5000+ Collegiate Words (SAT Vocabulary)
eureka
Greek. I have found it.
microscopic
adj. Adapted to or characterized by minute observation.
intensive
adj. Adding emphasis or force.
conservative
adj. Adhering to the existing order of things.
pervious
adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
inimical
adj. Adverse.
unfavorable
adj. Adverse.
diffident
adj. Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
giddy
adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
anemic
adj. Affected with anemia.
rabid
adj. Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
pandemic
adj. Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
pungent
adj. Affecting the sense of smell.
sapid
adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
actionable
adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
pleasurable
adj. Affording gratification.
mealy-mouthed
adj. Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
complaisant
adj. Agreeable.
pleasant
adj. Agreeable.
infernal
adj. Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants.
cognate
adj. Akin.
translucent
adj. Allowing the passage of light.
meretricious
adj. Alluring by false or gaudy show.
equivocal
adj. Ambiguous.
lovable
adj. Amiable.
facetious
adj. Amusing.
bestial
adj. Animal.
affirmative
adj. Answering yes, to a question at issue.
respondent
adj. Answering.
provident
adj. Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
archaic
adj. Antiquated
hideous
adj. Appalling.
cogent
adj. Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
accessible
adj. Approachable.
apposite
adj. Appropriate.
frightful
adj. Apt to induce terror or alarm.
negligent
adj. Apt to omit what ought to be done.
fervent
adj. Ardent in feeling.
earnest
adj. Ardent in spirit and speech.
spontaneous
adj. Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
unnatural
adj. Artificial.
referable
adj. Ascribable.
juridical
adj. Assumed by law to exist.
presumptuous
adj. Assuming too much.
confident
adj. Assured.
perspicacious
adj. Astute.
heterodox
adj. At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
winsome
adj. Attractive.
adjutant
adj. Auxiliary.
loath
adj. Averse.
conscious
adj. Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
tremendous
adj. Awe-inspiring.
clumsy
adj. Awkward of movement.
inapt
adj. Awkward or slow.
fundamental
adj. Basal.
theological
adj. Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
similar
adj. Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
relevant
adj. Bearing upon the matter in hand.
recrudescent
adj. Becoming raw or sore again.
antemeridian
adj. Before noon.
tipsy
adj. Befuddled with drinks.
abrupt
adj. Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
inceptive
adj. Beginning.
supplementary
adj. Being an addition to.
subliminal
adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
unisonant
adj. Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
intermediate
adj. Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.
dormant
adj. Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
quiescent
adj. Being in a state of repose or inaction.
consonant
adj. Being in agreement or harmony with.
rudimentary
adj. Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
virtual
adj. Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
needy
adj. Being in need, want, or poverty.
proportionate
adj. Being in proportion.
superfluous
adj. Being more than is needed.
extinct
adj. Being no longer in existence.
possible
adj. Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
vigilant
adj. Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
subconscious
adj. Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
ubiquitous
adj. Being present everywhere.
unique
adj. Being the only one of its kind.
unbridled
adj. Being without restraint.
subaquatic
adj. Being, formed, or operating under water.
credible
adj. Believable.
warlike
adj. Belligerent.
medieval
adj. Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
corporal
adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
corporate
adj. Belonging to a corporation.
gentile
adj. Belonging to a people not Jewish.
subordinate
adj. Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
vernal
adj. Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
neutral
adj. Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
primeval
adj. Belonging to the first ages.
foreign
adj. Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country.
chromatic
adj. Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
salutary
adj. Beneficial.
benignant
adj. Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
philanthropic
adj. Benevolent.
distraught
adj. Bewildered.
ultramontane
adj. Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
ultimate
adj. Beyond which there is nothing else.
intolerant
adj. Bigoted.
obligatory
adj. Binding in law or conscience.
mordacious
adj. Biting or giving to biting.
mordant
adj. Biting.
livid
adj. Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
impeccable
adj. Blameless.
sanguinary
adj. Bloody.
obstreperous
adj. Boisterous.
hilarious
adj. Boisterously merry.
illimitable
adj. Boundless.
ramose
adj. Branch-like.
courageous
adj. Brave.
daring
adj. Brave.
thoroughbred
adj. Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
contrite
adj. Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
fraternal
adj. Brotherly.
promiscuous
adj. Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
protuberant
adj. Bulging.
onerous
adj. Burdensome or oppressive.
troublesome
adj. Burdensome.
ardent
adj. Burning with passion.
halcyon
adj. Calm.
imperturbable
adj. Calm.
tranquil
adj. Calm.
ingenuous
adj. Candid, frank, or open in character or quality.
reconcilable
adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
alienable
adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
appellate
adj. Capable of being appealed to.
fragile
adj. Capable of being broken.
apprehensible
adj. Capable of being conceived.
conductible
adj. Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
transferable
adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
appreciable
adj. Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
separable
adj. Capable of being disjoined or divided.
soluble
adj. Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
ductile
adj. Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
prehensible
adj. Capable of being grasped.
impliable
adj. Capable of being inferred.
perfectible
adj. Capable of being made perfect.
defensible
adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
fusible
adj. Capable of being melted by heat.
receivable
adj. Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
transfusible
adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
compressible
adj. Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
submersible
adj. Capable of being put underwater.
reflexible
adj. Capable of being reflected.
refragable
adj. Capable of being refuted.
curable
adj. Capable of being remedied or corrected.
divisible
adj. Capable of being separated into parts.
distensible
adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
suppressible
adj. Capable of being suppressed.
extensible
adj. Capable of being thrust out.
reflectible
adj. Capable of being turned back.
navigable
adj. Capable of commercial navigation.
fallible
adj. Capable of erring.
passible
adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
logical
adj. Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
demonstrable
adj. Capable of positive proof.
vulnerable
adj. Capable of receiving injuries.
corrigible
adj. Capable of reformation.
reparable
adj. Capable of repair.
peccable
adj. Capable of sinning.
diverse
adj. Capable of various forms.
whimsical
adj. Capricious.
irresponsible
adj. Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
defensive
adj. Carried on in resistance to aggression.
morbid
adj. Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
supernatural
adj. Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
untoward
adj. Causing annoyance or hindrance.
inoffensive
adj. Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
exhaustible
adj. Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
scrupulous
adj. Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
reprehensible
adj. Censurable.
chameleon
adj. Changeable in appearance.
inconstant
adj. Changeable.
volatile
adj. Changeable.
canine
adj. Characteristic of a dog.
scholarly
adj. Characteristic of an erudite person.
rustic
adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
foppish
adj. Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
diabolic
adj. Characteristic of the devil.
feminine
adj. Characteristic of woman or womankind.
juvenile
adj. Characteristic of youth.
typical
adj. Characteristic.
symphonic
adj. Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
melodious
adj. Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds.
euphonious
adj. Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
defiant
adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
beneficent
adj. Characterized by charity and kindness.
artful
adj. Characterized by craft or cunning.
flamboyant
adj. Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
equitable
adj. Characterized by fairness.
robust
adj. Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
narrow-minded
adj. Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
intellectual
adj. Characterized by intelligence.
impious
adj. Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.
lewd
adj. Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
partisan
adj. Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
ceremonial
adj. Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
decent
adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
tremulous
adj. Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
abstemious
adj. Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
shrewd
adj. Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
diplomatic
adj. Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
omniscient
adj. Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
stingy
adj. Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
blithesome
adj. Cheerful.
ruminant
adj. Chewing the cud.
puerile
adj. Childish.
Quixotic
adj. Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
noisy
adj. Clamorous.
surreptitious
adj. Clandestine.
underhanded
adj. Clandestinely carried on.
conspicuous
adj. Clearly visible.
adherent
adj. Clinging or sticking fast.
ungainly
adj. Clumsy.
crass
adj. Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
perceptible
adj. Cognizable.
achromatic
adj. Colorless,
emergent
adj. Coming into view.
derivative
adj. Coming or acquired from some origin.
premature
adj. Coming too soon.
cosmopolitan
adj. Common to all the world.
plebeian
adj. Common.
banal
adj. Commonplace.
clement
adj. Compassionate.
humane
adj. Compassionate.
piteous
adj. Compassionate.
able-bodied
adj. Competent for physical service.
complex
adj. Complicated.
motley
adj. Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
triplicate
adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
granular
adj. Composed of small grains or particles.
intelligible
adj. Comprehensible.
covert
adj. Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
priggish
adj. Conceited.
curt
adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
succinct
adj. Concise.
harmonious
adj. Concordant in sound.
mercantile
adj. Conducted or acting on business principles, commercial.
coniferous
adj. Cone-bearing trees.
rightful
adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
accurate
adj. Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
botanical
adj. Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
continuous
adj. Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
vincible
adj. Conquerable.
votary
adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise.
collective
adj. Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
unicellular
adj. Consisting of a single cell.
sanguineous
adj. Consisting of blood.
heterogeneous
adj. Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
foursome
adj. Consisting of four.
pecuniary
adj. Consisting of money.
syllabic
adj. Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
prominent
adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
dominant
adj. Conspicuously prominent.
redundant
adj. Constituting an excess.
saline
adj. Constituting or consisting of salt.
declarative
adj. Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
auriferous
adj. Containing gold.
populous
adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
diatomic
adj. Containing only two atoms.
plural
adj. Containing or consisting of more than one.
deplorable
adj. Contemptible.
despicable
adj. Contemptible.
pitiable
adj. Contemptible.
dissentious
adj. Contentious.
perennial
adj. Continuing though the year or through many years.
inconsistent
adj. Contradictory.
inverse
adj. Contrary in tendency or direction.
illogical
adj. Contrary to the rules of sound thought.
conducive
adj. Contributing to an end.
expedient
adj. Contributing to personal advantage.
instructive
adj. Conveying knowledge.
spasmodic
adj. Convulsive.
bodily
adj. Corporeal.
analogous
adj. Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
fraudulent
adj. Counterfeit.
innumerable
adj. Countless.
valorous
adj. Courageous.
caitiff
adj. Cowardly.
fictitious
adj. Created or formed by the imagination.
grievous
adj. Creating affliction.
gullible
adj. Credulous.
hybrid
adj. Cross-bred.
laureate
adj. Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
merciless
adj. Cruel.
sinuous
adj. Curving in and out.
convex
adj. Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
trenchant
adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
secant
adj. Cutting, especially into two parts.
diurnal
adj. Daily.
imminent
adj. Dangerous and close at hand.
abstruse
adj. Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
illusory
adj. Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
illusive
adj. Deceptive.
votive
adj. Dedicated by a vow.
inmost
adj. Deepest within.
explicit
adj. Definite.
determinate
adj. Definitely limited or fixed.
airy
adj. Delicate, ethereal.
delectable
adj. Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
thermoelectric
adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat.
prescriptible
adj. Derived from authoritative direction.
paronymous
adj. Derived from the same root or primitive word.
consanguineous
adj. Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
vituperable
adj. Deserving of censure.
consumptive
adj. Designed for gradual destruction.
amatory
adj. Designed to excite love.
bleak
adj. Desolate.
low-spirited
adj. Despondent.
tyrannical
adj. Despotic.
inanimate
adj. Destitute of animal life.
impotent
adj. Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
obnoxious
adj. Detestable.
wry
adj. Deviating from that which is proper or right.
heteromorphic
adj. Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
convivial
adj. Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
dissimilar
adj. Different.
inaccessible
adj. Difficult of approach.
formidable
adj. Difficult to accomplish.
intricate
adj. Difficult to follow or understand.
assiduous
adj. Diligent.
theoretical
adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
lateral
adj. Directed toward the side.
incompatible
adj. Discordant.
subtle
adj. Discriminating.
contemptuous
adj. Disdainful.
despondent
adj. Disheartened.
disreputable
adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful.
taciturn
adj. Disinclined to conversation.
petulant
adj. Displaying impatience.
fretful
adj. Disposed to peevishness.
merciful
adj. Disposed to pity and forgive.
rapacious
adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
hospitable
adj. Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
broadcast
adj. Disseminated far and wide.
differential
adj. Distinctive.
anxious
adj. Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
ambrosial
adj. Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
ascendant
adj. Dominant.
tentative
adj. Done as an experiment.
amicable
adj. Done in a friendly spirit.
jocose
adj. Done or made in jest.
extemporaneous
adj. Done or made without much or any preparation.
instantaneous
adj. Done without perceptible lapse of time.
accursed
adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
latent
adj. Dormant.
dubious
adj. Doubtful.
permanent
adj. Durable.
serviceable
adj. Durable.
ambitious
adj. Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
sensitive
adj. Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
supple
adj. Easily bent.
fragile
adj. Easily broken.
credulous
adj. Easily deceived.
tractable
adj. Easily led or controlled.
choleric
adj. Easily provoked to anger.
inflammable
adj. Easily set on fire or excited.
susceptible
adj. Easily under a specified power or influence.
apparent
adj. Easily understood.
affable
adj. Easy to approach.
docile
adj. Easy to manage.
transparent
adj. Easy to see through or understand.
carnivorous
adj. Eating or living on flesh.
omnivorous
adj. Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately.
voracious
adj. Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
frugal
adj. Economical.
eatable
adj. Edible.
providential
adj. Effected by divine guidance.
efficacious
adj. Effective.
effectual
adj. Efficient.
abusive
adj. Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
vacuous
adj. Empty.
decrepit
adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
ecstatic
adj. Enraptured.
rapt
adj. Enraptured.
plenary
adj. Entire.
equivalent
adj. Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like.
opportune
adj. Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment.
sedate
adj. Even-tempered.
malignant
adj. Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.
sinister
adj. Evil.
ingenious
adj. Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
precise
adj. Exact.
obese
adj. Exceedingly fat.
virulent
adj. Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
invaluable
adj. Exceedingly precious.
minute
adj. Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
Spartan
adj. Exceptionally brave, rigorously severe.
torrid
adj. Excessively hot.
penurious
adj. Excessively sparing in the use of money.
racy
adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
infallible
adj. Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
immune
adj. Exempt, as from disease.
regnant
adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
volitive
adj. Exercising the will.
effete
adj. Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
iridescent
adj. Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
supercilious
adj. Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
cynical
adj. Exhibiting moral skepticism.
neglectful
adj. Exhibiting or indicating omission.
occult
adj. Existing but not immediately perceptible.
transitory
adj. Existing for a short time only.
submarine
adj. Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
promissory
adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
stolid
adj. Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
dolorous
adj. Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
pluperfect
adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
mandatory
adj. Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory.
extensive
adj. Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
transcontinental
adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
munificent
adj. Extraordinarily generous.
phenomenal
adj. Extraordinary or marvelous.
preternatural
adj. Extraordinary.
egregious
adj. Extreme.
sophistical
adj. Fallacious.
laggard
adj. Falling behind.
deciduous
adj. Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
apostate
adj. False.
imaginary
adj. Fancied.
off
adj. Farther or more distant.
hindmost
adj. Farthest from the front.
modish
adj. Fashionable.
paternal
adj. Fatherly.
wearisome
adj. Fatiguing.
hypercritical
adj. Faultfinding.
grisly
adj. Fear-inspiring.
intrepid
adj. Fearless and bold.
audacious
adj. Fearless.
dauntless
adj. Fearless.
practicable
adj. Feasible.
herbivorous
adj. Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
regretful
adj. Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
monetary
adj. Financial.
uppermost
adj. First in order of precedence.
premier
adj. First in rank or position.
prima
adj. First.
ichthyic
adj. Fish-like.
effective
adj. Fit for a destined purpose.
comparable
adj. Fit to be compared.
habitable
adj. Fit to be dwelt in.
comestible
adj. Fit to be eaten.
lyric
adj. Fitted for expression in song.
exemplary
adj. Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.
arbitrary
adj. Fixed or done capriciously.
evanescent
adj. Fleeting.
fugacious
adj. Fleeting.
gossamer
adj. Flimsy.
florid
adj. Flushed with red.
volant
adj. Flying or able to fly.
sequent
adj. Following in the order of time.
subsequent
adj. Following in time.
consecutive
adj. Following in uninterrupted succession.
literal
adj. Following the exact words.
bibulous
adj. Fond of drinking.
philharmonic
adj. Fond of music.
mischievous
adj. Fond of tricks.
witless
adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
unwise
adj. Foolish.
maudlin
adj. Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
reckless
adj. Foolishly headless of danger.
compulsory
adj. Forced.
exotic
adj. Foreign.
prescient
adj. Foreknowing.
patronymic
adj. Formed after one's father's name.
redoubtable
adj. Formidable.
decimal
adj. Founded on the number 10.
valid
adj. Founded on truth.
brittle
adj. Fragile.
guileless
adj. Frank.
deceitful
adj. Fraudulent.
light-hearted
adj. Free from care.
positive
adj. Free from doubt or hesitation.
exempt
adj. Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
frantic
adj. Frenzied.
playful
adj. Frolicsome.
acrimonious
adj. Full of bitterness.
expressive
adj. Full of meaning.
bumptious
adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
mountainous
adj. Full of or abounding in mountains.
enthusiastic
adj. Full of zeal and fervor.
replete
adj. Full to the uttermost.
comical
adj. Funny.
ravenous
adj. Furiously voracious or hungry.
magnanimous
adj. Generous in treating or judging others.
sterling
adj. Genuine.
lurid
adj. Ghastly and sensational.
enormous
adj. Gigantic.
garrulous
adj. Given to constant trivial talking.
gluttonous
adj. Given to excess in eating.
inquisitive
adj. Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity.
ascetic
adj. Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
effervescent
adj. Giving off bubbles of gas.
luminous
adj. Giving or radiating light.
morose
adj. Gloomy.
somber
adj. Gloomy.
exorbitant
adj. Going beyond usual and proper limits.
benign
adj. Good and kind of heart.
conscientious
adj. Governed by moral standard.
magnificent
adj. Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
objective
adj. Grasping and representing facts as they are.
mercenary
adj. Greedy
verdant
adj. Green with vegetation.
disconsolate
adj. Grief-stricken.
scurrilous
adj. Grossly indecent or vulgar.
repulsive
adj. Grossly offensive.
rampant
adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
culpable
adj. Guilty.
peccant
adj. Guilty.
inveterate
adj. Habitual.
querulous
adj. Habitually complaining.
veracious
adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
immoral
adj. Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
indolent
adj. Habitually inactive or idle.
reticent
adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
semicivilized
adj. Half-civilized.
perfunctory
adj. Half-hearted.
comely
adj. Handsome.
pendulous
adj. Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
extrajudicial
adj. Happening out of court.
fastidious
adj. Hard to please.
pitiless
adj. Hard-hearted.
innocuous
adj. Harmless.
conformable
adj. Harmonious.
astringent
adj. Harsh in disposition or character.
dissonant
adj. Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
raucous
adj. Harsh.
acrid
adj. Harshly pungent or bitter.
odious
adj. Hateful.
misanthropic
adj. Hating mankind.
crustaceous
adj. Having a crust-like shell.
swarthy
adj. Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
squalid
adj. Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
ambiguous
adj. Having a double meaning.
