothal n. Engagement to marry. of the passion of love, accompanied
befriend v. To be a friend to, bevel n. Any inclination of two by caste nets and singing.
especially when in need. surfaces other than 90 degrees. boll n. A round pod or seed-capsule,
beget v. To produce by sexual bewilder v. To confuse the as a flax or cotton.
generation. perceptions or judgment of. bolster v. To support, as something
begrudge v. To envy one of the bibliomania n. The passion for wrong.
possession of. collecting books. bomb n. A hollow projectile
belate v. To delay past the proper bibliography n. A list of the words of containing an explosive material.
hour. an author, or the literature bearing on bombard v. To assail with any missile
belay v. To make fast, as a rope, by a particular subject. or with abusive speech.
winding round a cleat. bibliophile n. One who loves books. bombardier n. A person who has
belie v. To misrepresent. bibulous adj. Fond of drinking. charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
believe v. To accept as true on the bide v. To await. bombast n. Inflated or extravagant
testimony or authority of others. biennial n. A plant that produces language, especially on unimportant
belittle v. To disparage. leaves and roots the first year and subjects.
belle n. A woman who is a center of flowers and fruit the second. boorish adj. Rude.
attraction because of her beauty, bier n. A horizontal framework with bore v. To weary by tediousness or
accomplishments, etc. two handles at each end for carrying a dullness.
bellicose adj. Warlike. corpse to the grave. borough n. An incorporated village or
belligerent adj. Manifesting a warlike bigamist n. One who has two spouses town.
spirit. at the same time. bosom n. The breast or the upper
bemoan v. To lament bigamy n. The crime of marrying any front of the thorax of a human being,
benediction n. a solemn invocation of other person while having a legal especially of a woman.
the divine blessing. spouse living. botanical adj. Connected with the
benefactor n. A doer of kindly and bight n. A slightly receding bay study or cultivation of plants.
charitable acts. between headlands, formed by a long botanize v. To study plant-life.
benefice n. A church office endowed curve of a coast-line. botany n. The science that treats of
with funds or property for the bilateral adj. Two-sided. plants.
maintenance of divine service. bilingual adj. Speaking two languages. bountiful adj. Showing abundance.
beneficent adj. Characterized by biograph n. A bibliographical sketch or Bowdlerize v. To expurgate in editing
charity and kindness. notice. (a literary composition) by omitting
beneficial adj. Helpful. biography n. A written account of words or passages.
beneficiary n. One who is lawfully one's life, actions, and character. bowler n. In cricket, the player who
entitled to the profits and proceeds of biology n. The science of life or living delivers the ball.
an estate or property. organisms. boycott v. To place the products or
benefit n. Helpful result. biped n. An animal having two feet. merchandise of under a ban.
benevolence n. Any act of kindness or birthright n. A privilege or possession brae n. Hillside.
well-doing. into which one is born. braggart n. A vain boaster.
benevolent adj. Loving others and bitterness n. Acridity, as to the taste. brandish v. To wave, shake, or flourish
actively desirous of their well-being. blase adj. Sated with pleasure. triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword
benign adj. Good and kind of heart. blaspheme v. To indulge in profane or spear.
benignant adj. Benevolent in feeling, oaths. bravado n. An aggressive display of
character, or aspect. blatant adj. Noisily or offensively loud boldness.
benignity n. Kindness of feeling, or clamorous. bravo interj. Well done.
disposition, or manner. blaze n. A vivid glowing flame. bray n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry
benison n. Blessing. blazon v. To make widely or generally of an ass or the blast of a horn.
bequeath v. To give by will. known. braze v. To make of or ornament with
bereave v. To make desolate with bleak adj. Desolate. brass.
loneliness and grief. blemish n. A mark that mars beauty. brazier n. An open pan or basin for
berth n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, blithe adj. Joyous. holding live coals.
sleeping-car, etc. blithesome adj. Cheerful. breach n. The violation of official duty,
beseech v. To implore. blockade n. The shutting up of a town, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
beset v. To attack on all sides. a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile breaker n. One who trains horses,
besmear v. To smear over, as with any forces. dogs, etc.
oily or sticky substance. boatswain n. A subordinate officer of breech n. The buttocks.
bestial adj. Animal. a vessel, who has general charge of brethren n. pl. Members of a
bestrew v. To sprinkle or cover with the rigging, anchors, etc. brotherhood, gild, profession,
things strewn. bodice n. A women's ornamental association, or the like.
bestride v. To get or sit upon astride, corset-shaped laced waist. brevity n. Shortness of duration.
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bric-a-brac n. Objects of curiosity or brim, especially one to be drunk as a water 1 degree centigrade.
for decoration. toast or health. calumny n. Slander.
bridle n. The head-harness of a horse bumptious adj. Full of offensive and Calvary n. The place where Christ was
consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and aggressive self-conceit. crucified.
the reins. bungle v. To execute clumsily. Calvinism n. The system of doctrine
brigade n. A body of troops consisting buoyancy n. Power or tendency to taught by John Calvin.
of two or more regiments. float on or in a liquid or gas. Calvinize v. To teach or imbue with
brigadier n. General officer who buoyant adj. Having the power or the doctrines of Calvinism.
commands a brigade, ranking tendency to float or keep afloat. came n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved
between a colonel and a major- bureau n. A chest of drawers for strip for fastening panes in stained-
general. clothing, etc. glass windows.
brigand n. One who lives by robbery bureaucracy n. Government by cameo n. Any small engraved or
and plunder. departments of men transacting carved work in relief.
brimstone n. Sulfur. particular branches of public business. campaign n. A complete series of
brine n. Water saturated with salt. burgess n. In colonial times, a member connected military operations.
bristle n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs of the lower house of the legislature Canaanite n. A member of one of the
of swine: used in brush-making, etc. of Maryland or Virginia. three tribes that dwelt in the land of
Britannia n. The United Kingdom of burgher n. An inhabitant, citizen or Canaan, or western Palestine.
Great Britain. freeman of a borough burgh, or canary adj. Of a bright but delicate
Briticism n. A word, idiom, or phrase corporate town. yellow.
characteristic of Great Britain or the burnish v. To make brilliant or shining. candid adj. Straightforward.
British. bursar n. A treasurer. candor n. The quality of frankness or
brittle adj. Fragile. bustle v. To hurry. outspokenness.
broach v. To mention, for the first butt v. To strike with or as with the canine adj. Characteristic of a dog.
time. head, or horns. canon n. Any rule or law.
broadcast adj. Disseminated far and butte n. A conspicuous hill, low cant v. To talk in a singsong, preaching
wide. mountain, or natural turret, generally tone with affected solemnity.
brogan n. A coarse, heavy shoe. isolated. cantata n. A choral composition.
brogue n. Any dialectic pronunciation buttress n. Any support or prop. canto n. One of the divisions of an
of English, especially that of the Irish by-law n. A rule or law adopted by an extended poem.
people. association, a corporation, or the like. cantonment n. The part of the town or
brokerage n. The business of making cabal n. A number of persons secretly district in which the troops are
sales and purchases for a commission; united for effecting by intrigue some quartered.
a broker. private purpose. capacious adj. Roomy.
bromine n. A dark reddish-brown, cabalism n. Superstitious devotion to capillary n. A minute vessel having
non-metallic liquid element with a one's religion. walls composed of a single layer of
suffocating odor. cabinet n. The body of men cells.
bronchitis n. Inflammation of the constituting the official advisors of the capitulate v. To surrender or stipulate
bronchial tubes. executive head of a nation. terms.
bronchus n. Either of the two cacophony n. A disagreeable, harsh, or caprice n. A whim.
subdivisions of the trachea conveying discordant sound or combination of caption n. A heading, as of a chapter,
air into the lungs. sounds or tones. section, document, etc.
brooch n. An article of jewelry cadaverous adj. Resembling a corpse. captious adj. Hypercritical.
fastened by a hinged pin and hook on cadence n. Rhythmical or measured captivate v. To fascinate, as by
the underside. flow or movement, as in poetry or the excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
brotherhood n. Spiritual or social time and pace of marching troops. carcass n. The dead body of an animal.
fellowship or solidarity. cadenza n. An embellishment or cardiac adj. Pertaining to the heart.
browbeat v. To overwhelm, or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a cardinal adj. Of prime or special
attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, solo voice or instrument. importance.
or rude address or manner. caitiff adj. Cowardly. caret n. A sign (^) placed below a line,
brusque adj. Somewhat rough or rude cajole v. To impose on or dupe by indicating where omitted words, etc.,
in manner or speech. flattering speech. should be inserted.
buffoon n. A clown. cajolery n. Delusive speech. caricature n. a picture or description
buffoonery n. Low drollery, coarse calculable adj. That may be estimated in which natural characteristics are
jokes, etc. by reckoning. exaggerated or distorted.
bulbous adj. Of, or pertaining to, or calculus n. A concretion formed in carnage n. Massacre.
like a bulb. various parts of the body resembling a carnal adj. Sensual.
bullock n. An ox. pebble in hardness. carnivorous adj. Eating or living on
bulrush n. Any one of various tall rush- callosity n. The state of being hard and flesh.
like plants growing in damp ground or insensible. carouse v. To drink deeply and in
water. callow adj. Without experience of the boisterous or jovial manner.
bulwark n. Anything that gives world. carrion n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
security or defense. calorie n. Amount of heat needed to cartilage n. An elastic animal tissue of
bumper n. A cup or glass filled to the raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of firm consistence.
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cartridge n. A charge for a firearm, or chancery n. A court of equity, as clan n. A tribe.

for blasting. distinguished from a common-law clandestine adj. Surreptitious.
caste n. The division of society on court. clangor n. Clanking or a ringing, as of
artificial grounds. chaos n. Any condition of which the arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
castigate v. To punish. elements or parts are in utter disorder clarify v. To render intelligible.
casual adj. Accidental, by chance. and confusion. clarion n. A small shrill trumpet or
casualty n. A fatal or serious accident characteristic n. A distinctive feature. bugle.
or disaster. characterize v. To describe by classify v. To arrange in a class or
cataclysm n. Any overwhelming flood distinctive marks or peculiarities. classes on the basis of observed
of water. charlatan n. A quack. resemblance’s and differences.
cataract n. Opacity of the lens of the chasm n. A yawning hollow, as in the clearance n. A certificate from the
eye resulting in complete or partial earth's surface. proper authorities that a vessel has
blindness. chasten v. To purify by affliction. complied with the law and may sail.
catastrophe n. Any great and sudden chastise v. To subject to punitive clemency n. Mercy.
misfortune or calamity. measures. clement adj. Compassionate.
cathode n. The negative pole or chastity n. Sexual or moral purity. close-hauled adj. Having the sails set
electrode of a galvanic battery. chateau n. A castle or manor-house. for sailing as close to the wind as
Catholicism n. The system, doctrine, chattel n. Any article of personal possible.
and practice of the Roman Catholic property. clothier n. One who makes or sells
Church. check v. To hold back. cloth or clothing.
catholicity n. Universal prevalence or chiffon n. A very thin gauze used for clumsy adj. Awkward of movement.
acceptance. trimmings, evening dress, etc. coagulate v. To change into a clot or a
cat-o-nine-tails n. An instrument chivalry n. The knightly system of jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or
consisting of nine pieces of cord, feudal times with its code, usages and by a ferment.
formerly used for flogging in the army practices. coagulant adj. Producing coagulation.
and navy. cholera n. An acute epidemic disease. coalescence n. The act or process of
caucus n. A private meeting of choleric adj. Easily provoked to anger. coming together so as to form one
members of a political party to select choral adj. Pertaining to, intended for, body, combination, or product.
candidates. or performed by a chorus or choir. coalition n. Combination in a body or
causal adj. Indicating or expressing a Christ n. A title of Jesus mass.
cause. christen v. To name in baptism. coddle v. To treat as a baby or an
caustic adj. Sarcastic and severe. Christendom n. That part of the world invalid.
cauterize v. To burn or sear as with a where Christianity is generally codicil n. A supplement adding to,
heated iron. professed. revoking, or explaining in the body of
cede v. To pass title to. chromatic adj. Belonging, relating to, a will.
censor n. An official examiner of or abounding in color. coerce v. To force.
manuscripts empowered to prohibit chronology n. The science that treats coercion n. Forcible constraint or
their publication. of computation of time or of restraint, moral or physical.
censorious adj. Judging severely or investigation and arrangement of coercive adj. Serving or tending to
harshly. events. force.
census n. An official numbering of the chronometer n. A portable cogent adj. Appealing strongly to the
people of a country or district. timekeeper of the highest attainable reason or conscience.
centenary adj. Pertaining to a hundred precision. cognate adj. Akin.
years or a period of a hundred years. cipher v. To calculate arithmetically. cognizant adj. Taking notice.
centiliter n. A hundredth of a liter. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing) cohere v. To stick together.
centimeter n. A length of one circulate v. To disseminate. cohesion n. Consistency.
hundredth of a meter. circumference n. The boundary-line of cohesive adj. Having the property of
centurion n. A captain of a company a circle. consistency.
of one hundred infantry in the ancient circumlocution n. Indirect or coincide v. To correspond.
Roman army. roundabout expression. coincidence n. A circumstance so
cereal adj. Pertaining to edible grain circumnavigate v. To sail quite around. agreeing with another: often implying
or farinaceous seeds. circumscribe v. To confine within accident.
ceremonial adj. Characterized by bounds. coincident adj. Taking place at the
outward form or ceremony. circumspect adj. Showing same time.
ceremonious adj. Observant of ritual. watchfulness, caution, or careful collaborate v. To labor or cooperate
cessation n. Discontinuance, as of consideration. with another or others, especially in
action or motion. citadel n. Any strong fortress. literary or scientific pursuits.
cession n. Surrender, as of possessions cite v. To refer to specifically. collapse v. To cause to shrink, fall in,
or rights. claimant n. One who makes a claim or or fail.
chagrin n. Keen vexation, annoyance, demand, as of right. collapsible adj. That may or can
or mortification, as at one's failures or clairvoyance n. Intuitive sagacity or collapse.
errors. perception. colleague n. An associate in
chameleon adj. Changeable in clamorous adj. Urgent in complaint or professional employment.
appearance. demand. collective adj. Consisting of a number
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of persons or objects considered as complex adj. Complicated. conducive adj. Contributing to an end.
gathered into a mass, or sum. compliant adj. Yielding. conductible adj. Capable of being
collector n. One who makes a complicate v. To make complex, conducted or transmitted.
collection, as of objects of art, books, difficult, or hard to deal with. conduit n. A means for conducting
or the like. complication n. An intermingling or something, particularly a tube, pipe,
collegian n. A college student. combination of things or parts, or passageway for a fluid.
collide v. To meet and strike violently. especially in a perplexing manner. confectionery n. The candy
collier n. One who works in a coal- complicity n. Participation or collectively that a confectioner makes
mine. partnership, as in wrong-doing or with or sells, as candy.
collision n. Violent contact. a wrong-doer. confederacy n. A number of states or
colloquial adj. Pertaining or peculiar to compliment v. To address or gratify persons in compact or league with
common speech as distinguished from with expressions of delicate praise. each other, as for mutual aid.
literary. component n. A constituent element confederate n. One who is united with
colloquialism n. Form of speech used or part. others in a league, compact, or
only or chiefly in conversation. comport v. To conduct or behave agreement.
colloquy n. Conversation. (oneself). confer v. To bestow.
collusion n. A secret agreement for a composure n. Calmness. conferee n. A person with whom
wrongful purpose. comprehensible adj. Intelligible. another confers.
colossus n. Any strikingly great person comprehension n. Ability to know. confessor n. A spiritual advisor.
or object. comprehensive adj. Large in scope or confidant n. One to whom secrets are
comely adj. Handsome. content. entrusted.
comestible adj. Fit to be eaten. compress v. To press together or into confide v. To reveal in trust or
comical adj. Funny. smaller space. confidence.
commemorate v. To serve as a compressible adj. Capable of being confidence n. The state or feeling of
remembrance of. pressed into smaller compass. trust in or reliance upon another.
commentary n. A series of illustrative compression n. Constraint, as by force confident adj. Assured.
or explanatory notes on any important or authority. confinement n. Restriction within
work. comprise v. To consist of. limits or boundaries.
commingle v. To blend. compulsion n. Coercion. confiscate v. To appropriate (private
commissariat n. The department of an compulsory adj. Forced. property) as forfeited to the public
army charged with the provision of its compunction n. Remorseful feeling. use or treasury.
food and water and daily needs. compute v. To ascertain by conflagration n. A great fire, as of
commission v. To empower. mathematical calculation. many buildings, a forest, or the like.
commitment n. The act or process of concede v. To surrender. confluence n. The place where
entrusting or consigning for safe- conceit n. Self-flattering opinion. streams meet.
keeping. conceive v. To form an idea, mental confluent n. A stream that unites with
committal n. The act, fact, or result of image or thought of. another.
committing, or the state of being concerto n. A musical composition. conformance n. The act or state or
commodity n. Something that is concession n. Anything granted or conforming.
bought and sold. yielded, or admitted in response to a conformable adj. Harmonious.
commotion n. A disturbance or violent demand, petition, or claim. conformation n. General structure,
agitation. conciliate v. To obtain the friendship form, or outline.
commute v. To put something, of. conformity n. Correspondence in
especially something less severe, in conciliatory adj. Tending to reconcile. form, manner, or use.
place of. conclusive adj. Sufficient to convince confront v. To encounter, as
comparable adj. Fit to be compared. or decide. difficulties or obstacles.
comparative adj. Relative. concord n. Harmony. congeal v. To coagulate.
comparison n. Examination of two or concordance n. Harmony. congenial adj. Having kindred
more objects with reference to their concur v. To agree. character or tastes.
likeness or unlikeness. concurrence n. Agreement. congest v. To collect into a mass.
compensate v. To remunerate. concurrent adj. Occurring or acting congregate v. To bring together into a
competence n. Adequate qualification together. crowd.
or capacity. concussion n. A violent shock to some coniferous adj. Cone-bearing trees.
competent adj. Qualified. organ by a fall or a sudden blow. conjecture n. A guess.
competitive adj. characterized by condensation n. The act or process of conjoin v. To unite.
rivalry. making dense or denser. conjugal adj. Pertaining to marriage,
competitor n. A rival. condense v. To abridge. marital rights, or married persons.
complacence n. Satisfaction with one's condescend v. To come down conjugate adj. Joined together in
acts or surroundings. voluntarily to equal terms with pairs.
complacent adj. Pleased or satisfied inferiors. conjugation n. The state or condition
with oneself. condolence n. Expression of sympathy of being joined together.
complaisance n. Politeness. with a person in pain, sorrow, or conjunction n. The state of being
complaisant adj. Agreeable. misfortune. joined together, or the things so
complement v. To make complete. conduce v. To bring about. joined.
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connive v. To be in collusion. consulate n. The place in which a through by some device or scheme.
connoisseur n. A critical judge of art, consul transacts official business. control v. To exercise a directing,
especially one with thorough consummate v. To bring to restraining, or governing influence
knowledge and sound judgment of completion. over.
art. consumption n. Gradual destruction, controller n. One who or that which
connote v. To mean; signify. as by burning, eating, etc., or by using regulates or directs.
connubial adj. Pertaining to marriage up, wearing out, etc. contumacious adj. Rebellious.
or matrimony. consumptive adj. Designed for gradual contumacy n. Contemptuous
conquer v. To overcome by force. destruction. disregard of the requirements of
consanguineous adj. Descended from contagion n. The communication of rightful authority.
the same parent or ancestor. disease from person to person. contuse v. To bruise by a blow, either
conscience n. The faculty in man by contagious adj. Transmitting disease. with or without the breaking of the
which he distinguishes between right contaminate v. To pollute. skin.
and wrong in character and conduct. contemplate v. To consider contusion n. A bruise.
conscientious adj. Governed by moral thoughtfully. convalesce v. To recover after a
standard. contemporaneous adj. Living, sickness.
conscious adj. Aware that one lives, occurring, or existing at the same convalescence n. The state of
feels, and thinks. time. progressive restoration to health and
conscript v. To force into military contemporary adj. Living or existing at strength after the cessation of
service. the same time. disease.
consecrate v. To set apart as sacred. contemptible adj. Worthy of scorn or convalescent adj. Recovering health
consecutive adj. Following in disdain. after sickness.
uninterrupted succession. contemptuous adj. Disdainful. convene v. To summon or cause to
consensus n. A collective unanimous contender n. One who exerts oneself assemble.
opinion of a number of persons. in opposition or rivalry. convenience n. Fitness, as of time or
conservatism n. Tendency to adhere contiguity n. Proximity. place.
to the existing order of things. contiguous adj. Touching or joining at converge v. To cause to incline and
conservative adj. Adhering to the the edge or boundary. approach nearer together.
existing order of things. continence n. Self-restraint with convergent adj. Tending to one point.
conservatory n. An institution for respect to desires, appetites, and conversant adj. Thoroughly informed.
instruction and training in music and passion. conversion n. Change from one state
declamation. contingency n. Possibility of or position to another, or from one
consign v. To entrust. happening. form to another.
consignee n. A person to whom goods contingent adj. Not predictable. convertible adj. Interchangeable.
or other property has been entrusted. continuance n. Permanence. convex adj. Curving like the segment
consignor n. One who entrusts. continuation n. Prolongation. of the globe or of the surface of a
consistency n. A state of permanence. continuity n. Uninterrupted circle.
console v. To comfort. connection in space, time, operation, conveyance n. That by which anything
consolidate v. To combine into one or development. is transported.
body or system. continuous adj. Connected, extended, convivial adj. Devoted to feasting, or
consonance n. The state or quality of or prolonged without separation or to good-fellowship in eating or
being in accord with. interruption of sequence. drinking.
consonant adj. Being in agreement or contort v. To twist into a misshapen convolution n. A winding motion.
harmony with. form. convolve v. To move with a circling or
consort n. A companion or associate. contraband n. Trade forbidden by law winding motion.
conspicuous adj. Clearly visible. or treaty. convoy n. A protecting force
conspirator n. One who agrees with contradiction n. The assertion of the accompanying property in course of
others to cooperate in accomplishing opposite of that which has been said. transportation.
some unlawful purpose. contradictory adj. Inconsistent with convulse v. To cause spasms in.
conspire v. To plot. itself. convulsion n. A violent and abnormal
constable n. An officer whose duty is contraposition n. A placing opposite. muscular contraction of the body.
to maintain the peace. contravene v. To prevent or obstruct copious adj. Plenteous.
constellation n. An arbitrary the operation of. coquette n. A flirt.
assemblage or group of stars. contribution n. The act of giving for a cornice n. An ornamental molding
consternation n. Panic. common purpose. running round the walls of a room
constituency n. The inhabitants or contributor n. One who gives or close to the ceiling.
voters in a district represented in a furnishes, in common with others, for cornucopia n. The horn of plenty,
legislative body. a common purpose. symbolizing peace and prosperity.
constituent n. One who has the right contrite adj. Broken in spirit because corollary n. A proposition following so
to vote at an election. of a sense of sin. obviously from another that it
constrict v. To bind. contrivance n. The act planning, requires little demonstration.
consul n. An officer appointed to devising, inventing, or adapting coronation n. The act or ceremony of
reside in a foreign city, chiefly to something to or for a special purpose. crowning a monarch.
represent his country. contrive v. To manage or carry coronet n. Inferior crown denoting,
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according to its form, various degrees used for transacting business, arranged as to have hidden meaning.
of noble rank less than sovereign. bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. crystallize v. To bring together or give
corporal adj. Belonging or relating to countryman n. A rustic. fixed shape to.
the body as opposed to the mind. courageous adj. Brave. cudgel n. A short thick stick used as a
corporate adj. Belonging to a course n. Line of motion or direction. club.
corporation. courser n. A fleet and spirited horse. culinary adj. Of or pertaining to
corporeal adj. Of a material nature; courtesy n. Politeness originating in cooking or the kitchen.
physical. kindness and exercised habitually. cull v. To pick or sort out from the
corps n. A number or body of persons covenant n. An agreement entered rest.
in some way associated or acting into by two or more persons or culpable adj. Guilty.
together. parties. culprit n. A guilty person.
corpse n. A dead body. covert adj. Concealed, especially for culvert n. Any artificial covered
corpulent adj. Obese. an evil purpose. channel for the passage of water
corpuscle n. A minute particle of covey n. A flock of quails or partridges. through a bank or under a road, canal.
matter. cower v. To crouch down tremblingly, cupidity n. Avarice.
correlate v. To put in some relation of as through fear or shame. curable adj. Capable of being
connection or correspondence. coxswain n. One who steers a remedied or corrected.
correlative adj. Mutually involving or rowboat, or one who has charge of a curator n. A person having charge as
implying one another. ship's boat and its crew under an of a library or museum.
corrigible adj. Capable of reformation. officer. curio n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
corroborate v. To strengthen, as proof crag n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cursive adj. Writing in which the
or conviction. cliff or ledge. letters are joined together.
corroboration n. Confirmation. cranium n. The skull of an animal, cursory adj. Rapid and superficial.
corrode v. To ruin or destroy little by especially that part enclosing the curt adj. Concise, compressed, and
little. brain. abrupt in act or expression.
corrosion n. Gradual decay by crass adj. Coarse or thick in nature or curtail v. To cut off or cut short.
crumbling or surface disintegration. structure, as opposed to thin or fine. curtsy n. A downward movement of
corrosive n. That which causes gradual craving n. A vehement desire. the body by bending the knees.
decay by crumbling or surface creak n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking cycloid adj. Like a circle.
disintegration. sound. cygnet n. A young swan.
corruptible adj. Open to bribery. creamery n. A butter-making cynical adj. Exhibiting moral
corruption n. Loss of purity or establishment. skepticism.
integrity. creamy adj. Resembling or containing cynicism n. Contempt for the opinions
cosmetic adj. Pertaining to the art of cream. of others and of what others value.
beautifying, especially the credence n. Belief. cynosure n. That to which general
complexion. credible adj. Believable. interest or attention is directed.
cosmic adj. Pertaining to the universe. credulous adj. Easily deceived. daring adj. Brave.
cosmogony n. A doctrine of creation creed n. A formal summary of darkling adv. Blindly.
or of the origin of the universe. fundamental points of religious belief. Darwinism n. The doctrine that
cosmography n. The science that crematory adj. A place for cremating natural selection has been the prime
describes the universe, including dead bodies. cause of evolution of higher forms.
astronomy, geography, and geology. crevasse n. A deep crack or fissure in dastard n. A base coward.
cosmology n. The general science of the ice of a glacier. datum n. A premise, starting-point, or
the universe. crevice n. A small fissure, as between given fact.
cosmopolitan adj. Common to all the two contiguous surfaces. dauntless adj. Fearless.
world. criterion n. A standard by which to day-man n. A day-laborer.
cosmopolitanism n. A cosmopolitan determine the correctness of a dead-heat n. A race in which two or
character. judgment or conclusion. more competitors come out even, and
cosmos n. The world or universe critique n. A criticism or critical there is no winner.
considered as a system, perfect in review. dearth n. Scarcity, as of something
order and arrangement. crockery n. Earthenware made from customary, essential ,or desirable.
counter-claim n. A cross-demand baked clay. death's-head n. A human skull as a
alleged by a defendant in his favor crucible n. A trying and purifying test symbol of death.
against the plaintiff. or agency. debase v. To lower in character or
counteract v. To act in opposition to. crusade n. Any concerted movement, virtue.
counterbalance v. To oppose with an vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an debatable adj. Subject to contention
equal force. idea or principle. or dispute.
countercharge v. To accuse in return. crustacean adj. Pertaining to a division debonair adj. Having gentle or
counterfeit adj. Made to resemble of arthropods, containing lobsters, courteous bearing or manner.
something else. crabs, crawfish, etc. debut n. A first appearance in society
counterpart n. Something taken with crustaceous adj. Having a crust-like or on the stage.
another for the completion of either. shell. decagon n. A figure with ten sides and
countervail v. To offset. cryptogram n. Anything written in ten angles.
counting-house n. A house or office characters that are secret or so decagram n. A weight of 10 grams.
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decaliter n. A liquid and dry measure legal requirement. demagnetize v. To deprive (a magnet)
of 10 liters. defendant n. A person against whom a of magnetism.
decalogue n. The ten commandments. suit is brought. demagogue n. An unprincipled
Decameron n. A volume consisting of defensible adj. Capable of being politician.
ten parts or books. maintained or justified. demeanor n. Deportment.
decameter n. A length of ten meters. defensive adj. Carried on in resistance demented adj. Insane.
decamp v. To leave suddenly or to aggression. demerit n. A mark for failure or bad
unexpectedly. defer v. To delay or put off to some conduct.
decapitate v. To behead. other time. demise n. Death.
decapod adj. Ten-footed or ten- deference n. Respectful submission or demobilize v. To disband, as troops.
armed. yielding, as to another's opinion, demolish v. To annihilate.
decasyllable n. A line of ten syllables. wishes, or judgment. demonstrable adj. Capable of positive
deceit n. Falsehood. defiant adj. Characterized by bold or proof.
deceitful adj. Fraudulent. insolent opposition. demonstrate v. To prove indubitably.
deceive v. To mislead by or as by deficiency n. Lack or insufficiency. demonstrative adj. Inclined to strong
falsehood. deficient adj. Not having an adequate exhibition or expression of feeling or
decency n. Moral fitness. or proper supply or amount. thoughts.
decent adj. Characterized by propriety definite adj. Having an exact demonstrator n. One who proves in a
of conduct, speech, manners, or dress. signification or positive meaning. convincing and conclusive manner.
deciduous adj. Falling off at maturity deflect v. To cause to turn aside or demulcent n. Any application soothing
as petals after flowering, fruit when downward. to an irritable surface
ripe, etc. deforest v. To clear of forests. demurrage n. the detention of a
decimal adj. Founded on the number deform v. To disfigure. vessel beyond the specified time of
10. deformity n. A disfigurement. sailing.
decimate v. To destroy a measurable defraud v. To deprive of something dendroid adj. Like a tree.
or large proportion of. dishonestly. dendrology n. The natural history of
decipher v. To find out the true words defray v. To make payment for. trees.
or meaning of, as something hardly degeneracy n. A becoming worse. denizen n. Inhabitant.
legible. degenerate v. To become worse or denominate v. To give a name or
decisive ad. Conclusive. inferior. epithet to.
declamation n. A speech recited or degradation n. Diminution, as of denomination n. A body of Christians
intended for recitation from memory strength or magnitude. united by a common faith and form of
in public. degrade v. To take away honors or worship and discipline.
declamatory adj. A full and formal position from. denominator n. Part of a fraction
style of utterance. dehydrate v. To deprive of water. which expresses the number of equal
declarative adj. Containing a formal, deify v. To regard or worship as a god. parts into which the unit is divided.
positive, or explicit statement or deign v. To deem worthy of notice or denote v. To designate by word or
affirmation. account. mark.
declension n. The change of endings in deist n. One who believes in God, but denouement n. That part of a play or
nouns and adj. to express their denies supernatural revelation. story in which the mystery is cleared
different relations of gender. deity n. A god, goddess, or divine up.
decorate v. To embellish. person. denounce v. To point out or publicly
decorous adj. Suitable for the deject v. To dishearten. accuse as deserving of punishment,
occasion or circumstances. dejection n. Melancholy. censure, or odium.
decoy n. Anything that allures, or is delectable adj. Delightful to the taste dentifrice n. Any preparation used for
intended to allures into danger or or to the senses. cleaning the teeth.
temptation. delectation n. Delight. denude v. To strip the covering from.
decrepit adj. Enfeebled, as by old age deleterious adj. Hurtful, morally or denunciation n. The act of declaring
or some chronic infirmity. physically. an action or person worthy of
dedication n. The voluntary delicacy n. That which is agreeable to reprobation or punishment.
consecration or relinquishment of a fine taste. deplete v. To reduce or lessen, as by
something to an end or cause. delineate v. To represent by sketch or use, exhaustion, or waste.
deduce v. To derive or draw as a diagram. deplorable adj. Contemptible.
conclusion by reasoning from given deliquesce v. To dissolve gradually and deplore v. To regard with grief or
premises or principles. become liquid by absorption of sorrow.
deface v. To mar or disfigure the face moisture from the air. deponent adj. Laying down.
or external surface of. delirious adj. Raving. depopulate v. To remove the
defalcate v. To cut off or take away, as delude v. To mislead the mind or inhabitants from.
a part of something. judgment of. deport v. To take or send away
defamation n. Malicious and deluge v. To overwhelm with a flood forcibly, as to a penal colony.
groundless injury done to the of water. deportment n. Demeanor.
reputation or good name of another. delusion n. Mistaken conviction, deposition n. Testimony legally taken
defame v. To slander. especially when more or less on interrogatories and reduced to
default n. The neglect or omission of a enduring. writing, for use as evidence in court.
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depositor n. One who makes a destitute adj. Poverty-stricken. dignitary n. One who holds high rank.
deposit, or has an amount deposited. desultory adj. Not connected with digraph n. A union of two characters
depository n. A place where anything what precedes. representing a single sound.
is kept in safety. deter v. To frighten away. digress v. To turn aside from the main
deprave v. To render bad, especially deteriorate v. To grow worse. subject and for a time dwell on some
morally bad. determinate adj. Definitely limited or incidental matter.
deprecate v. To express disapproval or fixed. dilapidated pa. Fallen into decay or
regret for, with hope for the opposite. determination n. The act of deciding. partial ruin.
depreciate v. To lessen the worth of. deterrent adj. Hindering from action dilate v. To enlarge in all directions.
depreciation n. A lowering in value or through fear. dilatory adj. Tending to cause delay.
an underrating in worth. detest v. To dislike or hate with dilemma n. A situation in which a
depress v. To press down. intensity. choice between opposing modes of
depression n. A falling of the spirits. detract v. To take away in such conduct is necessary.
depth n. Deepness. manner as to lessen value or dilettante n. A superficial amateur.
derelict adj. Neglectful of obligation. estimation. diligence n. Careful and persevering
deride v. To ridicule. detriment n. Something that causes effort to accomplish what is
derisible adj. Open to ridicule. damage, depreciation, or loss. undertaken.
derision n. Ridicule. detrude v. To push down forcibly. dilute v. To make more fluid or less
derivation n. That process by which a deviate v. To take a different course. concentrated by admixture with
word is traced from its original root or devilry n. Malicious mischief. something.
primitive form and meaning. deviltry n. Wanton and malicious diminution n. Reduction.
derivative adj. Coming or acquired mischief. dimly adv. Obscurely.
from some origin. devious adj. Out of the common or diphthong n. The sound produced by
derive v. To deduce, as from a regular track. combining two vowels in to a single
premise. devise v. To invent. syllable or running together the
dermatology n. The branch of medical devout adj. Religious. sounds.
science which relates to the skin and dexterity n. Readiness, precision, diplomacy n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill
its diseases. efficiency, and ease in any physical in conducting any kind of negotiations
derrick n. An apparatus for hoisting activity or in any mechanical work. or in social matters.
and swinging great weights. diabolic adj. Characteristic of the diplomat n. A representative of one
descendant n. One who is descended devil. sovereign state at the capital or court
lineally from another, as a child, diacritical adj. Marking a difference. of another.
grandchild, etc. diagnose v. To distinguish, as a diplomatic adj. Characterized by
descendent adj. Proceeding disease, by its characteristic special tact in negotiations.
downward. phenomena. diplomatist n. One remarkable for tact
descent n. The act of moving or going diagnosis n. Determination of the and shrewd management.
downward. distinctive nature of a disease. disagree v. To be opposite in opinion.
descry v. To discern. dialect n. Forms of speech collectively disallow v. To withhold permission or
desert v. To abandon without regard that are peculiar to the people of a sanction.
to the welfare of the abandoned particular district. disappear v. To cease to exist, either
desiccant n. Any remedy which, when dialectician n. A logician. actually or for the time being.
applied externally, dries up or absorbs dialogue n. A formal conversation in disappoint v. To fail to fulfill the
moisture, as that of wounds. which two or more take part. expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
designate v. To select or appoint, as diaphanous adj. Transparent. disapprove v. To regard with blame.
by authority. diatomic adj. Containing only two disarm v. To deprive of weapons.
desist v. To cease from action. atoms. disarrange v. To throw out of order.
desistance n. Cessation. diatribe n. A bitter or malicious disavow v. To disclaim responsibility
despair n. Utter hopelessness and criticism. for.
despondency. dictum n. A positive utterance. disavowal n. Denial.
desperado n. One without regard for didactic adj. Pertaining to teaching. disbeliever n. One who refuses to
law or life. difference n. Dissimilarity in any believe.
desperate adj. Resorted to in a last respect. disburden v. To disencumber.
extremity, or as if prompted by utter differentia n. Any essential disburse v. To pay out or expend, as
despair. characteristic of a species by reason of money from a fund.
despicable adj. Contemptible. which it differs from other species. discard v. To reject.
despite prep. In spite of. differential adj. Distinctive. discernible adj. Perceivable.
despond v. To lose spirit, courage, or differentiate v. To acquire a distinct disciple n. One who believes the
hope. and separate character. teaching of another, or who adopts
despondent adj. Disheartened. diffidence n. Self-distrust. and follows some doctrine.
despot n. An absolute and diffident adj. Affected or possessed disciplinary adj. Having the nature of
irresponsible monarch. with self-distrust. systematic training or subjection to
despotism n. Any severe and strict diffusible adj. Spreading rapidly authority.
rule in which the judgment of the through the system and acting quickly. discipline v. To train to obedience.
governed has little or no part. diffusion n. Dispersion. disclaim v. To disavow any claim to,
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connection with, or responsibility to. scattering in different directions. volatile parts of a substance from
discolor v. To stain. dispensation n. That which is those less volatile.
discomfit v. To put to confusion. bestowed on or appointed to one distiller n. One occupied in the
discomfort n. The state of being from a higher power. business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
positively uncomfortable. displace v. To put out of the proper or distinction n. A note or designation of
disconnect v. To undo or dissolve the accustomed place. honor, officially recognizing
connection or association of. dispossess v. To deprive of actual superiority or success in studies.
disconsolate adj. Grief-stricken. occupancy, especially of real estate. distort v. To twist into an unnatural or
discontinuance n. Interruption or disputation n. Verbal controversy. irregular form.
intermission. disqualify v. To debar. distrain v. To subject a person to
discord n. Absence of disquiet v. To deprive of peace or distress.
harmoniousness. tranquillity. distrainor n. One who subjects a
discountenance v. To look upon with disregard v. To take no notice of. person to distress.
disfavor. disreputable adj. Dishonorable or distraught adj. Bewildered.
discover v. To get first sight or disgraceful. distrust n. Lack of confidence in the
knowledge of, as something disrepute n. A bad name or character. power, wisdom, or good intent of any
previously unknown or unperceived. disrobe v. To unclothe. person.
discredit v. To injure the reputation of. disrupt v. To burst or break asunder. disunion n. Separation of relations or
discreet adj. Judicious. dissatisfy v. To displease. interests.
discrepant adj. Opposite. dissect v. To cut apart or to pieces. diurnal adj. Daily.
discriminate v. To draw a distinction. dissection n. The act or operation of divagation n. Digression.
discursive adj. Passing from one cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant divergent adj. Tending in different
subject to another. or an animal. directions.
discussion n. Debate. dissemble v. To hide by pretending diverse adj. Capable of various forms.
disenfranchise v. To deprive of any something different. diversion n. Pastime.
right privilege or power disseminate v. To sow or scatter diversity n. Dissimilitude.
disengage v. To become detached. abroad, as seed is sown. divert v. To turn from the accustomed
disfavor n. Disregard. dissension n. Angry or violent course or a line of action already
disfigure v. To impair or injure the difference of opinion. established.
beauty, symmetry, or appearance of. dissent n. Disagreement. divertible adj. Able to be turned from
dishabille n. Undress or negligent dissentient n. One who disagrees. the accustomed course or a line of
attire. dissentious adj. Contentious. action already established.
dishonest adj. Untrustworthy. dissertation n. Thesis. divest v. To strip, specifically of
disillusion v. To disenchant. disservice n. An ill turn. clothes, ornaments, or accouterments
disinfect v. To remove or destroy the dissever v. To divide. or disinvestment.
poison of infectious or contagious dissimilar adj. Different. divination n. The pretended forecast
diseases. dissipate v. To disperse or disappear. of future events or discovery of what
disinfectant n. A substance used to dissipation n. The state of being is lost or hidden.
destroy the germs of infectious dispersed or scattered. divinity n. The quality or character of
diseases. dissolute adj. Lewd. being godlike.
disinherit v. To deprive of an dissolution n. A breaking up of a union divisible adj. Capable of being
inheritance. of persons. separated into parts.
disinterested adj. Impartial. dissolve v. To liquefy or soften, as by divisor n. That by which a number or
disjunctive adj. Helping or serving to heat or moisture. quantity is divided.
disconnect or separate. dissonance n. Discord. divulge v. To tell or make known, as
dislocate v. To put out of proper place dissonant adj. Harsh or disagreeable in something previously private or
or order. sound. secret.
dismissal n. Displacement by authority dissuade v. To change the purpose or divulgence n. A divulging.
from an office or an employment. alter the plans of by persuasion, docile adj. Easy to manage.
dismount v. To throw down, push off, counsel, or pleading. docket n. The registry of judgments of
or otherwise remove from a horse or dissuasion n. The act of changing the a court.
the like. purpose of or altering the plans of doe n. The female of the deer.
disobedience n. Neglect or refusal to through persuasion, or pleading. dogma n. A statement of religious
comply with an authoritative disyllable n. A word of two syllables. faith or duty formulated by a body
injunction. distemper n. A disease or malady. claiming authority.
disobedient adj. Neglecting or refusing distend v. To stretch out or expand in dogmatic adj. Making statements
to obey. every direction. without argument or evidence.
disown v. To refuse to acknowledge as distensible adj. Capable of being dogmatize v. To make positive
one's own or as connected with stretched out or expanded in every assertions without supporting them
oneself. direction. by argument or evidence.
disparage v. To regard or speak of distention n. Expansion. doleful adj. Melancholy.
slightingly. distill v. To extract or produce by dolesome adj. Melancholy.
disparity n. Inequality. vaporization and condensation. dolor n. Lamentation.
dispel v. To drive away by or as by distillation n. Separation of the more dolorous adj. Expressing or causing
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sorrow or pain. especially a customs duty. egoism n. The theory that places
domain n. A sphere or field of action dutiful adj. Obedient. man's chief good in the completeness
or interest. dwindle v. To diminish or become less. of self.
domesticity n. Life in or fondness for dyne n. The force which, applied to a egoist n. One who advocates or
one's home and family. mass of one gram for 1 second, would practices egoism.
domicile n. The place where one lives. give it a velocity of 1 cm/s. egotism n. Self-conceit.
dominance n. Ascendancy. earnest adj. Ardent in spirit and egotist n. One given to self-mention or
dominant adj. Conspicuously speech. who is constantly telling of his own
prominent. earthenware n. Anything made of clay views and experiences.
dominate v. To influence controllingly. and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun. egregious adj. Extreme.
domination n. Control by the exercise eatable adj. Edible. egress n. Any place of exit.
of power or constituted authority. ebullient adj. Showing enthusiasm or eject v. To expel.
domineer v. To rule with insolence or exhilaration of feeling. elapse v. To quietly terminate: said of
unnecessary annoyance. eccentric adj. Peculiar. time.
donate v. To bestow as a gift, eccentricity n. Idiosyncrasy. elasticity n. That property of matter by
especially for a worthy cause. eclipse n. The obstruction of a which a body tends to return to a
donator n. One who makes a donation heavenly body by its entering into the former shape after being changed.
or present. shadow of another body. electrolysis n. The process of
donee n. A person to whom a economize v. To spend sparingly. decomposing a chemical compound
donation is made. ecstasy n. Rapturous excitement or by the passage of an electric current.
donor n. One who makes a donation exaltation. electrotype n. A metallic copy of any
or present. ecstatic adj. Enraptured. surface, as a coin.
dormant adj. Being in a state of or edible adj. Suitable to be eaten. elegy n. A lyric poem lamenting the
resembling sleep. edict n. That which is uttered or dead.
doublet n. One of a pair of like things. proclaimed by authority as a rule of element n. A component or essential
doubly adv. In twofold degree or action. part.
extent. edify v. To build up, or strengthen, elicit v. To educe or extract gradually
dowry n. The property which a wife especially in morals or religion. or without violence.
brings to her husband in marriage. editorial n. An article in a periodical eligible adj. Qualified for selection.
drachma n. A modern and an ancient written by the editor and published as eliminate v. To separate and cast
Greek coin. an official argument. aside.
dragnet n. A net to be drawn along educe v. To draw out. Elizabethan adj. Relating to Elizabeth,
the bottom of the water. efface v. To obliterate. queen of England, or to her era.
dragoon n. In the British army, a effect n. A consequence. elocution n. The art of correct
cavalryman. effective adj. Fit for a destined intonation, inflection, and gesture in
drainage n. The means of draining purpose. public speaking or reading.
collectively, as a system of conduits, effectual adj. Efficient. eloquent adj. Having the ability to
trenches, pipes, etc. effeminacy n. Womanishness. express emotion or feeling in lofty and
dramatist n. One who writes plays. effeminate adj. Having womanish impassioned speech.
dramatize v. To relate or represent in traits or qualities. elucidate v. To bring out more clearly
a dramatic or theatrical manner. effervesce v. To bubble up. the facts concerning.
drastic adj. Acting vigorously. effervescent adj. Giving off bubbles of elude v. To evade the search or
drought n. Dry weather, especially gas. pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
when so long continued as to cause effete adj. Exhausted, as having elusion n. Evasion.
vegetation to wither. performed its functions. emaciate v. To waste away in flesh.
drowsy adj. Heavy with sleepiness. efficacious adj. Effective. emanate v. To flow forth or proceed,
drudgery n. Hard and constant work in efficacy n. The power to produce an as from some source.
any menial or dull occupation. intended effect as shown in the emancipate v. To release from
dubious adj. Doubtful. production of it. bondage.
duckling n. A young duck. efficiency n. The state of possessing embargo n. Authoritative stoppage of
ductile adj. Capable of being drawn adequate skill or knowledge for the foreign commerce or of any special
out, as into wire or a thread. performance of a duty. trade.
duet n. A composition for two voices efficient adj. Having and exercising the embark v. To make a beginning in
or instruments. power to produce effects or results. some occupation or scheme.
dun v. To make a demand or repeated efflorescence n. The state of being embarrass v. To render flustered or
demands on for payment. flowery, or a flowery appearance. agitated.
duplex adj. Having two parts. efflorescent adj. Opening in flower. embellish v. To make beautiful or
duplicity n. Double-dealing. effluvium n. A noxious or ill-smelling elegant by adding attractive or
durance n. Confinement. exhalation from decaying or ornamental features.
duration n. The period of time during putrefying matter. embezzle v. To misappropriate
which anything lasts. effrontery n. Unblushing impudence. secretly.
duteous adj. Showing submission to effulgence n. Splendor. emblazon v. To set forth publicly or in
natural superiors. effuse v. To pour forth. glowing terms.
dutiable adj. Subject to a duty, effusion n. an outpouring. emblem n. A symbol.
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embody v. To express, formulate, or information on subjects, or exhaustive epicure n. One who cultivates a
exemplify in a concrete, compact or of one subject. delicate taste for eating and drinking.
visible form. endanger v. To expose to peril. Epicurean adj. Indulging, ministering,
embolden v. To give courage to. endear v. To cause to be loved. or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
embolism n. An obstruction or endemic adj. Peculiar to some epicycle n. A circle that rolls upon the
plugging up of an artery or other specified country or people. external or internal circumference of
blood-vessel. endue v. To endow with some quality, another circle.
embroil v. To involve in dissension or gift, or grace, usually spiritual. epicycloid n. A curve traced by a point
strife. endurable adj. Tolerable. on the circumference of a circle which
emerge v. To come into view or into endurance n. The ability to suffer pain, rolls upon another circle.
existence. distress, hardship, or stress of any epidemic n. Wide-spread occurrence
emergence n. A coming into view. kind without succumbing. of a disease in a certain region.
emergent adj. Coming into view. energetic adj. Working vigorously. epidermis n. The outer skin.
emeritus adj. Retired from active enervate v. To render ineffective or epigram n. A pithy phrasing of a
service but retained to an honorary inoperative. shrewd observation.
position. enfeeble v. To debilitate. epilogue n. The close of a narrative or
emigrant n. One who moves from one enfranchise v. To endow with a dramatic poem.
place to settle in another. privilege, especially with the right to epiphany n. Any appearance or bodily
emigrate v. To go from one country, vote. manifestation of a deity.
state, or region for the purpose of engender v. To produce. episode n. An incident or story in a
settling or residing in another. engrave v. To cut or carve in or upon literary work, separable from yet
eminence n. An elevated position with some surface. growing out of it.
respect to rank, place, character, engross v. To occupy completely. epitaph n. An inscription on a tomb or
condition, etc. enhance v. To intensify. monument in honor or in memory of
eminent adj. High in station, merit, or enigma n. A riddle. the dead.
esteem. enjoin v. To command. epithet n. Word used adjectivally to
emit v. To send or give out. enkindle v. To set on fire. describe some quality or attribute of is
emphasis n. Any special enlighten v. To cause to see clearly. objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
impressiveness added to an utterance enlist v. To enter voluntarily the epitome n. A simplified
or act, or stress laid upon some word. military service by formal enrollment. representation.
emphasize v. To articulate or enmity n. Hatred. epizootic adj. Prevailing among
enunciate with special impressiveness ennoble v. To dignify. animals.
upon a word, or a group of words. enormity n. Immensity. epoch n. A interval of time,
emphatic adj. Spoken with any special enormous adj. Gigantic. memorable for extraordinary events.
impressiveness laid upon an act, word, enrage v. To infuriate. epode n. A species of lyric poems.
or set of words. enrapture v. To delight extravagantly equalize v. To render uniform.
employee n. One who works for or intensely. equanimity n. Evenness of mind or
wages or a salary. enshrine v. To keep sacred. temper.
employer n. One who uses or engages ensnare v. To entrap. equestrian adj. Pertaining to horses or
the services of other persons for pay. entail v. To involve; necessitate. horsemanship.
emporium n. A bazaar or shop. entangle v. To involve in difficulties, equilibrium n. A state of balance.
empower v. To delegate authority to. confusion, or complications. equitable adj. Characterized by
emulate v. To imitate with intent to enthrall v. To bring or hold under any fairness.
equal or surpass. overmastering influence. equity n. Fairness or impartiality.
enact v. To make into law, as by enthrone v. To invest with sovereign equivalent adj. Equal in value, force,
legislative act. power. meaning, or the like.
enamor v. To inspire with ardent love. enthuse v. To yield to or display equivocal adj. Ambiguous.
encamp v. To pitch tents for a resting- intense and rapturous feeling. equivocate v. To use words of double
place. enthusiastic adj. Full of zeal and meaning.
encomium n. A formal or fervor. eradicate v. To destroy thoroughly.
discriminating expression of praise. entirety n. A complete thing. errant adj. Roving or wandering, as in
encompass v. To encircle. entomology n. The branch of zoology search of adventure or opportunity for
encore n. The call for a repetition, as that treats of insects. gallant deeds.
of some part of a play or performance. entrails n. pl. The internal parts of an erratic adj. Irregular.
encourage v. To inspire with courage, animal. erroneous adj. Incorrect.
hope, or strength of mind. entreaty n. An earnest request. erudite adj. Very-learned.
encroach v. To invade partially or entree n. The act of entering. erudition n. Extensive knowledge of
insidiously and appropriate the entrench v. To fortify or protect, as literature, history, language, etc.
possessions of another. with a trench or ditch and wall. eschew v. To keep clear of.
encumber v. To impede with entwine v. To interweave. espy v. To keep close watch.
obstacles. enumerate v. To name one by one. esquire n. A title of dignity, office, or
encyclical adj. Intended for general epic n. A poem celebrating in formal courtesy.
circulation. verse the mythical achievements of essence n. That which makes a thing
encyclopedia n. A work containing great personages, heroes, etc. to be what it is.
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esthetic adj. Pertaining to beauty, action. stretch.