sympathetic
adj. Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
hirsute
adj. Having a hairy covering.
kind-hearted
adj. Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
flippant
adj. Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
pestilent
adj. Having a malign influence or effect.
amorous
adj. Having a propensity for falling in love.
fluent
adj. Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
baritone
adj. Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
wizen-faced
adj. Having a shriveled face.
variable
adj. Having a tendency to change.
secretive
adj. Having a tendency to conceal.
recessive
adj. Having a tendency to go back.
stagy
adj. Having a theatrical manner.
sensuous
adj. Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
magisterial
adj. Having an air of authority.
versatile
adj. Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
definite
adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
grandiose
adj. Having an imposing style or effect.
odorous
adj. Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
efficient
adj. Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
reliant
adj. Having confidence.
mettlesome
adj. Having courage or spirit.
tantamount
adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
acute
adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment.
debonair
adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
voluble
adj. Having great fluency in speaking.
rapid
adj. Having great speed.
congenial
adj. Having kindred character or tastes.
illiterate
adj. Having little or no book-learning.
vapid
adj. Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
multiform
adj. Having many shapes, or appearances.
asexual
adj. Having no distinct sexual organs.
extraneous
adj. Having no essential relation to a subject.
nameless
adj. Having no fame or reputation.
nomad
adj. Having no fixed abode.
invalid
adj. Having no force, weight, or cogency.
interminable
adj. Having no limit or end.
impecunious
adj. Having no money.
nugatory
adj. Having no power or force.
nutritive
adj. Having nutritious properties.
orthogonal
adj. Having or determined by right angles.
odoriferous
adj. Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
resistive
adj. Having or exercising the power of resistance.
isothermal
adj. Having or marking equality of temperature.
anthropomorphous
adj. Having or resembling human form.
studious
adj. Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
repellent
adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
laxative
adj. Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
successful
adj. Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
assonant
adj. Having resemblance of sound.
polysyllable
adj. Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
hexangular
adj. Having six angles.
hexapod
adj. Having six feet.
adroit
adj. Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
spinous
adj. Having spines.
salacious
adj. Having strong sexual desires.
indignant
adj. Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness.
solvent
adj. Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
prerogative
adj. Having superior rank or precedence.
ambidextrous
adj. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
eloquent
adj. Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
receptive
adj. Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
neophyte
adj. Having the character of a beginner.
herbaceous
adj. Having the character of a herb.
remonstrant
adj. Having the character of a reproof.
truculent
adj. Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
sanguine
adj. Having the color of blood.
statuesque
adj. Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
precocious
adj. Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
arborescent
adj. Having the nature of a tree.
disciplinary
adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
interrogative
adj. Having the nature or form of a question.
saponaceous
adj. Having the nature or quality of soap.
selective
adj. Having the power of choice.
buoyant
adj. Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
refringent
adj. Having the power to refract.
influential
adj. Having the power to sway the will of another.
cohesive
adj. Having the property of consistency.
resilient
adj. Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
admissible
adj. Having the right or privilege of entry.
close-hauled
adj. Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
legitimate
adj. Having the sanction of law or established custom.
pastoral
adj. Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
ligneous
adj. Having the texture of appearance of wood.
hoarse
adj. Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue.
preparatory
adj. Having to do with what is preliminary.
duplex
adj. Having two parts.
effeminate
adj. Having womanish traits or qualities.
drowsy
adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
imprudent
adj. Heedless.
beneficial
adj. Helpful.
disjunctive
adj. Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
ghastly
adj. Hideous.
eminent
adj. High in station, merit, or esteem.
lucrative
adj. Highly profitable.
deterrent
adj. Hindering from action through fear.
orthodox
adj. Holding the commonly accepted faith.
reverent
adj. Humble.
deleterious
adj. Hurtful, morally or physically.
noxious
adj. Hurtful.
captious
adj. Hypercritical.
glacial
adj. Icy, or icily cold.
homologous
adj. Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.
fatuous
adj. Idiotic
unlawful
adj. Illegal.
fallacious
adj. Illogical.
prodigious
adj. Immense.
unbiased
adj. Impartial, as judgment.
disinterested
adj. Impartial.
obdurate
adj. Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
impervious
adj. Impenetrable.
inscrutable
adj. Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
impalpable
adj. Imperceptible to the touch.
insensible
adj. Imperceptible.
faulty
adj. Imperfect.
opaque
adj. Impervious to light.
sacrilegious
adj. Impious.
inborn
adj. Implanted by nature.
implicit
adj. Implied.
significant
adj. Important, especially as pointing something out.
powerless
adj. Impotent.
happy-go-lucky
adj. Improvident.
insolent
adj. Impudent.
impetuous
adj. Impulsive.
ready
adj. In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
well-to-do
adj. In prosperous circumstances.
insufficient
adj. Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
inert
adj. Inanimate.
irrelevant
adj. Inapplicable.
listless
adj. Inattentive.
insuppressible
adj. Incapable of being concealed.
incoercible
adj. Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled.
inviolable
adj. Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
inchoate
adj. Incipient.
suspicious
adj. Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
jocular
adj. Inclined to joke.
prurient
adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
sociable
adj. Inclined to seek company.
demonstrative
adj. Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
sidelong
adj. Inclining or tending to one side.
Pan-American
adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
inconceivable
adj. Incomprehensible.
grotesque
adj. Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
contradictory
adj. Inconsistent with itself.
absurd
adj. Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
erroneous
adj. Incorrect.
fabulous
adj. Incredible.
immeasurable
adj. Indefinitely extensive.
nondescript
adj. Indescribable.
causal
adj. Indicating or expressing a cause.
locative
adj. Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
genitive
adj. Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
fiducial
adj. Indicative of faith or trust.
evidential
adj. Indicative.
irreligious
adj. Indifferent or opposed to religion.
imperceptible
adj. Indiscernible.
necessary
adj. Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
incontrovertible
adj. Indisputable.
tolerant
adj. Indulgent.
ribald
adj. Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
Epicurean
adj. Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
inactive
adj. Inert.
unavoidable
adj. Inevitable.
impolitic
adj. Inexpedient.
unaccountable
adj. Inexplicable.
unutterable
adj. Inexpressible.
artless
adj. Ingenuous.
intrinsic
adj. Inherent.
incipient
adj. Initial.
inbred
adj. Innate.
demented
adj. Insane.
imperious
adj. Insisting on obedience.
rebellious
adj. Insubordinate.
intolerable
adj. Insufferable.
inadequate
adj. Insufficient.
underexposed
adj. Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
comprehensible
adj. Intelligible.
encyclical
adj. Intended for general circulation.
fervid
adj. Intense.
convertible
adj. Interchangeable.
inconvenient
adj. Interfering with comfort or progress.
meddlesome
adj. Interfering.
officious
adj. Intermeddling with what is not one's concern.
inherent
adj. Intrinsic.
insuperable
adj. Invincible.
prohibitory
adj. Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
sedentary
adj. Involving or requiring much sitting.
hydraulic
adj. Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
Achillean
adj. Invulnerable.
quarrelsome
adj. Irascible.
erratic
adj. Irregular.
heathenish
adj. Irreligious.
irreversible
adj. Irrevocable.
conjugate
adj. Joined together in pairs.
blithe
adj. Joyous.
festal
adj. Joyous.
censorious
adj. Judging severely or harshly.
discreet
adj. Judicious.
succulent
adj. Juicy.
excusable
adj. Justifiable.
liable
adj. Justly or legally responsible.
astute
adj. Keen in discernment.
propitious
adj. Kindly disposed.
superficial
adj. Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
toilsome
adj. Laborious.
misty
adj. Lacking clearness
paly
adj. Lacking color or brilliancy.
timorous
adj. Lacking courage.
improvident
adj. Lacking foresight or thrift.
absent-minded
adj. Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
infirm
adj. Lacking in bodily or mental strength.
hard-hearted
adj. Lacking pity or sympathy.
incomplete
adj. Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required.
insentient
adj. Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
wintry
adj. Lacking warmth of manner.
frigid
adj. Lacking warmth.
indiscreet
adj. Lacking wise judgment.
comprehensive
adj. Large in scope or content.
momentary
adj. Lasting but a short time.
temporary
adj. Lasting for a short time only.
lifelong
adj. Lasting or continuous through life.
ridiculous
adj. Laughable and contemptible.
ludicrous
adj. Laughable.
licit
adj. Lawful.
deponent
adj. Laying down.
slothful
adj. Lazy.
secondary
adj. Less important or effective than that which is primary.
dissolute
adj. Lewd.
nimble
adj. Light and quick in motion or action.
gaseous
adj. Light and unsubstantial.
cycloid
adj. Like a circle.
leonine
adj. Like a lion.
manlike
adj. Like a man.
dendroid
adj. Like a tree.
workmanlike
adj. Like or befitting a skilled workman.
finite
adj. Limited.
lackadaisical
adj. Listless.
amphibious
adj. Living both on land and in water.
contemporary
adj. Living or existing at the same time.
contemporaneous
adj. Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
nauseous
adj. Loathsome.
oblong
adj. Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
retrospective
adj. Looking back on the past.
audible
adj. Loud enough to be heard.
benevolent
adj. Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
ignoble
adj. Low in character or purpose.
bass
adj. Low in tone or compass.
inexpensive
adj. Low-priced.
perspicuous
adj. Lucid.
lascivious
adj. Lustful.
supine
adj. Lying on the back.
transverse
adj. Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
vertical
adj. Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon.
prostrate
adj. Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
trite
adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
oaken
adj. Made of or from oak.
counterfeit
adj. Made to resemble something else.
homogeneous
adj. Made up of similar parts or elements.
sibilant
adj. Made with a hissing sound.
palatial
adj. Magnificent.
vociferous
adj. Making a loud outcry.
sanctimonious
adj. Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
quiet
adj. Making no noise.
dogmatic
adj. Making statements without argument or evidence.
baleful
adj. Malignant.
belligerent
adj. Manifesting a warlike spirit.
symphonious
adj. Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
pompous
adj. Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
torturous
adj. Marked by extreme suffering.
exuberant
adj. Marked by great plentifulness.
velvety
adj. Marked by lightness and softness.
pretentious
adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
vendible
adj. Marketable.
diacritical
adj. Marking a difference.
virile
adj. Masculine.
incomparable
adj. Matchless.
infinite
adj. Measureless.
doleful
adj. Melancholy.
dolesome
adj. Melancholy.
lucid
adj. Mentally sound.
venal
adj. Mercenary, corrupt.
venerable
adj. Meriting or commanding high esteem.
festive
adj. Merry.
jovial
adj. Merry.
systematic
adj. Methodical.
lacteal
adj. Milky.
maleficent
adj. Mischievous.
tolerable
adj. Moderately good.
financial
adj. Monetary.
psychopathic
adj. Morally irresponsible.
preferable
adj. More desirable than others.
further
adj. More distant or advanced.
undue
adj. More than sufficient.
principal
adj. Most important.
unwieldy
adj. Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
irate
adj. Moved to anger.
precipitant
adj. Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
gradient
adj. Moving or advancing by steps.
miniature
adj. Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
sextuple
adj. Multiplied by six.
treble
adj. Multiplied by three.
reciprocal
adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
correlative
adj. Mutually involving or implying one another.
nude
adj. Naked.
indigenous
adj. Native.
indispensable
adj. Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
requisite
adj. Necessary.
extravagant
adj. Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure.
derelict
adj. Neglectful of obligation.
disobedient
adj. Neglecting or refusing to obey.
remiss
adj. Negligent.
neuter
adj. Neither masculine nor feminine.
excitable
adj. Nervously high-strung.
lithesome
adj. Nimble.
obsolete
adj. No longer practiced or accepted.
blatant
adj. Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous.
uproarious
adj. Noisy.
inefficient
adj. Not accomplishing an intended purpose.
illegal
adj. Not according to law.
refractory
adj. Not amenable to control.
improper
adj. Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming.
insecure
adj. Not assured of safety.
unconscious
adj. Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
abnormal
adj. Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
desultory
adj. Not connected with what precedes.
original
adj. Not copied nor produced by imitation.
facile
adj. Not difficult to do.
indigestible
adj. Not digestible, or difficult to digest.
inhospitable
adj. Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously.
phlegmatic
adj. Not easily roused to feeling or action.
unnecessary
adj. Not essential under the circumstances.
inaccurate
adj. Not exactly according to the facts.
impracticable
adj. Not feasible.
inept
adj. Not fit or suitable.
stagnant
adj. Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
immature
adj. Not full-grown.
personal
adj. Not general or public.
spurious
adj. Not genuine.
inedible
adj. Not good for food.
gregarious
adj. Not habitually solitary or living alone.
lenient
adj. Not harsh.
deficient
adj. Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
intestate
adj. Not having made a valid will.
incompetent
adj. Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose.
incoherent
adj. Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details.
advisory
adj. Not mandatory.
impassible
adj. Not moved or affected by feeling.
stationary
adj. Not moving.
intangible
adj. Not perceptible to the touch.
indiscernible
adj. Not perceptible.
impermissible
adj. Not permissible.
implausible
adj. Not plausible.
irrational
adj. Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
contingent
adj. Not predictable.
impersonal
adj. Not relating to a particular person or thing.
non-resident
adj. Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
indivisible
adj. Not separable into parts.
ulterior
adj. Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
lax
adj. Not stringent or energetic.
ineligible
adj. Not suitable to be selected or chosen.
inadmissible
adj. Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
invincible
adj. Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
inexcusable
adj. Not to be justified.
inapprehensible
adj. Not to be understood.
incomprehensible
adj. Not understandable.
memorable
adj. Noteworthy.
generic
adj. Noting a genus or kind, opposed to specific.
arrant
adj. Notoriously bad.
dutiful
adj. Obedient.
corpulent
adj. Obese.
imperative
adj. Obligatory.
foggy
adj. Obscure.
punctual
adj. Observant and exact in points of time.
ceremonious
adj. Observant of ritual.
annual
adj. Occurring every year.
concurrent
adj. Occurring or acting together.
antenatal
adj. Occurring or existing before birth.
quarterly
adj. Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
intracellular
adj. Occurring or situated within a cell.
simultaneous
adj. Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
heinous
adj. Odiously sinful.
canary
adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow.
corporeal
adj. Of a material nature, physical.
pallid
adj. Of a pale or wan appearance.
slight
adj. Of a small importance or significance.
staid
adj. Of a steady and sober character.
militant
adj. Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency.
ferocious
adj. Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature.
outlandish
adj. Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
massive
adj. Of considerable bulk and weight.
sordid
adj. Of degraded character or nature.
glorious
adj. Of excellence and splendor.
well-bred
adj. Of good ancestry.
undersized
adj. Of less than the customary size.
trivial
adj. Of little importance or value.
futile
adj. Of no avail or effect.
immaterial
adj. Of no essential consequence.
Norman
adj. Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France.
Baconian
adj. Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
Newtonian
adj. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
municipal
adj. Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
arboreal
adj. Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
academic
adj. Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
autumnal
adj. Of or pertaining to autumn.
culinary
adj. Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
auditory
adj. Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
thermal
adj. Of or pertaining to heat.
nuptial
adj. Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
numerical
adj. Of or pertaining to number.
vegetal
adj. Of or pertaining to plants.
vocative
adj. Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
genital
adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
Parisian
adj. Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
auricular
adj. Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
aural
adj. Of or pertaining to the ear.
ocular
adj. Of or pertaining to the eye.
medial
adj. Of or pertaining to the middle.
nocturnal
adj. Of or pertaining to the night.
marine
adj. Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
antediluvian
adj. Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
cardinal
adj. Of prime or special importance.
stupendous
adj. Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
patrician
adj. Of senatorial or noble rank.
akin
adj. Of similar nature or qualities.
picayune
adj. Of small value.
hale
adj. Of sound and vigorous health.
linear
adj. Of the nature of a line.
precedential
adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
treasonable
adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
tricolor
adj. Of three colors.
inextensible
adj. Of unchangeable length or area.
authentic
adj. Of undisputed origin.
peerless
adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
anonymous
adj. Of unknown authorship.
Titanic
adj. Of vast size or strength.
prevalent
adj. Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
bulbous
adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
urban
adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
venous
adj. Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
aqueous
adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
accusatory
adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
aerial
adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
littoral
adj. Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
gastric
adj. Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach.
acetic
adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
fulsome
adj. Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
repugnant
adj. Offensive to taste and feeling.
sacrificial
adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
resistant
adj. Offering or tending to produce resistance.
unctuous
adj. Oily.
moribund
adj. On the point of dying.
socialist
adj. One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
corruptible
adj. Open to bribery.
derisible
adj. Open to ridicule.
efflorescent
adj. Opening in flower.
flagrant
adj. Openly scandalous.
retroactive
adj. Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
antislavery
adj. Opposed to human slavery.
adverse
adj. Opposing or opposed.
discrepant
adj. Opposite.
mediocre
adj. Ordinary.
ornate
adj. Ornamented to a marked degree.
devious
adj. Out of the common or regular track.
atrocious
adj. Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
meticulous
adj. Over-cautious.
ashen
adj. Pale.
semiconscious
adj. Partially conscious.
privy
adj. Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
discursive
adj. Passing from one subject to another.
hereditary
adj. Passing naturally from parent to child.
obsolescent
adj. Passing out of use, as a word.
senile
adj. Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
endemic
adj. Peculiar to some specified country or people.
eccentric
adj. Peculiar.
discernible
adj. Perceivable.
presentient
adj. Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
visual
adj. Perceptible by sight.
tangible
adj. Perceptible by touch.
noticeable
adj. Perceptible.
treacherous
adj. Perfidious.
precarious
adj. Perilous.
sedulous
adj. Persevering in effort or endeavor.
pertinacious
adj. Persistent or unyielding.
maternal
adj. Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
colloquial
adj. Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
galvanic
adj. Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
Hibernian
adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
Arthurian
adj. Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
Martian
adj. Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
Augustinian
adj. Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
prefatory
adj. Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
metropolitan
adj. Pertaining to a chief city.
crustacean
adj. Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
expository
adj. Pertaining to a formal presentation.
centenary
adj. Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
tercentenary
adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
peninsular
adj. Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
Unitarian
adj. Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
explosive
adj. Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak.
insular
adj. Pertaining to an island.
antique
adj. Pertaining to ancient times.
esthetic
adj. Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts.
cereal
adj. Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
scholastic
adj. Pertaining to education or schools.
hydroelectric
adj. Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
pyrotechnic
adj. Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
floral
adj. Pertaining to flowers.
equestrian
adj. Pertaining to horses or horsemanship.
agrarian
adj. Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
connubial
adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
conjugal
adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
lactic
adj. Pertaining to milk.
natal
adj. Pertaining to one's birth.
sebaceous
adj. Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
temporal
adj. Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
pneumatic
adj. Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
terminal
adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
static
adj. Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
venereal
adj. Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
anesthetic
adj. Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
poetic
adj. Pertaining to poetry.
punitive
adj. Pertaining to punishment.
nautical
adj. Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
naval
adj. Pertaining to ships.
penitential
adj. Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
sidereal
adj. Pertaining to stars or constellations.
fluential
adj. Pertaining to streams.
postgraduate
adj. Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
ultramundane
adj. Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
didactic
adj. Pertaining to teaching.
acoustic
adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
judicial
adj. Pertaining to the administration of justice.
hypodermic
adj. Pertaining to the area under the skin.
cosmetic
adj. Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
primitive
adj. Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
sensual
adj. Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
pectoral
adj. Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
photoelectric
adj. Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
territorial
adj. Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
facial
adj. Pertaining to the face.
possessive
adj. Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
cardiac
adj. Pertaining to the heart.
Neolithic
adj. Pertaining to the later stone age.
pulmonary
adj. Pertaining to the lungs.
psychic
adj. Pertaining to the mind or soul.
lunar
adj. Pertaining to the moon.
phonic
adj. Pertaining to the nature of sound.
neural
adj. Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
nasal
adj. Pertaining to the nose.
polar
adj. Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
vegetative
adj. Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
reminiscent
adj. Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
feudal
adj. Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
Antarctic
adj. Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
stellar
adj. Pertaining to the stars.
solar
adj. Pertaining to the sun.
jugular
adj. Pertaining to the throat.
fiscal
adj. Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
cosmic
adj. Pertaining to the universe.
lingual
adj. Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance.
antemundane
adj. Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
typographical
adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
martial
adj. Pertaining to war or military operations.
hibernal
adj. Pertaining to winter.
Scriptural
adj. Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
polytechnic
adj. Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
laudatory
adj. Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
choral
adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
reactionary
adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
peevish
adj. Petulant. (irritable)
metaphysical
adj. Philosophical.
potent
adj. Physically powerful.
terse
adj. Pithy.
likely
adj. Plausible.
specious
adj. Plausible.
complacent
adj. Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
copious
adj. Plenteous.
abundant
adj. Plentiful.
flexible
adj. Pliable.
malleable
adj. Pliant.
indigent
adj. Poor.
ominous
adj. Portentous.
Omnipotent
adj. Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
gallant
adj. Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
liquefacient
adj. Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
proficient
adj. Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
excellent
adj. Possessing distinguished merit.
puissant
adj. Possessing strength.
sentient
adj. Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
sapient
adj. Possessing wisdom.
sapiential
adj. Possessing wisdom.
preferential
adj. Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
destitute
adj. Poverty-stricken.
resistless
adj. Powerless.
amateur
adj. Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
laudable
adj. Praiseworthy.
frolicsome
adj. Prankish.
peremptory
adj. Precluding question or appeal.
introductory
adj. Preliminary.
prescript
adj. Prescribed as a rule or model.
epizootic
adj. Prevailing among animals.
preponderant
adj. Prevalent.
aboriginal
adj. Primitive, unsophisticated.
pristine
adj. Primitive.
anterior
adj. Prior.
descendent
adj. Proceeding downward.
prudential
adj. Proceeding or marked by caution.
profuse
adj. Produced or displayed in overabundance.
coagulant
adj. Producing coagulation.
prolific
adj. Producing offspring or fruit.
indiscriminate
adj. Promiscuous.
seditious
adj. Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
irascible
adj. Prone to anger.
predatory
adj. Prone to pillaging.
propellant
adj. Propelling.
tutelar
adj. Protective.
judicious
adj. Prudent.
infamous
adj. Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime.
vindicatory
adj. Punitive.
eligible
adj. Qualified for selection.
competent
adj. Qualified.
litigious
adj. Quarrelsome.
pugnacious
adj. Quarrelsome.
inventive
adj. Quick at contrivance.
observant
adj. Quick to notice.
pentavalent
adj. Quinqeuvalent.
opposite
adj. Radically different or contrary in action or movement.
cursory
adj. Rapid and superficial.
uncommon
adj. Rare.
latish
adj. Rather late.
delirious
adj. Raving.
sequacious
adj. Ready to be led.
lifelike
adj. Realistic.
contumacious
adj. Rebellious.
nestling
adj. Recently hatched.
convalescent
adj. Recovering health after sickness.
semiannual
adj. Recurring at intervals of six months.
septennial
adj. Recurring every seven years.
auburn
adj. Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
Elizabethan
adj. Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.
probate
adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
metric
adj. Relating to measurement.
isochronous
adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
orthopedic
adj. Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
eugenic
adj. Relating to the development and improvement of race.
comparative
adj. Relative.
languid
adj. Relaxed.
germane
adj. Relevant.
pertinent
adj. Relevant.
devout
adj. Religious.
pious
adj. Religious.
averse
adj. Reluctant.
inland
adj. Remote from the sea.
out-of-the-way
adj. Remotely situated.
phonetic
adj. Representing articulate sounds or speech.
cadaverous
adj. Resembling a corpse.
creamy
adj. Resembling or containing cream.
satiric
adj. Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
undulous
adj. Resembling waves.
incompressible
adj. Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
sonorous
adj. Resonant.
desperate
adj. Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
emeritus
adj. Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position.
recurrent
adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
vindicative
adj. Revengeful.
sumptuous
adj. Rich and costly.
luscious
adj. Rich, sweet, and delicious.
unconscionable
adj. Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
stringent
adj. Rigid.
capacious
adj. Roomy.
rotund
adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
errant
adj. Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds.
boorish
adj. Rude.
aforesaid
adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
angelic
adj. Saintly.
caustic
adj. Sarcastic and severe.
blase
adj. Sated with pleasure.
inhuman
adj. Savage.
sardonic
adj. Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
second-rate
adj. Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
evangelical
adj. Seeking the conversion of sinners.
plausible
adj. Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
raptorial
adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
autonomous
adj. Self-governing.
carnal
adj. Sensual.
partible
adj. Separable.
immiscible
adj. Separating, as oil and water.
placid
adj. Serene.
subservient
adj. Servilely following another's behests.
coercive
adj. Serving or tending to force.
irrigant
adj. Serving to water lands by artificial means.
poignant
adj. Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
austere
adj. Severely simple, unadorned.
ignominious
adj. Shameful.
inglorious
adj. Shameful.
unanimous
adj. Sharing the same views or sentiments.
angular
adj. Sharp-cornered.
protective
adj. Sheltering.
lustrous
adj. Shining.
outrageous
adj. Shocking in conduct.
obsequious
adj. Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
bountiful
adj. Showing abundance.
felonious
adj. Showing criminal or evil purpose.
ebullient
adj. Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.
irritable
adj. Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
luminescent
adj. Showing increase of light.
unsophisticated
adj. Showing inexperience.
irreverent
adj. Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
irreverential
adj. Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
invidious
adj. Showing or feeling envy.
duteous
adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
circumspect
adj. Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
mawkish
adj. Sickening or insipid.
noiseless
adj. Silent.
inane
adj. Silly.
unaffected
adj. Sincere.
sublingual
adj. Situated beneath the tongue.
transatlantic
adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
subjacent
adj. Situated directly underneath.
maritime
adj. Situated on or near the sea.
transalpine
adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
subterranean
adj. Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
intramural
adj. Situated within the walls of a city.
oblique
adj. Slanting, said of lines.
somnolent
adj. Sleepy.
frowzy
adj. Slovenly in appearance.
pudgy
adj. Small and fat.
inconsiderable
adj. Small in quantity or importance.
redolent
adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
suave
adj. Smooth and pleasant in manner.
inexhaustible
adj. So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent.
substantive
adj. Solid.
brusque
adj. Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
subacid
adj. Somewhat sharp or biting.
liege
adj. Sovereign.
fitful
adj. Spasmodic.
grandiloquent
adj. Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
polyglot
adj. Speaking several tongues.
bilingual
adj. Speaking two languages.
inarticulate
adj. Speechless.
expeditious
adj. Speedy.
globose
adj. Spherical.
globular
adj. Spherical.
emphatic
adj. Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
fungous
adj. Spongy.
diffusible
adj. Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
salient
adj. Standing out prominently.
immovable
adj. Steadfast.
furtive
adj. Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
glutinous
adj. Sticky.
prim
adj. Stiffly proper.
extant
adj. Still existing and known.
suggestive
adj. Stimulating to thought or reflection.
illiberal
adj. Stingy.
niggardly
adj. Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
perpendicular
adj. Straight up and down.
candid
adj. Straightforward.
tense
adj. Strained to stiffness.
taut
adj. Stretched tight.
punctilious
adj. Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
aghast
adj. Struck with terror and amazement.
dutiable
adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
debatable
adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
juicy
adj. Succulent.
inexplicable
adj. Such as can not be made plain.
vicarious
adj. Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
conclusive
adj. Sufficient to convince or decide.
decorous
adj. Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
appropriate
adj. Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
edible
adj. Suitable to be eaten.
superb
adj. Sumptuously elegant.
abject
adj. Sunk to a low condition.
supernumerary
adj. Superfluous.
predominant
adj. Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
supramundane
adj. Supernatural.
lithe
adj. Supple.
paramount
adj. Supreme in authority.
resurgent
adj. Surging back or again.
ill-natured
adj. Surly.
transcendent
adj. Surpassing.
clandestine
adj. Surreptitious.
mellifluous
adj. Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
turgid
adj. Swollen.
impure
adj. Tainted.
cognizant
adj. Taking notice.
coincident
adj. Taking place at the same time.
triennial
adj. Taking place every third year.
usurious
adj. Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
loquacious
adj. Talkative.
insipid
adj. Tasteless.
technic
adj. Technical.
decapod
adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
divergent
adj. Tending in different directions.
obtrusive
adj. Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
dilatory
adj. Tending to cause delay.
pernicious
adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
convergent
adj. Tending to one point.
antispasmodic
adj. Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
hypnotic
adj. Tending to produce sleep.
somniferous
adj. Tending to produce sleep.
conciliatory
adj. Tending to reconcile.
imaginable
adj. That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
suggestible
adj. That can be suggested.
inflexible
adj. That can not be altered or varied.
indelible
adj. That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
irrefrangible
adj. That can not be broken or violated.
incombustible
adj. That can not be burned.
indescribable
adj. That can not be described.
indestructible
adj. That can not be destroyed.
inaudible
adj. That can not be heard.
irreducible
adj. That can not be lessened.
impassable
adj. That can not be passed through or over.
imperfectible
adj. That can not be perfected.
irreparable
adj. That can not be rectified or made amends for.
irrefragable
adj. That can not be refuted or disproved.
irrepressible
adj. That can not be restrained or kept down.
inseparable
adj. That can not be separated.
irresistible
adj. That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
impregnable
adj. That can not be taken by assault.
indivertible
adj. That can not be turned aside.
invulnerable
adj. That can not be wounded or hurt.
insatiable
adj. That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
telltale
adj. That gives warning or information.
legislative
adj. That makes or enacts laws.
permissible
adj. That may be allowed.
feasible
adj. That may be done, performed, or effected, practicable.
calculable
adj. That may be estimated by reckoning.
fungible
adj. That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
venial
adj. That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
penetrable
adj. That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
legible
adj. That may be read with ease.
reducible
adj. That may be reduced.
transmissible
adj. That may e sent through or across.
collapsible
adj. That may or can collapse.
indicant
adj. That which points out.
flimsy
adj. Thin and weak.
wiry
adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
sparse
adj. Thinly diffused.
exhaustive
adj. Thorough and complete in execution.
conversant
adj. Thoroughly informed.
pervasive
adj. Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
heedless
adj. Thoughtless.
triple
adj. Threefold.
laborious
adj. Toilsome.
endurable
adj. Tolerable.
contiguous
adj. Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
tangent
adj. Touching.
peaceable
adj. Tranquil.
peaceful
adj. Tranquil.
negligible
adj. Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
pellucid
adj. Translucent.
contagious
adj. Transmitting disease.
diaphanous
adj. Transparent.
gigantic
adj. Tremendous.
frivolous
adj. Trivial.
nominal
adj. Trivial.
factious
adj. Turbulent.
rotary
adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
bilateral
adj. Two-sided.
eventual
adj. Ultimate.
inadvisable
adj. Unadvisable.
inexpedient
adj. Unadvisable.
inevitable
adj. Unavoidable.
impartial
adj. Unbiased.
incessant
adj. Unceasing.
immutable
adj. Unchangeable.
invariable
adj. Unchangeable.
monotonous
adj. Unchanging and tedious.
boisterous
adj. Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
infrequent
adj. Uncommon.
rigorous
adj. Uncompromising.
indomitable
adj. Unconquerable.
unlimited
adj. Unconstrained.
provincial
adj. Uncultured in thought and manner.
illegible
adj. Undecipherable.
putrescent
adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
tacit
adj. Understood.
fickle
adj. Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
arrogant
adj. Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
parsimonious
adj. Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
unbearable
adj. Unendurable.
notorious
adj. Unfavorably known to the general public.
graceless
adj. Ungracious.
fanciless
adj. Unimaginative.
prosaic
adj. Unimaginative.
illicit
adj. Unlawful.
illegitimate
adj. Unlawfully begotten.
impassive
adj. Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling.
impulsive
adj. Unpremeditated.
perverse
adj. Unreasonable.
inexorable
adj. Unrelenting.
passive
adj. Unresponsive.
untimely
adj. Unseasonable.
incongruous
adj. Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
inopportune
adj. Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
unbecoming
adj. Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
indefensible
adj. Untenable.
tireless
adj. Untiring.
mendacious
adj. Untrue.
dishonest
adj. Untrustworthy.
extraordinary
adj. Unusual.
ponderous
adj. Unusually weighty or forcible.
ineffable
adj. Unutterable.
inexpressible
adj. Unutterable.
involuntary
adj. Unwilling.
reluctant
adj. Unwilling.
impersuadable
adj. Unyielding.
tenacious
adj. Unyielding.
importunate
adj. Urgent in character, request, or demand.
clamorous
adj. Urgent in complaint or demand.
exigent
adj. Urgent.
insistent
adj. Urgent.
left-handed
adj. Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
nomic
adj. Usual or customary.
oral
adj. Uttered through the mouth.
preposterous
adj. Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
hesitant
adj. Vacillating.
indistinct
adj. Vague.
inconsequential
adj. Valueless.
truthful
adj. Veracious.
prolix
adj. Verbose.
resplendent
adj. Very bright.
heartrending
adj. Very depressing.
arid
adj. Very dry.
vehement
adj. Very eager or urgent.
immense
adj. Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity.
abominable
adj. Very hateful.
noisome
adj. Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
abhorrent
adj. Very repugnant, hateful.
momentous
adj. Very significant.
wee
adj. Very small.
erudite
adj. Very-learned.
forcible
adj. Violent.
termagant
adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
sprightly
adj. Vivacious.
gratuitous
adj. Voluntarily.
peripatetic
adj. Walking about.
itinerant
adj. Wandering.
migrant
adj. Wandering.
migratory
adj. Wandering.
shiftless
adj. Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
athirst
adj. Wanting water.
licentious
adj. Wanton.
bellicose
adj. Warlike.
hydrous
adj. Watery.
opulent
adj. Wealthy.
irksome
adj. Wearisome.
tiresome
adj. Wearisome.
symmetrical
adj. Well-balanced.
genteel
adj. Well-bred or refined.
incandescent
adj. White or glowing with heat.
nefarious
adj. Wicked in the extreme.
amenable
adj. Willing and ready to submit.
malevolent
adj. Wishing evil to others.
anhydrous
adj. Withered.
amorphous
adj. Without determinate shape.
callow
adj. Without experience of the world.
insignificant
adj. Without importance, force, or influence.
weak-kneed
adj. Without resolute purpose or energy.
pusillanimous
adj. Without spirit or bravery.
immaculate
adj. Without spot or blemish.
verbose
adj. Wordy.
insidious
adj. Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
energetic
adj. Working vigorously.
mundane
adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
haggard
adj. Worn and gaunt in appearance.
estimable
adj. Worthy of respect.
contemptible
adj. Worthy of scorn or disdain.
pitiful
adj. Wretched.
cursive
adj. Writing in which the letters are joined together.
tortious
adj. Wrongful.
productive
adj. Yielding in abundance.
indulgent
adj. Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
compliant
adj. Yielding.
risible
adj. capable of exciting laughter.
persuadable
adj. capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings.
competitive
adj. characterized by rivalry.
voluptuous
adj. having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
pestilential
adj. having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
olfactory
adj. of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
meager
adj. scanty.
afire
adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
awry
adv. & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
aboveboard
adv. & adj. Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
naturally
adv. According to the usual order of things.
whereupon
adv. After which.
aye
adv. An expression of assent.
later
adv. At a subsequent time.
finally
adv. At last.
forby
adv. Besides.
darkling
adv. Blindly.
wholly
adv. Completely.
outright
adv. Entirely.
severely
adv. Extremely.
therefor
adv. For that or this.
icily
adv. Frigidly.
athwart
adv. From side to side.
quite
adv. Fully.
out-and-out
adv. Genuinely.
piecemeal
adv. Gradually.
proximately
adv. Immediately.
indefinitely
adv. In a vague or uncertain way.
abed
adv. In bed, on a bed.
betimes
adv. In good season or time.
nowhere
adv. In no place or state.
wherever
adv. In or at whatever place.
afoot
adv. In progress.
nowadays
adv. In the present time or age.
secondly
adv. In the second place in order or succession.
verily
adv. In truth.
doubly
adv. In twofold degree or extent.
forth
adv. Into notice or view.
gaily
adv. Merrily.
thereabout
adv. Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
aloof
adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
dimly
adv. Obscurely.
afresh
adv. Once more, after rest or interval.
anew
adv. Once more.
generally
adv. Ordinarily.
inchmeal
adv. Piecemeal.
perhaps
adv. Possibly.
lowly
adv. Rudely.
amply
adv. Sufficiently.
trebly
adv. Triply.
askance
adv. With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
forthright
adv. With directness.
wittingly
adv. With knowledge and by design.
inwardly
adv. With no outward manifestation.
incidentally
adv. Without intention.
readily
adv. Without objection or reluctance.
offhand
adv. Without preparation.
extempore
adv. Without studied or special preparation.
verbatim
adv. Word for word.
vicissitude
n. A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
modification
n. A change.
monogram
n. A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name.
cartridge
n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
accusation
n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
bureau
n. A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
metropolis
n. A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.
cantata
n. A choral composition.
benefice
n. A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
epicycle
n. A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
Pantheon
n. A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
coincidence
n. A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
foreigner
n. A citizen of a foreign country.
necropolis
n. A city of the dead.
species
n. A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
proviso
n. A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
mantle
n. A cloak.
buffoon
n. A clown.
brogan
n. A coarse, heavy shoe.
specie
n. A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
herbarium
n. A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
anthology
n. A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
floe
n. A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
menagerie
n. A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
consensus
n. A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
collegian
n. A college student.
interposition
n. A coming between.
emergence
n. A coming into view.
arrival
n. A coming to stopping-place or destination.
mandate
n. A command.
consort
n. A companion or associate.