taste, or the fine arts. exclamation n. An abrupt or emphatic expansion n. Increase of amount, size,
estimable adj. Worthy of respect. expression of thought or of feeling. scope, or the like.
estrange v. To alienate. exclude v. To shut out purposely or expatriate v. To drive from one's own
estuary n. A wide lower part of a tidal forcibly. country.
river. exclusion n. Non-admission. expect v. To look forward to as certain
et cetera Latin. And so forth. excrescence n. Any unnatural or probable.
eugenic adj. Relating to the addition, outgrowth, or development. expectancy n. The act or state of
development and improvement of excretion n. The getting rid of waste looking forward to as certain or
race. matter. probable.
eulogize v. To speak or write a excruciate v. To inflict severe pain or expectorate v. To cough up and spit
laudation of a person's life or agony upon. forth.
character. excursion n. A journey. expediency n. Fitness to meet the
eulogy n. A spoken or written excusable adj. Justifiable. requirements of a particular case.
laudation of a person's life or execrable adj. Abominable. expedient adj. Contributing to
character. execration n. An accursed thing. personal advantage.
euphemism n. A figure of speech by executor n. A person nominated by expedite v. To hasten the movement
which a phrase less offensive is the will of another to execute the will. or progress of.
substituted. exegesis n. Biblical exposition or expeditious adj. Speedy.
euphonious adj. Characterized by interpretation. expend v. To spend.
agreeableness of sound. exemplar n. A model, pattern, or expense n. The laying out or
euphony n. Agreeableness of sound. original to be copied or imitated. expending or money or other
eureka Greek. I have found it. exemplary adj. Fitted to serve as a resources, as time or strength.
evade v. To avoid by artifice. model or example worthy of imitation. expiate v. To make satisfaction or
evanesce v. To vanish gradually. exemplify v. To show by example. amends for.
evanescent adj. Fleeting. exempt adj. Free, clear, or released, as explicate v. To clear from
evangelical adj. Seeking the from some liability, or restriction involvement.
conversion of sinners. affecting others. explicit adj. Definite.
evangelist n. A preacher who goes exert v. To make an effort. explode v. To cause to burst in pieces
from place to place holding services. exhale v. To breathe forth. by force from within.
evasion n. Escape. exhaust v. To empty by draining off explosion n. A sudden and violent
eventual adj. Ultimate. the contents. outbreak.
evert v. To turn inside out. exhaustible adj. Causing or tending to explosive adj. Pertaining to a sudden
evict v. To dispossess pursuant to cause exhaustion. and violent outbreak.
judicial decree. exhaustion n. Deprivation of strength exposition n. Formal presentation.
evidential adj. Indicative. or energy. expository adj. Pertaining to a formal
evince v. To make manifest or evident. exhaustive adj. Thorough and presentation.
evoke v. To call or summon forth. complete in execution. expostulate v. To discuss.
evolution n. Development or growth. exhilarate v. To fill with high or exposure n. An open situation or
evolve v. To unfold or expand. cheerful spirits. position in relation to the sun,
exacerbate v. To make more sharp, exhume v. To dig out of the earth elements, or points of the compass.
severe, or virulent. (what has been buried). expressive adj. Full of meaning.
exaggerate v. To overstate. exigency n. A critical period or expulsion n. Forcible ejection.
exasperate v. To excite great anger in. condition. extant adj. Still existing and known.
excavate v. To remove by digging or exigent adj. Urgent. extemporaneous adj. Done or made
scooping out. existence n. Possession or without much or any preparation.
exceed v. To go beyond, as in continuance of being. extempore adv. Without studied or
measure, quality, value, action, exit n. A way or passage out. special preparation.
power, skill, etc. exodus n. A going forth or departure extensible adj. Capable of being thrust
excel v. To be superior or from a place or country, especially of out.
distinguished. many people. extension n. A reaching or stretching
excellence n. Possession of eminently exonerate v. To relieve or vindicate out, as in space, time or scope.
or unusually good qualities. from accusation, imputation, or extensive adj. Extended widely in
excellency n. A title of honor blame. space, time, or scope.
bestowed upon various high officials. exorbitance n. Extravagance or extensor n. A muscle that causes
excellent adj. Possessing distinguished enormity. extension.
merit. exorbitant adj. Going beyond usual extenuate v. To diminish the gravity or
excerpt n. An extract or selection from and proper limits. importance of.
written or printed matter. exorcise v. To cast or drive out by exterior n. That which is outside.
excess n. That which passes the religious or magical means. external n. Anything relating or
ordinary, proper, or required limit, exotic adj. Foreign. belonging to the outside.
measure, or experience. expand v. To increase in range or extinct adj. Being no longer in
excitable adj. Nervously high-strung. scope. existence.
excitation n. Intensified emotion or expanse n. A continuous area or extinguish v. To render extinct.
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extol v. To praise in the highest terms. faulty adj. Imperfect. decorate the person or dress.
extort v. To obtain by violence, faun n. One of a class of deities of the finesse n. Subtle contrivance used to
threats, compulsion, or the subjection woods and herds represented as half gain a point.
of another to some necessity. human, with goats feet. finite adj. Limited.
extortion n. The practice of obtaining fawn n. A young deer. fiscal adj. Pertaining to the treasury or
by violence or compulsion. fealty n. Loyalty. public finances of a government.
extradite v. To surrender the custody feasible adj. That may be done, fishmonger n. One who sells fish.
of. performed, or effected; practicable. fissure n. A crack or crack-like
extradition n. The surrender by a federate v. To league together. depression.
government of a person accused of feint n. Any sham, pretense, or fitful adj. Spasmodic.
crime to the justice of another deceptive movement. fixture n. One who or that which is
government. felicitate v. To wish joy or happiness expected to remain permanently in its
extrajudicial adj. Happening out of to, especially in view of a coming position.
court. event. flag-officer n. The captain of a flag-
extraneous adj. Having no essential felicity n. A state of well-founded ship.
relation to a subject. happiness. flagrant adj. Openly scandalous.
extraordinary adj. Unusual. felon n. A criminal or depraved flamboyant adj. Characterized by
extravagance n. Undue expenditure of person. extravagance and in general by want
money. felonious adj. Showing criminal or evil of good taste.
extravagant adj. Needlessly free or purpose. flatulence n. Accumulation of gas in
lavish in expenditure. felony n. One of the highest class of the stomach and bowels.
extremist n. One who supports offenses, and punishable with death flection n. The act of bending.
extreme measures or holds extreme or imprisonment. fledgling n. A young bird.
views. feminine adj. Characteristic of woman flexible adj. Pliable.
extremity n. The utmost point, side, or or womankind. flimsy adj. Thin and weak.
border, or that farthest removed from fernery n. A place in which ferns are flippant adj. Having a light, pert,
a mean position. grown. trifling disposition.
extricate v. Disentangle. ferocious adj. Of a wild, fierce, and floe n. A collection of tabular masses
extrude v. To drive out or away. savage nature. of floating polar ice.
exuberance n. Rich supply. ferocity n. Savageness. flora n. The aggregate of plants
exuberant adj. Marked by great fervent adj. Ardent in feeling. growing without cultivation in a
plentifulness. fervid adj. Intense. district.
fabricate v. To invent fancifully or fervor n. Ardor or intensity of feeling. floral adj. Pertaining to flowers.
falsely. festal adj. Joyous. florid adj. Flushed with red.
fabulous adj. Incredible. festive adj. Merry. florist n. A dealer in flowers.
facet n. One of the small triangular fete n. A festival or feast. fluctuate v. To pass backward and
plane surfaces of a diamond or other fetus n. The young in the womb or in forward irregularly from one state or
gem. the egg. degree to another.
facetious adj. Amusing. feudal adj. Pertaining to the relation fluctuation n. Frequent irregular
facial adj. Pertaining to the face. of lord and vassal. change back and forth from one state
facile adj. Not difficult to do. feudalism n. The feudal system. or degree to another.
facilitate v. To make more easy. fez n. A brimless felt cap in the shape flue n. A smoke-duct in a chimney.
facility n. Ease. of a truncated cone, usually red with a fluent adj. Having a ready or easy flow
facsimile n. An exact copy or black tassel. of words or ideas.
reproduction. fiasco n. A complete or humiliating fluential adj. Pertaining to streams.
faction n. A number of persons failure. flux n. A state of constant movement,
combined for a common purpose. fickle adj. Unduly changeable in change, or renewal.
factious adj. Turbulent. feeling, judgment, or purpose. foggy adj. Obscure.
fallacious adj. Illogical. fictitious adj. Created or formed by foible n. A personal weakness or
fallacy n. Any unsound or delusive the imagination. failing.
mode of reasoning, or anything based fidelity n. Loyalty. foist v. To palm off.
on such reasoning. fiducial adj. Indicative of faith or trust. foliage n. Any growth of leaves.
fallible adj. Capable of erring. fief n. A landed estate held under folio n. A sheet of paper folded once,
fallow n. Land broken up and left to feudal tenure. or of a size adapted to folding once.
become mellow or to rest. filibuster n. One who attempts to folk-lore n. The traditions, beliefs, and
famish v. To suffer extremity of obstruct legislation. customs of the common people.
hunger or thirst. finale n. Concluding performance. fondle v. To handle tenderly and
fanatic n. A religious zealot. finality n. The state or quality of being lovingly.
fancier n. One having a taste for or final or complete. foolery n. Folly.
interest in special objects. finally adv. At last. foot-note n. A note of explanation or
fanciless adj. Unimaginative. financial adj. Monetary. comment at the foot of a page or
fastidious adj. Hard to please. financier n. One skilled in or occupied column.
fathom n. A measure of length, 6 feet. with financial affairs or operations. foppery n. Dandyism.
fatuous adj. Idiotic finery n. That which is used to foppish adj. Characteristic of one who
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is unduly devoted to dress and the fortitude n. Patient courage. counted, or weighed.
niceties of manners. foursome adj. Consisting of four. fungous adj. Spongy.
forbearance n. Patient endurance or fracture n. A break. fungus n. A plant destitute of
toleration of offenses. fragile adj. Easily broken. chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
forby adv. Besides. frailty n. Liability to be broken or furbish v. To restore brightness or
forcible adj. Violent. destroyed. beauty to.
forecourt n. A court opening directly fragile adj. Capable of being broken. furlong n. A measure, one-eighth of a
from the street. frankincense n. A gum or resin which mile.
forejudge v. To judge of before on burning yields aromatic fumes. furlough n. A temporary absence of a
hearing evidence. frantic adj. Frenzied. soldier or sailor by permission of the
forepeak n. The extreme forward part fraternal adj. Brotherly. commanding officer.
of a ship's hold, under the lowest fraudulence n. Deceitfulness. furrier n. A dealer in or maker of fur
deck. fraudulent adj. Counterfeit. goods.
foreshore n. That part of a shore fray v. To fret at the edge so as to further adj. More distant or advanced.
uncovered at low tide. loosen or break the threads. furtherance n. Advancement.
forebode v. To be an omen or warning freemason n. A member of an ancient furtive adj. Stealthy or sly, like the
sign of, especially of evil. secret fraternity originally confined to actions of a thief.
forecast v. To predict. skilled artisans. fuse v. To unite or blend as by melting
forecastle n. That part of the upper freethinker n. One who rejects together.
deck of a ship forward of the after authority or inspiration in religion. fusible adj. Capable of being melted
fore-shrouds. free trade n. Commerce unrestricted by heat.
foreclose v. To bar by judicial by tariff or customs. futile adj. Of no avail or effect.
proceedings the equitable right of a frequency n. The comparative number futurist n. A person of expectant
mortgagor to redeem property. of any kind of occurrences within a temperament.
forefather n. An ancestor. given time or space. gauge n. An instrument for measuring.
forego v. To deny oneself the pleasure fresco n. The art of painting on a gaiety n. Festivity.
or profit of. surface of plaster, particularly on walls gaily adv. Merrily.
foreground n. That part of a landscape and ceilings. gait n. Carriage of the body in going.
or picture situated or represented as freshness n. The state, quality, or gallant adj. Possessing a brave or
nearest the spectator. degree of being fresh. chivalrous spirit.
forehead n. The upper part of the fretful adj. Disposed to peevishness. galore adj. Abundant.
face, between the eyes and the hair. frightful adj. Apt to induce terror or galvanic adj. Pertaining or relating to
foreign adj. Belonging to, situated in, alarm. electricity produced by chemical
or derived from another country. frigid adj. Lacking warmth. action.
foreigner n. A citizen of a foreign frigidarium n. A room kept at a low galvanism n. Current electricity,
country. temperature for preserving fruits, especially that arising from chemical
foreknowledge n. Prescience. meat, etc. action.
foreman n. The head man. frivolity n. A trifling act, thought, galvanize v. To imbue with life or
foreordain v. To predetermine. saying, or practice. animation.
foreordination n. Predestination. frivolous adj. Trivial. gamble v. To risk money or other
forerun v. To go before as introducing frizz v. To give a crinkled, fluffy possession on an event, chance, or
or ushering in. appearance to. contingency.
foresail n. A square sail. frizzle v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as gambol n. Playful leaping or frisking.
foresee v. To discern beforehand. the hair. gamester n. A gambler.
foresight n. Provision against harm or frolicsome adj. Prankish. gamut n. The whole range or
need. frontier n. The part of a nation's sequence.
foretell v. To predict. territory that abuts upon another garnish v. In cookery, to surround with
forethought n. Premeditation. country. additions for embellishment.
forfeit v. To lose possession of frowzy adj. Slovenly in appearance. garrison n. The military force
through failure to fulfill some frugal adj. Economical. stationed in a fort, town, or other
obligation. fruition n. Fulfillment. place for its defense.
forfend v. To ward off. fugacious adj. Fleeting. garrote v. To execute by strangling.
forgery n. Counterfeiting. fulcrum n. The support on or against garrulous adj. Given to constant trivial
forgo v. To deny oneself. which a lever rests, or the point about talking.
formation n. Relative disposition of which it turns. gaseous adj. Light and unsubstantial.
parts. fulminate v. To cause to explode. gastric adj. Of, pertaining to, or near
formidable adj. Difficult to accomplish. fulsome adj. Offensive from excess of the stomach.
formula n. Fixed rule or set form. praise or commendation. gastritis n. Inflammation of the
forswear v. To renounce upon oath. fumigate v. To subject to the action of stomach.
forte n. A strong point. smoke or fumes, especially for gastronomy n. The art of preparing
forth adv. Into notice or view. disinfection. and serving appetizing food.
forthright adv. With directness. functionary n. An official. gendarme n. In continental Europe,
fortify v. To provide with defensive fundamental adj. Basal. particularly in France, a uniformed
works. fungible adj. That may be measured, and armed police officer.
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genealogy n. A list, in the order of gosling n. A young goose. gusto n. Keen enjoyment.
succession, of ancestors and their gossamer adj. Flimsy. guy n. Stay-rope.
descendants. gourd n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, guzzle v. To swallow greedily or
genealogist n. A tracer of pedigrees. or some similar fruit having a hard hastily; gulp.
generality n. The principal portion. rind. gynecocracy n. Female supremacy.
generalize v. To draw general graceless adj. Ungracious. gynecology n. The science that treats
inferences. gradation n. A step, degree, rank, or of the functions and diseases peculiar
generally adv. Ordinarily. relative position in an order or series. to women.
generate v. To produce or cause to be. gradient adj. Moving or advancing by gyrate v. To revolve.
generic adj. Noting a genus or kind; steps. gyroscope n. An instrument for
opposed to specific. granary n. A storehouse for grain after illustrating the laws of rotation.
generosity n. A disposition to give it is thrashed or husked. habitable adj. Fit to be dwelt in.
liberally or to bestow favors heartily. grandeur n. The quality of being grand habitant n. Dweller.
genesis n. Creation. or admirably great. habitual adj. According to usual
geniality n. Warmth and kindliness of grandiloquent adj. Speaking in or practice.
disposition. characterized by a pompous or habitude n. Customary relation or
genital adj. Of or pertaining to the bombastic style. association.
animal reproductive organs. grandiose adj. Having an imposing hackney v. To make stale or trite by
genitive adj. Indicating source, origin, style or effect. repetition.
possession, or the like. grantee n. The person to whom haggard adj. Worn and gaunt in
genteel adj. Well-bred or refined. property is transferred by deed. appearance.
gentile adj. Belonging to a people not grantor n. The maker of a deed. halcyon adj. Calm.
Jewish. granular adj. Composed of small hale adj. Of sound and vigorous
geology n. The department of natural grains or particles. health.
science that treats of the constitution granulate v. To form into grains or handwriting n. Penmanship.
and structure of the earth. small particles. hanger-on n. A parasite.
germane adj. Relevant. granule n. A small grain or particle. happy-go-lucky adj. Improvident.
germinate v. To begin to develop into grapple v. To take hold of. harangue n. A tirade.
an embryo or higher form. gratification n. Satisfaction. harass v. To trouble with
gestation n. Pregnancy. gratify v. To please, as by satisfying a importunities, cares, or annoyances.
gesticulate v. To make gestures or physical or mental desire or need. harbinger n. One who or that which
motions, as in speaking, or in place of gratuitous adj. Voluntarily. foreruns and announces the coming of
speech. gratuity n. That which is given without any person or thing.
gesture n. A movement or action of demand or claim. Tip. hard-hearted adj. Lacking pity or
the hands or face, expressive of some gravity n. Seriousness. sympathy.
idea or emotion. gregarious adj. Not habitually solitary hardihood n. Foolish daring.
ghastly adj. Hideous. or living alone. harmonious adj. Concordant in sound.
gibe v. To utter taunts or reproaches. grenadier n. A member of a regiment havoc n. Devastation.
giddy adj. Affected with a whirling or composed of men of great stature. hawthorn n. A thorny shrub much
swimming sensation in the head. grief n. Sorrow. used in England for hedges.
gigantic adj. Tremendous. grievance n. That which oppresses, hazard n. Risk.
giver n. One who gives, in any sense. injures, or causes grief and at the head first adv. Precipitately, as in
glacial adj. Icy, or icily cold. same time a sense of wrong. diving.
glacier n. A field or stream of ice. grievous adj. Creating affliction. head foremost adv. Precipitately, as in
gladden v. To make joyous. grimace n. A distortion of the diving.
glazier n. One who cuts and fits panes features, occasioned by some feeling heartrending adj. Very depressing.
of glass, as for windows. of pain, disgust, etc. heathenish adj. Irreligious.
glimmer n. A faint, wavering, unsteady grindstone n. A flat circular stone, heedless adj. Thoughtless.
light. used for sharpening tools. heifer n. A young cow.
glimpse n. A momentary look. grisly adj. Fear-inspiring. heinous adj. Odiously sinful.
globose adj. Spherical. grotesque adj. Incongruously hemorrhage n. Discharge of blood
globular adj. Spherical. composed or ill-proportioned. from a ruptured or wounded blood-
glorious adj. Of excellence and grotto n. A small cavern. vessel.
splendor. ground n. A pavement or floor or any hemorrhoids n. pl. Tumors composed
glutinous adj. Sticky. supporting surface on which one may of enlarged and thickened blood-
gluttonous adj. Given to excess in walk. vessels, at the lower end of the
eating. guess n. Surmise. rectum.
gnash v. To grind or strike the teeth guile n. Duplicity. henchman n. A servile assistant and
together, as from rage. guileless adj. Frank. subordinate.
Gordian knot n. Any difficulty the only guinea n. An English monetary unit. henpeck v. To worry or harass by ill
issue out of which is by bold or guise n. The external appearance as temper and petty annoyances.
unusual manners. produced by garb or costume. heptagon n. A figure having seven
gourmand n. A connoisseur in the gullible adj. Credulous. sides and seven angles.
delicacies of the table. gumption n. Common sense. heptarchy n. A group of seven
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governments. sound with but different in meaning hypocrisy n. Extreme insincerity.

herbaceous adj. Having the character from another. hypocrite n. One who makes false
of a herb. homophone n. A word agreeing in professions of his views or beliefs.
herbarium n. A collection of dried sound with but different in meaning hypodermic adj. Pertaining to the area
plants scientifically arranged for study. from another. under the skin.
herbivorous adj. Feeding on herbs or honorarium n. A token fee or payment hypotenuse n. The side of a right-
other vegetable matter, as animals. to a professional man for services. angled triangle opposite the right
hereditary adj. Passing naturally from hoodwink v. To deceive. angle.
parent to child. horde n. A gathered multitude of hypothesis n. A proposition taken for
heredity n. Transmission of physical or human beings. granted as a premise from which to
mental qualities, diseases, etc., from hosiery n. A stocking. reach a conclusion.
parent to offspring. hospitable adj. Disposed to treat hysteria n. A nervous affection
heresy n. An opinion or doctrine strangers or guests with generous occurring typically in paroxysms of
subversive of settled beliefs or kindness. laughing and crying.
accepted principles. hospitality n. The practice of receiving ichthyic adj. Fish-like.
heretic n. One who holds opinions and entertaining strangers and guests ichthyology n. The branch of zoology
contrary to the recognized standards with kindness. that treats of fishes.
or tenets of any philosophy. hostility n. Enmity. ichthyosaurs n. A fossil reptile.
heritage n. Birthright. huckster n. One who retails small icily adv. Frigidly.
hernia n. Protrusion of any internal wares. iciness n. The state of being icy.
organ in whole or in part from its humane adj. Compassionate. icon n. An image or likeness.
normal position. humanitarian n. A philanthropist. iconoclast n. An image-breaker.
hesitancy n. A pausing to consider. humanize v. To make gentle or idealize v. To make to conform to
hesitant adj. Vacillating. refined. some mental or imaginary standard.
hesitation n. Vacillation. humbug n. Anything intended or idiom n. A use of words peculiar to a
heterodox adj. At variance with any calculated to deceive or mislead. particular language.
commonly accepted doctrine or humiliate v. To put to shame. idiosyncrasy n. A mental quality or
opinion. hussar n. A light-horse trooper armed habit peculiar to an individual.
heterogeneity n. Unlikeness of with saber and carbine. idolize v. To regard with inordinate
constituent parts. hustle v. To move with haste and love or admiration.
heterogeneous adj. Consisting of promptness. ignoble adj. Low in character or
dissimilar elements or ingredients of hybrid adj. Cross-bred. purpose.
different kinds. hydra n. The seven- or nine-headed ignominious adj. Shameful.
heteromorphic adj. Deviating from the water-serpent slain by Hercules. Iliad n. A Greek epic poem describing
normal form or standard type. hydraulic adj. Involving the moving of scenes from the siege of Troy.
hexangular adj. Having six angles. water, of the force exerted by water illegal adj. Not according to law.
hexapod adj. Having six feet. in motion. illegible adj. Undecipherable.
hexagon n. A figure with six angles. hydrodynamics n. The branch of illegitimate adj. Unlawfully begotten.
hiatus n. A break or vacancy where mechanics that treats of the dynamics illiberal adj. Stingy.
something necessary to supply the of fluids. illicit adj. Unlawful.
connection is wanting. hydroelectric adj. Pertaining to illimitable adj. Boundless.
hibernal adj. Pertaining to winter. electricity developed water or steam. illiterate adj. Having little or no book-
Hibernian adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or hydromechanics n. The mechanics of learning.
its people. fluids. ill-natured adj. Surly.
hideous adj. Appalling. hydrometer n. An instrument for illogical adj. Contrary to the rules of
hilarious adj. Boisterously merry. determining the density of solids and sound thought.
hillock n. A small hill or mound. liquids by flotation. illuminant n. That which may be used
hinder v. To obstruct. hydrostatics n. The branch of science to produce light.
hindmost adj. Farthest from the front. that treats of the pressure and illuminate v. To supply with light.
hindrance n. An obstacle. equilibrium of fluids. illumine v. To make bright or clear.
hirsute adj. Having a hairy covering. hydrous adj. Watery. illusion n. An unreal image presented
hoard v. To gather and store away for hygiene n. The branch of medical to the senses.
the sake of accumulation. science that relates to improving illusive adj. Deceptive.
hoarse adj. Having the voice harsh or health. illusory adj. Deceiving or tending to
rough, as from a cold or fatigue. hypercritical adj. Faultfinding. deceive, as by false appearance.
homage n. Reverential regard or hypnosis n. An artificial trance-sleep. imaginable adj. That can be imagined
worship. hypnotic adj. Tending to produce or conceived in the mind.
homogeneity n. Congruity of the sleep. imaginary adj. Fancied.
members or elements or parts. hypnotism n. An artificially induced imbibe v. To drink or take in.
homogeneous adj. Made up of similar somnambulistic state in which the imbroglio n. A misunderstanding
parts or elements. mind readily acts on suggestion. attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or
homologous adj. Identical in nature, hypnotize v. To produce a strife.
make-up, or relation. somnambulistic state in which the imbrue v. To wet or moisten.
homonym n. A word agreeing in mind readily acts on suggestions. imitation n. That which is made as a
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likeness or copy. impersonate v. To appear or act in the inadvisable adj. Unadvisable.