simile
n. A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
fiasco
n. A complete or humiliating failure.
campaign
n. A complete series of connected military operations.
entirety
n. A complete thing.
element
n. A component or essential part.
quartet
n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
oratorio
n. A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
duet
n. A composition for two voices or instruments.
medley
n. A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
stealth
n. A concealed manner of acting.
opinion
n. A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge.
calculus
n. A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
abridgment
n. A condensed form as of a book or play.
sensation
n. A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
unison
n. A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
alcoholism
n. A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
recidivist
n. A confirmed criminal.
nationality
n. A connection with a particular nation.
gourmand
n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
ordination
n. A consecration to the ministry.
effect
n. A consequence.
butte
n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
component
n. A constituent element or part.
permanence
n. A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
expanse
n. A continuous area or stretch.
shrinkage
n. A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
nunnery
n. A convent for nuns.
transcript
n. A copy made directly from an original.
cosmopolitanism
n. A cosmopolitan character.
junta
n. A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
chancery
n. A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
forecourt
n. A court opening directly from the street.
inquisition
n. A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
pact
n. A covenant.
alcove
n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
legging
n. A covering for the leg.
recreant
n. A cowardly or faithless person.
fissure
n. A crack or crack-like depression.
felon
n. A criminal or depraved person.
connoisseur
n. A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
exigency
n. A critical period or condition.
critique
n. A criticism or critical review.
counter-claim
n. A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
bumper
n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
ladle
n. A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
epicycloid
n. A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle.
bromine
n. A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
twinge
n. A darting momentary local pain.
day-man
n. A day-laborer.
corpse
n. A dead body.
florist
n. A dealer in flowers.
furrier
n. A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
protocol
n. A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
prohibition
n. A decree or an order forbidding something.
crevasse
n. A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
ravine
n. A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
protector
n. A defender.
stipend
n. A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
ogre
n. A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
version
n. A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
outpost
n. A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
itinerary
n. A detailed account or diary of a journey.
lexicon
n. A dictionary.
predicament
n. A difficult, trying situation or plight.
cacophony
n. A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
acquittal
n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
apology
n. A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
revelation
n. A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
distemper
n. A disease or malady.
deformity
n. A disfigurement.
ostentation
n. A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
generosity
n. A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily.
mileage
n. A distance in miles.
characteristic
n. A distinctive feature.
trait
n. A distinguishing feature or quality.
grimace
n. A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
municipality
n. A district enjoying municipal government.
commotion
n. A disturbance or violent agitation.
moat
n. A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
divulgence
n. A divulging.
cosmogony
n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
benefactor
n. A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
potion
n. A dose of liquid medicine.
curtsy
n. A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
melodrama
n. A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents.
pageant
n. A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
propulsion
n. A driving onward or forward.
replica
n. A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
monastery
n. A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
tapestry
n. A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
tinge
n. A faint trace of color.
glimmer
n. A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
depression
n. A falling of the spirits.
sophism
n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
landmark
n. A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of.
casualty
n. A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
ointment
n. A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
success
n. A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
odium
n. A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
fete
n. A festival or feast.
malaria
n. A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating.
pseudonym
n. A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
myth
n. A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact.
pretext
n. A fictitious reason or motive.
glacier
n. A field or stream of ice.
lea
n. A field.
pandemonium
n. A fiendish or riotous uproar.
pentagram
n. A figure having five points or lobes.
polygon
n. A figure having many angles.
heptagon
n. A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
euphemism
n. A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
metaphor
n. A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
metonymy
n. A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
octagon
n. A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
hexagon
n. A figure with six angles.
decagon
n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
pentagon
n. A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
statuette
n. A figurine.
queue
n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
percolator
n. A filter.
ultimatum
n. A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
debut
n. A first appearance in society or on the stage.
qualm
n. A fit of nausea.
persistence
n. A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
grindstone
n. A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools.
courser
n. A fleet and spirited horse.
armada
n. A fleet of war-vessels.
coquette
n. A flirt.
covey
n. A flock of quails or partridges.
azalea
n. A flowering shrub.
moccasin
n. A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
posse
n. A force of men.
suppression
n. A forcible putting or keeping down.
immigrant
n. A foreigner who enters a country to settle there.
precursor
n. A forerunner or herald.
panegyric
n. A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
dialogue
n. A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
encomium
n. A formal or discriminating expression of praise.
creed
n. A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
testimonial
n. A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
ichthyosaurs
n. A fossil reptile.
incisor
n. A front or cutting tooth.
panoply
n. A full set of armor.
promoter
n. A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
solder
n. A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
gamester
n. A gambler.
undergarment
n. A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
nebula
n. A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
horde
n. A gathered multitude of human beings.
ordnance
n. A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
principle
n. A general truth or proposition.
munificence
n. A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality.
deity
n. A god, goddess, or divine person.
Nemesis
n. A goddess, divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
exodus
n. A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
retrogression
n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
theocracy
n. A government administered by ecclesiastics.
anticlimax
n. A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
kernel
n. A grain or seed.
phonogram
n. A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
millet
n. A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.
maharaja
n. A great Hindu prince.
conflagration
n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
vinery
n. A greenhouse for grapes.
outrage
n. A gross infringement of morality or decency.
travesty
n. A grotesque imitation.
antic
n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
stanza
n. A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
heptarchy
n. A group of seven governments.
triad
n. A group of three persons of things.
conjecture
n. A guess.
culprit
n. A guilty person.
frankincense
n. A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
outlaw
n. A habitual lawbreaker.
semicircle
n. A half-circle.
suspension
n. A hanging from a support.
incident
n. A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
occurrence
n. A happening.
overtone
n. A harmonic.
symphony
n. A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
caption
n. A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
pyre
n. A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
aristocracy
n. A hereditary nobility
aristocrat
n. A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
reclusory
n. A hermitage.
precipice
n. A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
archdeacon
n. A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
pinnacle
n. A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
promontory
n. A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
inkling
n. A hint.
sibilance
n. A hissing sound.
bomb
n. A hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
waif
n. A homeless, neglected wanderer.
bier
n. A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
counting-house
n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
operetta
n. A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
centiliter
n. A hundredth of a liter.
epoch
n. A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
excursion
n. A journey.
premise
n. A judgment as a conclusion.
prejudice
n. A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
maze
n. A labyrinth.
monotony
n. A lack of variety.
laddie
n. A lad.
lough
n. A lake or loch.
loch
n. A lake.
surveyor
n. A land-measurer.
fief
n. A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
medallion
n. A large medal.
bale
n. A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
legislator
n. A lawgiver.
came
n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
protagonist
n. A leader in any enterprise or contest.
lien
n. A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
parliament
n. A legislative body.
lawgiver
n. A legislator.
lawmaker
n. A legislator.
kilometer
n. A length of 1,000 meters.
centimeter
n. A length of one hundredth of a meter.
decameter
n. A length of ten meters.
pedal
n. A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
taxation
n. A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
naphtha
n. A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
hussar
n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
isobar
n. A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
decasyllable
n. A line of ten syllables.
decaliter
n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
liniment
n. A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
necrology
n. A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
bibliography
n. A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
genealogy
n. A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants.
islet
n. A little island.
lassie
n. A little lass.
leaflet
n. A little leaf or a booklet.
lordling
n. A little lord.
dialectician
n. A logician.
scythe
n. A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
negligee
n. A loose gown worn by women.
piece
n. A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
kimono
n. A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
bray
n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
amour
n. A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
intervale
n. A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
depreciation
n. A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
aurora
n. A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
Sybarite
n. A luxurious person.
elegy
n. A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
plurality
n. A majority.
playwright
n. A maker of plays for the stage.
personage
n. A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
landlord
n. A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
scoundrel
n. A man without principle.
procedure
n. A manner or method of acting.
iridescence
n. A many-colored appearance.
demerit
n. A mark for failure or bad conduct.
stigma
n. A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
blemish
n. A mark that mars beauty.
vortex
n. A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
virtuoso
n. A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
labyrinth
n. A maze.
mead
n. A meadow.
conduit
n. A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
fathom
n. A measure of length, 6 feet.
furlong
n. A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
irritant
n. A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
intercessor
n. A mediator.
balsam
n. A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
seance
n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
gourd
n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
Pariah
n. A member of a degraded class, a social outcast.
alderman
n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
grenadier
n. A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
academician
n. A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
legionary
n. A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
freemason
n. A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
Canaanite
n. A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
aversion
n. A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
idiosyncrasy
n. A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
stripling
n. A mere youth.
missive
n. A message in writing.
electrotype
n. A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
bacterium
n. A microbe.
corpuscle
n. A minute particle of matter.
capillary
n. A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
reflector
n. A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
imbroglio
n. A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
shuffle
n. A mixing or changing the order of things.
paragon
n. A model of excellence.
exemplar
n. A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
norm
n. A model.
drachma
n. A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
glimpse
n. A momentary look.
priory
n. A monastic house.
soliloquy
n. A monologue.
jaundice
n. A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.
inflammation
n. A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
gesture
n. A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion.
progression
n. A moving forward or proceeding in course.
muleteer
n. A mule-driver.
extensor
n. A muscle that causes extension.
rondo
n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
concerto
n. A musical composition.
viola
n. A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
misnomer
n. A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
strait
n. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
alley
n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
batten
n. A narrow strip of wood.
stratum
n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
hysteria
n. A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
dragnet
n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
neopaganism
n. A new or revived paganism.
loam
n. A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
sergeant
n. A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
octave
n. A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
foot-note
n. A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
distinction
n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
effluvium
n. A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter.
vermin
n. A noxious or troublesome animal.
faction
n. A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
cabal
n. A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
confederacy
n. A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
corps
n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
Madonna
n. A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
prospectus
n. A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
hanger-on
n. A parasite.
outrigger
n. A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
valedictory
n. A parting address.
litigant
n. A party to a lawsuit.
metamorphosis
n. A passing from one form or shape into another.
hesitancy
n. A pausing to consider.
ground
n. A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk.
Americanism
n. A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
rebuff
n. A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
well-doer
n. A performer of moral and social duties.
pension
n. A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
perseverance
n. A persistence in purpose and effort.
defendant
n. A person against whom a suit is brought.
manufacturer
n. A person engaged in manufacturing as a business.
soldier
n. A person engaged in military service.
plenipotentiary
n. A person fully empowered to transact any business.
miser
n. A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
sluggard
n. A person habitually lazy or idle.
curator
n. A person having charge as of a library or museum.
executor
n. A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will.
futurist
n. A person of expectant temperament.
magnate
n. A person of rank or importance.
proletarian
n. A person of the lowest or poorest class.
ally
n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
nonentity
n. A person or thing of little or no account.
prodigy
n. A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
accessory
n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
donee
n. A person to whom a donation is made.
consignee
n. A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
payee
n. A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
bombardier
n. A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
witling
n. A person who has little understanding.
proxy
n. A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
interpreter
n. A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.
albino
n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
conferee
n. A person with whom another confers.
foible
n. A personal weakness or failing.
kingling
n. A petty king.
humanitarian
n. A philanthropist.
infirmity
n. A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw.
vignette
n. A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
curio
n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
plummet
n. A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
epigram
n. A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
infirmary
n. A place for the reception or treatment of the sick.
fernery
n. A place in which ferns are grown.
repository
n. A place in which goods are stored.
antipodes
n. A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
man-trap
n. A place or structure dangerous to human life.
depository
n. A place where anything is kept in safety.
apiary
n. A place where bees are kept.
rookery
n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
tannery
n. A place where leather is tanned.
refinery
n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
repertory
n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
contraposition
n. A placing opposite.
fungus
n. A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
biennial
n. A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
intrigue
n. A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
epic
n. A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
sonnet
n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
planisphere
n. A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
militarism
n. A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
portfolio
n. A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
accordion
n. A portable free-reed musical instrument.
chronometer
n. A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
overhang
n. A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
dictum
n. A positive utterance.
obstetrician
n. A practitioner of midwifery.
evangelist
n. A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
rendezvous
n. A prearranged place of meeting.
prepossession
n. A preconceived liking.
prologue
n. A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
datum
n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
pseudapostle
n. A pretended or false apostle.
maxim
n. A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
lithograph
n. A print made by printing from stone.
caucus
n. A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
birthright
n. A privilege or possession into which one is born.
likelihood
n. A probability.
theologian
n. A professor of divinity.
affluence
n. A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
projection
n. A prominence.
prediction
n. A prophecy.
seer
n. A prophet.
corollary
n. A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
hypothesis
n. A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
convoy
n. A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
archetype
n. A prototype.
precaution
n. A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
manifesto
n. A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives.
thoroughfare
n. A public street or road.
professor
n. A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
quandary
n. A puzzling predicament.
charlatan
n. A quack.
interrogatory
n. A question or inquiry.
dead-heat
n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
pestilence
n. A raging epidemic.
scope
n. A range of action or view.
moonbeam
n. A ray of moonlight.
extension
n. A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
repartee
n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
reservoir
n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
intermission
n. A recess.
annals
n. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
account
n. A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
panel
n. A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
sentence
n. A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
fanatic
n. A religious zealot.
residue
n. A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
panacea
n. A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
rejuvenescence
n. A renewal of youth.
diplomat
n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
qualification
n. A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
antiphon
n. A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
limitation
n. A restriction.
retort
n. A retaliatory speech.
palinode
n. A retraction.
resurrection
n. A return from death to life
reversion
n. A return to or toward some former state or condition.
enigma
n. A riddle.
privilege
n. A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
wavelet
n. A ripple.
ascent
n. A rising, soaring, or climbing.
liturgy
n. A ritual.
competitor
n. A rival.
urchin
n. A roguish, mischievous boy.
parlor
n. A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
frigidarium
n. A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
anteroom
n. A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
boll
n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
crag
n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
by-law
n. A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
viceroy
n. A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
landscape
n. A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation.
countryman
n. A rustic.
acetate
n. A salt of acetic acid.
salvo
n. A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
pedant
n. A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
pedagogue
n. A schoolmaster.
siren
n. A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
separatist
n. A seceder.
collusion
n. A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
vendor
n. A seller.
umbrage
n. A sense of injury.
commentary
n. A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
panorama
n. A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
almanac
n. A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
ministry
n. A service.
henchman
n. A servile assistant and subordinate.
minion
n. A servile favorite.
sycophant
n. A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
tenor
n. A settled course or manner of progress.
creak
n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
shriek
n. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
folio
n. A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
novellette
n. A short novel.
cudgel
n. A short thick stick used as a club.
rhetorician
n. A showy writer or speaker.
caret
n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
quietus
n. A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
epitome
n. A simplified representation.
instance
n. A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
baize
n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
dilemma
n. A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
vassal
n. A slave or bondman.
sylph
n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
nuance
n. A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
lapse
n. A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
bight
n. A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
knickknack
n. A small article, more for ornament that use.
inlet
n. A small body of water leading into a larger.
peccadillo
n. A small breach of propriety or principle.
grotto
n. A small cavern.
stiletto
n. A small dagger.
crevice
n. A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
pennant
n. A small flag.
piccolo
n. A small flute.
granule
n. A small grain or particle.
hillock
n. A small hill or mound.
louse
n. A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
iota
n. A small or insignificant mark or part.
minutia
n. A small or unimportant particular or detail.
ripplet
n. A small ripple, as of water.
tack
n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
clarion
n. A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
rivulet
n. A small stream or brook.
flue
n. A smoke-duct in a chimney.
masquerade
n. A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
perjury
n. A solemn assertion of a falsity.
requiem
n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
pentahedron
n. A solid bounded by five plane faces.
polyhedron
n. A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
tincture
n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
lode
n. A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
magician
n. A sorcerer.
acid
n. A sour substance.
memento
n. A souvenir.
vacuum
n. A space entirely devoid of matter.
aviary
n. A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
seminary
n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
physicist
n. A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
epode
n. A species of lyric poems.
susceptibility
n. A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
declamation
n. A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
domain
n. A sphere or field of action or interest.
toleration
n. A spirit of charitable leniency.
confessor
n. A spiritual advisor.
eulogy
n. A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.
kerchief
n. A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
foresail
n. A square sail.
obelisk
n. A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
criterion
n. A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
equilibrium
n. A state of balance.
flux
n. A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
nonchalance
n. A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
morale
n. A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
consistency
n. A state of permanence.
abeyance
n. A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
felicity
n. A state of well-founded happiness.
preamble
n. A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
dogma
n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
paradox
n. A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
truism
n. A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
rein
n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
gradation
n. A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
hosiery
n. A stocking.
sarcophagus
n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
granary
n. A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked.
monologue
n. A story or drama told or performed by one person.
confluent
n. A stream that unites with another.
violoncello
n. A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
viol
n. A stringed instrument of the violin class.
forte
n. A strong point.
affectation
n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
attache
n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
boatswain
n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
accompaniment
n. A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
underling
n. A subordinate.
medicine
n. A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties.
disinfectant
n. A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
antitoxin
n. A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
outbreak
n. A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.
explosion
n. A sudden and violent outbreak.
joggle
n. A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
paroxysm
n. A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
panic
n. A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
dilettante
n. A superficial amateur.
masterpiece
n. A superior production.
overseer
n. A supervisor.
codicil
n. A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
synopsis
n. A syllabus or summary.
emblem
n. A symbol.
prelacy
n. A system of church government.
mnemonics
n. A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
regimen
n. A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
furlough
n. A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
occupant
n. A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
socialism
n. A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
batter
n. A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
palette
n. A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
variant
n. A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
hawthorn
n. A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
afterthought
n. A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
menace
n. A threat.
tripod
n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
tricycle
n. A three-wheeled vehicle.
trinity
n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
upcast
n. A throwing upward.
harangue
n. A tirade.
Christ
n. A title of Jesus
esquire
n. A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
excellency
n. A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
seignior
n. A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
honorarium
n. A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
souvenir
n. A token of remembrance.
mausoleum
n. A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
apostasy
n. A total departure from one's faith or religion.
genealogist
n. A tracer of pedigrees.
observance
n. A traditional form or customary act.
bursar
n. A treasurer.
monograph
n. A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
arbor
n. A tree.
clan
n. A tribe.
sleight
n. A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
frivolity
n. A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
bauble
n. A trinket.
crucible
n. A trying and purifying test or agency.
digraph
n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
idiom
n. A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
braggart
n. A vain boaster.
nectarine
n. A variety of the peach.
vaudeville
n. A variety show.
myriad
n. A vast indefinite number.
arcade
n. A vaulted passageway or street, a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
adjuration
n. A vehement appeal.
craving
n. A vehement desire.
outcry
n. A vehement or loud cry or clamor.
ambulance
n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
stanchion
n. A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
instant
n. A very brief portion of time.
abomination
n. A very detestable act or practice.
satyr
n. A very lascivious person.
mite
n. A very small amount, portion, or particle.
chiffon
n. A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
pantoscope
n. A very wide-angled photographic lens.
liner
n. A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
pyx
n. A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
privateer
n. A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
waistcoat
n. A vest.
retrospect
n. A view or contemplation of something past.
vista
n. A view or prospect.
miscreant
n. A villain.
convulsion
n. A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
outburst
n. A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual.
onslaught
n. A violent onset.
concussion
n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
vestige
n. A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
blaze
n. A vivid glowing flame.
alcohol
n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
Decameron
n. A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
antechamber
n. A waiting room for those who seek audience.
vagabond
n. A wanderer.
ablution
n. A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
aqueduct
n. A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
access
n. A way of approach or entrance, passage.
exit
n. A way or passage out.
plutocracy
n. A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
pendulum
n. A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
decagram
n. A weight of 10 grams.
plumb
n. A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
quay
n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
caprice
n. A whim.
alabaster
n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
estuary
n. A wide lower part of a tidal river.
savage
n. A wild and uncivilized human being.
testament
n. A will.
convolution
n. A winding motion.
mentor
n. A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend.
witticism
n. A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
spinster
n. A woman who has never been married.
belle
n. A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
midwife
n. A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
soprano
n. A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
bodice
n. A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
pillory
n. A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
mallet
n. A wooden hammer.
homonym
n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
homophone
n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
antonym
n. A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
synonym
n. A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
monosyllable
n. A word of one syllable.
disyllable
n. A word of two syllables.
Briticism
n. A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
encyclopedia
n. A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject.
prototype
n. A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
pagan
n. A worshiper of false gods.
moralist
n. A writer on ethics.
biography
n. A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
platitude
n. A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
misdeed
n. A wrong or improper act.
chasm
n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
submission
n. A yielding to the power or authority of another.
yearling
n. A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
fledgling
n. A young bird.
heifer
n. A young cow.
fawn
n. A young deer.
duckling
n. A young duck.
gosling
n. A young goose.
cygnet
n. A young swan.
comprehension
n. Ability to know.
influence
n. Ability to sway the will of another.
discord
n. Absence of harmoniousness.
anarchy
n. Absence or utter disregard of government.
autocracy
n. Absolute government.
tyranny
n. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
plenitude
n. Abundance.
orthodoxy
n. Acceptance of the common faith.
legitimacy
n. Accordance with law.
propriety
n. Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
flatulence
n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
precision
n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
bitterness
n. Acridity, as to the taste.
philanthropy
n. Active humanitarianism.
perspicacity
n. Acuteness or discernment.
competence
n. Adequate qualification or capacity.
requital
n. Adequate return for good or ill.
monitory
n. Admonition or warning.
furtherance
n. Advancement.
opulence
n. Affluence.
euphony
n. Agreeableness of sound.
concurrence
n. Agreement.
vigilance
n. Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
atonement
n. Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
calorie
n. Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
guinea
n. An English monetary unit.
abidance
n. An abiding.
exclamation
n. An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
despot
n. An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
summary
n. An abstract.
execration
n. An accursed thing.
recognizance
n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
wile
n. An act or a means of cunning deception.
volition
n. An act or exercise of will.
preparation
n. An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
interlude
n. An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
provocation
n. An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
cholera
n. An acute epidemic disease.
surcharge
n. An additional amount charged.
adulterant
n. An adulterating substance.
proficiency
n. An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
nihilist
n. An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
nausea
n. An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
proctor
n. An agent acting for another.
bravado
n. An aggressive display of boldness.
aroma
n. An agreeable odor.
covenant
n. An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
liqueur
n. An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
amalgam
n. An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
tempter
n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
sufficiency
n. An ample or adequate supply.
forefather
n. An ancestor.
archangel
n. An angel of high rank.
biped
n. An animal having two feet.
animalcule
n. An animal of microscopic smallness.
man-eater
n. An animal that devours human beings.
annuity
n. An annual allowance, payment, or income.
antiphony
n. An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
derrick
n. An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
microphone
n. An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
atomizer
n. An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
constellation
n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
plea
n. An argument to obtain some desired action.
tableau
n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
armory
n. An arsenal.
editorial
n. An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument.
brooch
n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
juncture
n. An articulation, joint, or seam.
hypnosis
n. An artificial trance-sleep.
hypnotism
n. An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
onset
n. An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification.
muster
n. An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
colleague
n. An associate in professional employment.
accomplice
n. An associate in wrong-doing.
syndicate
n. An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
alias
n. An assumed name.
anticyclone
n. An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
vaporizer
n. An atomizer.
prescription
n. An authoritative direction.
entreaty
n. An earnest request.
aspiration
n. An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
oddity
n. An eccentricity.
synod
n. An ecclesiastical council.
amphitheater
n. An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
quarto
n. An eight-page newspaper of any size.
treatise
n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
oration
n. An elaborate or formal public speech.
cartilage
n. An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
metal
n. An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
primer
n. An elementary reading-book for children.
eminence
n. An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc.
levee
n. An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
cadenza
n. An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
moratorium
n. An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
specialty
n. An employment limited to one particular line of work.
matinee
n. An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
beau
n. An escort or lover.
thesis
n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
facsimile
n. An exact copy or reproduction.
superabundance
n. An excessive amount.
overdose
n. An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
sergeant-at-arms
n. An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
philologist
n. An expert in linguistics.
logician
n. An expert reasoner.
renunciation
n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
plaudit
n. An expression of applause.
reproof
n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
motto
n. An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
excerpt
n. An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
vagrant
n. An idle wanderer.
disservice
n. An ill turn.
spectrum
n. An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
icon
n. An image or likeness.
iconoclast
n. An image-breaker.
zodiac
n. An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
trammel
n. An impediment.
momentum
n. An impetus.
occasion
n. An important event or celebration.
episode
n. An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it.
borough
n. An incorporated village or town.
predecessor
n. An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
allusion
n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
poetaster
n. An inferior poet.
burgher
n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
patrimony
n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
lunatic
n. An insane person.
pyromania
n. An insane propensity to set things on fire.
epitaph
n. An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead.
precedent
n. An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
conservatory
n. An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
cat-o-nine-tails
n. An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
microscope
n. An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
hydrometer
n. An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
gyroscope
n. An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.
metronome
n. An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
barometer
n. An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
spherometer
n. An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
anemometer
n. An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
micrometer
n. An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
gauge
n. An instrument for measuring.
seismograph
n. An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
pinchers
n. An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
pincers
n. An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
barograph
n. An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
sonata
n. An instrumental composition.
overture
n. An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
purgatory
n. An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
complication
n. An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
translator
n. An interpreter.
prelude
n. An introductory or opening performance.
tremor
n. An involuntary trembling or shivering.
isle
n. An island.
preference
n. An object of favor or choice.
hindrance
n. An obstacle.
embolism
n. An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel.
tenant
n. An occupant.
consul
n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
bailiff
n. An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
aide-de-camp
n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
constable
n. An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
assessor
n. An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
actuary
n. An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
inspector
n. An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance.
censor
n. An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
census
n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
baton
n. An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
functionary
n. An official.
trestle
n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
affront
n. An open insult or indignity.
brazier
n. An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
exposure
n. An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
pavilion
n. An open structure for temporary shelter.
sinus
n. An opening or cavity.
heresy
n. An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
mirage
n. An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
narrative
n. An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
cornice
n. An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
profile
n. An outline or contour.
kiln
n. An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
subversion
n. An overthrow, as from the foundation.
bullock
n. An ox.
referee
n. An umpire.
stallion
n. An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
prudery
n. An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
misadventure
n. An unlucky accident.
demagogue
n. An unprincipled politician.
aggression
n. An unprovoked attack.
illusion
n. An unreal image presented to the senses.
invective
n. An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
quibble
n. An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
dissension
n. Angry or violent difference of opinion.
proscription
n. Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
benevolence
n. Any act of kindness or well-doing.
salvage
n. Any act of saving property.
liquor
n. Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid.
proclamation
n. Any announcement made in a public manner.
epiphany
n. Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
demulcent
n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
chattel
n. Any article of personal property.
culvert
n. Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
seminar
n. Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
statute
n. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
profession
n. Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
tribune
n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
stratagem
n. Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
alliance
n. Any combination or union for some common purpose.
crusade
n. Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
chaos
n. Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
brogue
n. Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
nectar
n. Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
differentia
n. Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
salutation
n. Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
catastrophe
n. Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
foliage
n. Any growth of leaves.
sentinel
n. Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
impetus
n. Any impulse or incentive.
bevel
n. Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
reprisal
n. Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
propaganda
n. Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
academy
n. Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
photometer
n. Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
leviathan
n. Any large animal, as a whale.
archipelago
n. Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
automaton
n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
tactics
n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
apostle
n. Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
missile
n. Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
unguent
n. Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
bulrush
n. Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
autocrat
n. Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
tenet
n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
Antichrist
n. Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
cataclysm
n. Any overwhelming flood of water.
malady
n. Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
egress
n. Any place of exit.
ballad
n. Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
sinecure
n. Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
prophecy
n. Any prediction or foretelling.
dentifrice
n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
probation
n. Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
perquisite
n. Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
altar
n. Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
actuality
n. Any reality.
ministration
n. Any religious ceremonial.
desiccant
n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
canon
n. Any rule or law.
nostrum
n. Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
despotism
n. Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
feint
n. Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
alder
n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
cameo
n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
pittance
n. Any small portion or meager allowance.
zephyr
n. Any soft, gentle wind.
emphasis
n. Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word.
beatitude
n. Any state of great happiness.
colossus
n. Any strikingly great person or object.
citadel
n. Any strong fortress.
monolith
n. Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
adamant
n. Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
buttress
n. Any support or prop.
excrescence
n. Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
fallacy
n. Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
phenomenon
n. Any unusual occurrence.
solecism
n. Any violation of established rules or customs.
service
n. Any work done for the benefit of another.
impromptu
n. Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment.
anathema
n. Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
acquisition
n. Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
concession
n. Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
humbug
n. Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
keepsake
n. Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
earthenware
n. Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
anachronism
n. Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
external
n. Anything relating or belonging to the outside.
decoy
n. Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
ligature
n. Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
antiseptic
n. Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
bulwark
n. Anything that gives security or defense.
pendant
n. Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
portent
n. Anything that indicates what is to happen.
potential
n. Anything that may be possible.
network
n. Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
stimulant
n. Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
ordeal
n. Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
intoxicant
n. Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
antidote
n. Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
alkali
n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
monstrosity
n. Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
cryptogram
n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
torpor
n. Apathy.
vertex
n. Apex.
specter
n. Apparition.
fervor
n. Ardor or intensity of feeling.
trickery
n. Artifice.
armful
n. As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
mouthful
n. As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
predominance
n. Ascendancy or preponderance.
dominance
n. Ascendancy.
adherence
n. Attachment.
interdict
n. Authoritative act of prohibition.
embargo
n. Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade.
cupidity
n. Avarice.
persiflage
n. Banter.
wampum
n. Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
incipience
n. Beginning.
theism
n. Belief in God.
credence
n. Belief.
altruism
n. Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
exegesis
n. Biblical exposition or interpretation.
heritage
n. Birthright.
benison
n. Blessing.
abyss
n. Bottomless gulf.
infinity
n. Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration.
radiance
n. Brilliant or sparkling luster.
composure
n. Calmness.
tranquility
n. Calmness.
sentience
n. Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
intelligence
n. Capacity to know or understand.
diligence
n. Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
gait
n. Carriage of the body in going.
incidence
n. Casual occurrence.
prudence
n. Caution.
irony
n. Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
desistance
n. Cessation.
reform
n. Change for the better.
conversion
n. Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
inversion
n. Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
alteration
n. Change or modification.
variance
n. Change.
quackery
n. Charlatanry
alacrity
n. Cheerful willingness.
incendiary
n. Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
alchemy
n. Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
knighthood
n. Chivalry.
clangor
n. Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells, clamor.
ingenuity
n. Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
intimacy
n. Close or confidential friendship.
vestment
n. Clothing or covering.
compulsion
n. Coercion.
coalition
n. Combination in a body or mass.
solace
n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
gumption
n. Common sense.
remuneration
n. Compensation.
involution
n. Complication.
ingredient
n. Component.
secrecy
n. Concealment.
finale
n. Concluding performance.
sedition
n. Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
durance
n. Confinement.
corroboration
n. Confirmation.
jargon
n. Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
homogeneity
n. Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
supposition
n. Conjecture.
preservation
n. Conservation.
cohesion
n. Consistency.
mannerism
n. Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
compression
n. Constraint, as by force or authority.
cynicism
n. Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
contumacy
n. Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
domination
n. Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
colloquy
n. Conversation.
conformity
n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
forgery
n. Counterfeiting.
mettle
n. Courage.
genesis
n. Creation.
tilth
n. Cultivation.
galvanism
n. Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
habitude
n. Customary relation or association.
sarcasm
n. Cutting and reproachful language.
foppery
n. Dandyism.
neo-Darwinsim
n. Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
carrion
n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
demise
n. Death.
discussion
n. Debate.
knavery
n. Deceitfulness in dealing.
fraudulence
n. Deceitfulness.
sapience
n. Deep wisdom or knowledge.
depth
n. Deepness.
libel
n. Defamation.
anemia
n. Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
apotheosis
n. Deification.
procrastination
n. Delay.
delectation
n. Delight.
cajolery
n. Delusive speech.
deportment
n. Demeanor.
refusal
n. Denial of what is asked.
disavowal
n. Denial.
pauperism
n. Dependence on charity.
reliance
n. Dependence.
demeanor
n. Deportment.
turpitude
n. Depravity.
exhaustion
n. Deprivation of strength or energy.
physiography
n. Description of nature.
skirmish
n. Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
diagnosis
n. Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
havoc
n. Devastation.
evolution
n. Development or growth.
aberration
n. Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
indigestion
n. Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment.
divagation
n. Digression.
degradation
n. Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
superintendence
n. Direction and management.
tendency
n. Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
dissent
n. Disagreement.
penetration
n. Discernment.
hemorrhage
n. Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
cessation
n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
dissonance
n. Discord.
infidelity
n. Disloyalty.
diffusion
n. Dispersion.
dismissal
n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
disfavor
n. Disregard.
difference
n. Dissimilarity in any respect.
diversity
n. Dissimilitude.
judicature
n. Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
perversion
n. Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
amusement
n. Diversion.
avocation
n. Diversion.
syllabication
n. Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
vertigo
n. Dizziness.
duplicity
n. Double-dealing.
scruple
n. Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
unbelief
n. Doubt.
drought
n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
guile
n. Duplicity.
habitant
n. Dweller.
crockery
n. Earthenware made from baked clay.
facility
n. Ease.
bronchus
n. Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
thermoelectricity
n. Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
manumission
n. Emancipation.
needlework
n. Embroidery.
invasion
n. Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass.
betrothal
n. Engagement to marry.
hostility
n. Enmity.
admittance
n. Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
introgression
n. Entrance.
intercession
n. Entreaty in behalf of others.
reciprocity
n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
parity
n. Equality, as of condition or rank.
poise
n. Equilibrium.
evasion
n. Escape.
parallelism
n. Essential likeness.
alienation
n. Estrangement.
elusion
n. Evasion.
subterfuge
n. Evasion.
equanimity
n. Evenness of mind or temper.
misdemeanor
n. Evil conduct, small crime.
accuracy
n. Exactness.
comparison
n. Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
redundance
n. Excess.
obesity
n. Excessive fatness.
luxuriance
n. Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
overproduction
n. Excessive production.
vainglory
n. Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
ostracism
n. Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
omission
n. Exclusion.
preexistence
n. Existence antecedent to something.
distention
n. Expansion.
reprehension
n. Expression of blame.
condolence
n. Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
erudition
n. Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc.
exorbitance
n. Extravagance or enormity.
hypocrisy
n. Extreme insincerity.
wretchedness
n. Extreme misery or unhappiness.
virulence
n. Extreme poisonousness.
jubilation
n. Exultation.
equity
n. Fairness or impartiality.
deceit
n. Falsehood.
paternity
n. Fatherhood.
opportunity
n. Favorable or advantageous chance or opening.
gynecocracy
n. Female supremacy.
truculence
n. Ferocity.
gaiety
n. Festivity.
paucity
n. Fewness.
tact
n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
utility
n. Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
expediency
n. Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
convenience
n. Fitness, as of time or place.
formula
n. Fixed rule or set form.
alluvion
n. Flood.
inundation
n. Flood.
foolery
n. Folly.
liking
n. Fondness.
sustenance
n. Food.
hardihood
n. Foolish daring.
tolerance
n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
leniency
n. Forbearance.
coercion
n. Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
expulsion
n. Forcible ejection.
inroad
n. Forcible encroachment or trespass.
premonition
n. Foreboding.
presentiment
n. Foreboding.
absolution
n. Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
colloquialism
n. Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
exposition
n. Formal presentation.
dialect
n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
impunity
n. Freedom from punishment.
prevalence
n. Frequency.
fluctuation
n. Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another.
monition
n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
amity
n. Friendship.
levity
n. Frivolity.
fruition
n. Fulfillment.
obsequies
n. Funeral rites.
incompetence
n. General lack of capacity or fitness.
brigadier
n. General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
conformation
n. General structure, form, or outline.
admonition
n. Gentle reproof.
apparition
n. Ghost.
raillery
n. Good-humored satire.
neocracy
n. Government administered by new or untried persons.
monocracy
n. Government by a single person.
monarchy
n. Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
thearchy
n. Government by a supreme deity.
bureaucracy
n. Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
polyarchy
n. Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
corrosion
n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
consumption
n. Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
atrocity
n. Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
avidity
n. Greediness.
iniquity
n. Gross wrong or injustice.
underworld
n. Hades.
tirade
n. Harangue.
drudgery
n. Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
anthracite
n. Hard coal.
travail
n. Hard or agonizing labor.
concord
n. Harmony.
concordance
n. Harmony.
persecution
n. Harsh or malignant oppression.
asperity
n. Harshness or roughness of temper.
scribble
n. Hasty, careless writing.
misanthropy
n. Hatred of mankind.
misogamy
n. Hatred of marriage.
misogyny
n. Hatred of women.