imitator n. One who makes in character of. inane adj. Silly.
imitation. impersuadable adj. Unyielding. inanimate adj. Destitute of animal life.
immaculate adj. Without spot or impertinence n. Rudeness. inapprehensible adj. Not to be
blemish. imperturbable adj. Calm. understood.
immaterial adj. Of no essential impervious adj. Impenetrable. inapt adj. Awkward or slow.
consequence. impetuosity n. Rashness. inarticulate adj. Speechless.
immature adj. Not full-grown. impetuous adj. Impulsive. inaudible adj. That can not be heard.
immeasurable adj. Indefinitely impetus n. Any impulse or incentive. inborn adj. Implanted by nature.
extensive. impiety n. Irreverence toward God. inbred adj. Innate.
immense adj. Very great in degree, impious adj. Characterized by incandescence n. The state of being
extent, size, or quantity. irreverence or irreligion. white or glowing with heat.
immerse v. To plunge or dip entirely implausible adj. Not plausible. incandescent adj. White or glowing
under water or other fluid. impliable adj. Capable of being with heat.
immersion n. The act of plunging or inferred. incapacitate v. To deprive of power,
dipping entirely under water or implicate v. To show or prove to be capacity, competency, or qualification.
another fluid. involved in or concerned incapacity n. Want of power to
immigrant n. A foreigner who enters a implicit adj. Implied. apprehend, understand, and manage.
country to settle there. imply v. To signify. incarcerate v. To imprison.
immigrate v. To come into a country impolitic adj. Inexpedient. incendiary n. Chemical or person who
or region from a former habitat. importation n. The act or practice of starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
imminence n. Impending evil or bringing from one country into incentive n. That which moves the
danger. another. mind or inflames the passions.
imminent adj. Dangerous and close at importunate adj. Urgent in character, inception n. The beginning.
hand. request, or demand. inceptive adj. Beginning.
immiscible adj. Separating, as oil and importune v. To harass with persistent incessant adj. Unceasing.
water. demands or entreaties. inchmeal adv. Piecemeal.
immoral adj. Habitually engaged in impotent adj. Destitute of or lacking in inchoate adj. Incipient.
licentious or lewd practices. power, physical, moral, or intellectual. inchoative n. That which begins, or
immortalize v. To cause to last or to impoverish v. To make indigent or expresses beginning.
be known or remembered throughout poor. incidence n. Casual occurrence.
a great or indefinite length of time. impracticable adj. Not feasible. incident n. A happening in general,
immovable adj. Steadfast. impregnable adj. That can not be especially one of little importance.
immune adj. Exempt, as from disease. taken by assault. incidentally adv. Without intention.
immutable adj. Unchangeable. impregnate v. To make pregnant. incinerate v. To reduce to ashes.
impair v. To cause to become less or impromptu n. Anything done or said incipience n. Beginning.
worse. on the impulse of the moment. incipient adj. Initial.
impalpable adj. Imperceptible to the improper adj. Not appropriate, incisor n. A front or cutting tooth.
touch. suitable, or becoming. incite v. To rouse to a particular
impartial adj. Unbiased. impropriety n. The state or quality of action.
impassable adj. That can not be being unfit, unseemly, or incitement n. That which moves to
passed through or over. inappropriate. action, or serves as an incentive or
impassible adj. Not moved or affected improvident adj. Lacking foresight or stimulus.
by feeling. thrift. incoercible adj. Incapable of being
impassive adj. Unmoved by or not improvise v. To do anything forced, constrained, or compelled.
exhibiting feeling. extemporaneously or offhand. incoherence n. Want of connection, or
impatience n. Unwillingness to brook imprudent adj. Heedless. agreement, as of parts or ideas in
delays or wait the natural course of impudence n. Insolent disrespect. thought, speech, etc.
things. impugn v. To assail with arguments, incoherent adj. Not logically
impeccable adj. Blameless. insinuations, or accusations. coordinated, as to parts, elements, or
impecunious adj. Having no money. impulsion n. Impetus. details.
impede v. To be an obstacle or to impulsive adj. Unpremeditated. incombustible adj. That can not be
place obstacles in the way of. impunity n. Freedom from burned.
impel v. To drive or urge forward. punishment. incomparable adj. Matchless.
impend v. To be imminent. impure adj. Tainted. incompatible adj. Discordant.
imperative adj. Obligatory. impute v. To attribute. incompetence n. General lack of
imperceptible adj. Indiscernible. inaccessible adj. Difficult of approach. capacity or fitness.
imperfectible adj. That can not be inaccurate adj. Not exactly according incompetent adj. Not having the
perfected. to the facts. abilities desired or necessary for any
imperil v. To endanger. inactive adj. Inert. purpose.
imperious adj. Insisting on obedience. inadequate adj. Insufficient. incomplete adj. Lacking some
impermissible adj. Not permissible. inadmissible adj. Not to be approved, element, part, or adjunct necessary or
impersonal adj. Not relating to a considered, or allowed, as testimony. required.
particular person or thing. inadvertent adj. Accidental. incomprehensible adj. Not
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understandable. inedible adj. Not good for food. infrequence n. Rareness.

incompressible adj. Resisting all ineffable adj. Unutterable. infrequent adj. Uncommon.
attempts to reduce volume by inefficient adj. Not accomplishing an infringe v. To trespass upon.
pressure. intended purpose. infuse v. To instill, introduce, or
inconceivable adj. Incomprehensible. inefficiency n. That which does not inculcate, as principles or qualities.
incongruous adj. Unsuitable for the accomplish an intended purpose. infusion n. The act of imbuing, or
time, place, or occasion. ineligible adj. Not suitable to be pouring in.
inconsequential adj. Valueless. selected or chosen. ingenious adj. Evincing skill,
inconsiderable adj. Small in quantity inept adj. Not fit or suitable. originality, or cleverness, as in
or importance. inert adj. Inanimate. contrivance or arrangement.
inconsistent adj. Contradictory. inestimable adj. Above price. ingenuity n. Cleverness in contriving,
inconstant adj. Changeable. inevitable adj. Unavoidable. combining, or originating.
incontrovertible adj. Indisputable. inexcusable adj. Not to be justified. ingenuous adj. Candid, frank, or open
inconvenient adj. Interfering with inexhaustible adj. So large or in character or quality.
comfort or progress. furnishing so great a supply as not to inglorious adj. Shameful.
indefensible adj. Untenable. be emptied, wasted, or spent. ingraft v. To set or implant deeply and
indefinitely adv. In a vague or inexorable adj. Unrelenting. firmly.
uncertain way. inexpedient adj. Unadvisable. ingratiate v. To win confidence or
indelible adj. That can not be blotted inexpensive adj. Low-priced. good graces for oneself.
out, effaced, destroyed, or removed. inexperience n. Lack of or deficiency in ingratitude n. Insensibility to kindness.
indescribable adj. That can not be experience. ingredient n. Component.
described. inexplicable adj. Such as can not be inherence n. The state of being
indestructible adj. That can not be made plain. permanently existing in something.
destroyed. inexpressible adj. Unutterable. inherent adj. Intrinsic.
indicant adj. That which points out. inextensible adj. Of unchangeable inhibit v. To hold back or in.
indicator n. One who or that which length or area. inhospitable adj. Not disposed to
points out. infallible adj. Exempt from error of entertain strangers gratuitously.
indict v. To find and declare judgment, as in opinion or statement. inhuman adj. Savage.
chargeable with crime. infamous adj. Publicly branded or inhume v. To place in the earth, as a
indigence n. Poverty. notorious, as for vice, or crime. dead body.
indigenous adj. Native. infamy n. Total loss or destitution of inimical adj. Adverse.
indigent adj. Poor. honor or reputation. iniquity n. Gross wrong or injustice.
indigestible adj. Not digestible, or inference n. The derivation of a initiate v. To perform the first act or
difficult to digest. judgment from any given material of rite.
indigestion n. Difficulty or failure in knowledge on the ground of law. inject v. To introduce, as a fluid, by
the alimentary canal in changing food infernal adj. Akin to or befitting hell or injection.
into absorptive nutriment. its occupants. injunction n. Mandate.
indignant adj. Having such anger and infest v. To be present in such inkling n. A hint.
scorn as is aroused by meanness or numbers as to be a source of inland adj. Remote from the sea.
wickedness. annoyance, trouble, or danger. inlet n. A small body of water leading
indignity n. Unmerited contemptuous infidel n. One who denies the into a larger.
conduct or treatment. existence of God. inmost adj. Deepest within.
indiscernible adj. Not perceptible. infidelity n. Disloyalty. innocuous adj. Harmless.
indiscreet adj. Lacking wise judgment. infinite adj. Measureless. innovate v. To introduce or strive to
indiscriminate adj. Promiscuous. infinity n. Boundless or immeasurable introduce new things.
indispensable adj. Necessary or extension or duration. innuendo n. Insinuation.
requisite for the purpose. infirm adj. Lacking in bodily or mental innumerable adj. Countless.
indistinct adj. Vague. strength. inoffensive adj. Causing nothing
indivertible adj. That can not be infirmary n. A place for the reception displeasing or disturbing.
turned aside. or treatment of the sick. inopportune adj. Unsuitable or
indivisible adj. Not separable into infirmity n. A physical, mental, or inconvenient, especially as to time.
parts. moral weakness or flaw. inquire v. To ask information about.
indolence n. Laziness. inflammable adj. Easily set on fire or inquisition n. A court or tribunal for
indolent adj. Habitually inactive or excited. examination and punishment of
idle. inflammation n. A morbid process in heretics.
indomitable adj. Unconquerable. some part of the body characterized inquisitive adj. Given to questioning,
induct v. To bring in. by heat, swelling, and pain. especially out of curiosity.
indulgence n. The yielding to inflexible adj. That can not be altered inquisitor n. One who makes an
inclination, passion, desire, or or varied. investigation.
propensity in oneself or another. influence n. Ability to sway the will of inroad n. Forcible encroachment or
indulgent adj. Yielding to the desires another. trespass.
or humor of oneself or those under influential adj. Having the power to insatiable adj. That desires or craves
one's care. sway the will of another. immoderately or unappeasably.
inebriate v. To intoxicate. influx n. Infusion. inscribe v. To enter in a book, or on a
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list, roll, or document, by writing. or indulgence, as of the appetites. intolerance n. Inability or

inscrutable adj. Impenetrably intension n. The act of stringing or unwillingness to bear or endure.
mysterious or profound. stretching, or state of being strained. intolerant adj. Bigoted.
insecure adj. Not assured of safety. intensive adj. Adding emphasis or intoxicant n. Anything that unduly
insensible adj. Imperceptible. force. exhilarates or excites.
insentient adj. Lacking the power of intention n. That upon which the mind intoxicate v. To make drunk.
feeling or perceiving. is set. intracellular adj. Occurring or situated
inseparable adj. That can not be interact v. To act reciprocally. within a cell.
separated. intercede v. To mediate between intramural adj. Situated within the
insidious adj. Working ill by slow and persons. walls of a city.
stealthy means. intercept v. To interrupt the course of. intrepid adj. Fearless and bold.
insight n. Intellectual discernment. intercession n. Entreaty in behalf of intricacy n. Perplexity.
insignificance n. Lack of import or of others. intricate adj. Difficult to follow or
importance. intercessor n. A mediator. understand.
insignificant adj. Without importance, interdict n. Authoritative act of intrigue n. A plot or scheme, usually
force, or influence. prohibition. complicated and intended to
insinuate v. To imply. interim n. Time between acts or accomplish something by secret ways.
insipid adj. Tasteless. periods. intrinsic adj. Inherent.
insistence n. Urgency. interlocutor n. One who takes part in introductory adj. Preliminary.
insistent adj. Urgent. a conversation or oral discussion. introgression n. Entrance.
insolence n. Pride or haughtiness interlude n. An action or event intromit v. To insert.
exhibited in contemptuous and considered as coming between others introspect v. To look into.
overbearing treatment of others. of greater length. introspection n. The act of observing
insolent adj. Impudent. intermediate adj. Being in a middle and analyzing one's own thoughts and
insomnia n. Sleeplessness. place or degree or between extremes. feelings.
inspector n. An official appointed to interminable adj. Having no limit or introversion n. The act of turning or
examine or oversee any matter of end. directing inward, physically or
public interest or importance. intermission n. A recess. mentally.
instance n. A single occurrence or intermit v. To cause to cease introvert v. To turn within.
happening of a given kind. temporarily. intrude v. To come in without leave or
instant n. A very brief portion of time. intermittent adj. A temporary license.
instantaneous adj. Done without discontinuance. intrusion n. The act of entering
perceptible lapse of time. interpolation n. Verbal interference. without warrant or invitation;
instigate v. To provoke. interpose v. To come between other encroachment.
instigator n. One who incites to evil. things or persons. intuition n. Instinctive knowledge or
instill v. To infuse. interposition n. A coming between. feeling.
instructive adj. Conveying knowledge. interpreter n. A person who makes inundate v. To fill with an overflowing
insufficiency n. Inadequacy. intelligible the speech of a foreigner abundance.
insufficient adj. Inadequate for some by oral translation. inundation n. Flood.
need, purpose, or use. interrogate v. To examine formally by inure v. To harden or toughen by use,
insular adj. Pertaining to an island. questioning. exercise, or exposure.
insulate v. To place in a detached interrogative adj. Having the nature or invalid adj. Having no force, weight, or
state or situation. form of a question. cogency.
insuperable adj. Invincible. interrogatory n. A question or inquiry. invalid n. One who is disabled by
insuppressible adj. Incapable of being interrupt v. To stop while in progress. illness or injury.
concealed. intersect v. To cut through or into so invalidate v. To render of no force or
insurgence n. Uprising. as to divide. effect.
insurgent n. One who takes part in intervale n. A low tract of land invaluable adj. Exceedingly precious.
forcible opposition to the constituted between hills, especially along a river. invariable adj. Unchangeable.
authorities of a place. intervene v. To interfere for some invasion n. Encroachment, as by an act
insurrection n. The state of being in end. of intrusion or trespass.
active resistance to authority. intestacy n. The condition resulting invective n. An utterance intended to
intangible adj. Not perceptible to the from one's dying not having made a cast censure, or reproach.
touch. valid will. inveigh v. To utter vehement censure
integrity n. Uprightness of character intestate adj. Not having made a valid or invective.
and soundness of moral principle. will. inventive adj. Quick at contrivance.
intellect n. The faculty of perception intestine n. That part of the digestive inverse adj. Contrary in tendency or
or thought. tube below or behind the stomach, direction.
intellectual adj. Characterized by extending to the anus. inversion n. Change of order so that
intelligence. intimacy n. Close or confidential the first shall become last and the last
intelligence n. Capacity to know or friendship. first.
understand. intimidate v. To cause to become invert v. To turn inside out, upside
intelligible adj. Comprehensible. frightened. down, or in opposite direction.
intemperance n. Immoderate action intolerable adj. Insufferable. investigator n. One who investigates.
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investor n. One who invests money. irreversible adj. Irrevocable. jugular adj. Pertaining to the throat.
inveterate adj. Habitual. irrigant adj. Serving to water lands by juicy adj. Succulent.
invidious adj. Showing or feeling envy. artificial means. junction n. The condition of being
invigorate v. To animate. irrigate v. To water, as land, by ditches joined.
invincible adj. Not to be conquered, or other artificial means. juncture n. An articulation, joint, or
subdued, or overcome. irritable adj. Showing impatience or ill seam.
inviolable adj. Incapable of being temper on little provocation. junta n. A council or assembly that
injured or disturbed. irritancy n. The quality of producing deliberates in secret upon the affairs
invoke v. To call on for assistance or vexation. of government.
protection. irritant n. A mechanical, chemical, or juridical adj. Assumed by law to exist.
involuntary adj. Unwilling. pathological agent of inflammation, jurisdiction n. Lawful power or right to
involution n. Complication. pain, or tension. exercise official authority.
involve v. To draw into entanglement, irritate v. To excite ill temper or jurisprudence n. The science of rights
literally or figuratively. impatience in. in accordance with positive law.
invulnerable adj. That can not be irruption n. Sudden invasion. juror n. One who serves on a jury or is
wounded or hurt. isle n. An island. sworn in for jury duty in a court of
inwardly adv. With no outward islet n. A little island. justice.
manifestation. isobar n. A line joining points at which joust v. To engage in a tilt with lances
iota n. A small or insignificant mark or the barometric pressure is the same at on horseback.
part. a specified moment. justification n. Vindication.
irascible adj. Prone to anger. isochronous adj. Relating to or juvenile adj. Characteristic of youth.
irate adj. Moved to anger. denoting equal intervals of time. juxtapose v. To place close together.
ire n. Wrath. isolate v. To separate from others of keepsake n. Anything kept or given to
iridescence n. A many-colored its kind. be kept for the sake of the giver.
appearance. isothermal adj. Having or marking kerchief n. A square of linen, silk, or
iridescent adj. Exhibiting changing equality of temperature. other material, used as a covering for
rainbow-colors due to the itinerant adj. Wandering. the head or neck.
interference of the light. itinerary n. A detailed account or diary kernel n. A grain or seed.
irk v. To afflict with pain, vexation, or of a journey. kiln n. An oven or furnace for baking,
fatigue. itinerate v. To wander from place to burning, or drying industrial products.
irksome adj. Wearisome. place. kiloliter n. One thousand liters.
irony n. Censure or ridicule under jargon n. Confused, unintelligible kilometer n. A length of 1,000 meters.
cover of praise or compliment. speech or highly technical speech. kilowatt n. One thousand watts.
irradiance n. Luster. jaundice n. A morbid condition, due to kimono n. A loose robe, fastening with
irradiate v. To render clear and obstructed excretion of bile or a sash, the principal outer garment in
intelligible. characterized by yellowing of the skin. Japan.
irrational adj. Not possessed of jeopardize v. To imperil. kind-hearted adj. Having a kind and
reasoning powers or understanding. Jingo n. One of a party in Great Britain sympathetic nature.
irreducible adj. That can not be in favor of spirited and demonstrative kingling n. A petty king.
lessened. foreign policy. kingship n. Royal state.
irrefragable adj. That can not be jocose adj. Done or made in jest. kinsfolk n. pl. Relatives.
refuted or disproved. jocular adj. Inclined to joke. knavery n. Deceitfulness in dealing.
irrefrangible adj. That can not be joggle n. A sudden irregular shake or a knead v. To mix and work into a
broken or violated. push causing such a shake. homogeneous mass, especially with
irrelevant adj. Inapplicable. journalize v. To keep a diary. the hands.
irreligious adj. Indifferent or opposed jovial adj. Merry. knickknack n. A small article, more for
to religion. jubilation n. Exultation. ornament that use.
irreparable adj. That can not be judgment n. The faculty by the knight errant n. One of the wandering
rectified or made amends for. exercise of which a deliberate knights who in the middle ages went
irrepressible adj. That can not be conclusion is reached. forth in search of adventure.
restrained or kept down. judicature n. Distribution and knighthood n. Chivalry.
irresistible adj. That can not be administration of justice by trial and laborious adj. Toilsome.
successfully withstood or opposed. judgment. labyrinth n. A maze.
irresponsible adj. Careless of or judicial adj. Pertaining to the lacerate v. To tear rudely or raggedly.
unable to meet responsibilities. administration of justice. lackadaisical adj. Listless.
irreverence n. The quality showing or judiciary n. That department of lactation n. The secretion of milk.
expressing a deficiency of veneration, government which administers the lacteal adj. Milky.
especially for sacred things. law relating to civil and criminal lactic adj. Pertaining to milk.
irreverent adj. Showing or expressing justice. laddie n. A lad.
a deficiency of veneration, especially judicious adj. Prudent. ladle n. A cup-shaped vessel with a
for sacred things. juggle v. To play tricks of sleight of long handle, intended for dipping up
irreverential adj. Showing or hand. and pouring liquids.
expressing a deficiency of veneration, jugglery n. The art or practice of laggard adj. Falling behind.
especially for sacred things. sleight of hand. landholder n. Landowner.
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landlord n. A man who owns and lets lenient adj. Not harsh. inflammation, etc.
a tenement or tenements. leonine adj. Like a lion. liquefacient adj. Possessing a
landmark n. A familiar object in the lethargy n. Prolonged sluggishness of liquefying nature or power.
landscape serving as a guide to an body or mind. liquefy v. To convert into a liquid or
area otherwise easily lost track of. levee n. An embankment beside a into liquid form.
landscape n. A rural view, especially river or stream or an arm of the sea, liqueur n. An alcoholic cordial
one of picturesque effect, as seen to prevent overflow. sweetened and flavored with aromatic
from a distance or an elevation. lever n. That which exerts, or through substances.
languid adj. Relaxed. which one may exert great power. liquidate v. To deliver the amount or
languor n. Lassitude of body or leviathan n. Any large animal, as a value of.
depression. whale. liquor n. Any alcoholic or intoxicating
lapse n. A slight deviation from what is levity n. Frivolity. liquid.
right, proper, or just. levy v. To impose and collect by force listless adj. Inattentive.
lascivious adj. Lustful. or threat of force. literacy n. The state or condition of
lassie n. A little lass. lewd adj. Characterized by lust or knowing how to read and write.
latent adj. Dormant. lasciviousness. literal adj. Following the exact words.
latency n. The state of being dormant. lexicographer n. One who makes literature n. The written or printed
later adv. At a subsequent time. dictionaries. productions of the human mind
lateral adj. Directed toward the side. lexicography n. The making of collectively.
latish adj. Rather late. dictionaries. lithe adj. Supple.
lattice n. Openwork of metal or wood, lexicon n. A dictionary. lithesome adj. Nimble.
formed by crossing or interlacing liable adj. Justly or legally responsible. lithograph n. A print made by printing
strips or bars. libel n. Defamation. from stone.
laud v. To praise in words or song. liberalism n. Opposition to lithotype n. In engraving, an etched
laudable adj. Praiseworthy. conservatism. stone surface for printing.
laudation n. High praise. liberate v. To set free or release from litigant n. A party to a lawsuit.
laudatory adj. Pertaining to, bondage. litigate v. To cause to become the
expressing, or containing praise. licentious adj. Wanton. subject-matter of a suit at law.
laundress n. Washerwoman. licit adj. Lawful. litigious adj. Quarrelsome.
laureate adj. Crowned with laurel, as a liege adj. Sovereign. littoral adj. Of, pertaining to, or living
mark of distinction. lien n. A legal claim or hold on on a shore.
lave v. To wash or bathe. property, as security for a debt or liturgy n. A ritual.
lawgiver n. A legislator. charge. livelihood n. Means of subsistence.
lawmaker n. A legislator. lieu n. Stead. livid adj. Black-and-blue, as contused
lax adj. Not stringent or energetic. lifelike adj. Realistic. flesh.
laxative adj. Having power to open or lifelong adj. Lasting or continuous loam n. A non-coherent mixture of
loosen the bowels. through life. sand and clay.
lea n. A field. lifetime n. The time that life loath adj. Averse.
leaflet n. A little leaf or a booklet. continues. loathe v. To abominate.
leaven v. To make light by ligament n. That which binds objects locative adj. Indicating place, or the
fermentation, as dough. together. place where or wherein an action
leeward n. That side or direction ligature n. Anything that constricts, or occurs.
toward which the wind blows. serves for binding or tying. loch n. A lake.
left-handed adj. Using the left hand or light-hearted adj. Free from care. locomotion n. The act or power of
arm more dexterously than the right. ligneous adj. Having the texture of moving from one place to another.
legacy n. A bequest. appearance of wood. lode n. A somewhat continuous
legalize v. To give the authority of law likelihood n. A probability. unstratified metal- bearing vein.
to. likely adj. Plausible. lodgment n. The act of furnishing with
legging n. A covering for the leg. liking n. Fondness. temporary quarters.
legible adj. That may be read with limitation n. A restriction. logic n. The science of correct
ease. linear adj. Of the nature of a line. thinking.
legionary n. A member of an ancient liner n. A vessel belonging to a logical adj. Capable of or characterized
Roman legion or of the modern steamship-line. by clear reasoning.
French Legion of Honor. lingo n. Language. logician n. An expert reasoner.
legislate v. To make or enact a law or lingua n. The tongue. loiterer n. One who consumes time
laws. lingual adj. Pertaining to the use of idly.
legislative adj. That makes or enacts the tongue in utterance. loneliness n. Solitude.
laws. linguist n. One who is acquainted with longevity n. Unusually prolonged life.
legislator n. A lawgiver. several languages. loot v. To plunder.
legitimacy n. Accordance with law. linguistics n. The science of languages, loquacious adj. Talkative.
legitimate adj. Having the sanction of or of the origin, history, and lordling n. A little lord.
law or established custom. significance of words. lough n. A lake or loch.
leisure n. Spare time. liniment n. A liquid preparation for louse n. A small insect parasitic on and
leniency n. Forbearance. rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, sucking the blood of mammals.
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lovable adj. Amiable. appearance, quality, or action. ornamented, about a fireplace,