Anglophobia
n. Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
animosity
n. Hatred.
enmity
n. Hatred.
benefit
n. Helpful result.
oakum
n. Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
laudation
n. High praise.
brae
n. Hillside.
obstruction
n. Hindrance.
annalist
n. Historian.
aperture
n. Hole.
sanctity
n. Holiness.
eccentricity
n. Idiosyncrasy.
misbehavior
n. Ill or improper behavior.
malevolence
n. Ill will.
enormity
n. Immensity.
intemperance
n. Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites.
imminence
n. Impending evil or danger.
impulsion
n. Impetus.
magnitude
n. Importance.
significance
n. Importance.
viscount
n. In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
burgess
n. In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
gendarme
n. In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
bowler
n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
lithotype
n. In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
abdomen
n. In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor, the belly.
pentameter
n. In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
dragoon
n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
intolerance
n. Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
insufficiency
n. Inadequacy.
stimulus
n. Incentive.
antilogy
n. Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
expansion
n. Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
maize
n. Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn.
penury
n. Indigence.
circumlocution
n. Indirect or roundabout expression.
accession
n. Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
disparity
n. Inequality.
coronet
n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
bronchitis
n. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
gastritis
n. Inflammation of the stomach.
bombast
n. Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
rigor
n. Inflexibility.
violation
n. Infringement.
influx
n. Infusion.
denizen
n. Inhabitant.
mania
n. Insanity.
apathy
n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
ingratitude
n. Insensibility to kindness.
innuendo
n. Insinuation.
impudence
n. Insolent disrespect.
intuition
n. Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
scarcity
n. Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
insight
n. Intellectual discernment.
mentality
n. Intellectuality.
excitation
n. Intensified emotion or action.
ardor
n. Intensity of passion or affection.
purport
n. Intent.
rendition
n. Interpretation.
discontinuance
n. Interruption or intermission.
respite
n. Interval of rest.
clairvoyance
n. Intuitive sagacity or perception.
impiety
n. Irreverence toward God.
gusto
n. Keen enjoyment.
chagrin
n. Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
benignity
n. Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
prescience
n. Knowledge of events before they take place.
privity
n. Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
perception
n. Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
distrust
n. Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
insignificance
n. Lack of import or of importance.
inexperience
n. Lack of or deficiency in experience.
vulgarity
n. Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
deficiency
n. Lack or insufficiency.
dolor
n. Lamentation.
fallow
n. Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
landholder
n. Landowner.
lingo
n. Language.
amplitude
n. Largeness.
languor
n. Lassitude of body or depression.
jurisdiction
n. Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
mobocracy
n. Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
indolence
n. Laziness.
vale
n. Level or low land between hills.
frailty
n. Liability to be broken or destroyed.
domesticity
n. Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
course
n. Line of motion or direction.
vivacity
n. Liveliness.
ridicule
n. Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
corruption
n. Loss of purity or integrity.
paralysis
n. Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
patriotism
n. Love and devotion to one's country.
buffoonery
n. Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
fealty
n. Loyalty.
fidelity
n. Loyalty.
irradiance
n. Luster.
bedlam
n. Madhouse.
quantity
n. Magnitude.
up-keep
n. Maintenance.
rancor
n. Malice.
defamation
n. Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
devilry
n. Malicious mischief.
injunction
n. Mandate.
technique
n. Manner of performance.
carnage
n. Massacre.
sediment
n. Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
livelihood
n. Means of subsistence.
optometry
n. Measurement of the powers of vision.
dejection
n. Melancholy.
perturbation
n. Mental excitement or confusion.
lunacy
n. Mental unsoundness.
clemency
n. Mercy.
paraphernalia
n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
adversity
n. Misfortune.
mishap
n. Misfortune.
delusion
n. Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
parlance
n. Mode of speech.
neo-Latin
n. Modernized Latin.
variation
n. Modification.
univalence
n. Monovalency.
decency
n. Moral fitness.
assassination
n. Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
quintet
n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
antagonism
n. Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
trimness
n. Neatness.
disobedience
n. Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
trepidation
n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
exclusion
n. Non-admission.
rigmarole
n. Nonsense.
nil
n. Nothing
bric-a-brac
n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
archaism
n. Obsolescence.
abdominal
n. Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
progeny
n. Offspring.
negligence
n. Omission of that which ought to be done.
reprobate
n. One abandoned to depravity and sin.
pioneer
n. One among the first to explore a country.
non-combatant
n. One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
arbiter
n. One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
alternate
n. One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
thrall
n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
egotist
n. One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences.
theorist
n. One given to speculating.
participant
n. One having a share or part.
fancier
n. One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
distiller
n. One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
faun
n. One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
specimen
n. One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
prelate
n. One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
doublet
n. One of a pair of like things.
Jingo
n. One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
quarter
n. One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
bristle
n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
canto
n. One of the divisions of an extended poem.
steppe
n. One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
luminary
n. One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
felony
n. One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment.
lyre
n. One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
facet
n. One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem.
auricle
n. One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
triumvir
n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
potentate
n. One possessed of great power or sway.
outcast
n. One rejected and despised, especially socially.
diplomatist
n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
metaphysician
n. One skilled in metaphysics.
financier
n. One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
tyro
n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
protege
n. One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
kiloliter
n. One thousand liters.
kilowatt
n. One thousand watts.
confidant
n. One to whom secrets are entrusted.
oculist
n. One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
prodigal
n. One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
advertiser
n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
altruist
n. One who advocates or practices altruism.
egoist
n. One who advocates or practices egoism.
conspirator
n. One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
analyst
n. One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
supplicant
n. One who asks humbly and earnestly.
assailant
n. One who attacks.
filibuster
n. One who attempts to obstruct legislation.
secretary
n. One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
spectator
n. One who beholds or looks on.
deist
n. One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
vegetarian
n. One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
disciple
n. One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
reformer
n. One who carries out a reform.
soothsayer
n. One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
antiquary
n. One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
loiterer
n. One who consumes time idly.
epicure
n. One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
glazier
n. One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
orator
n. One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
infidel
n. One who denies the existence of God.
tactician
n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
dissentient
n. One who disagrees.
skeptic
n. One who doubts any statements.
working-man
n. One who earns his bread by manual labor.
philanthropist
n. One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
consignor
n. One who entrusts.
zealot
n. One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
contender
n. One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
prohibitionist
n. One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
pledgeor
n. One who gives a pledge.
contributor
n. One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
giver
n. One who gives, in any sense.
proselyte
n. One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
pervert
n. One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
superintendent
n. One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
constituent
n. One who has the right to vote at an election.
bigamist
n. One who has two spouses at the same time.
radical
n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
dignitary
n. One who holds high rank.
heretic
n. One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
overlord
n. One who holds supremacy over another.
instigator
n. One who incites to evil.
malefactor
n. One who injures another.
investigator
n. One who investigates.
investor
n. One who invests money.
linguist
n. One who is acquainted with several languages.
assignee
n. One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
descendant
n. One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
invalid
n. One who is disabled by illness or injury.
malcontent
n. One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
philogynist
n. One who is fond of women.
regent
n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
beneficiary
n. One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
statistician
n. One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
confederate
n. One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
paramour
n. One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
pedestrian
n. One who journeys on foot.
apothecary
n. One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
assassin
n. One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
brigand
n. One who lives by robbery and plunder.
recluse
n. One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
bibliophile
n. One who loves books.
claimant
n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
collector
n. One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
depositor
n. One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
donator
n. One who makes a donation or present.
donor
n. One who makes a donation or present.
inquisitor
n. One who makes an investigation.
speculator
n. One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
lexicographer
n. One who makes dictionaries.
prospector
n. One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
hypocrite
n. One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
imitator
n. One who makes in imitation.
optician
n. One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
machinist
n. One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools.
clothier
n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
administrator
n. One who manages affairs of any kind.
emigrant
n. One who moves from one place to settle in another.
narrator
n. One who narrates anything.
aeronaut
n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
objector
n. One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
accompanist
n. One who or that which accompanies.
auxiliary
n. One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
transferrer
n. One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
harbinger
n. One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
fixture
n. One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
nonpareil
n. One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
transient
n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
surrogate
n. One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
percipient
n. One who or that which perceives.
indicator
n. One who or that which points out.
antecedent
n. One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
propeller
n. One who or that which propels.
controller
n. One who or that which regulates or directs.
successor
n. One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
alien
n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
possessor
n. One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
advocate
n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
necromancer
n. One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
orthopedist
n. One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
mystic
n. One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
profiteer
n. One who profits.
demonstrator
n. One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
nominee
n. One who receives a nomination.
referrer
n. One who refers.
disbeliever
n. One who refuses to believe.
freethinker
n. One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
solicitor
n. One who represents a client in court of justice, an attorney.
huckster
n. One who retails small wares.
aspirant
n. One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place.
fishmonger
n. One who sells fish.
juror
n. One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
squatter
n. One who settles on land without permission or right.
coxswain
n. One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
distrainor
n. One who subjects a person to distress.
extremist
n. One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
opponent
n. One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
opportunist
n. One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
interlocutor
n. One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
insurgent
n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
breaker
n. One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
violator
n. One who transgresses.
mountaineer
n. One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
peddler
n. One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
employer
n. One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.
employee
n. One who works for wages or a salary.
collier
n. One who works in a coal-mine.
operator
n. One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus.
scribe
n. One who writes or is skilled in writing.
dramatist
n. One who writes plays.
pauper
n. One without means of support.
desperado
n. One without regard for law or life.
ancestry
n. One's ancestors collectively.
pedigree
n. One's line of ancestors.
onrush
n. Onset.
cataract
n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
pillage
n. Open robbery, as in war.
lattice
n. Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
liberalism
n. Opposition to conservatism.
somnolence
n. Oppressive drowsiness.
syllabus
n. Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
veneer
n. Outside show or elegance.
semblance
n. Outward appearance.
upheaval
n. Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
consternation
n. Panic.
palsy
n. Paralysis.
denominator
n. Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
complicity
n. Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
regime
n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
transition
n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
avarice
n. Passion for getting and keeping riches.
acquiescence
n. Passive consent.
diversion
n. Pastime.
fortitude
n. Patient courage.
forbearance
n. Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
handwriting
n. Penmanship.
continuance
n. Permanence.
intricacy
n. Perplexity.
optic
n. Pertaining to the eye or vision.
aura
n. Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
vegetation
n. Plant-life in the aggregate.
gambol
n. Playful leaping or frisking.
poesy
n. Poetry.
courtesy
n. Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
complaisance
n. Politeness.
allotment
n. Portion.
excellence
n. Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities.
existence
n. Possession or continuance of being.
contingency
n. Possibility of happening.
indigence
n. Poverty.
buoyancy
n. Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
sensibility
n. Power to perceive or feel.
refringency
n. Power to refract.
potency
n. Power.
foreordination
n. Predestination.
preferment
n. Preference.
gestation
n. Pregnancy.
forethought
n. Premeditation.
overweight
n. Preponderance.
foreknowledge
n. Prescience.
protection
n. Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
insolence
n. Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
precedence
n. Priority in place, time, or rank.
annunciation
n. Proclamation.
adoration
n. Profound devotion.
stupor
n. Profound lethargy.
continuation
n. Prolongation.
lethargy
n. Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
hernia
n. Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
aphorism
n. Proverb.
foresight
n. Provision against harm or need.
contiguity
n. Proximity.
penance
n. Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
acreage
n. Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
acumen
n. Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment, keenness of discrimination.
quiescence
n. Quiet.
velocity
n. Rapid motion.
rhapsody
n. Rapt or rapturous utterance.
ecstasy
n. Rapturous excitement or exaltation.
virtu
n. Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
infrequence
n. Rareness.
impetuosity
n. Rashness.
self-respect
n. Rational self-esteem.
dexterity
n. Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
analogy
n. Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
sophistry
n. Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
mutiny
n. Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
redound
n. Rebound.
permutation
n. Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
temerity
n. Recklessness.
wantonness
n. Recklessness.
acknowledgment
n. Recognition.
remembrance
n. Recollection.
righteousness
n. Rectitude.
diminution
n. Reduction.
urbanity
n. Refined or elegant courtesy.
formation
n. Relative disposition of parts.
symmetry
n. Relative proportion and harmony.
acquittance
n. Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
compunction
n. Remorseful feeling.
revocation
n. Repeal.
rote
n. Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
remonstrance
n. Reproof.
assonance
n. Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
recourse
n. Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
deference
n. Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
restitution
n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
confinement
n. Restriction within limits or boundaries.
homage
n. Reverential regard or worship.
revisal
n. Revision.
cadence
n. Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
exuberance
n. Rich supply.
derision
n. Ridicule.
mockery
n. Ridicule.
hazard
n. Risk.
streamlet
n. Rivulet.
kingship
n. Royal state.
regality
n. Royalty.
impertinence
n. Rudeness.
approbation
n. Sanction.
complacence
n. Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
gratification
n. Satisfaction.
ferocity
n. Savageness.
dearth
n. Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
surety
n. Security for payment or performance.
abstinence
n. Self denial.
egotism
n. Self-conceit.
diffidence
n. Self-distrust.
conceit
n. Self-flattering opinion.
autonomy
n. Self-government.
continence
n. Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
presentment
n. Semblance.
disunion
n. Separation of relations or interests.
distillation
n. Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
severance
n. Separation.
gravity
n. Seriousness.
poignancy
n. Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
chastity
n. Sexual or moral purity.
profligacy
n. Shameless viciousness.
acrimony
n. Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
brevity
n. Shortness of duration.
luminescence
n. Showing increase.
pantomime
n. Sign-language.
resemblance
n. Similarity in quality or form.
similitude
n. Similarity.
synchronism
n. Simultaneousness.
calumny
n. Slander.
servitude
n. Slavery.
insomnia
n. Sleeplessness.
ailment
n. Slight sickness.
redolence
n. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
loneliness
n. Solitude.
seclusion
n. Solitude.
affiliate
n. Some auxiliary person or thing.
postscript
n. Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
addendum
n. Something added, or to be added.
adjunct
n. Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
arrear
n. Something overdue and unpaid.
technicality
n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
counterpart
n. Something taken with another for the completion of either.
offshoot
n. Something that branches off from the parent stock.
detriment
n. Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
commodity
n. Something that is bought and sold.
transience
n. Something that is of short duration.
alternative
n. Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
protuberance
n. Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
witchcraft
n. Sorcery.
ruth
n. Sorrow for another's misery.
penitence
n. Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
repentance
n. Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
grief
n. Sorrow.
acerbity
n. Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
leisure
n. Spare time.
preeminence
n. Special eminence.
brotherhood
n. Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
effulgence
n. Splendor.
guy
n. Stay-rope.
lieu
n. Stead.
prowess
n. Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
stringency
n. Strictness.
obstinacy
n. Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
valedictorian
n. Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
martyrdom
n. Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.
finesse
n. Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
irruption
n. Sudden invasion.
brimstone
n. Sulfur.
cabalism
n. Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
guess
n. Surmise.
cession
n. Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
subsistence
n. Sustenance.
perspiration
n. Sweat.
diplomacy
n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
moderation
n. Temperance.
remission
n. Temporary diminution of a disease.
conservatism
n. Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
reaction
n. Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
deposition
n. Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
anatomy
n. That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
divisor
n. That by which a number or quantity is divided.
conveyance
n. That by which anything is transported.
judiciary
n. That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice.
ordinal
n. That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
radix
n. That from or on which something is developed.
material
n. That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
foreground
n. That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
denouement
n. That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
foreshore
n. That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
superfluity
n. That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
intestine
n. That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
proscenium
n. That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
forecastle
n. That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
Christendom
n. That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
derivation
n. That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
elasticity
n. That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed.
leeward
n. That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
cynosure
n. That to which general interest or attention is directed.
intention
n. That upon which the mind is set.
nuisance
n. That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
inchoative
n. That which begins, or expresses beginning.
ligament
n. That which binds objects together.
corrosive
n. That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
matrix
n. That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
inefficiency
n. That which does not accomplish an intended purpose.
non-existent
n. That which does not exist.
lever
n. That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
sequel
n. That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
delicacy
n. That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
dispensation
n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
gratuity
n. That which is given without demand or claim. Tip.
necessity
n. That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
imitation
n. That which is made as a likeness or copy.
adjacent
n. That which is near or bordering upon.
superlative
n. That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
exterior
n. That which is outside.
resource
n. That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
abrasion
n. That which is rubbed off.
subtrahend
n. That which is to be subtracted.
finery
n. That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
syllable
n. That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
edict
n. That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action.
essence
n. That which makes a thing to be what it is.
presumption
n. That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
illuminant
n. That which may be used to produce light.
incentive
n. That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
incitement
n. That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus.
aliment
n. That which nourishes.
nutriment
n. That which nourishes.
grievance
n. That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong.
excess
n. That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
partition
n. That which separates anything into distinct parts.
maintenance
n. That which supports or sustains.
pontiff
n. The Pope.
Britannia
n. The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
endurance
n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
mystification
n. The act of artfully perplexing.
repulse
n. The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
flection
n. The act of bending.
subjection
n. The act of bringing into a state of submission.
dissuasion
n. The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
transference
n. The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
abscission
n. The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
determination
n. The act of deciding.
denunciation
n. The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
negation
n. The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
abhorrence
n. The act of detesting extremely.
termination
n. The act of ending or concluding.
intrusion
n. The act of entering without warrant or invitation, encroachment.
entree
n. The act of entering.
lodgment
n. The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
contribution
n. The act of giving for a common purpose.
precession
n. The act of going forward.
infusion
n. The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
prehension
n. The act of laying hold of or grasping.
reparation
n. The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
descent
n. The act of moving or going downward.
introspection
n. The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
percipience
n. The act of perceiving.
suasion
n. The act of persuading.
apposition
n. The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
advocacy
n. The act of pleading a cause.
immersion
n. The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
transfusion
n. The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
protrusion
n. The act of protruding.
verification
n. The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
arrangement
n. The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
perusal
n. The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
recitation
n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
narration
n. The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
repetition
n. The act of repeating.
transposition
n. The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
ascension
n. The act of rising.
rapine
n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
vendition
n. The act of selling.
transmission
n. The act of sending through or across.
intension
n. The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
submergence
n. The act of submerging.
submersion
n. The act of submerging.
submittal
n. The act of submitting.
resumption
n. The act of taking back, or taking again.
tutelage
n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
introversion
n. The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
sacrilege
n. The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
numeration
n. The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
writing
n. The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
coronation
n. The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
nomination
n. The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
dissection
n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
locomotion
n. The act or power of moving from one place to another.
importation
n. The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
absorption
n. The act or process of absorbing.
mutation
n. The act or process of change.
coalescence
n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
commitment
n. The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
condensation
n. The act or process of making dense or denser.
riddance
n. The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
audition
n. The act or sensation of hearing.
expectancy
n. The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable.
ambush
n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
conformance
n. The act or state or conforming.
contrivance
n. The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
committal
n. The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
flora
n. The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district.
typography
n. The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
makeup
n. The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
unction
n. The art of anointing as with oil.
statecraft
n. The art of conducting state affairs.
polemics
n. The art of controversy or disputation.
elocution
n. The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.
rhetoric
n. The art of discourse.
microscopy
n. The art of examing objects with the microscope.
photometry
n. The art of measuring the intensity of light.
fresco
n. The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
gastronomy
n. The art of preparing and serving appetizing food.
oratory
n. The art of public speaking.
topography
n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
pharmacy
n. The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
jugglery
n. The art or practice of sleight of hand.
telephony
n. The art or process of communicating by telephone.
taxidermy
n. The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
metallurgy
n. The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
workmanship
n. The art or skill of a workman.
masonry
n. The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
contradiction
n. The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
mastery
n. The attainment of superior skill.
personality
n. The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
origin
n. The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
inception
n. The beginning.
cabinet
n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
retinue
n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
missal
n. The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
circumference
n. The boundary-line of a circle.
archaeology
n. The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
paleontology
n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
hydrodynamics
n. The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
statics
n. The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
obstetrics
n. The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy.
hygiene
n. The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
dermatology
n. The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
psychiatry
n. The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
mechanics
n. The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces.
aerostatics
n. The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
hydrostatics
n. The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
theology
n. The branch of theological science that treats of God.
ichthyology
n. The branch of zoology that treats of fishes.
entomology
n. The branch of zoology that treats of insects.
bosom
n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
brokerage
n. The business of making sales and purchases for a commission, a broker.
breech
n. The buttocks.
encore
n. The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance.
malediction
n. The calling down of a curse or curses.
reminiscence
n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
confectionery
n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
flag-officer
n. The captain of a flag-ship.
declension
n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
ampersand
n. The character &, and.
petulance
n. The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
assay
n. The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
attorney-general
n. The chief law-officer of a government.
patriarch
n. The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
archbishop
n. The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
apogee
n. The climax.
epilogue
n. The close of a narrative or dramatic poem.
syneresis
n. The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
neology
n. The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
azure
n. The color of the sky.
advent
n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
populace
n. The common people.
contagion
n. The communication of disease from person to person.
frequency
n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
junction
n. The condition of being joined.
stagnation
n. The condition of not flowing or not changing.
salience
n. The condition of standing out distinctly.
obsolescence
n. The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
intestacy
n. The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
penalty
n. The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
veto
n. The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
pentathlon
n. The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
monopoly
n. The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
Occident
n. The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
bigamy
n. The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
zenith
n. The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
arboriculture
n. The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
carcass
n. The dead body of an animal.
usury
n. The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
atheism
n. The denial of the existence of God.
commissariat
n. The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
pediatrics
n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
geology
n. The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth.
navel
n. The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
inference
n. The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law.
aldermanship
n. The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
vivisection
n. The dissection of a living animal.
caste
n. The division of society on artificial grounds.
polytheism
n. The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
physiocracy
n. The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
Darwinism
n. The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
perpetrator
n. The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
protomartyr
n. The earliest victim in any cause.
parish
n. The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
nit
n. The egg of a louse or some other insect.
satire
n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
quarantine
n. The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
skepticism
n. The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
Anglo-Saxon
n. The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
aggregate
n. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
utilitarianism
n. The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
autopsy
n. The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
resistance
n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
magnificence
n. The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power.
guise
n. The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
physiognomy
n. The external appearance merely.
mien
n. The external appearance or manner of a person.
forepeak
n. The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
visage
n. The face, countenance, or look of a person.
mantel
n. The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
aggravation
n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
absence
n. The fact of not being present or available.
judgment
n. The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
conscience
n. The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
intellect
n. The faculty of perception or thought.
scintilla
n. The faintest ray.
avalanche
n. The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
doe
n. The female of the deer.
feudalism
n. The feudal system.
terminus
n. The final point or goal.
pollen
n. The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
venison
n. The flesh of deer.
personnel
n. The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
dyne
n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
ode
n. The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
rationalism
n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
philosophy
n. The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
cosmology
n. The general science of the universe.
excretion
n. The getting rid of waste matter.
utmost
n. The greatest possible extent.
abbey
n. The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
monogamy
n. The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
periodicity
n. The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
possession
n. The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
foreman
n. The head man.
bridle
n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
sergeant-major
n. The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
apex
n. The highest point, as of a mountain.
acme
n. The highest point, or summit.
posterior
n. The hinder part.
cornucopia
n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
constituency
n. The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
zeitgeist
n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
antistrophe
n. The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
miter
n. The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
retention
n. The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
regicide
n. The killing of a king or sovereign.
matricide
n. The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
chivalry
n. The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
technology
n. The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
abbess
n. The lady superior of a nunnery.
manor
n. The landed estate of a lord or nobleman.
vernacular
n. The language of one's country.
expense
n. The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
anagram
n. The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
mane
n. The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
alto
n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
grantor
n. The maker of a deed.
testator
n. The maker of a will.
lexicography
n. The making of dictionaries.
position
n. The manner in which a thing is placed.
signification
n. The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
drainage
n. The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
hydromechanics
n. The mechanics of fluids.
midsummer
n. The middle of the summer.
garrison
n. The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
theocrasy
n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
lune
n. The moon.
quintessence
n. The most essential part of anything.
parricide
n. The murder of a parent.
appellation
n. The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
stature
n. The natural height of an animal body.
dendrology
n. The natural history of trees.
wherewith
n. The necessary means or resources.
cathode
n. The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
default
n. The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
peerage
n. The nobility.
pentad
n. The number five.
eclipse
n. The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.
tutorship
n. The office of a guardian.
magistracy
n. The office or dignity of a magistrate.
papacy
n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
mulatto
n. The offspring of a white person and a black person.
salutatory
n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
sequence
n. The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
aborigines
n. The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
epidermis
n. The outer skin.
frontier
n. The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
cantonment
n. The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
machinery
n. The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively.
bibliomania
n. The passion for collecting books.
trajectory
n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
duration
n. The period of time during which anything lasts.
transferee
n. The person to whom a transfer is made.
pledgee
n. The person to whom anything is pledged.
grantee
n. The person to whom property is transferred by deed.
sociology
n. The philosophical study of society.
physique
n. The physical structure or organization of a person.
whereabouts
n. The place in or near which a person or thing is.
consulate
n. The place in which a consul transacts official business.
Calvary
n. The place where Christ was crucified.
domicile
n. The place where one lives.
confluence
n. The place where streams meet.
perigee
n. The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
anode
n. The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
venom
n. The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
resilience
n. The power of springing back to a former position
efficacy
n. The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
ampere
n. The practical unit of electric-current strength.
extortion
n. The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
hospitality
n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
perfumery
n. The preparation of perfumes.
moderator
n. The presiding officer of a meeting.
urgency
n. The pressure of necessity.
divination
n. The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
vogue
n. The prevalent way or fashion.
generality
n. The principal portion.
realism
n. The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
metaphysics
n. The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
Stoicism
n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
reproduction
n. The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
electrolysis
n. The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
nurture
n. The process of fostering or promoting growth.
mongrel
n. The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
opalescence
n. The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
phosphorescence
n. The property of emitting light.
plasticity
n. The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
translucence
n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
dowry
n. The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
manliness
n. The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
pathos
n. The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
timbre
n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
pungency
n. The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
resonance
n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
grandeur
n. The quality of being grand or admirably great.
pomposity
n. The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
prominence
n. The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
rectitude
n. The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
sinuosity
n. The quality of curving in and out.
candor
n. The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
luminosity
n. The quality of giving or radiating light.
reticence
n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
vociferance
n. The quality of making a clamor.
irritancy
n. The quality of producing vexation.
divinity
n. The quality or character of being godlike.
irreverence
n. The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
subservience
n. The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
redemption
n. The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
docket
n. The registry of judgments of a court.
parentage
n. The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
perspective
n. The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
Renaissance
n. The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
preemption
n. The right or act of purchasing before others.
suffrage
n. The right or privilege of voting.
option
n. The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
palate
n. The roof of the mouth.
polycracy
n. The rule of many.
poetics
n. The rules and principles of poetry.
monotone
n. The sameness or monotony of utterance.
pedagogy
n. The science and art of teaching
pedagogics
n. The science and art of teaching.
logic
n. The science of correct thinking.
phonology
n. The science of human vocal sounds.
linguistics
n. The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words.
biology
n. The science of life or living organisms.
anthropology
n. The science of man in general.
physiology
n. The science of organic functions.
prosody
n. The science of poetical forms.
jurisprudence
n. The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
neurology
n. The science of the nervous system.
cosmography
n. The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
chronology
n. The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
optics
n. The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
botany
n. The science that treats of plants.
gynecology
n. The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women.
physics
n. The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
technography
n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
lactation
n. The secretion of milk.
sensorium
n. The sensory apparatus.
allegory
n. The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
hydra
n. The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
percussion
n. The sharp striking of one body against another.
scabbard
n. The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
blockade
n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
hypotenuse
n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
sense
n. The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
cranium
n. The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
minority
n. The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
Narcissus
n. The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
diphthong
n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
recrudescence
n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
adjacency
n. The state of being adjacent.
adhesion
n. The state of being attached or joined.
dissipation
n. The state of being dispersed or scattered.
latency
n. The state of being dormant.
efflorescence
n. The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
callosity
n. The state of being hard and insensible.
iciness
n. The state of being icy.
insurrection
n. The state of being in active resistance to authority.
conjunction
n. The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
normalcy
n. The state of being normal.
inherence
n. The state of being permanently existing in something.
discomfort
n. The state of being positively uncomfortable.
opprobrium
n. The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
triplicity
n. The state of being triple or threefold.
incandescence
n. The state of being white or glowing with heat.
oblivion
n. The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.
preoccupation
n. The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
efficiency
n. The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty.
convalescence
n. The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
pervasion
n. The state of spreading through every part.
tangency
n. The state of touching.
modernity
n. The state or character of being modern.
pseudonymity
n. The state or character of using a fictitious name.
sphericity
n. The state or condition of being a sphere.
conjugation
n. The state or condition of being joined together.
literacy
n. The state or condition of knowing how to read and write.
confidence
n. The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
pupilage
n. The state or period of being a student.
finality
n. The state or quality of being final or complete.
authenticity
n. The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
consonance
n. The state or quality of being in accord with.
vitality
n. The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
unanimity
n. The state or quality of being of one mind.
impropriety
n. The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate.
freshness
n. The state, quality, or degree of being fresh.
plagiarism
n. The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
autobiography
n. The story of one's life written by himself.
philately
n. The study and collection of stamps.
philology
n. The study of language in connection with history and literature.
protoplasm
n. The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
Sol
n. The sun.
abbot
n. The superior of a community of monks.
fulcrum
n. The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
extradition
n. The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
Calvinism
n. The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
Catholicism
n. The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
decalogue
n. The ten commandments.
tenure
n. The term during which a thing is held.
principality
n. The territory of a reigning prince.
egoism
n. The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self.
trident
n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
reflection
n. The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
solstice
n. The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
lifetime
n. The time that life continues.
lingua
n. The tongue.
folk-lore
n. The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
psychotherapy
n. The treatment of mental disease.
bole
n. The trunk or body of a tree.
meditation
n. The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
matrimony
n. The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
massacre
n. The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
monomania
n. The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
forehead
n. The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair.
extremity
n. The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
animadversion
n. The utterance of criticism or censure.
optimism
n. The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best.
breach
n. The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
dedication
n. The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
mythology
n. The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
macrocosm
n. The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
gamut
n. The whole range or sequence.
cosmos
n. The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
microcosm
n. The world or universe on a small scale.
pantheism
n. The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
papyrus
n. The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
literature
n. The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
indulgence
n. The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
fetus
n. The young in the womb or in the egg.
dissertation
n. Thesis.
repugnance
n. Thorough dislike.
militia
n. Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations.
telepathy
n. Thought-transference.
trio
n. Three things grouped or associated together.
prevention
n. Thwarting.
interim
n. Time between acts or periods.
sufferance
n. Toleration.
infamy
n. Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation.
contraband
n. Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
metempsychosis
n. Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
heredity
n. Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
perfidy
n. Treachery.
usage
n. Treatment.
artifice
n. Trickery.
verity
n. Truth.
veracity
n. Truthfulness.
effrontery
n. Unblushing impudence.
suspense
n. Uncertainty.
dishabille
n. Undress or negligent attire.
extravagance
n. Undue expenditure of money.
solicitude
n. Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
continuity
n. Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
catholicity
n. Universal prevalence or acceptance.
heterogeneity
n. Unlikeness of constituent parts.
omnipotence
n. Unlimited and universal power.
omniscience
n. Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
indignity
n. Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment.
autarchy
n. Unrestricted power.
lying
n. Untruthfulness.
longevity
n. Unusually prolonged life.
impatience
n. Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things.
reluctance
n. Unwillingness.
pertinacity
n. Unyielding adherence.
integrity
n. Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
insurgence
n. Uprising.
insistence
n. Urgency.
verbiage
n. Use of many words without necessity.
skiff
n. Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
despair
n. Utter hopelessness and despondency.
hesitation
n. Vacillation.
disputation
n. Verbal controversy.
interpolation
n. Verbal interference.
altitude
n. Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
justification
n. Vindication.
treachery
n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
collision
n. Violent contact.
maidenhood
n. Virginity.
probity
n. Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
morality
n. Virtue.
secession
n. Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
incoherence
n. Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
incapacity
n. Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage.
deviltry
n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
geniality
n. Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
laundress
n. Washerwoman.
brine
n. Water saturated with salt.
weal
n. Well-being.
perversity
n. Wickedness.
epidemic
n. Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region.
orgies
n. Wild or wanton revelry.
sorcery
n. Witchcraft.
effeminacy
n. Womanishness.
epithet
n. Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
ire
n. Wrath.
script
n. Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
maniac
n. a person raving with madness.
caricature
n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
benediction
n. a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
vocable
n. a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
effusion
n. an outpouring.
auspice
n. favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
sirocco
n. hot winds from Africa.
purveyor
n. one who supplies
palpable
n. perceptible by feeling or touch.
messieurs
n. pl. Gentlemen.
brethren
n. pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
assets
n. pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
kinsfolk
n. pl. Relatives.
regalia
n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
entrails
n. pl. The internal parts of an animal.
hemorrhoids
n. pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum.
aeronautics
n. the art or practice of flying aircraft
multiplicity
n. the condition of being manifold or very various.
necrosis
n. the death of part of the body.
demurrage
n. the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
polygamy
n. the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
morphology
n. the science of organic forms.
ado
n. unnecessary activity or ceremony.
abet
v. To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
estrange
v. To alienate.
invigorate
v. To animate.
demolish
v. To annihilate.
impersonate
v. To appear or act in the character of.
mete
v. To apportion.
confiscate
v. To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
sanction
v. To approve authoritatively.
awaken
v. To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
rearrange
v. To arrange again or in a different order.
classify
v. To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
emphasize
v. To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words.
compute
v. To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
inquire
v. To ask information about.
bombard
v. To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
impugn
v. To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
aver
v. To assert as a fact.
allege
v. To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
allot
v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
ascribe
v. To assign as a quality or attribute.
antedate
v. To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
specialize
v. To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
prefix
v. To attach at the beginning.
beset
v. To attack on all sides.
impute
v. To attribute.
evade
v. To avoid by artifice.
bide
v. To await.
adjudge
v. To award or bestow by formal decision.
foreclose
v. To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property.
negotiable
v. To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
befriend
v. To be a friend to, especially when in need.
impede
v. To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of.
forebode
v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
marvel
v. To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).
predominate
v. To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
teem
v. To be full to overflowing.
impend
v. To be imminent.
connive
v. To be in collusion.
ache
v. To be in pain or distress.
resent
v. To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
subsist
v. To be maintained or sustained.
disagree
v. To be opposite in opinion.
infest
v. To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger.
obtrude
v. To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
excel
v. To be superior or distinguished.
underlie
v. To be the ground or support of.
ought
v. To be under moral obligation to be or do.
seethe
v. To be violently excited or agitated.
pommel
v. To beat with something thick or bulky.
disengage
v. To become detached.
superannuate
v. To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
stagnate
v. To become dull or inert.
accumulate
v. To become greater in quantity or number.
wizen
v. To become or cause to become withered or dry.
degenerate
v. To become worse or inferior.
supplicate
v. To beg.
germinate
v. To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form.
misbehave
v. To behave ill.
decapitate
v. To behead.
appertain
v. To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
refract
v. To bend or turn from a direct course.
donate
v. To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
confer
v. To bestow.
constrict
v. To bind.
commingle
v. To blend.
transgress
v. To break a law.
exhale
v. To breathe forth.
conduce
v. To bring about.
adduce
v. To bring forward or name for consideration.
placate
v. To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
induct
v. To bring in.
pacify
v. To bring into a peaceful state.
enthrall
v. To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
elucidate
v. To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
consummate
v. To bring to completion.
accomplish
v. To bring to pass.
subvert
v. To bring to ruin.
congregate
v. To bring together into a crowd.
crystallize
v. To bring together or give fixed shape to.
contuse
v. To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
effervesce
v. To bubble up.
rebuild
v. To build again or anew.
edify
v. To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion.
sear
v. To burn on the surface.
cauterize
v. To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
singe
v. To burn slightly or superficially.
disrupt
v. To burst or break asunder.
cipher
v. To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
arraign
v. To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
invoke
v. To call on for assistance or protection.
evoke
v. To call or summon forth.
allay
v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of, mitigate.
recapture
v. To capture again.
overshadow
v. To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
molt
v. To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
exorcise
v. To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
seize
v. To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
originate
v. To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
convulse
v. To cause spasms in.
aggrandize
v. To cause to appear greatly.
palliate
v. To cause to appear less guilty.
recline
v. To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
assuage
v. To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
endear
v. To cause to be loved.
unify
v. To cause to be one.
intimidate
v. To cause to become frightened.
impair
v. To cause to become less or worse.
litigate
v. To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
explode
v. To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
intermit
v. To cause to cease temporarily.
parallel
v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
frizzle
v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
retrograde
v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
obliterate
v. To cause to disappear.
fulminate
v. To cause to explode.
converge
v. To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
immortalize
v. To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
nauseate
v. To cause to loathe.
enlighten
v. To cause to see clearly.
collapse
v. To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
deflect
v. To cause to turn aside or downward.
alienate
v. To cause to turn away.
rotate
v. To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
purl
v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
sequester
v. To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
desist
v. To cease from action.
disappear
v. To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
succumb
v. To cease to resist.
attest
v. To certify as accurate, genuine, or true.
transmute
v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
coagulate
v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
acidify
v. To change into acid.
dissuade
v. To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
reorganize
v. To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
accuse
v. To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
venerate
v. To cherish reverentially.
ruminate
v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
reprimand
v. To chide or rebuke for a fault.
obviate
v. To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
explicate
v. To clear from involvement.
deforest
v. To clear of forests.
congeal
v. To coagulate.
congest
v. To collect into a mass.
consolidate
v. To combine into one body or system.
interpose
v. To come between other things or persons.
condescend
v. To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
intrude
v. To come in without leave or license.
immigrate
v. To come into a country or region from a former habitat.
emerge
v. To come into view or into existence.
transpire
v. To come to pass.
console
v. To comfort.
enjoin
v. To command.
acquiesce
v. To comply, submit.
pamphleteer
v. To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
comport
v. To conduct or behave (oneself).
circumscribe
v. To confine within bounds.
sequestrate
v. To confiscate.
muddle
v. To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
bewilder
v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
befog
v. To confuse.
surmise
v. To conjecture.
subjugate
v. To conquer.
contemplate
v. To consider thoughtfully.
comprise
v. To consist of.
pollute
v. To contaminate.