low-spirited adj. Despondent. magnitude n. Importance. including the usual shelf above it.
lowly adv. Rudely. maharaja n. A great Hindu prince. mantle n. A cloak.
lucid adj. Mentally sound. maidenhood n. Virginity. manufacturer n. A person engaged in
lucrative adj. Highly profitable. maintain v. To hold or preserve in any manufacturing as a business.
ludicrous adj. Laughable. particular state or condition. manumission n. Emancipation.
luminary n. One of the heavenly maintenance n. That which supports manumit v. To set free from bondage.
bodies as a source of light. or sustains. marine adj. Of or pertaining to the sea
luminescent adj. Showing increase of maize n. Indian corn: usually in the or matters connected with the sea.
light. United States called simply corn. maritime adj. Situated on or near the
luminescence n. Showing increase. makeup n. The arrangements or sea.
luminosity n. The quality of giving or combination of the parts of which maroon v. To put ashore and abandon
radiating light. anything is composed. (a person) on a desolate coast or
luminous adj. Giving or radiating light. malady n. Any physical disease or island.
lunacy n. Mental unsoundness. disorder, especially a chronic or deep- martial adj. Pertaining to war or
lunar adj. Pertaining to the moon. seated one. military operations.
lunatic n. An insane person. malaria n. A fever characterized by Martian adj. Pertaining to Mars, either
lune n. The moon. alternating chills, fever, and sweating. the Roman god of war or the planet.
lurid adj. Ghastly and sensational. malcontent n. One who is dissatisfied martyrdom n. Submission to death or
luscious adj. Rich, sweet, and with the existing state of affairs. persecution for the sake of faith or
delicious. malediction n. The calling down of a principle.
lustrous adj. Shining. curse or curses. marvel v. To be astonished and
luxuriance n. Excessive or superfluous malefactor n. One who injures perplexed because of (something).
growth or quantity. another. masonry n. The art or work of
luxuriant adj. Abundant or maleficent adj. Mischievous. constructing, as buildings, walls, etc.,
superabundant in growth. malevolence n. Ill will. with regularly arranged stones.
luxuriate v. To live sumptuously. malevolent adj. Wishing evil to others. masquerade n. A social party
lying n. Untruthfulness. malign v. To speak evil of, especially to composed of persons masked and
lyre n. One of the most ancient of do so falsely and severely. costumed so as to be disguised.
stringed instruments of the harp class. malignant adj. Evil in nature or massacre n. The unnecessary and
lyric adj. Fitted for expression in song. tending to do great harm or mischief. indiscriminate killing of human beings.
macadamize v. To cover or pave, as a malleable adj. Pliant. massive adj. Of considerable bulk and
path or roadway, with small broken mallet n. A wooden hammer. weight.
stone. maltreat v. To treat ill, unkindly, masterpiece n. A superior production.
machinery n. The parts of a machine roughly, or abusively. mastery n. The attainment of superior
or engine, taken collectively. man-trap n. A place or structure skill.
machinist n. One who makes or dangerous to human life. material n. That of which anything is
repairs machines, or uses metal- mandate n. A command. composed or may be constructed.
working tools. mandatory adj. Expressive of positive materialize v. To take perceptible or
macrocosm n. The whole of any command, as distinguished from substantial form.
sphere or department of nature or merely directory. maternal adj. Pertaining or peculiar to
knowledge to which man is related. mane n. The long hair growing upon a mother or to motherhood.
madden v. To inflame with passion. and about the neck of certain animals, matinee n. An entertainment
Madonna n. A painted or sculptured as the horse and the lion. (especially theatrical) held in the
representation of the Virgin, usually man-eater n. An animal that devours daytime.
with the infant Jesus. human beings. matricide n. The killing, especially the
magician n. A sorcerer. maneuver v. To make adroit or artful murdering, of one's mother.
magisterial adj. Having an air of moves: manage affairs by strategy. matrimony n. The union of a man and
authority. mania n. Insanity. a woman in marriage.
magistracy n. The office or dignity of a maniac n. a person raving with matrix n. That which contains and
magistrate. madness. gives shape or form to anything.
magnanimous adj. Generous in manifesto n. A public declaration, matter of fact n. Something that has
treating or judging others. making announcement, explanation or actual and undeniable existence or
magnate n. A person of rank or defense of intentions, or motives. reality.
importance. manlike adj. Like a man. maudlin adj. Foolishly and tearfully
magnet n. A body possessing that manliness n. The qualities affectionate.
peculiar form of polarity found in characteristic of a true man, as mausoleum n. A tomb of more than
nature in the lodestone. bravery, resolution, etc. ordinary size or architectural
magnetize v. To make a magnet of, mannerism n. Constant or excessive pretensions.
permanently, or temporarily. adherence to one manner, style, or mawkish adj. Sickening or insipid.
magnificence n. The exhibition of peculiarity, as of action or conduct. maxim n. A principle accepted as true
greatness of action, character, manor n. The landed estate of a lord and acted on as a rule or guide.
intellect, wealth, or power. or nobleman. maze n. A labyrinth.
magnificent adj. Grand or majestic in mantel n. The facing, sometimes richly mead n. A meadow.
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meager adj. scanty. metaphor n. A figure of speech in temporary military organizations.

mealy-mouthed adj. Afraid to express which one object is likened to Milky Way n. The galaxy.
facts or opinions plainly. another, by speaking as if the other. millet n. A grass cultivated for forage
meander v. To wind and turn while metaphysical adj. Philosophical. and cereal.
proceeding in a course. metaphysician n. One skilled in mimic v. To imitate the speech or
mechanics n. The branch of physics metaphysics. actions of.
that treats the phenomena caused by metaphysics n. The principles of miniature adj. Much smaller than
the action of forces. philosophy as applied to explain the reality or that the normal size.
medallion n. A large medal. methods of any particular science. minimize v. To reduce to the smallest
meddlesome adj. Interfering. mete v. To apportion. possible amount or degree.
medial adj. Of or pertaining to the metempsychosis n. Transition of the minion n. A servile favorite.
middle. soul of a human being at death into ministration n. Any religious
mediate v. To effect by negotiating as another body, whether human or ceremonial.
an agent between parties. beast. ministry n. A service.
medicine n. A substance possessing or meticulous adj. Over-cautious. minority n. The smaller in number of
reputed to possess curative or metonymy n. A figure of speech that two portions into which a number or a
remedial properties. consists in the naming of a thing by group is divided.
medieval adj. Belonging or relating to one of its attributes. minute adj. Exceedingly small in
or descriptive of the middle ages. metric adj. Relating to measurement. extent or quantity.
mediocre adj. Ordinary. metronome n. An instrument for minutia n. A small or unimportant
meditation n. The turning or revolving indicating and marking exact time in particular or detail.
of a subject in the mind. music. mirage n. An optical effect looking like
medley n. A composition of different metropolis n. A chief city, either the a sheet of water in the desert.
songs or parts of songs arranged to capital or the largest or most misadventure n. An unlucky accident.
run as a continuous whole. important city of a state. misanthropic adj. Hating mankind.
meliorate v. To make better or metropolitan adj. Pertaining to a chief misanthropy n. Hatred of mankind.
improve, as in quality or social or city. misapprehend v. To misunderstand.
physical condition. mettle n. Courage. misbehave v. To behave ill.
mellifluous adj. Sweetly or smoothly mettlesome adj. Having courage or misbehavior n. Ill or improper
flowing. spirit. behavior.
melodious adj. Characterized by a microcosm n. The world or universe mischievous adj. Fond of tricks.
sweet succession of sounds. on a small scale. miscount v. To make a mistake in
melodrama n. A drama with a micrometer n. An instrument for counting.
romantic story or plot and sensational measuring very small angles or miscreant n. A villain.
situation and incidents. dimensions. misdeed n. A wrong or improper act.
memento n. A souvenir. microphone n. An apparatus for misdemeanor n. Evil conduct, small
memorable adj. Noteworthy. magnifying faint sounds. crime.
menace n. A threat. microscope n. An instrument for miser n. A person given to saving and
menagerie n. A collection of wild assisting the eye in the vision of hoarding unduly.
animals, especially when kept for minute objects or features of objects. mishap n. Misfortune.
exhibition. microscopic adj. Adapted to or misinterpret v. To misunderstand.
mendacious adj. Untrue. characterized by minute observation. mislay v. To misplace.
mendicant n. A beggar. microscopy n. The art of examing mismanage v. To manage badly,
mentality n. Intellectuality. objects with the microscope. improperly, or unskillfully.
mentor n. A wise and faithful teacher, midsummer n. The middle of the misnomer n. A name wrongly or
guide, and friend. summer. mistakenly applied.
mercantile adj. Conducted or acting midwife n. A woman who makes a misogamy n. Hatred of marriage.
on business principles; commercial. business of assisting at childbirth. misogyny n. Hatred of women.
mercenary adj. Greedy mien n. The external appearance or misplace v. To put into a wrong place.
merciful adj. Disposed to pity and manner of a person. misrepresent v. To give a wrong
forgive. migrant adj. Wandering. impression.
merciless adj. Cruel. migrate v. To remove or pass from misrule v. To misgovern.
meretricious adj. Alluring by false or one country, region, or habitat to missal n. The book containing the
gaudy show. another. service for the celebration of mass.
mesmerize v. To hypnotize. migratory adj. Wandering. missile n. Any object, especially a
messieurs n. pl. Gentlemen. mileage n. A distance in miles. weapon, thrown or intended to be
metal n. An element that forms a base militant adj. Of a warlike or combative thrown.
by combining with oxygen, is usually disposition or tendency. missive n. A message in writing.
hard, heavy, and lustrous. militarism n. A policy of maintaining mistrust v. To regard with suspicion or
metallurgy n. The art or science of great standing armies. jealousy.
extracting a metal from ores, as by militate v. To have weight or influence misty adj. Lacking clearness
smelting. (in determining a question). misunderstand v. To Take in a wrong
metamorphosis n. A passing from one militia n. Those citizens, collectively, sense.
form or shape into another. who are enrolled and drilled in misuse v. To maltreat.
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mite n. A very small amount, portion, monopoly n. The control of a thing, as municipal government.
or particle. a commodity, to enable a person to munificence n. A giving characterized
miter n. The junction of two bodies at raise its price. by generous motives and
an equally divided angle. monosyllable n. A word of one extraordinary liberality.
mitigate v. To make milder or more syllable. munificent adj. Extraordinarily
endurable. monotone n. The sameness or generous.
mnemonics n. A system of principles monotony of utterance. muster n. An assemblage or review of
and formulas designed to assist the monotonous adj. Unchanging and troops for parade or inspection, or for
recollection in certain instances. tedious. numbering off.
moat n. A ditch on the outside of a monotony n. A lack of variety. mutation n. The act or process of
fortress wall. monsieur n. A French title of respect, change.
mobocracy n. Lawless control of equivalent to Mr. and sir. mutilate v. To disfigure.
public affairs by the mob or populace. monstrosity n. Anything unnaturally mutiny n. Rebellion against lawful or
moccasin n. A foot-covering made of huge or distorted. constituted authority.
soft leather or buckskin. moonbeam n. A ray of moonlight. myriad n. A vast indefinite number.
mockery n. Ridicule. morale n. A state of mind with mystic n. One who professes direct
moderation n. Temperance. reference to confidence, courage, divine illumination, or relies upon
moderator n. The presiding officer of a zeal, and the like. meditation to acquire truth.
meeting. moralist n. A writer on ethics. mystification n. The act of artfully
modernity n. The state or character of morality n. Virtue. perplexing.
being modern. moralize v. To render virtuous. myth n. A fictitious narrative
modernize v. To make characteristic of moratorium n. An emergency presented as historical, but without
the present or of recent times. legislation authorizing a government any basis of fact.
modification n. A change. suspend some action temporarily. mythology n. The whole body of
modify v. To make somewhat morbid adj. Caused by or denoting a legends cherished by a race
different. diseased or unsound condition of concerning gods and heroes.
modish adj. Fashionable. body or mind. nameless adj. Having no fame or
modulate v. To vary in tone, inflection, mordacious adj. Biting or giving to reputation.
pitch or other quality of sound. biting. naphtha n. A light, colorless, volatile,
mollify v. To soothe. mordant adj. Biting. inflammable oil used as a solvent, as
molt v. To cast off, as hair, feathers, moribund adj. On the point of dying. in manufacture of paints.
etc. morose adj. Gloomy. Narcissus n. The son of the Athenian
momentary adj. Lasting but a short morphology n. the science of organic river-god Cephisus, fabled to have
time. forms. fallen in love with his reflection.
momentous adj. Very significant. motley adj. Composed of narrate v. To tell a story.
momentum n. An impetus. heterogeneous or inharmonious narration n. The act of recounting the
monarchy n. Government by a single, elements. particulars of an event in the order of
sovereign ruler. motto n. An expressive word or pithy time or occurrence.
monastery n. A dwelling-place sentence enunciating some guiding narrative n. An orderly continuous
occupied in common by persons rule of life, or faith. account of the successive particulars
under religious vows of seclusion. mountaineer n. One who travels of an event.
monetary adj. Financial. among or climbs mountains for narrator n. One who narrates
mongrel n. The progeny resulting from pleasure or exercise. anything.
the crossing of different breeds or mountainous adj. Full of or abounding narrow-minded adj. Characterized by
varieties. in mountains. illiberal views or sentiments.
monition n. Friendly counsel given by mouthful n. As much as can be or is nasal adj. Pertaining to the nose.
way of warning and implying caution usually put into the or exercise. natal adj. Pertaining to one's birth.
or reproof. muddle v. To confuse or becloud, nationality n. A connection with a
monitory n. Admonition or warning. especially with or as with drink. particular nation.
monocracy n. Government by a single muffle v. To deaden the sound of, as naturally adv. According to the usual
person. by wraps. order of things.
monogamy n. The habit of pairing, or mulatto n. The offspring of a white nausea n. An affection of the stomach
having but one mate. person and a black person. producing dizziness and usually an
monogram n. A character consisting of muleteer n. A mule-driver. impulse to vomit
two or more letters interwoven into multiform adj. Having many shapes, or nauseate v. To cause to loathe.
one, usually initials of a name. appearances. nauseous adj. Loathsome.
monograph n. A treatise discussing a multiplicity n. the condition of being nautical adj. Pertaining to ships,
single subject or branch of a subject. manifold or very various. seamen, or navigation.
monolith n. Any structure or sculpture mundane adj. Worldly, as opposed to naval adj. Pertaining to ships.
in stone formed of a single piece. spiritual or celestial. navel n. The depression on the
monologue n. A story or drama told or municipal adj. Of or pertaining to a abdomen where the umbilical cord of
performed by one person. town or city, or to its corporate or the fetus was attached.
monomania n. The unreasonable local government. navigable adj. Capable of commercial
pursuit of one idea. municipality n. A district enjoying navigation.
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navigate v. To traverse by ship. network n. Anything that presents a or occupation.

nebula n. A gaseous body of system of cross- lines. nowadays adv. In the present time or
unorganized stellar substance. neural adj. Pertaining to the nerves or age.
necessary adj. Indispensably requisite nervous system. nowhere adv. In no place or state.
or absolutely needed to accomplish a neurology n. The science of the noxious adj. Hurtful.
desired result. nervous system. nuance n. A slight degree of difference
necessitate v. To render neuter adj. Neither masculine nor in anything perceptible to the sense of
indispensable. feminine. the mind.
necessity n. That which is neutral adj. Belonging to or under nucleus n. A central point or part
indispensably requisite to an end control of neither of two contestants. about which matter is aggregated.
desired. nevertheless conj. Notwithstanding. nude adj. Naked.
necrology n. A list of persons who Newtonian adj. Of or pertaining to Sir nugatory adj. Having no power or
have died in a certain place or time. Isaac Newton, the English force.
necromancer n. One who practices philosopher. nuisance n. That which annoys, vexes,
the art of foretelling the future by niggardly adj. Stingy. (no longer or irritates.
means of communication with the acceptable to use) numeration n. The act or art of
dead. nihilist n. An advocate of the doctrine reading or naming numbers.
necropolis n. A city of the dead. that nothing either exists or can be numerical adj. Of or pertaining to
necrosis n. the death of part of the known. number.
body. nil n. Nothing nunnery n. A convent for nuns.
nectar n. Any especially sweet and nimble adj. Light and quick in motion nuptial adj. Of or pertaining to
delicious drink. or action. marriage, especially to the marriage
nectarine n. A variety of the peach. nit n. The egg of a louse or some other ceremony.
needlework n. Embroidery. insect. nurture n. The process of fostering or
needy adj. Being in need, want, or nocturnal adj. Of or pertaining to the promoting growth.
poverty. night. nutriment n. That which nourishes.
nefarious adj. Wicked in the extreme. noiseless adj. Silent. nutritive adj. Having nutritious
negate v. To deny. noisome adj. Very offensive, properties.
negation n. The act of denying or of particularly to the sense of smell. oaken adj. Made of or from oak.
asserting the falsity of a proposition. noisy adj. Clamorous. oakum n. Hemp-fiber obtained by
neglectful adj. Exhibiting or indicating nomad adj. Having no fixed abode. untwisting and picking out loosely the
omission. nomic adj. Usual or customary. yarns of old hemp rope.
negligee n. A loose gown worn by nominal adj. Trivial. obdurate adj. Impassive to feelings of
women. nominate v. To designate as a humanity or pity.
negligence n. Omission of that which candidate for any office. obelisk n. A square shaft with
ought to be done. nomination n. The act or ceremony of pyramidal top, usually monumental or
negligent adj. Apt to omit what ought naming a man or woman for office. commemorative.
to be done. nominee n. One who receives a obese adj. Exceedingly fat.
negligible adj. Transferable by nomination. obesity n. Excessive fatness.
assignment, endorsement, or delivery. non-existent n. That which does not obituary adj. A published notice of a
negotiable v. To bargain with others exist. death.
for an agreement, as for a treaty or non-resident adj. Not residing within a objective adj. Grasping and
transfer of property. given jurisdiction. representing facts as they are.
Nemesis n. A goddess; divinity of nonchalance n. A state of mind objector n. One who objects, as to a
chastisement and vengeance. indicating lack of interest. proposition, measure, or ruling.
neocracy n. Government administered non-combatant n. One attached to the obligate v. To hold to the fulfillment of
by new or untried persons. army or navy, but having duties other duty.
neo-Darwinsim n. Darwinism as than that of fighting. obligatory adj. Binding in law or
modified and extended by more nondescript adj. Indescribable. conscience.
recent students. nonentity n. A person or thing of little oblique adj. Slanting; said of lines.
neo-Latin n. Modernized Latin. or no account. obliterate v. To cause to disappear.
neopaganism n. A new or revived nonpareil n. One who or that which is oblivion n. The state of having passed
paganism. of unequaled excellence. out of the memory or of being utterly
Neolithic adj. Pertaining to the later norm n. A model. forgotten.
stone age. normalcy n. The state of being normal. oblong adj. Longer than broad:
neology n. The coining or using of new Norman adj. Of or peculiar to applied most commonly to
words or new meanings of words. Normandy, in northern France. rectangular objects considerably
neophyte adj. Having the character of nostrum n. Any scheme or recipe of a elongated
a beginner. charlatan character. obnoxious adj. Detestable.
nestle v. To adjust cozily in snug noticeable adj. Perceptible. obsequies n. Funeral rites.
quarters. notorious adj. Unfavorably known to obsequious adj. Showing a servile
nestling adj. Recently hatched. the general public. readiness to fall in with the wishes or
nettle v. To excite sensations of novellette n. A short novel. will of another.
uneasiness or displeasure in. novice n. A beginner in any business observance n. A traditional form or
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customary act. odoriferous adj. Having or diffusing an opportunist n. One who takes
observant adj. Quick to notice. odor or scent, especially an agreeable advantage of circumstances to gain his
observatory n. A building designed for one. ends.
systematic astronomical observations. odorous adj. Having an odor, opportunity n. Favorable or
obsolescence n. The condition or especially a fragrant one. advantageous chance or opening.
process of gradually falling into disuse. off adj. Farther or more distant. opposite adj. Radically different or
obsolescent adj. Passing out of use, as offhand adv. Without preparation. contrary in action or movement.
a word. officiate v. To act as an officer or opprobrium n. The state of being
obsolete adj. No longer practiced or leader. scornfully reproached or accused of
accepted. officious adj. Intermeddling with what evil.
obstetrician n. A practitioner of is not one's concern. optic n. Pertaining to the eye or vision.
midwifery. offshoot n. Something that branches optician n. One who makes or deals in
obstetrics n. The branch of medical off from the parent stock. optical instruments or eye-glasses.
science concerned with the treatment ogre n. A demon or monster that was optics n. The science that treats of
and care of women during pregnancy. supposed to devour human beings. light and vision, and all that is
obstinacy n. Stubborn adherence to ointment n. A fatty preparation with a connected with sight.
opinion, arising from conceit or the butter-like consistency in which a optimism n. The view that everything
desire to have one's own way. medicinal substance exists. in nature and the history of mankind
obstreperous adj. Boisterous. olfactory adj. of or pertaining to the is ordered for the best.
obstruct v. To fill with impediments so sense of smell. option n. The right, power, or liberty
as to prevent passage, either wholly olive-branch n. A branch of the olive- of choosing.
or in part. tree, as an emblem of peace. optometry n. Measurement of the
obstruction n. Hindrance. ominous adj. Portentous. powers of vision.
obtrude v. To be pushed or to push omission n. Exclusion. opulence n. Affluence.
oneself into undue prominence. omnipotence n. Unlimited and opulent adj. Wealthy.
obtrusive adj. Tending to be pushed or universal power. oral adj. Uttered through the mouth.
to push oneself into undue Omnipotent adj. Possessed of orate v. To deliver an elaborate or
prominence. unlimited and universal power. formal public speech.
obvert v. To turn the front or principal omniscience n. Unlimited or infinite oration n. An elaborate or formal
side of (a thing) toward any person or knowledge. public speech.
object. omniscient adj. Characterized by orator n. One who delivers an
obviate v. To clear away or provide unlimited or infinite knowledge. elaborate or formal speech.
for, as an objection or difficulty. omnivorous adj. Eating or living upon oratorio n. A composition for solo
occasion n. An important event or food of all kinds indiscriminately. voices, chorus, and orchestra,
celebration. onerous adj. Burdensome or generally taken from the Scriptures.
Occident n. The countries lying west oppressive. oratory n. The art of public speaking.
of Asia and the Turkish dominions. onrush n. Onset. ordeal n. Anything that severely tests
occlude v. To absorb, as a gas by a onset n. An assault, especially of courage, strength, patience,
metal. troops, upon an enemy or conscience, etc.
occult adj. Existing but not fortification. ordinal n. That form of the numeral
immediately perceptible. onslaught n. A violent onset. that shows the order of anything in a
occupant n. A tenant in possession of onus n. A burden or responsibility. series, as first, second, third.
property, as distinguished from the opalescence n. The property of ordination n. A consecration to the
actual owner. combined refraction and reflection of ministry.
occurrence n. A happening. light, resulting in smoky tints. ordnance n. A general name for all
octagon n. A figure with eight sides opaque adj. Impervious to light. kinds of weapons and their appliances
and eight angles. operate v. To put in action and used in war.
octave n. A note at this interval above supervise the working of. orgies n. Wild or wanton revelry.
or below any other, considered in operative adj. Active. origin n. The beginning of that which
relation to that other. operator n. One who works with or becomes or is made to be.
octavo n. A book, or collection of controls some machine or scientific original adj. Not copied nor produced
paper in which the sheets are so apparatus. by imitation.
folded as to make eight leaves. operetta n. A humorous play in originate v. To cause or constitute the
octogenarian adj. A person of dialogue and music, of more than one beginning or first stage of the
between eighty and ninety years. act. existence of.
ocular adj. Of or pertaining to the eye. opinion n. A conclusion or judgment ornate adj. Ornamented to a marked
oculist n. One versed or skilled in held with confidence, but falling short degree.
treating diseases of the eye. of positive knowledge. orthodox adj. Holding the commonly
oddity n. An eccentricity. opponent n. One who supports the accepted faith.
ode n. The form of lyric poetry opposite side in a debate, discussion, orthodoxy n. Acceptance of the
anciently intended to be sung. struggle, or sport. common faith.
odious adj. Hateful. opportune adj. Especially fit as orthogonal adj. Having or determined
odium n. A feeling of extreme occurring, said, or done at the right by right angles.
repugnance, or of dislike and disgust. moment. orthopedic adj. Relating to the
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correcting or preventing of deformity overpay v. To pay or reward in excess. overpowering fear.

orthopedist n. One who practices the overpower v. To gain supremacy or panoply n. A full set of armor.
correcting or preventing of deformity victory over by superior power. panorama n. A series of large pictures
oscillate v. To swing back and forth. overproduction n. Excessive representing a continuous scene.
osculate v. To kiss. production. pantheism n. The worship of nature
ossify v. to convert into bone. overreach v. To stretch out too far. for itself or its beauty.
ostentation n. A display dictated by overrun v. To infest or ravage. Pantheon n. A circular temple at Rome
vanity and intended to invite applause oversee v. To superintend. with a fine Corinthian portico and a
or flattery. overseer n. A supervisor. great domed roof.
ostracism n. Exclusion from overshadow v. To cast into the shade pantomime n. Sign-language.
intercourse or favor, as in society or or render insignificant by comparison. pantoscope n. A very wide-angled
politics. overstride v. To step beyond. photographic lens.
ostracize v. To exclude from public or overthrow v. To vanquish an papacy n. The official head of the
private favor. established ruler or government. Roman Catholic Church.
ought v. To be under moral obligation overtone n. A harmonic. papyrus n. The writing-paper of the
to be or do. overture n. An instrumental prelude ancient Egyptians, and later of the
oust v. To eject. to an opera, oratorio, or ballet. Romans.
out-and-out adv. Genuinely. overweight n. Preponderance. parable n. A brief narrative founded
outbreak n. A sudden and violent pacify v. To bring into a peaceful state. on real scenes or events usually with a
breaking forth, as of something that packet n. A bundle, as of letters. moral.
has been pent up or restrained. pact n. A covenant. paradox n. A statement or doctrine
outburst n. A violent issue, especially pagan n. A worshiper of false gods. seemingly in contradiction to the
of passion in an individual. pageant n. A dramatic representation, received belief.
outcast n. One rejected and despised, especially a spectacular one. paragon n. A model of excellence.
especially socially. palate n. The roof of the mouth. parallel v. To cause to correspond or
outcry n. A vehement or loud cry or palatial adj. Magnificent. lie in the same direction and
clamor. paleontology n. The branch of biology equidistant in all parts.
outdo v. To surpass. that treats of ancient life and fossil parallelism n. Essential likeness.
outlandish adj. Of barbarous, uncouth, organisms. paralysis n. Loss of the power of
and unfamiliar aspect or action. palette n. A thin tablet, with a hole for contractility in the voluntary or
outlast v. To last longer than. the thumb, upon which artists lay involuntary muscles.
outlaw n. A habitual lawbreaker. their colors for painting. paralyze v. To deprive of the power to
outlive v. To continue to exist after. palinode n. A retraction. act.
out-of-the-way adj. Remotely pall v. To make dull by satiety. paramount adj. Supreme in authority.
situated. palliate v. To cause to appear less paramour n. One who is unlawfully
outpost n. A detachment of troops guilty. and immorally a lover or a mistress.
stationed at a distance from the main pallid adj. Of a pale or wan paraphernalia n. Miscellaneous
body to guard against surprise. appearance. articles of equipment or adornment.
outrage n. A gross infringement of palpable n. perceptible by feeling or paraphrase v. Translate freely.
morality or decency. touch. pare v. To cut, shave, or remove (the
outrageous adj. Shocking in conduct. palsy n. Paralysis. outside) from anything.
outreach v. To reach or go beyond. paly adj. Lacking color or brilliancy. parentage n. The relation of parent to
outride v. To ride faster than. pamphlet n. A brief treatise or essay, child, of the producer to the
outrigger n. A part built or arranged to usually on a subject of current produced, or of cause to effect.
project beyond a natural outline for interest. Pariah n. A member of a degraded
support. pamphleteer v. To compose or issue class; a social outcast.
outright adv. Entirely. pamphlets, especially controversial parish n. The ecclesiastical district in
outskirt n. A border region. ones. charge of a pastor.
outstretch v. To extend. panacea n. A remedy or medicine Parisian adj. Of or pertaining to the
outstrip v. To go beyond. proposed for or professing to cure all city of Paris.
outweigh v. To surpass in importance diseases. parity n. Equality, as of condition or
or excellence. Pan-American adj. Including or rank.
overdo v. To overtax the strength of. pertaining to the whole of America, parlance n. Mode of speech.
overdose n. An excessive dose, usually both North and South. parley v. To converse in.
so large a dose of a medicine that its pandemic adj. Affecting a whole parliament n. A legislative body.
effect is toxic. people or all classes, as a disease. parlor n. A room for reception of
overeat v. To eat to excess. pandemonium n. A fiendish or riotous callers or entertainment of guests.
overhang n. A portion of a structure uproar. parody v. To render ludicrous by
which projects or hangs over. panegyric n. A formal and elaborate imitating the language of.
overleap v. To leap beyond. eulogy, written or spoken, of a person paronymous adj. Derived from the
overlord n. One who holds supremacy or of an act. same root or primitive word.
over another. panel n. A rectangular piece set in or paroxysm n. A sudden outburst of any
overpass v. To pass across or over, as as in a frame. kind of activity.
a river. panic n. A sudden, unreasonable, parricide n. The murder of a parent.
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parse v. To describe, as a sentence, by pedant n. A scholar who makes verse containing five units or feet.
separating it into its elements and needless and inopportune display of pentathlon n. The contest of five
describing each word. his learning. associated exercises in the great
parsimonious adj. Unduly sparing in peddle v. To go about with a small games and the same contestants.
the use or expenditure of money. stock of goods to sell. penultimate adj. A syllable or member
partible adj. Separable. pedestal n. A base or support as for a of a series that is last but one.
participant n. One having a share or column, statue, or vase. penurious adj. Excessively sparing in
part. pedestrian n. One who journeys on the use of money.
participate v. To receive or have a part foot. penury n. Indigence.
or share of. pediatrics n. The department of perambulate v. To walk about.
partition n. That which separates medical science that relates to the perceive v. To have knowledge of, or
anything into distinct parts. treatment of diseases of childhood. receive impressions concerning,
partisan adj. Characterized by or pedigree n. One's line of ancestors. through the medium of the body
exhibiting undue or unreasoning peddler n. One who travels from senses.
devotion to a party. house to house with an assortment of perceptible adj. Cognizable.
passible adj. Capable of feeling of goods for retail. perception n. Knowledge through the
suffering. peerage n. The nobility. senses of the existence and properties
passive adj. Unresponsive. peerless adj. Of unequaled excellence of matter or the external world.
pastoral adj. Having the spirit or or worth. percipience n. The act of perceiving.
sentiment of rural life. peevish adj. Petulant. (irritable) percipient n. One who or that which
paternal adj. Fatherly. pellucid adj. Translucent. perceives.
paternity n. Fatherhood. penalty n. The consequences that percolate v. To filter.
pathos n. The quality in any form of follow the transgression of natural or percolator n. A filter.
representation that rouses emotion or divine law. percussion n. The sharp striking of one
sympathy. penance n. Punishment to which one body against another.
patriarch n. The chief of a tribe or race voluntarily submits or subjects himself peremptory adj. Precluding question
who rules by paternal right. as an expression of penitence. or appeal.
patrician adj. Of senatorial or noble penchant n. A bias in favor of perennial adj. Continuing though the
rank. something. year or through many years.
patrimony n. An inheritance from an pendant n. Anything that hangs from perfectible adj. Capable of being made
ancestor, especially from one's father. something else, either for ornament perfect.
patriotism n. Love and devotion to or for use. perfidy n. Treachery.
one's country. pendulous adj. Hanging, especially so perforate v. To make a hole or holes
patronize v. To exercise an arrogant as to swing by an attached end or through.
condescension toward. part. perform v. To accomplish.
patronymic adj. Formed after one's pendulum n. A weight hung on a rod, perfumery n. The preparation of
father's name. serving by its oscillation to regulate perfumes.
patter v. To mumble something over the rate of a clock. perfunctory adj. Half-hearted.
and over. penetrable adj. That may be pierced perhaps adv. Possibly.
paucity n. Fewness. by physical, moral, or intellectual perigee n. The point in the orbit of the
pauper n. One without means of force. moon when it is nearest the earth.
support. penetrate v. To enter or force a way periodicity n. The habit or
pauperism n. Dependence on charity. into the interior parts of. characteristic of recurrence at regular
pavilion n. An open structure for penetration n. Discernment. intervals.
temporary shelter. peninsular adj. Pertaining to a piece of peripatetic adj. Walking about.
payee n. A person to whom money land almost surrounded by water. perjure v. To swear falsely to.
has been or is to be paid. penitence n. Sorrow for sin with perjury n. A solemn assertion of a
peaceable adj. Tranquil. desire to amend and to atone. falsity.
peaceful adj. Tranquil. penitential adj. Pertaining to sorrow permanence n. A continuance in the
peccable adj. Capable of sinning. for sin with desire to amend and to same state, or without any change
peccadillo n. A small breach of atone. that destroys the essential form or
propriety or principle. pennant n. A small flag. nature.
peccant adj. Guilty. pension n. A periodical allowance to permanent adj. Durable.
pectoral adj. Pertaining to the breast an individual on account of past permeate v. To pervade.
or thorax. service done by him/her. permissible adj. That may be allowed.
pecuniary adj. Consisting of money. pentagram n. A figure having five permutation n. Reciprocal change,
pedagogics n. The science and art of points or lobes. different ordering of same items.
teaching. pentavalent adj. Quinqeuvalent. pernicious adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
pedagogue n. A schoolmaster. pentad n. The number five. perpendicular adj. Straight up and
pedagogy n. The science and art of pentagon n. A figure, especially, with down.
teaching five angles and five sides. perpetrator n. The doer of a wrong or
pedal n. A lever for the foot usually pentahedron n. A solid bounded by a criminal act.
applied only to musical instruments, five plane faces. perpetuate v. To preserve from
cycles, and other machines. pentameter n. In prosody, a line of extinction or oblivion.
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perquisite n. Any profit from service pestilence n. A raging epidemic. physicist n. A specialist in the science
beyond the amount fixed as salary or pestilent adj. Having a malign that treats of the phenomena
wages. influence or effect. associated with matter and energy.
persecution n. Harsh or malignant pestilential adj. having the nature of physics n. The science that treats of
oppression. or breeding pestilence. the phenomena associated with
perseverance n. A persistence in peter v. To fail or lose power, matter and energy.
purpose and effort. efficiency, or value. physiocracy n. The doctrine that land
persevere v. To continue striving in petrify v. To convert into a substance and its products are the only true
spite of discouragements. of stony hardness and character. wealth.
persiflage n. Banter. petulance n. The character or physiognomy n. The external
persist v. To continue steadfast condition of being impatient, appearance merely.
against opposition. capricious or petulant. physiography n. Description of nature.
persistence n. A fixed adherence to a petulant adj. Displaying impatience. physiology n. The science of organic
resolve, course of conduct, or the like. pharmacopoeia n. A book containing functions.
personage n. A man or woman as an the formulas and methods of physique n. The physical structure or
individual, especially one of rank or preparation of medicines for the use organization of a person.
high station. of druggists. picayune adj. Of small value.
personal adj. Not general or public. pharmacy n. The art or business of piccolo n. A small flute.
personality n. The attributes, taken compounding and dispensing piece n. A loose or separated part, as
collectively, that make up the medicines. distinguished from the whole or the
character and nature of an individual. phenomenal adj. Extraordinary or mass.
personnel n. The force of persons marvelous. piecemeal adv. Gradually.
collectively employed in some service. phenomenon n. Any unusual pillage n. Open robbery, as in war.
perspective n. The relative importance occurrence. pillory n. A wooden framework in
of facts or matters from any special philander v. To play at courtship with which an offender is fastened to
point of view. a woman. boards and is exposed to public scorn.
perspicacious adj. Astute. philanthropic adj. Benevolent. pincers n. An instrument having two
perspicacity n. Acuteness or philanthropist n. One who endeavors lever-handles and two jaws working
discernment. to help his fellow men. on a pivot.
perspicuous adj. Lucid. philanthropy n. Active pinchers n. An instrument having two
perspiration n. Sweat. humanitarianism. jaws working on a pivot.
perspire v. To excrete through the philately n. The study and collection of pinnacle n. A high or topmost point, as
pores of the skin. stamps. a mountain-peak.
persuade v. To win the mind of by philharmonic adj. Fond of music. pioneer n. One among the first to
argument, eloquence, evidence, or philogynist n. One who is fond of explore a country.
reflection. women. pious adj. Religious.
persuadable adj. capable of philologist n. An expert in linguistics. pique v. To excite a slight degree of
influencing to action by entreaty, philology n. The study of language in anger in.
statement, or anything that moves the connection with history and literature. piteous adj. Compassionate.
feelings. philosophize v. To seek ultimate pitiable adj. Contemptible.
pertinacious adj. Persistent or causes and principles. pitiful adj. Wretched.
unyielding. philosophy n. The general principles, pitiless adj. Hard-hearted.
pertinacity n. Unyielding adherence. laws, or causes that furnish the pittance n. Any small portion or
pertinent adj. Relevant. rational explanation of anything. meager allowance.
perturb v. To disturb greatly. phlegmatic adj. Not easily roused to placate v. To bring from a state of
perturbation n. Mental excitement or feeling or action. angry or hostile feeling to one of
confusion. phonetic adj. Representing articulate patience or friendliness.
perusal n. The act of reading carefully sounds or speech. placid adj. Serene.
or thoughtfully. phonic adj. Pertaining to the nature of plagiarism n. The stealing of passages
pervade v. To pass or spread through sound. from the writings of another and
every part. phonogram n. A graphic character publishing them as one's own.
pervasion n. The state of spreading symbolizing an articulate sound. planisphere n. A polar projection of
through every part. phonology n. The science of human the heavens on a chart.
pervasive adj. Thoroughly penetrating vocal sounds. plasticity n. The property of some
or permeating. phosphorescence n. The property of substances through which the form of
perverse adj. Unreasonable. emitting light. the mass can readily be changed.
perversion n. Diversion from the true photoelectric adj. Pertaining to the platitude n. A written or spoken
meaning or proper purpose. combined action of light and statement that is flat, dull, or
perversity n. Wickedness. electricity. commonplace.
pervert n. One who has forsaken a photometer n. Any instrument for plaudit n. An expression of applause.
doctrine regarded as true for one measuring the intensity of light or plausible adj. Seeming likely to be
esteemed false. comparing the intensity of two lights. true, though open to doubt.
pervious adj. Admitting the entrance photometry n. The art of measuring playful adj. Frolicsome.
or passage of another substance. the intensity of light. playwright n. A maker of plays for the
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stage. syllables. practicable adj. Feasible.

plea n. An argument to obtain some polytechnic adj. Pertaining to, prate v. To talk about vainly or
desired action. embracing, or practicing many arts. foolishly.
pleasant adj. Agreeable. polytheism n. The doctrine or belief prattle v. To utter in simple or childish
pleasurable adj. Affording that there are more gods than one. talk.
gratification. pommel v. To beat with something preamble n. A statement introductory
plebeian adj. Common. thick or bulky. to and explanatory of what follows.
pledgee n. The person to whom pomposity n. The quality of being precarious adj. Perilous.
anything is pledged. marked by an assumed stateliness and precaution n. A provision made in
pledgeor n. One who gives a pledge. impressiveness of manner. advance for some possible emergency
plenary adj. Entire. pompous adj. Marked by an assumed or danger.
plenipotentiary n. A person fully stateliness and impressiveness of precede v. To happen first.
empowered to transact any business. manner. precedence n. Priority in place, time,
plenitude n. Abundance. ponder v. To meditate or reflect upon. or rank.
plenteous adj. Abundant. ponderous adj. Unusually weighty or precedent n. An instance that may
plumb n. A weight suspended by a line forcible. serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
to test the verticality of something. pontiff n. The Pope. precedential adj. Of the nature of an
plummet n. A piece of lead for making populace n. The common people. instance that may serve as a guide or
soundings, adjusting walls to the populous adj. Containing many basis for a rule.
vertical. inhabitants, especially in proportion to precession n. The act of going
pluperfect adj. Expressing past time or the territory. forward.
action prior to some other past time portend v. To indicate as being about precipice n. A high and very steep or
or action. to happen, especially by previous approximately vertical cliff.
plural adj. Containing or consisting of signs. precipitant adj. Moving onward
more than one. portent n. Anything that indicates quickly and heedlessly.
plurality n. A majority. what is to happen. precipitate v. To force forward
plutocracy n. A wealthy class in a portfolio n. A portable case for prematurely.
political community who control the holding writing-materials, drawings, precise adj. Exact.
government by means of their money. etc. precision n. Accuracy of limitation,
pneumatic adj. Pertaining to or posit v. To present in an orderly definition, or adjustment.
consisting of air or gas. manner. preclude v. To prevent.
poesy n. Poetry. position n. The manner in which a precocious adj. Having the mental
poetaster n. An inferior poet. thing is placed. faculties prematurely developed.
poetic adj. Pertaining to poetry. positive adj. Free from doubt or precursor n. A forerunner or herald.
poetics n. The rules and principles of hesitation. predatory adj. Prone to pillaging.
poetry. posse n. A force of men. predecessor n. An incumbent of a
poignancy n. Severity or acuteness, possess v. To own. given office previous to another.
especially of pain or grief. possession n. The having, holding, or predicament n. A difficult, trying
poignant adj. Severely painful or acute detention of property in one's power situation or plight.
to the spirit. or command. predicate v. To state as belonging to
poise n. Equilibrium. possessive adj. Pertaining to the something.
polar adj. Pertaining to the poles of a having, holding, or detention of predict v. To foretell.
sphere, especially of the earth. property in one's power or command. prediction n. A prophecy.
polemics n. The art of controversy or possessor n. One who owns, enjoys, predominance n. Ascendancy or
disputation. or controls anything, as property. preponderance.
pollen n. The fine dust-like grains or possible adj. Being not beyond the predominant adj. Superior in power,
powder formed within the anther of a reach of power natural, moral, or influence, effectiveness, number, or
flowering plant. supernatural. degree.
pollute v. To contaminate. postdate v. To make the date of any predominate v. To be chief in
polyarchy n. Government by several writing later than the real date. importance, quantity, or degree.
or many persons of what- ever class. posterior n. The hinder part. preeminence n. Special eminence.
polycracy n. The rule of many. postgraduate adj. Pertaining to preempt v. To secure the right of
polygamy n. the fact or condition of studies that are pursued after preference in the purchase of public
having more than one wife or receiving a degree. land.
husband at once. postscript n. Something added to a preemption n. The right or act of
polyglot adj. Speaking several letter after the writer's signature. purchasing before others.
tongues. potency n. Power. preengage v. To preoccupy.
polygon n. A figure having many potent adj. Physically powerful. preestablish v. To settle or arrange
angles. potentate n. One possessed of great beforehand.
polyhedron n. A solid bounded by power or sway. preexist v. To exist at a period or in a
plane faces, especially by more than potential n. Anything that may be state earlier than something else.
four. possible. preexistence n. Existence antecedent
polysyllable adj. Having several potion n. A dose of liquid medicine. to something.
syllables, especially more than three powerless adj. Impotent. preface n. A brief explanation or
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address to the reader, at the direction. procedure n. A manner or method of

beginning of a book. presentient adj. Perceiving or feeling acting.
prefatory adj. Pertaining to a brief beforehand. proceed v. To renew motion or action,
explanation to the reader at the presentiment n. Foreboding. as after rest or interruption.
beginning of a book. presentment n. Semblance. proclamation n. Any announcement
prefer v. To hold in higher estimation. preservation n. Conservation. made in a public manner.
preferable adj. More desirable than presumption n. That which may be procrastinate v. To put off till
others. logically assumed to be true until tomorrow or till a future time.
preference n. An object of favor or disproved. procrastination n. Delay.
choice. presumptuous adj. Assuming too proctor n. An agent acting for another.
preferential adj. Possessing, giving, or much. prodigal n. One wasteful or
constituting preference or priority. pretension n. A bold or presumptuous extravagant, especially in the use of
preferment n. Preference. assertion. money or property.
prefix v. To attach at the beginning. pretentious adj. Marked by pretense, prodigious adj. Immense.
prehensible adj. Capable of being conceit, or display. prodigy n. A person or thing of very
grasped. preternatural adj. Extraordinary. remarkable gifts or qualities.
prehensile adj. Adapted for grasping pretext n. A fictitious reason or productive adj. Yielding in abundance.
or holding. motive. profession n. Any calling or occupation
prehension n. The act of laying hold of prevalence n. Frequency. involving special mental or other
or grasping. prevalent adj. Of wide extent or special disciplines.
prejudice n. A judgment or opinion frequent occurrence. professor n. A public teacher of the
formed without due examination of prevaricate v. To use ambiguous or highest grade in a university or
the facts. evasive language for the purpose of college.
prelacy n. A system of church deceiving or diverting attention. proffer v. To offer to another for
government. prevention n. Thwarting. acceptance.
prelate n. One of a higher order of prickle v. To puncture slightly with proficiency n. An advanced state of
clergy having direct authority over fine, sharp points. acquirement, as in some knowledge,
other clergy. priggish adj. Conceited. art, or science.
prelude n. An introductory or opening prim adj. Stiffly proper. proficient adj. Possessing ample and
performance. prima adj. First. ready knowledge or of skill in any art,
premature adj. Coming too soon. primer n. An elementary reading-book science, or industry.
premier adj. First in rank or position. for children. profile n. An outline or contour.
premise n. A judgment as a primeval adj. Belonging to the first profiteer n. One who profits.
conclusion. ages. profligacy n. Shameless viciousness.
premonition n. Foreboding. primitive adj. Pertaining to the profligate adj. Abandoned to vice.
preoccupation n. The state of having beginning or early times. profuse adj. Produced or displayed in
the mind, attention, or inclination principal adj. Most important. overabundance.
preoccupied. principality n. The territory of a progeny n. Offspring.
preoccupy v. To fill the mind of a reigning prince. progression n. A moving forward or
person to the exclusion of other principle n. A general truth or proceeding in course.
subjects. proposition. prohibition n. A decree or an order
preordain v. To foreordain. priory n. A monastic house. forbidding something.
preparation n. An act or proceeding pristine adj. Primitive. prohibitionist n. One who favors the
designed to bring about some event. privateer n. A vessel owned and prohibition by law of the manufacture
preparatory adj. Having to do with officered by private persons, but and sale of alcoholic beverages.
what is preliminary. carrying on maritime war. prohibitory adj. Involving or
preponderant adj. Prevalent. privilege n. A right or immunity not equivalent to prohibition, especially of
preponderate v. To exceed in enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed the sale of alcoholic beverages.
influence or power. only under special conditions. projection n. A prominence.
prepossession n. A preconceived privity n. Knowledge shared with proletarian n. A person of the lowest
liking. another or others regarding a private or poorest class.
preposterous adj. Utterly ridiculous or matter. prolific adj. Producing offspring or
absurd. privy adj. Participating with another or fruit.
prerogative adj. Having superior rank others in the knowledge of a secret prolix adj. Verbose.
or precedence. transaction. prologue n. A prefatory statement or
presage v. To foretell. probate adj. Relating to making proof, explanation to a poem, discourse, or
prescience n. Knowledge of events as of a will. performance.
before they take place. probation n. Any proceeding designed prolong v. To extend in time or
prescient adj. Foreknowing. to ascertain or test character, duration.
prescript adj. Prescribed as a rule or qualification, or the like. promenade v. To walk for amusement
model. probe v. To search through and or exercise.
prescriptible adj. Derived from through. prominence n. The quality of being
authoritative direction. probity n. Virtue or integrity tested noticeable or distinguished.
prescription n. An authoritative and confirmed. prominent adj. Conspicuous in
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position, character, or importance. favored by another usually older irresponsible.

promiscuous adj. Brought together person. psychotherapy n. The treatment of
without order, distinction, or design Protestant n. A Christian who denies mental disease.
(for sex). the authority of the Pope and holds pudgy adj. Small and fat.
promissory adj. Expressing an the right of special judgment. puerile adj. Childish.
engagement to pay. protomartyr n. The earliest victim in pugnacious adj. Quarrelsome.
promontory n. A high point of land any cause. puissant adj. Possessing strength.
extending outward from the coastline protocol n. A declaration or pulmonary adj. Pertaining to the
into the sea. memorandum of agreement less lungs.
promoter n. A furtherer, forwarder, or solemn and formal than a treaty. punctilious adj. Strictly observant of
encourager. protoplasm n. The substance that the rules or forms prescribed by law
promulgate v. To proclaim. forms the principal portion of an or custom.
propaganda n. Any institution or animal or vegetable cell. punctual adj. Observant and exact in
systematic scheme for propagating a prototype n. A work, original in points of time.
doctrine or system. character, afterward imitated in form pungent adj. Affecting the sense of
propagate v. To spread abroad or or spirit. smell.
from person to person. protract v. To prolong. pungency n. The quality of affecting
propel v. To drive or urge forward. protrude v. To push out or thrust the sense of smell.
propellant adj. Propelling. forth. punitive adj. Pertaining to
propeller n. One who or that which protrusion n. The act of protruding. punishment.
propels. protuberance n. Something that pupilage n. The state or period of
prophecy n. Any prediction or swells out from a surrounding surface. being a student.
foretelling. protuberant adj. Bulging. purgatory n. An intermediate state
prophesy v. To predict or foretell, protuberate v. To swell or bulge where souls are made fit for paradise
especially under divine inspiration and beyond the surrounding surface. or heaven by expiatory suffering.
guidance. proverb n. A brief, pithy saying, purl v. To cause to whirl, as in an
propitious adj. Kindly disposed. condensing in witty or striking form eddy.
proportionate adj. Being in the wisdom of experience. purloin v. To steal.
proportion. provident adj. Anticipating and purport n. Intent.
propriety n. Accordance with making ready for future wants or purveyor n. one who supplies
recognized usage, custom, or emergencies. pusillanimous adj. Without spirit or
principles. providential adj. Effected by divine bravery.
propulsion n. A driving onward or guidance. putrescent adj. Undergoing
forward. provincial adj. Uncultured in thought decomposition of animal or vegetable
prosaic adj. Unimaginative. and manner. matter accompanied by fetid odors.
proscenium n. That part of the stage proviso n. A clause in a contract, will, pyre n. A heap of combustibles
between the curtain and the etc., by which its operation is arranged for burning a dead body.
orchestra. rendered conditional. pyromania n. An insane propensity to
proscribe v. To reject, as a teaching or provocation n. An action or mode of set things on fire.
a practice, with condemnation or conduct that excites resentment. pyrotechnic adj. Pertaining to
denunciation. prowess n. Strength, skill, and fireworks or their manufacture.
proscription n. Any act of intrepidity in battle. pyx n. A vessel or casket, usually of
condemnation and rejection from proximately adv. Immediately. precious metal, in which the host is
favor and privilege. proxy n. A person who is empowered preserved.
proselyte n. One who has been won by another to represent him or her in quackery n. Charlatanry
over from one religious belief to a given matter. quadrate v. To divide into quarters.
another. prudence n. Caution. quadruple v. To multiply by four.
prosody n. The science of poetical prudential adj. Proceeding or marked qualification n. A requisite for an
forms. by caution. employment, position, right, or
prospector n. One who makes prudery n. An undue display of privilege.
exploration, search, or examination, modesty or delicacy. qualify v. To endow or furnish with
especially for minerals. prurient adj. Inclined to lascivious requisite ability, character,
prospectus n. A paper or pamphlet thoughts and desires. knowledge, skill, or possessions.
containing information of a proposed pseudapostle n. A pretended or false qualm n. A fit of nausea.
undertaking. apostle. quandary n. A puzzling predicament.
prostrate adj. Lying prone, or with the pseudonym n. A fictitious name, quantity n. Magnitude.
head to the ground. especially when assumed by a writer. quarantine n. The enforced isolation
protagonist n. A leader in any pseudonymity n. The state or of any person or place infected with
enterprise or contest. character of using a fictitious name. contagious disease.
protection n. Preservation from harm, psychiatry n. The branch of medicine quarrelsome adj. Irascible.
danger, annoyance, or any other evil. that relates to mental disease. quarter n. One of four equal parts into
protective adj. Sheltering. psychic adj. Pertaining to the mind or which anything is or may be divided.
protector n. A defender. soul. quarterly adj. Occurring or made at
protege n. One specially cared for and psychopathic adj. Morally intervals of three months.
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quartet n. A composition for four rationalism n. The formation of return or restoration of.
voices or four instruments. opinions by relying upon reason alone, recline v. To cause to assume a
quarto n. An eight-page newspaper of independently of authority. leaning or recumbent attitude or
any size. raucous adj. Harsh. position.
quay n. A wharf or artificial landing- ravage v. To lay waste by pillage, recluse n. One who lives in retirement
place on the shore of a harbor or rapine, devouring, or other or seclusion.
projecting into it. destructive methods. reclusory n. A hermitage.
querulous adj. Habitually complaining. ravenous adj. Furiously voracious or recognizance n. An acknowledgment
query v. To make inquiry. hungry. entered into before a court with
queue n. A file of persons waiting in ravine n. A deep gorge or hollow, condition to do some particular act.
order of their arrival, as for especially one worn by a stream or recognize v. To recall the identity of (a
admittance. flow of water. person or thing).
quibble n. An utterly trivial distinction reaction n. Tendency towards a recoil v. To start back as in dismay,
or objection. former, or opposite state of things, as loathing, or dread.
quiescence n. Quiet. after reform, revolution, or inflation. recollect v. To recall the knowledge of.
quiescent adj. Being in a state of reactionary adj. Pertaining to, of the reconcilable adj. Capable of being
repose or inaction. nature of, causing, or favoring adjusted or harmonized.
quiet adj. Making no noise. reaction. reconnoiter v. To make a preliminary
quietus n. A silencing, suppressing, or readily adv. Without objection or examination of for military, surveying,
ending. reluctance. or geological purposes.
quintessence n. The most essential readjust v. To put in order after reconsider v. To review with care,
part of anything. disarrangement. especially with a view to a reversal of
quintet n. Musical composition ready adj. In a state of preparedness previous action.
arranged for five voices or for any given purpose or occasion. reconstruct v. To rebuild.
instruments. realism n. The principle and practice recourse n. Resort to or application
quite adv. Fully. of depicting persons and scenes as for help in exigency or trouble.
Quixotic adj. Chivalrous or romantic to they are believed really to exist. recover v. To regain.
a ridiculous or extravagant degree. rearrange v. To arrange again or in a recreant n. A cowardly or faithless
rabid adj. Affected with rabies or different order. person.
hydrophobia. reassure v. To give new confidence. recreate v. To refresh after labor.
racy adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the rebellious adj. Insubordinate. recrudescence n. The state of
mind. rebuff n. A peremptory or unexpected becoming raw or sore again.
radiance n. Brilliant or sparkling luster. rejection of advances or approaches. recrudescent adj. Becoming raw or
radiate v. To extend in all directions, rebuild v. To build again or anew. sore again.
as from a source or focus. rebut v. To oppose by argument or a recruit v. To enlist men for military or
radical n. One who holds extreme sufficient answer. naval service.
views or advocates extreme recant v. To withdraw formally one's rectify v. To correct.
measures. belief (in something previously rectitude n. The quality of being
radix n. That from or on which believed or maintained). upright in principles and conduct.
something is developed. recapitulate v. To repeat again the recuperate v. To recover.
raillery n. Good-humored satire. principal points of. recur v. To happen again or
ramify v. To divide or subdivide into recapture v. To capture again. repeatedly, especially at regular
branches or subdivisions. recede v. To move back or away. intervals.
ramose adj. Branch-like. receivable adj. Capable of being or fit recure v. To cure again.
rampant adj. Growing, climbing, or to be received - often money. recurrent adj. Returning from time to
running without check or restraint. receptive adj. Having the capacity, time, especially at regular or stated
rampart n. A bulwark or construction quality, or ability of receiving, as intervals.
to oppose assault or hostile entry. truths or impressions. redemption n. The recovery of what is
rancor n. Malice. recessive adj. Having a tendency to go mortgaged or pledged, by paying the
rankle v. To produce irritation or back. debt.
festering. recidivist n. A confirmed criminal. redolent adj. Smelling sweet and
rapacious adj. Disposed to seize by reciprocal adj. Mutually agreeable.
violence or by unlawful or greedy interchangeable or convertible. redolence n. Smelling sweet and
methods. reciprocate v. To give and take agreeable.
rapid adj. Having great speed. mutually. redoubtable adj. Formidable.
rapine n. The act of seizing and reciprocity n. Equal mutual rights and redound n. Rebound.
carrying off property by superior benefits granted and enjoyed. redress v. To set right, as a wrong by
force, as in war. recitation n. The act of reciting or compensation or the punishment of
rapt adj. Enraptured. repeating, especially in public and the wrong-doer.
raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring from memory. reducible adj. That may be reduced.
living prey. reck v. To have a care or thought for. redundance n. Excess.
ration v. To provide with a fixed reckless adj. Foolishly headless of redundant adj. Constituting an excess.
allowance or portion, especially of danger. reestablish v. To restore.
food. reclaim v. To demand or to obtain the refer v. To direct or send for
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information or other purpose. reinstate v. To restore to a former repel v. To force or keep back in a
referrer n. One who refers. state, station, or authority. manner, physically or mentally.
referable adj. Ascribable. reiterate v. To say or do again and repellent adj. Having power to force
referee n. An umpire. again. back in a manner, physically or
refinery n. A place where some crude rejoin v. To reunite after separation. mentally.
material, as sugar or petroleum, is rejuvenate v. To restore to youth. repentance n. Sorrow for something
purified. rejuvenescence n. A renewal of youth. done or left undone, with desire to
reflectible adj. Capable of being relapse v. To suffer a return of a make things right by undoing the
turned back. disease after partial recovery. wrong.
reflection n. The throwing off or back relegate v. To send off or consign, as repertory n. A place where things are
of light, heat, sound, or any form of to an obscure position or remote stored or gathered together.
energy that travels in waves. destination. repetition n. The act of repeating.
reflector n. A mirror, as of metal, for relent v. To yield. repine v. To indulge in fretfulness and
reflecting light, heat, or sound in a relevant adj. Bearing upon the matter faultfinding.
particular direction. in hand. replenish v. To fill again, as something
reflexible adj. Capable of being reliance n. Dependence. that has been emptied.
reflected. reliant adj. Having confidence. replete adj. Full to the uttermost.
reform n. Change for the better. relinquish v. To give up using or replica n. A duplicate executed by the
reformer n. One who carries out a having. artist himself, and regarded, equally
reform. reliquary n. A casket, coffer, or with the first, as an original.
refract v. To bend or turn from a repository in which relics are kept. repository n. A place in which goods
direct course. relish v. To like the taste or savor of. are stored.
refractory adj. Not amenable to reluctance n. Unwillingness. reprehend v. To find fault with.
control. reluctant adj. Unwilling. reprehensible adj. Censurable.
refragable adj. Capable of being remembrance n. Recollection. reprehension n. Expression of blame.
refuted. reminiscence n. The calling to mind of repress v. To keep under restraint or
refringency n. Power to refract. incidents within the range of personal control.
refringent adj. Having the power to knowledge or experience. repressible adj. Able to be kept under
refract. reminiscent adj. Pertaining to the restraint or control.
refusal n. Denial of what is asked. recollection of matters of personal reprieve v. To grant a respite from
refute v. To prove to be wrong. interest. punishment to.
regale v. To give unusual pleasure. remiss adj. Negligent. reprimand v. To chide or rebuke for a
regalia n. pl. The emblems of royalty. remission n. Temporary diminution of fault.
regality n. Royalty. a disease. reprisal n. Any infliction or act by way
regenerate v. To reproduce. remodel v. Reconstruct. of retaliation on an enemy.
regent n. One who is lawfully remonstrance n. Reproof. reprobate n. One abandoned to
deputized to administer the remonstrant adj. Having the character depravity and sin.
government for the time being in the of a reproof. reproduce v. To make a copy of.
name of the ruler. remonstrate v. To present a verbal or reproduction n. The process by which
regicide n. The killing of a king or written protest to those who have an animal or plant gives rise to
sovereign. power to right or prevent a wrong. another of its kind.
regime n. Particular conduct or remunerate v. To pay or pay for. reproof n. An expression of
administration of affairs. remuneration n. Compensation. disapproval or blame personally
regimen n. A systematized order or Renaissance n. The revival of letters, addressed to one censured.
course of living with reference to and then of art, which marks the repudiate v. To refuse to have
food, clothing and personal habits. transition from medieval to modern anything to do with.
regiment n. A body of soldiers. time. repugnance n. Thorough dislike.
regnant adj. Exercising royal authority rendezvous n. A prearranged place of repugnant adj. Offensive to taste and
in one's own right. meeting. feeling.
regress v. To return to a former place rendition n. Interpretation. repulse n. The act of beating or driving
or condition. renovate v. To restore after back, as an attacking or advancing
regretful adj. Feeling, expressive of, or deterioration, as a building. enemy.
full of regret. renunciation n. An explicit disclaimer repulsive adj. Grossly offensive.
rehabilitate v. To restore to a former of a right or privilege. repute v. To hold in general opinion.
status, capacity, right rank, or reorganize v. To change to a more requiem n. A solemn mass sung for
privilege. satisfactory form of organization. the repose of the souls of the dead.
reign v. To hold and exercise reparable adj. Capable of repair. requisite adj. Necessary.
sovereign power. reparation n. The act of making requital n. Adequate return for good
reimburse v. To pay back as an amends, as for an injury, loss, or or ill.
equivalent of what has been wrong. requite v. To repay either good or evil
expended. repartee n. A ready, witty, or apt to, as to a person.
rein n. A step attached to the bit for reply. rescind v. To make void, as an act, by
controlling a horse or other draft- repeal v. To render of no further the enacting authority or a superior
animal. effect. authority.
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reseat v. To place in position of office retract v. To recall or take back robust adj. Characterized by great
again. (something that one has said). strength or power of endurance.
resemblance n. Similarity in quality or retrench v. To cut down or reduce in rondo n. A musical composition during
form. extent or quantity. which the first part or subject is
resent v. To be indignant at, as an retrieve v. To recover something by repeated several times.
injury or insult. searching. rookery n. A place where crows
reservoir n. A receptacle where a retroactive adj. Operative on, congregate to breed.
quantity of some material, especially affecting, or having reference to past rotary adj. Turning around its axis, like
of a liquid or gas, may be kept. events, transactions, responsibilities. a wheel, or so constructed as to turn
residue n. A remainder or surplus retrograde v. To cause to deteriorate thus.
after a part has been separated or or to move backward. rotate v. To cause to turn on or as on
otherwise treated. retrogression n. A going or moving its axis, as a wheel.
resilience n. The power of springing backward or in a reverse direction. rote n. Repetition of words or sounds
back to a former position retrospect n. A view or contemplation as a means of learning them, with
resilient adj. Having the quality of of something past. slight attention.
springing back to a former position. retrospective adj. Looking back on the rotund adj. Round from fullness or
resistance n. The exertion of opposite past. plumpness.
effort or effect. reunite v. To unite or join again, as rudimentary adj. Being in an initial,
resistant adj. Offering or tending to after separation. early, or incomplete stage of
produce resistance. revelation n. A disclosing, discovering, development.
resistive adj. Having or exercising the or making known of what was before rue v. To regret extremely.
power of resistance. secret, private, or unknown. ruffian adj. A lawless or recklessly
resistless adj. Powerless. revere v. To regard with worshipful brutal fellow.
resonance n. The quality of being able veneration. ruminant adj. Chewing the cud.
to reinforce sound by sympathetic reverent adj. Humble. ruminate v. To chew over again, as
vibrations. reversion n. A return to or toward food previously swallowed and
resonance adj. Able to reinforce sound some former state or condition. regurgitated.
by sympathetic vibrations. revert v. To return, or turn or look rupture v. To separate the parts of by
resonate v. To have or produce back, as toward a former position or violence.
resonance. the like. rustic adj. Characteristic of dwelling in
resource n. That which is restored to, revile v. To heap approach or abuse the country.
relied upon, or made available for aid upon. ruth n. Sorrow for another's misery.
or support. revisal n. Revision. sacrifice v. To make an offering of to
respite n. Interval of rest. revise v. To examine for the correction deity, especially by presenting on an
resplendent adj. Very bright. of errors, or for the purpose of making altar.
respondent adj. Answering. changes. sacrificial adj. Offering or offered as an
restitution n. Restoration of anything revocation n. Repeal. atonement for sin.
to the one to whom it properly revoke v. To rescind. sacrilege n. The act of violating or
belongs. rhapsody n. Rapt or rapturous profaning anything sacred.
resumption n. The act of taking back, utterance. sacrilegious adj. Impious.
or taking again. rhetoric n. The art of discourse. safeguard v. To protect.
resurgent adj. Surging back or again. rhetorician n. A showy writer or sagacious adj. Able to discern and
resurrection n. A return from death to speaker. distinguish with wise perception.
life ribald adj. Indulging in or manifesting salacious adj. Having strong sexual
resuscitate v. To restore from coarse indecency or obscenity. desires.
apparent death. riddance n. The act or ridding or salience n. The condition of standing
retaliate v. To repay evil with a similar delivering from something out distinctly.
evil. undesirable. salient adj. Standing out prominently.
retch v. To make an effort to vomit. ridicule n. Looks or acts expressing saline adj. Constituting or consisting of
retention n. The keeping of a thing amused contempt. salt.
within one's power or possession. ridiculous adj. Laughable and salutary adj. Beneficial.
reticence n. The quality of habitually contemptible. salutation n. Any form of greeting,
keeping silent or being reserved in rife adj. Abundant. hailing, or welcome, whether by word
utterance. righteousness n. Rectitude. or act.
reticent adj. Habitually keeping silent rightful adj. Conformed to a just claim salutatory n. The opening oration at
or being reserved in utterance. according to established laws or the commencement in American
retinue n. The body of persons who usage. colleges.
attend a person of importance in rigmarole n. Nonsense. salvage n. Any act of saving property.
travel or public appearance. rigor n. Inflexibility. salvo n. A salute given by firing all the
retort n. A retaliatory speech. rigorous adj. Uncompromising. guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
retouch v. To modify the details of. ripplet n. A small ripple, as of water. sanctimonious adj. Making an
retrace v. To follow backward or risible adj. capable of exciting ostentatious display or hypocritical
toward the place of beginning, as a laughter. pretense of holiness or piety.
track or marking. rivulet n. A small stream or brook. sanction v. To approve authoritatively.
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sanctity n. Holiness. seance n. A meeting of spirituals for study under a teacher.

sanguinary adj. Bloody. consulting spirits. seminary n. A special school, as of
sanguine adj. Having the color of sear v. To burn on the surface. theology or pedagogics.
blood. sebaceous adj. Pertaining to or senile adj. Peculiar to or proceeding
sanguineous adj. Consisting of blood. appearing like fat. from the weakness or infirmity of old
sapid adj. Affecting the sense of taste. secant adj. Cutting, especially into two age.
sapience n. Deep wisdom or parts. sensation n. A condition of mind
knowledge. secede v. To withdraw from union or resulting from spiritual or inherent
sapient adj. Possessing wisdom. association, especially from a political feeling.
sapiential adj. Possessing wisdom. or religious body. sense n. The signification conveyed by
saponaceous adj. Having the nature or secession n. Voluntary withdrawal some word, phrase, or action.
quality of soap. from fellowship, especially from sensibility n. Power to perceive or
sarcasm n. Cutting and reproachful political or religious bodies. feel.
language. seclude v. To place, keep, or withdraw sensitive adj. Easily affected by
sarcophagus n. A stone coffin or a from the companionship of others. outside operations or influences.
chest-like tomb. seclusion n. Solitude. sensorium n. The sensory apparatus.
sardonic adj. Scornfully or bitterly secondary adj. Less important or sensual adj. Pertaining to the body or
sarcastic. effective than that which is primary. the physical senses.
satiate v. To satisfy fully the appetite secondly adv. In the second place in sensuous adj. Having a warm
or desire of. order or succession. appreciation of the beautiful or of the
satire n. The employment of sarcasm, second-rate adj. Second in quality, refinements of luxury.
irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing size, rank, importance, etc. sentence n. A related group of words
vices. secrecy n. Concealment. containing a subject and a predicate
satiric adj. Resembling poetry, in secretary n. One who attends to and expressing a complete thought.
which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is correspondence, keeps records. or sentience n. Capacity for sensation or
held up to ridicule. does other writing for others. sense-perception.
satirize v. To treat with sarcasm or secretive adj. Having a tendency to sentient adj. Possessing the power of
derisive wit. conceal. sense or sense-perception.
satyr n. A very lascivious person. sedate adj. Even-tempered. sentinel n. Any guard or watch
savage n. A wild and uncivilized sedentary adj. Involving or requiring stationed for protection.
human being. much sitting. separable adj. Capable of being
savor v. To perceive by taste or smell. sediment n. Matter that settles to the disjoined or divided.
scabbard n. The sheath of a sword or bottom of a liquid. separate v. To take apart.
similar bladed weapon. sedition n. Conduct directed against separatist n. A seceder.
scarcity n. Insufficiency of supply for public order and the tranquillity of the septennial adj. Recurring every seven
needs or ordinary demands. state. years.
scholarly adj. Characteristic of an seditious adj. Promotive of conduct sepulcher n. A burial-place.
erudite person. directed against public order and the sequacious adj. Ready to be led.
scholastic adj. Pertaining to education tranquillity of the state. sequel n. That which follows in
or schools. seduce v. To entice to surrender consequence of what has previously
scintilla n. The faintest ray. chastity. happened.
scintillate v. To emit or send forth sedulous adj. Persevering in effort or sequence n. The order in which a
sparks or little flashes of light. endeavor. number or persons, things, or events
scope n. A range of action or view. seer n. A prophet. follow one another in space or time.
scoundrel n. A man without principle. seethe v. To be violently excited or sequent adj. Following in the order of
scribble n. Hasty, careless writing. agitated. time.
scribe n. One who writes or is skilled seignior n. A title of honor or sequester v. To cause to withdraw or
in writing. respectful address, equivalent to sir. retire, as from society or public life.
script n. Writing or handwriting of the seismograph n. An instrument for sequestrate v. To confiscate.
ordinary cursive form. recording the phenomena of sergeant n. A non-commissioned
Scriptural adj. Pertaining to, contained earthquakes. military officer ranking next above a
in, or warranted by the Holy seize v. To catch or take hold of corporal.
Scriptures. suddenly and forcibly. sergeant-at-arms n. An executive
scruple n. Doubt or uncertainty selective adj. Having the power of officer in legislative bodies who
regarding a question of moral right or choice. enforces the orders of the presiding
duty. self-respect n. Rational self-esteem. officer.
scrupulous adj. Cautious in action for semblance n. Outward appearance. sergeant-major n. The highest non-
fear of doing wrong. semicivilized adj. Half-civilized. commissioned officer in a regiment.
scurrilous adj. Grossly indecent or semiconscious adj. Partially conscious. service n. Any work done for the
vulgar. semiannual adj. Recurring at intervals benefit of another.
scuttle v. To sink (a ship) by making of six months. serviceable adj. Durable.
holes in the bottom. semicircle n. A half-circle. servitude n. Slavery.
scythe n. A long curved blade for seminar n. Any assemblage of pupils severance n. Separation.
mowing, reaping, etc. for real research in some specific severely adv. Extremely.
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sextet n. A band of six singers or propelled by oars. designedly deceptive.

players. skirmish n. Desultory fighting between soprano n. A woman's or boy's voice
sextuple adj. Multiplied by six. advanced detachments of two armies. of high range.
sheer adj. Absolute. sleight n. A trick or feat so deftly done sorcery n. Witchcraft.
shiftless adj. Wanting in resource, that the manner of performance sordid adj. Of degraded character or
energy, or executive ability. escapes observation. nature.
shrewd adj. Characterized by skill at slight adj. Of a small importance or souvenir n. A token of remembrance.
understanding and profiting by significance. sparse adj. Thinly diffused.
circumstances. slothful adj. Lazy. Spartan adj. Exceptionally brave;
shriek n. A sharp, shrill outcry or sluggard n. A person habitually lazy or rigorously severe.
scream, caused by agony or terror. idle. spasmodic adj. Convulsive.
shrinkage n. A contraction of any sociable adj. Inclined to seek specialize v. To assume an individual
material into less bulk or dimension. company. or specific character, or adopt a
shrivel v. To draw or be drawn into socialism n. A theory of civil polity that singular or special course.
wrinkles. aims to secure the reconstruction of specialty n. An employment limited to
shuffle n. A mixing or changing the society. one particular line of work.
order of things. socialist adj. One who advocates specie n. A coin or coins of gold, silver,
sibilance n. A hissing sound. reconstruction of society by collective copper, or other metal.
sibilant adj. Made with a hissing ownership of land and capital. species n. A classificatory group of
sound. sociology n. The philosophical study of animals or plants subordinate to a
sibilate v. To give a hissing sound to, society. genus.
as in pronouncing the letter s. Sol n. The sun. specimen n. One of a class of persons
sidelong adj. Inclining or tending to solace n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or or things regarded as representative
one side. calamity. of the class.
sidereal adj. Pertaining to stars or solar adj. Pertaining to the sun. specious adj. Plausible.
constellations. solder n. A fusible alloy used for spectator n. One who beholds or looks
siege n. A beleaguerment. joining metallic surfaces or margins. on.
significance n. Importance. soldier n. A person engaged in military specter n. Apparition.
significant adj. Important, especially service. spectrum n. An image formed by rays
as pointing something out. solecism n. Any violation of of light or other radiant energy.
signification n. The meaning conveyed established rules or customs. speculate v. To pursue inquiries and
by language, actions, or signs. solicitor n. One who represents a form conjectures.
similar adj. Bearing resemblance to client in court of justice; an attorney. speculator n. One who makes an
one another or to something else. solicitude n. Uneasiness of mind investment that involves a risk of loss,
simile n. A comparison which directs occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear. but also a chance of profit.
the mind to the representative object soliloquy n. A monologue. sphericity n. The state or condition of
itself. solstice n. The time of year when the being a sphere.
similitude n. Similarity. sun is at its greatest declination. spheroid n. A body having nearly the
simplify v. To make less complex or soluble adj. Capable of being form of a sphere.
difficult. dissolved, as in a fluid. spherometer n. An instrument for
simulate v. Imitate. solvent adj. Having sufficient funds to measuring curvature or radii of
simultaneous adj. Occurring, done, or pay all debts. spherical surfaces.
existing at the same time. somber adj. Gloomy. spinous adj. Having spines.
sinecure n. Any position having somniferous adj. Tending to produce spinster n. A woman who has never
emoluments with few or no duties. sleep. been married.
singe v. To burn slightly or somnolence n. Oppressive drowsiness. spontaneous adj. Arising from
superficially. somnolent adj. Sleepy. inherent qualities or tendencies
sinister adj. Evil. sonata n. An instrumental without external efficient cause.
sinuosity n. The quality of curving in composition. sprightly adj. Vivacious.
and out. sonnet n. A poem of fourteen spurious adj. Not genuine.
sinuous adj. Curving in and out. decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines squabble v. To quarrel.
sinus n. An opening or cavity. expressing two successive phrases. squalid adj. Having a dirty, mean,
siren n. A sea-nymph, described by sonorous adj. Resonant. poverty-stricken appearance.
Homer as dwelling between the island soothsayer n. One who claims to have squatter n. One who settles on land
of Circe and Scylla. supernatural insight or foresight. without permission or right.
sirocco n. hot winds from Africa. sophism n. A false argument stagnant adj. Not flowing: said of
sisterhood n. A body of sisters united understood to be such by the water, as in a pool.
by some bond of sympathy or by a reasoner himself and intentionally stagnate v. To become dull or inert.
religious vow. used to deceive stagnation n. The condition of not
skeptic n. One who doubts any sophistical adj. Fallacious. flowing or not changing.
statements. sophisticate v. To deprive of simplicity stagy adj. Having a theatrical manner.
skepticism n. The entertainment of of mind or manner. staid adj. Of a steady and sober
doubt concerning something. sophistry n. Reasoning sound in character.
skiff n. Usually, a small light boat appearance only, especially when stallion n. An uncastrated male horse,
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commonly one kept for breeding. stultify v. To give an appearance of attempted or intended.
stanchion n. A vertical bar, or a pair of foolishness to. success n. A favorable or prosperous
bars, used to confine cattle in a stall. stupendous adj. Of prodigious size, course or termination of anything
stanza n. A group of rimed lines, bulk, or degree. attempted.
usually forming one of a series of stupor n. Profound lethargy. successful adj. Having reached a high
similar divisions in a poem. suasion n. The act of persuading. degree of worldly prosperity.
statecraft n. The art of conducting suave adj. Smooth and pleasant in successor n. One who or that which
state affairs. manner. takes the place of a predecessor or
static adj. Pertaining to or designating subacid adj. Somewhat sharp or preceding thing.
bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. biting. succinct adj. Concise.
statics n. The branch of mechanics subaquatic adj. Being, formed, or succulent adj. Juicy.
that treats of the relations that subsist operating under water. succumb v. To cease to resist.
among forces in order. subconscious adj. Being or occurring sufferance n. Toleration.
stationary adj. Not moving. in the mind, but without attendant sufficiency n. An ample or adequate
statistician n. One who is skilled in consciousness or conscious supply.
collecting and tabulating numerical perception. suffrage n. The right or privilege of
facts. subjacent adj. Situated directly voting.
statuesque adj. Having the grace, underneath. suffuse v. To cover or fill the surface
pose, or quietude of a statue. subjection n. The act of bringing into a of.
statuette n. A figurine. state of submission. suggestible adj. That can be
stature n. The natural height of an subjugate v. To conquer. suggested.
animal body. subliminal adj. Being beneath the suggestive adj. Stimulating to thought
statute n. Any authoritatively declared threshold of consciousness. or reflection.
rule, ordinance, decree, or law. sublingual adj. Situated beneath the summary n. An abstract.
stealth n. A concealed manner of tongue. sumptuous adj. Rich and costly.
acting. submarine adj. Existing, done, or superabundance n. An excessive
stellar adj. Pertaining to the stars. operating beneath the surface of the amount.
steppe n. One of the extensive plains sea. superadd v. To add in addition to what
in Russia and Siberia. submerge v. To place or plunge under has been added.
sterling adj. Genuine. water. superannuate v. To become
stifle v. To smother. submergence n. The act of deteriorated or incapacitated by long
stigma n. A mark of infamy or token of submerging. service.
disgrace attaching to a person as the submersible adj. Capable of being put superb adj. Sumptuously elegant.
result of evil-doing. underwater. supercilious adj. Exhibiting haughty
stiletto n. A small dagger. submersion n. The act of submerging. and careless contempt.
stimulant n. Anything that rouses to submission n. A yielding to the power superficial adj. Knowing and
activity or to quickened action. or authority of another. understanding only the ordinary and
stimulate v. To rouse to activity or to submittal n. The act of submitting. the obvious.
quickened action. subordinate adj. Belonging to an superfluity n. That part of anything
stimulus n. Incentive. inferior order in a classification. that is in excess of what is needed.
stingy adj. Cheap, unwilling to spend subsequent adj. Following in time. superfluous adj. Being more than is
money. subservience n. The quality, character, needed.
stipend n. A definite amount paid at or condition of being servilely superheat v. To heat to excess.
stated periods in compensation for following another's behests. superintend v. To have the charge and
services or as an allowance. subservient adj. Servilely following direction of, especially of some work
Stoicism n. The principles or the another's behests. or movement.
practice of the Stoics-being very even subside v. To relapse into a state of superintendence n. Direction and
tempered in success and failure. repose and tranquillity. management.
stolid adj. Expressing no power of subsist v. To be maintained or superintendent n. One who has the
feeling or perceiving. sustained. charge and direction of, especially of
strait n. A narrow passage of water subsistence n. Sustenance. some work or movement.
connecting two larger bodies of water. substantive adj. Solid. superlative n. That which is of the
stratagem n. Any clever trick or device subtend v. To extend opposite to. highest possible excellence or
for obtaining an advantage. subterfuge n. Evasion. eminence.
stratum n. A natural or artificial layer, subterranean adj. Situated or supernatural adj. Caused miraculously
bed, or thickness of any substance or occurring below the surface of the or by the immediate exercise of divine
material. earth. power.
streamlet n. Rivulet. subtle adj. Discriminating. supernumerary adj. Superfluous.
stringency n. Strictness. subtrahend n. That which is to be supersede v. To displace.
stringent adj. Rigid. subtracted. supine adj. Lying on the back.
stripling n. A mere youth. subversion n. An overthrow, as from supplant v. To take the place of.
studious adj. Having or showing the foundation. supple adj. Easily bent.
devotion to the acquisition of subvert v. To bring to ruin. supplementary adj. Being an addition
knowledge. succeed v. To accomplish what is to.
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supplicant n. One who asks humbly sounds. communicating by telephone.

and earnestly. symphonious adj. Marked by a telescope v. To drive together so that
supplicate v. To beg. harmonious or agreeable mingling of one slides into the another like the
supposition n. Conjecture. sounds. sections of a spy-glass.
suppress v. To prevent from being symphony n. A harmonious or telltale adj. That gives warning or
disclosed or punished. agreeable mingling of sounds. information.
suppressible adj. Capable of being synchronism n. Simultaneousness. temerity n. Recklessness.
suppressed. syndicate n. An association of temporal adj. Pertaining to or
suppression n. A forcible putting or individuals united for the prosecution concerned with the affairs of the
keeping down. of some enterprise. present life.
supramundane adj. Supernatural. syneresis n. The coalescence of two temporary adj. Lasting for a short time
surcharge n. An additional amount vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever. only.
charged. synod n. An ecclesiastical council. temporize v. To pursue a policy of
surety n. Security for payment or synonym n. A word having the same delay.
performance. or almost the same meaning as some tempt v. To offer to (somebody) an
surfeit v. To feed to fullness or to other. inducement to do wrong.
satiety. synopsis n. A syllabus or summary. tempter n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
surmise v. To conjecture. systematic adj. Methodical. tenacious adj. Unyielding.
surmount v. To overcome by force of tableau n. An arrangement of tenant n. An occupant.
will. inanimate figures representing a tendency n. Direction or inclination, as
surreptitious adj. Clandestine. scene from real life. toward some objector end.
surrogate n. One who or that which is tacit adj. Understood. tenet n. Any opinion, principle,
substituted for or appointed to act in taciturn adj. Disinclined to dogma, or doctrine that a person
place of another. conversation. believes or maintains as true.
surround v. To encircle. tack n. A small sharp-pointed nail. tenor n. A settled course or manner of
surveyor n. A land-measurer. tact n. Fine or ready mental progress.
susceptibility n. A specific capability of discernment shown in saying or doing tense adj. Strained to stiffness.
feeling or emotion. the proper thing. tentative adj. Done as an experiment.
susceptible adj. Easily under a tactician n. One who directs affairs tenure n. The term during which a
specified power or influence. with skill and shrewdness. thing is held.
suspense n. Uncertainty. tactics n. Any maneuvering or adroit tercentenary adj. Pertaining to a
suspension n. A hanging from a management for effecting an object. period of 300 years.
support. tangency n. The state of touching. termagant adj. Violently abusive and
suspicious adj. Inclined to doubt or tangent adj. Touching. quarrelsome.
mistrust. tangible adj. Perceptible by touch. terminal adj. Pertaining to or creative
sustenance n. Food. tannery n. A place where leather is of a boundary, limit.
swarthy adj. Having a dark hue, tanned. terminate v. To put an end or stop to.
especially a dark or sunburned tantalize v. To tease. termination n. The act of ending or
complexion. tantamount adj. Having equal or concluding.
Sybarite n. A luxurious person. equivalent value, effect, or import. terminus n. The final point or goal.
sycophant n. A servile flatterer, tapestry n. A fabric to which a pattern terrify v. To fill with extreme fear.
especially of those in authority or is applied with a needle, designed for territorial adj. Pertaining to the
influence. ornamental hangings. domain over which a sovereign state
syllabic adj. Consisting of that which is tarnish v. To lessen or destroy the exercises jurisdiction.
uttered in a single vocal impulse. luster of in any way. terse adj. Pithy.
syllabication n. Division of words into taut adj. Stretched tight. testament n. A will.
that which is uttered in a single vocal taxation n. A levy, by government, of a testator n. The maker of a will.
impulse. fixed contribution. testimonial n. A formal token of
syllable n. That which is uttered in a taxidermy n. The art or process of regard, often presented in public.
single vocal impulse. preserving dead animals or parts of thearchy n. Government by a supreme
syllabus n. Outline of a subject, them. deity.
course, lecture, or treatise. technic adj. Technical. theism n. Belief in God.
sylph n. A slender, graceful young technicality n. Something peculiar to a theocracy n. A government
woman or girl. particular art, trade, or the like. administered by ecclesiastics.
symmetrical adj. Well-balanced. technique n. Manner of performance. theocrasy n. The mixed worship of
symmetry n. Relative proportion and technography n. The scientific polytheism.
harmony. description or study of human arts theologian n. A professor of divinity.
sympathetic adj. Having a fellow- and industries in their historic theological adj. Based on or growing
feeling for or like feelings with development. out of divine revelation.
another or others. technology n. The knowledge relating theology n. The branch of theological
sympathize v. To share the sentiments to industries and manufactures. science that treats of God.
or mental states of another. teem v. To be full to overflowing. theoretical adj. Directed toward
symphonic adj. Characterized by a telepathy n. Thought-transference. knowledge for its own sake without
harmonious or agreeable mingling of telephony n. The art or process of respect to applications.
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theorist n. One given to speculating. transatlantic adj. Situated beyond or or in a crosswise direction.
theorize v. To speculate. on the other side of the Atlantic. travail n. Hard or agonizing labor.
thereabout adv. Near that number, transcend v. To surpass. travesty n. A grotesque imitation.
quantity, degree, place, or time, transcendent adj. Surpassing. treacherous adj. Perfidious.
approximately. transcontinental adj. Extending or treachery n. Violation of allegiance,
therefor adv. For that or this. passing across a continent. confidence, or plighted faith.
thermal adj. Of or pertaining to heat. transcribe v. To write over again treasonable adj. Of the nature of
thermoelectric adj. Denoting (something already written) betrayal, treachery, or breech of
electricity produced by heat. transcript n. A copy made directly allegiance.
thermoelectricity n. Electricity from an original. treatise n. An elaborate literary
generated by differences of transfer v. To convey, remove, or composition presenting a subject in all
temperature, cause to pass from one person or its parts.
thesis n. An essay or treatise on a place to another. treble adj. Multiplied by three.
particular subject. transferable adj. Capable of being trebly adv. Triply.
thoroughbred adj. Bred from the best conveyed from one person or place to tremendous adj. Awe-inspiring.
or purest blood or stock. another. tremor n. An involuntary trembling or
thoroughfare n. A public street or transferee n. The person to whom a shivering.
road. transfer is made. tremulous adj. Characterized by
thrall n. One controlled by an appetite transference n. The act of conveying quivering or unsteadiness.
or a passion. from one person or place to another. trenchant adj. Cutting deeply and
tilth n. Cultivation. transferrer n. One who or that which quickly.
timbre n. The quality of a tone, as conveys from one person or place to trepidation n. Nervous uncertainty of
distinguished from intensity and pitch. another. feeling.
timorous adj. Lacking courage. transfigure v. To give an exalted trestle n. An open braced framework
tincture n. A solution, usually meaning or glorified appearance to. for supporting the horizontal stringers
alcoholic, of some principle used in transfuse v. To pour or cause to pass, of a railway-bridge.
medicine. as a fluid, from one vessel to another. triad n. A group of three persons of
tinge n. A faint trace of color. transfusible adj. Capable of being things.
tipsy adj. Befuddled with drinks. poured from one vessel to another. tribune n. Any champion of the rights
tirade n. Harangue. transfusion n. The act of pouring from and liberties of the people: often used
tireless adj. Untiring. one vessel to another. as the name for a newspaper.
tiresome adj. Wearisome. trickery n. Artifice.
Titanic adj. Of vast size or strength. transgress v. To break a law. tricolor adj. Of three colors.
toilsome adj. Laborious. transience n. Something that is of tricycle n. A three-wheeled vehicle.
tolerable adj. Moderately good. short duration. trident n. The three-pronged fork that
tolerance n. Forbearance in judging of transient n. One who or that which is was the emblem of Neptune.
the acts or opinions of others. only of temporary existence. triennial adj. Taking place every third
tolerant adj. Indulgent. transition n. Passage from one place, year.
tolerate v. To passively permit or put condition, or action to another. trimness n. Neatness.
up with. transitory adj. Existing for a short time trinity n. A threefold personality
toleration n. A spirit of charitable only. existing in the one divine being or
leniency. translate v. To give the sense or substance.
topography n. The art of representing equivalent of in another language or trio n. Three things grouped or
on a map the physical features of any dialect. associated together.
locality or region with accuracy. translator n. An interpreter. triple adj. Threefold.
torpor n. Apathy. translucence n. The property or state triplicate adj. Composed of or
torrid adj. Excessively hot. of allowing the passage of light. pertaining to three related things or
tortious adj. Wrongful. translucent adj. Allowing the passage parts.
tortuous adj. Abounding in irregular of light. triplicity n. The state of being triple or
bends or turns. transmissible adj. That may e sent threefold.
torturous adj. Marked by extreme through or across. tripod n. A three-legged stand, usually
suffering. transmission n. The act of sending hinged near the top, for supporting
tractable adj. Easily led or controlled. through or across. some instrument.
trait n. A distinguishing feature or transmit v. To send trough or across. trisect v. To divide into three parts,
quality. transmute v. To change in nature, especially into three equal parts.
trajectory n. The path described by a substance, or form. trite adj. Made commonplace by
projectile moving under given forces. transparent adj. Easy to see through frequent repetition.
trammel n. An impediment. or understand. triumvir n. One of three men united
tranquil adj. Calm. transpire v. To come to pass. coordinately in public office or
tranquilize v. To soothe. transplant v. To remove and plant in authority.
tranquility n. Calmness. another place. trivial adj. Of little importance or
transalpine adj. Situated on the other transposition n. The act of reversing value.
side of the Alps. the order or changing the place of. troublesome adj. Burdensome.
transact v. To do business. transverse adj. Lying or being across truculence n. Ferocity.
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truculent adj. Having the character or unctuous adj. Oily. untoward adj. Causing annoyance or
the spirit of a savage. undeceive v. To free from deception, hindrance.
truism n. A statement so plainly true as by apprising of the real state of unutterable adj. Inexpressible.
as hardly to require statement or affairs. unwieldy adj. Moved or managed with
proof. undercharge v. To make an difficulty, as from great size or
truthful adj. Veracious. inadequate charge for. awkward shape.
turgid adj. Swollen. underexposed adj. Insufficiently unwise adj. Foolish.
turpitude n. Depravity. exposed for proper or full unyoke v. To separate.
tutelage n. The act of training or the development, as negatives in up-keep n. Maintenance.
state of being under instruction. photography. upbraid v. To reproach as deserving
tutelar adj. Protective. undergarment n. A garment to be blame.
tutorship n. The office of a guardian. worn under the ordinary outer upcast n. A throwing upward.
twinge n. A darting momentary local garments. upheaval n. Overthrow or violent
pain. underman v. To equip with less than disturbance of established order or
typical adj. Characteristic. the full complement of men. condition.
typify v. To serve as a characteristic undersell v. To sell at a lower price upheave v. To raise or lift with effort.
example of. than. uppermost adj. First in order of
typographical adj. Pertaining to undersized adj. Of less than the precedence.
typography or printing. customary size. uproarious adj. Noisy.
typography n. The arrangement of underhanded adj. Clandestinely uproot v. To eradicate.
composed type, or the appearance of carried on. upturn v. To throw into confusion.
printed matter. underlie v. To be the ground or urban adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like
tyrannical adj. Despotic. support of. a city.
tyranny n. Absolute power arbitrarily underling n. A subordinate. urbanity n. Refined or elegant
or unjustly administrated. undermine v. To subvert in an courtesy.
tyro n. One slightly skilled in or underhand way. urchin n. A roguish, mischievous boy.
acquainted with any trade or underrate v. To undervalue. urgency n. The pressure of necessity.
profession. understate v. To fail to put strongly usage n. Treatment.
ubiquitous adj. Being present enough, as a case. usurious adj. Taking unlawful or
everywhere. undervalue v. To underestimate. exorbitant interest on money loaned.
ulterior adj. Not so pertinent as underworld n. Hades. usurp v. To take possession of by
something else to the matter spoken underwrite v. To issue or be party to force.
of. the issue of a policy of insurance. usury n. The demanding for the use of
ultimate adj. Beyond which there is undue adj. More than sufficient. money as a loan, a rate of interest
nothing else. undulate v. To move like a wave or in beyond what is allowed by law.
ultimatum n. A final statement or waves. utilitarianism n. The ethical doctrine
proposal, as concerning terms or undulous adj. Resembling waves. that actions are right because they are
conditions. unfavorable adj. Adverse. useful or of beneficial tendency.
ultramundane adj. Pertaining to ungainly adj. Clumsy. utility n. Fitness for some desirable
supernatural things or to another life. unguent n. Any ointment or lubricant practical purpose.
ultramontane adj. Beyond the for local application. utmost n. The greatest possible
mountains, especially beyond the Alps unicellular adj. Consisting of a single extent.
(that is, on their Italian side). cell. vacate v. To leave.
umbrage n. A sense of injury. univalence n. Monovalency. vaccinate v. To inoculate with vaccine
unaccountable adj. Inexplicable. unify v. To cause to be one. virus or virus of cowpox.
unaffected adj. Sincere. unique adj. Being the only one of its vacillate v. To waver.
unanimous adj. Sharing the same kind. vacuous adj. Empty.
views or sentiments. unison n. A condition of perfect vacuum n. A space entirely devoid of
unanimity n. The state or quality of agreement and accord. matter.
being of one mind. unisonant adj. Being in a condition of vagabond n. A wanderer.
unavoidable adj. Inevitable. perfect agreement and accord. vagrant n. An idle wanderer.
unbearable adj. Unendurable. Unitarian adj. Pertaining to a religious vainglory n. Excessive, pretentious,
unbecoming adj. Unsuited to the body that rejects the doctrine of the and demonstrative vanity.
wearer, place, or surroundings. Trinity. vale n. Level or low land between hills.
unbelief n. Doubt. unlawful adj. Illegal. valediction n. A bidding farewell.
unbiased adj. Impartial, as judgment. unlimited adj. Unconstrained. valedictorian n. Student who delivers
unbridled adj. Being without restraint. unnatural adj. Artificial. an address at graduating exercises of
uncommon adj. Rare. unnecessary adj. Not essential under an educational institution.
unconscionable adj. Ridiculously or the circumstances. valedictory n. A parting address.
unjustly excessive. unsettle v. To put into confusion. valid adj. Founded on truth.
unconscious adj. Not cognizant of unsophisticated adj. Showing valorous adj. Courageous.
objects, actions, etc. inexperience. vapid adj. Having lost sparkling quality
unction n. The art of anointing as with unspeakable adj. Abominable. and flavor.
oil. untimely adj. Unseasonable. vaporizer n. An atomizer.
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variable adj. Having a tendency to applying oneself to new and varied British peerage.
change. tasks or to various subjects. vista n. A view or prospect.
variance n. Change. version n. A description or report of visual adj. Perceptible by sight.
variant n. A thing that differs from something as modified by one's visualize v. To give pictorial vividness
another in form only, being the same character or opinion. to a mental representation.
in essence or substance. vertex n. Apex. vitality n. The state or quality of being
variation n. Modification. vertical adj. Lying or directed necessary to existence or
variegate v. To mark with different perpendicularly to the horizon. continuance.
shades or colors. vertigo n. Dizziness. vitalize v. To endow with life or
vassal n. A slave or bondman. vestige n. A visible trace, mark, or energy.
vaudeville n. A variety show. impression, of something absent, lost, vitiate v. To contaminate.
vegetal adj. Of or pertaining to plants. or gone. vituperable adj. Deserving of censure.
vegetarian n. One who believes in the vestment n. Clothing or covering. vivacity n. Liveliness.
theory that man's food should be veto n. The constitutional right in a vivify v. To endue with life.
exclusively vegetable. chief executive of refusing to approve vivisection n. The dissection of a living
vegetate v. To live in a monotonous, an enactment. animal.
passive way without exercise of the vicarious adj. Suffered or done in vocable n. a word, especially one
mental faculties. place of or for the sake of another. regarded in relation merely to its
vegetation n. Plant-life in the viceroy n. A ruler acting with royal qualities of sound.
aggregate. authority in place of the sovereign in a vocative adj. Of or pertaining to the
vegetative adj. Pertaining to the colony or province. act of calling.
process of plant-life. vicissitude n. A change, especially a vociferance n. The quality of making a
vehement adj. Very eager or urgent. complete change, of condition or clamor.
velocity n. Rapid motion. circumstances, as of fortune. vociferate v. To utter with a loud and
velvety adj. Marked by lightness and vie v. To contend. vehement voice.
softness. vigilance n. Alert and intent mental vociferous adj. Making a loud outcry.
venal adj. Mercenary, corrupt. watchfulness in guarding against vogue n. The prevalent way or
vendible adj. Marketable. danger. fashion.
vendition n. The act of selling. vigilant adj. Being on the alert to volant adj. Flying or able to fly.
vendor n. A seller. discover and ward off danger or insure volatile adj. Changeable.
veneer n. Outside show or elegance. safety. volition n. An act or exercise of will.
venerable adj. Meriting or vignette n. A picture having a volitive adj. Exercising the will.
commanding high esteem. background or that is shaded off voluble adj. Having great fluency in
venerate v. To cherish reverentially. gradually. speaking.
venereal adj. Pertaining to or vincible adj. Conquerable. voluptuous adj. having fullness of
proceeding from sexual intercourse. vindicate v. To prove true, right, or beautiful form, as a woman, with or
venial adj. That may be pardoned or real. without sensuous or sensual quality.
forgiven, a forgivable sin. vindicatory adj. Punitive. voracious adj. Eating with greediness
venison n. The flesh of deer. vindicative adj. Revengeful. or in very large quantities.
venom n. The poisonous fluid that vinery n. A greenhouse for grapes. vortex n. A mass of rotating or
certain animals secrete. viol n. A stringed instrument of the whirling fluid, especially when sucked
venous adj. Of, pertaining to, or violin class. spirally toward the center.
contained or carried in a vein or veins. viola n. A musical instrument votary adj. Consecrated by a vow or
veracious adj. Habitually disposed to somewhat larger than a violin. promise.
speak the truth. violator n. One who transgresses. votive adj. Dedicated by a vow.
veracity n. Truthfulness. violation n. Infringement. vulgarity n. Lack of refinement in
verbatim adv. Word for word. violoncello n. A stringed instrument conduct or speech.
verbiage n. Use of many words held between the player's knees. vulnerable adj. Capable of receiving
without necessity. virago n. A bold, impudent, turbulent injuries.
verbose adj. Wordy. woman. waif n. A homeless, neglected
verdant adj. Green with vegetation. virile adj. Masculine. wanderer.
verification n. The act of proving to be virtu n. Rare, curious, or beautiful waistcoat n. A vest.
true, exact, or accurate. quality. waive v. To relinquish, especially
verify v. To prove to be true, exact, or virtual adj. Being in essence or effect, temporarily, as a right or claim.
accurate. but not in form or appearance. wampum n. Beads strung on threads,
verily adv. In truth. virtuoso n. A master in the technique formerly used among the American
verity n. Truth. of some particular fine art. Indians as currency.
vermin n. A noxious or troublesome virulence n. Extreme poisonousness. wane v. To diminish in size and
animal. virulent adj. Exceedingly noxious or brilliancy.
vernacular n. The language of one's deleterious. wantonness n. Recklessness.
country. visage n. The face, countenance, or warlike adj. Belligerent.
vernal adj. Belonging to or suggestive look of a person. wavelet n. A ripple.
of the spring. viscount n. In England, a title of weak-kneed adj. Without resolute
versatile adj. Having an aptitude for nobility, ranking fourth in the order of purpose or energy.
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weal n. Well-being. year and not yet two years old.

wean v. To transfer (the young) from zealot n. One who espouses a cause or
dependence on mother's milk to pursues an object in an immoderately
another form of nourishment. partisan manner.
wearisome adj. Fatiguing. zeitgeist n. The intellectual and moral
wee adj. Very small. tendencies that characterize any age
well-bred adj. Of good ancestry. or epoch.
well-doer n. A performer of moral and zenith n. The culminating-point of
social duties. prosperity, influence, or greatness.
well-to-do adj. In prosperous zephyr n. Any soft, gentle wind.
circumstances. zodiac n. An imaginary belt encircling
whereabouts n. The place in or near the heavens within which are the
which a person or thing is. larger planets.
whereupon adv. After which.
wherever adv. In or at whatever place.
wherewith n. The necessary means or
resources.
whet v. To make more keen or eager.
whimsical adj. Capricious.
whine v. To utter with complaining
tone.
wholly adv. Completely.
wield v. To use, control, or manage, as
a weapon, or instrument, especially
with full command.
wile n. An act or a means of cunning
deception.
winsome adj. Attractive.
wintry adj. Lacking warmth of manner.
wiry adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
witchcraft n. Sorcery.
witless adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
witling n. A person who has little
understanding.
witticism n. A witty, brilliant, or
original saying or sentiment.
wittingly adv. With knowledge and by
design.
wizen v. To become or cause to
become withered or dry.
wizen-faced adj. Having a shriveled
face.
working-man n. One who earns his
bread by manual labor.
workmanlike adj. Like or befitting a
skilled workman.
workmanship n. The art or skill of a
workman.
wrangle v. To maintain by noisy
argument or dispute.
wreak v. To inflict, as a revenge or
punishment.
wrest v. To pull or force away by or as
by violent twisting or wringing.
wretchedness n. Extreme misery or
unhappiness.
writhe v. To twist the body, face, or
limbs or as in pain or distress.
writing n. The act or art of tracing or
inscribing on a surface letters or
ideographs.
wry adj. Deviating from that which is
proper or right.
yearling n. A young animal past its first