vitiate
v. To contaminate.
altercate
v. To contend angrily or zealously in words.
vie
v. To contend.
persist
v. To continue steadfast against opposition.
persevere
v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
outlive
v. To continue to exist after.
parley
v. To converse in.
liquefy
v. To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
petrify
v. To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
transfer
v. To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
rectify
v. To correct.
coincide
v. To correspond.
expectorate
v. To cough up and spit forth.
suffuse
v. To cover or fill the surface of.
macadamize
v. To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
baste
v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
bedeck
v. To cover with ornament.
cower
v. To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
recure
v. To cure again.
dissect
v. To cut apart or to pieces.
retrench
v. To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
curtail
v. To cut off or cut short.
defalcate
v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
engrave
v. To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
intersect
v. To cut through or into so as to divide.
pare
v. To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
muffle
v. To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
disqualify
v. To debar.
enfeeble
v. To debilitate.
hoodwink
v. To deceive.
avow
v. To declare openly.
derive
v. To deduce, as from a premise.
deign
v. To deem worthy of notice or account.
defer
v. To delay or put off to some other time.
belate
v. To delay past the proper hour.
empower
v. To delegate authority to.
enrapture
v. To delight extravagantly or intensely.
orate
v. To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
liquidate
v. To deliver the amount or value of.
reclaim
v. To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
forego
v. To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
forgo
v. To deny oneself.
negate
v. To deny.
abscond
v. To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
demagnetize
v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
dispossess
v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
disinherit
v. To deprive of an inheritance.
disenfranchise
v. To deprive of any right privilege or power
disquiet
v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
incapacitate
v. To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification.
sophisticate
v. To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
defraud
v. To deprive of something dishonestly.
paralyze
v. To deprive of the power to act.
dehydrate
v. To deprive of water.
disarm
v. To deprive of weapons.
deduce
v. To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
characterize
v. To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
parse
v. To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
nominate
v. To designate as a candidate for any office.
denote
v. To designate by word or mark.
decimate
v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
annihilate
v. To destroy absolutely.
eradicate
v. To destroy thoroughly.
assess
v. To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
exhume
v. To dig out of the earth (what has been buried).
ennoble
v. To dignify.
wane
v. To diminish in size and brilliancy.
dwindle
v. To diminish or become less.
extenuate
v. To diminish the gravity or importance of.
refer
v. To direct or send for information or other purpose.
disclaim
v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
demobilize
v. To disband, as troops.
foresee
v. To discern beforehand.
descry
v. To discern.
disavow
v. To disclaim responsibility for.
expostulate
v. To discuss.
disillusion
v. To disenchant.
disburden
v. To disencumber.
deform
v. To disfigure.
mutilate
v. To disfigure.
deject
v. To dishearten.
detest
v. To dislike or hate with intensity.
belittle
v. To disparage.
dissipate
v. To disperse or disappear.
supersede
v. To displace.
dissatisfy
v. To displease.
evict
v. To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
circulate
v. To disseminate.
deliquesce
v. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
diagnose
v. To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
perturb
v. To disturb greatly.
quadrate
v. To divide into quarters.
trisect
v. To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
ramify
v. To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
dissever
v. To divide.
improvise
v. To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
transact
v. To do business.
discriminate
v. To draw a distinction.
generalize
v. To draw general inferences.
involve
v. To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
shrivel
v. To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
educe
v. To draw out.
accouter
v. To dress.
carouse
v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
absorb
v. To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
imbibe
v. To drink or take in.
dispel
v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
expatriate
v. To drive from one's own country.
impel
v. To drive or urge forward.
propel
v. To drive or urge forward.
extrude
v. To drive out or away.
telescope
v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
overeat
v. To eat to excess.
elicit
v. To educe or extract gradually or without violence.
mediate
v. To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
oust
v. To eject.
decorate
v. To embellish.
scintillate
v. To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
commission
v. To empower.
exhaust
v. To empty by draining off the contents.
encompass
v. To encircle.
surround
v. To encircle.
confront
v. To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
imperil
v. To endanger.
qualify
v. To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
enfranchise
v. To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
vitalize
v. To endow with life or energy.
endue
v. To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual.
vivify
v. To endue with life.
joust
v. To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.
betroth
v. To engage to marry.
dilate
v. To enlarge in all directions.
recruit
v. To enlist men for military or naval service.
inscribe
v. To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing.
penetrate
v. To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
enlist
v. To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment.
seduce
v. To entice to surrender chastity.
ensnare
v. To entrap.
consign
v. To entrust.
begrudge
v. To envy one of the possession of.
underman
v. To equip with less than the full complement of men.
uproot
v. To eradicate.
appraise
v. To estimate the money value of.
elude
v. To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
revise
v. To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
interrogate
v. To examine formally by questioning.
analyze
v. To examine minutely or critically.
preponderate
v. To exceed in influence or power.
pique
v. To excite a slight degree of anger in.
exasperate
v. To excite great anger in.
irritate
v. To excite ill temper or impatience in.
nettle
v. To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
ostracize
v. To exclude from public or private favor.
perspire
v. To excrete through the pores of the skin.
garrote
v. To execute by strangling.
bungle
v. To execute clumsily.
control
v. To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
patronize
v. To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
preexist
v. To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
eject
v. To expel.
endanger
v. To expose to peril.
assent
v. To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.
deprecate
v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
embody
v. To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form.
Bowdlerize
v. To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
radiate
v. To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
prolong
v. To extend in time or duration.
subtend
v. To extend opposite to.
outstretch
v. To extend.
distill
v. To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
peter
v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
disappoint
v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
understate
v. To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
captivate
v. To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
affix
v. To fasten.
surfeit
v. To feed to fullness or to satiety.
replenish
v. To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
preoccupy
v. To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
inundate
v. To fill with an overflowing abundance.
appall
v. To fill with dismay or horror.
terrify
v. To fill with extreme fear.
exhilarate
v. To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
obstruct
v. To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
percolate
v. To filter.
indict
v. To find and declare chargeable with crime.
reprehend
v. To find fault with.
decipher
v. To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
emanate
v. To flow forth or proceed, as from some source.
baffle
v. To foil or frustrate.
retrace
v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
precipitate
v. To force forward prematurely.
conscript
v. To force into military service.
repel
v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
coerce
v. To force.
preordain
v. To foreordain.
predict
v. To foretell.
presage
v. To foretell.
conceive
v. To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
granulate
v. To form into grains or small particles.
entrench
v. To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall.
undeceive
v. To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
absolve
v. To free from sin or its penalties.
acquit
v. To free or clear, as from accusation.
fray
v. To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
deter
v. To frighten away.
accommodate
v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
overpower
v. To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
hoard
v. To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
acquire
v. To get as one's own.
discover
v. To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
bestride
v. To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
frizz
v. To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
sibilate
v. To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
denominate
v. To give a name or epithet to.
beck
v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
misrepresent
v. To give a wrong impression.
stultify
v. To give an appearance of foolishness to.
transfigure
v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
reciprocate
v. To give and take mutually.
bequeath
v. To give by will.
embolden
v. To give courage to.
accredit
v. To give credit or authority to.
aggrieve
v. To give grief or sorrow to.
reassure
v. To give new confidence.
visualize
v. To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.
legalize
v. To give the authority of law to.
translate
v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
regale
v. To give unusual pleasure.
abdicate
v. To give up (royal power or the like).
relinquish
v. To give up using or having.
peddle
v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
forerun
v. To go before as introducing or ushering in.
exceed
v. To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
outstrip
v. To go beyond.
emigrate
v. To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another.
accompany
v. To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
reprieve
v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
gnash
v. To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
deteriorate
v. To grow worse.
fondle
v. To handle tenderly and lovingly.
recur
v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
precede
v. To happen first.
betide
v. To happen to or befall.
importune
v. To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
inure
v. To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
expedite
v. To hasten the movement or progress of.
abominate
v. To hate violently.
reck
v. To have a care or thought for.
aspire
v. To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
perceive
v. To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
resonate
v. To have or produce resonance.
superintend
v. To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
militate
v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
revile
v. To heap approach or abuse upon.
superheat
v. To heat to excess.
dissemble
v. To hide by pretending something different.
reign
v. To hold and exercise sovereign power.
inhibit
v. To hold back or in.
check
v. To hold back.
repute
v. To hold in general opinion.
prefer
v. To hold in higher estimation.
maintain
v. To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.
obligate
v. To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
bustle
v. To hurry.
mesmerize
v. To hypnotize.
galvanize
v. To imbue with life or animation.
mimic
v. To imitate the speech or actions of.
emulate
v. To imitate with intent to equal or surpass.
disfigure
v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
encumber
v. To impede with obstacles.
jeopardize
v. To imperil.
beseech
v. To implore.
insinuate
v. To imply.
levy
v. To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
cajole
v. To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
incarcerate
v. To imprison.
expand
v. To increase in range or scope.
portend
v. To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
repine
v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
blaspheme
v. To indulge in profane oaths.
overrun
v. To infest or ravage.
madden
v. To inflame with passion.
excruciate
v. To inflict severe pain or agony upon.
wreak
v. To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
dominate
v. To influence controllingly.
enrage
v. To infuriate.
instill
v. To infuse.
discredit
v. To injure the reputation of.
vaccinate
v. To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
intromit
v. To insert.
enamor
v. To inspire with ardent love.
encourage
v. To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind.
infuse
v. To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
enhance
v. To intensify.
intervene
v. To interfere for some end.
intercept
v. To interrupt the course of.
entwine
v. To interweave.
inebriate
v. To intoxicate.
innovate
v. To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
inject
v. To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
encroach
v. To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another.
fabricate
v. To invent fancifully or falsely.
devise
v. To invent.
enthrone
v. To invest with sovereign power.
entangle
v. To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
embroil
v. To involve in dissension or strife.
entail
v. To involve, necessitate.
underwrite
v. To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
forejudge
v. To judge of before hearing evidence.
journalize
v. To keep a diary.
eschew
v. To keep clear of.
espy
v. To keep close watch.
abstain
v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
enshrine
v. To keep sacred.
repress
v. To keep under restraint or control.
assassinate
v. To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
osculate
v. To kiss.
collaborate
v. To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
bemoan
v. To lament
outlast
v. To last longer than.
ravage
v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
federate
v. To league together.
overleap
v. To leap beyond.
decamp
v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
vacate
v. To leave.
tarnish
v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
depreciate
v. To lessen the worth of.
relish
v. To like the taste or savor of.
dissolve
v. To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
vegetate
v. To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
luxuriate
v. To live sumptuously.
expect
v. To look forward to as certain or probable.
introspect
v. To look into.
discountenance
v. To look upon with disfavor.
forfeit
v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
despond
v. To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
debase
v. To lower in character or virtue.
abase
v. To lower in position, estimation, or the like, degrade.
wrangle
v. To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
embark
v. To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme.
reproduce
v. To make a copy of.
dun
v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
perforate
v. To make a hole or holes through.
magnetize
v. To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
miscount
v. To make a mistake in counting.
reconnoiter
v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
apprehend
v. To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
maneuver
v. To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
animate
v. To make alive.
atone
v. To make amends for.
retch
v. To make an effort to vomit.
exert
v. To make an effort.
undercharge
v. To make an inadequate charge for.
sacrifice
v. To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
embellish
v. To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
meliorate
v. To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
augment
v. To make bigger.
illumine
v. To make bright or clear.
burnish
v. To make brilliant or shining.
alter
v. To make change in.
modernize
v. To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
complement
v. To make complete.
complicate
v. To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
bereave
v. To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
intoxicate
v. To make drunk.
pall
v. To make dull by satiety.
annotate
v. To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
accustom
v. To make familiar by use.
acquaint
v. To make familiar or conversant.
belay
v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
humanize
v. To make gentle or refined.
gesticulate
v. To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
aggravate
v. To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
adulterate
v. To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
impoverish
v. To make indigent or poor.
addle
v. To make inefficient or worthless, muddle.
query
v. To make inquiry.
enact
v. To make into law, as by legislative act.
gladden
v. To make joyous.
alleviate
v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
simplify
v. To make less complex or difficult.
leaven
v. To make light by fermentation, as dough.
evince
v. To make manifest or evident.
mitigate
v. To make milder or more endurable.
facilitate
v. To make more easy.
dilute
v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
whet
v. To make more keen or eager.
exacerbate
v. To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
braze
v. To make of or ornament with brass.
antiquate
v. To make old or out of date.
legislate
v. To make or enact a law or laws.
defray
v. To make payment for.
dogmatize
v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
impregnate
v. To make pregnant.
becalm
v. To make quiet.
expiate
v. To make satisfaction or amends for.
abridge
v. To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
modify
v. To make somewhat different.
hackney
v. To make stale or trite by repetition.
beatify
v. To make supremely happy.
postdate
v. To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
aggress
v. To make the first attack.
idealize
v. To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard.
rescind
v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
bask
v. To make warm by genial heat.
blazon
v. To make widely or generally known.
misuse
v. To maltreat.
mismanage
v. To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully.
contrive
v. To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
deface
v. To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
variegate
v. To mark with different shades or colors.
connote
v. To mean, signify.
intercede
v. To mediate between persons.
ponder
v. To meditate or reflect upon.
collide
v. To meet and strike violently.
broach
v. To mention, for the first time.
embezzle
v. To misappropriate secretly.
misrule
v. To misgovern.
deceive
v. To mislead by or as by falsehood.
delude
v. To mislead the mind or judgment of.
mislay
v. To misplace.
belie
v. To misrepresent.
misapprehend
v. To misunderstand.
misinterpret
v. To misunderstand.
knead
v. To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
amalgamate
v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
retouch
v. To modify the details of.
recede
v. To move back or away.
accelerate
v. To move faster.
undulate
v. To move like a wave or in waves.
agitate
v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
actuate
v. To move or incite to action.
convolve
v. To move with a circling or winding motion.
hustle
v. To move with haste and promptness.
quadruple
v. To multiply by four.
patter
v. To mumble something over and over.
christen
v. To name in baptism.
enumerate
v. To name one by one.
efface
v. To obliterate.
hinder
v. To obstruct.
extort
v. To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
conciliate
v. To obtain the friendship of.
engross
v. To occupy completely.
tempt
v. To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
proffer
v. To offer to another for acceptance.
countervail
v. To offset.
rebut
v. To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
counterbalance
v. To oppose with an equal force.
surmount
v. To overcome by force of will.
conquer
v. To overcome by force.
exaggerate
v. To overstate.
overdo
v. To overtax the strength of.
deluge
v. To overwhelm with a flood of water.
browbeat
v. To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
possess
v. To own.
foist
v. To palm off.
overpass
v. To pass across or over, as a river.
fluctuate
v. To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
animadvert
v. To pass criticism or censure.
pervade
v. To pass or spread through every part.
cede
v. To pass title to.
tolerate
v. To passively permit or put up with.
reimburse
v. To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
remunerate
v. To pay or pay for.
overpay
v. To pay or reward in excess.
disburse
v. To pay out or expend, as money from a fund.
savor
v. To perceive by taste or smell.
initiate
v. To perform the first act or rite.
permeate
v. To pervade.
badger
v. To pester.
cull
v. To pick or sort out from the rest.
agglomerate
v. To pile or heap together.
encamp
v. To pitch tents for a resting-place.
juxtapose
v. To place close together.
insulate
v. To place in a detached state or situation.
reseat
v. To place in position of office again.
inhume
v. To place in the earth, as a dead body.
submerge
v. To place or plunge under water.
boycott
v. To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
seclude
v. To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
philander
v. To play at courtship with a woman.
juggle
v. To play tricks of sleight of hand.
gratify
v. To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need.
conspire
v. To plot.
loot
v. To plunder.
immerse
v. To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid.
denounce
v. To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
contaminate
v. To pollute.
effuse
v. To pour forth.
transfuse
v. To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
extol
v. To praise in the highest terms.
laud
v. To praise in words or song.
antecede
v. To precede.
foreordain
v. To predetermine.
prophesy
v. To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
augur
v. To predict.
forecast
v. To predict.
foretell
v. To predict.
preengage
v. To preoccupy.
remonstrate
v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
posit
v. To present in an orderly manner.
perpetuate
v. To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
depress
v. To press down.
compress
v. To press together or into smaller space.
suppress
v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
contravene
v. To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
preclude
v. To prevent.
bawl
v. To proclaim by outcry.
promulgate
v. To proclaim.
hypnotize
v. To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
beget
v. To produce by sexual generation.
rankle
v. To produce irritation or festering.
generate
v. To produce or cause to be.
engender
v. To produce.
protract
v. To prolong.
safeguard
v. To protect.
demonstrate
v. To prove indubitably.
verify
v. To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
refute
v. To prove to be wrong.
vindicate
v. To prove true, right, or real.
ration
v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
fortify
v. To provide with defensive works.
instigate
v. To provoke.
wrest
v. To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
prickle
v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
castigate
v. To punish.
chasten
v. To purify by affliction.
temporize
v. To pursue a policy of delay.
speculate
v. To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
detrude
v. To push down forcibly.
protrude
v. To push out or thrust forth.
terminate
v. To put an end or stop to.
maroon
v. To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
operate
v. To put in action and supervise the working of.
arrange
v. To put in definite or proper order.
readjust
v. To put in order after disarrangement.
correlate
v. To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
misplace
v. To put into a wrong place.
unsettle
v. To put into confusion.
procrastinate
v. To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
dislocate
v. To put out of proper place or order.
displace
v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
commute
v. To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
discomfit
v. To put to confusion.
humiliate
v. To put to shame.
squabble
v. To quarrel.
elapse
v. To quietly terminate: said of time.
upheave
v. To raise or lift with effort.
outreach
v. To reach or go beyond.
reconstruct
v. To rebuild.
retract
v. To recall or take back (something that one has said).
recognize
v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
recollect
v. To recall the knowledge of.
abjure
v. To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
participate
v. To receive or have a part or share of.
acknowledge
v. To recognize, to admit the genuineness or validity of.
convalesce
v. To recover after a sickness.
retrieve
v. To recover something by searching.
recuperate
v. To recover.
deplete
v. To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
incinerate
v. To reduce to ashes.
minimize
v. To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
allude
v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
advert
v. To refer incidentally.
cite
v. To refer to specifically.
recreate
v. To refresh after labor.
disown
v. To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
repudiate
v. To refuse to have anything to do with.
recover
v. To regain.
disparage
v. To regard or speak of slightingly.
deify
v. To regard or worship as a god.
disapprove
v. To regard with blame.
deplore
v. To regard with grief or sorrow.
idolize
v. To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
mistrust
v. To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
revere
v. To regard with worshipful veneration.
rue
v. To regret extremely.
proscribe
v. To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
discard
v. To reject.
subside
v. To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
dramatize
v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
emancipate
v. To release from bondage.
exonerate
v. To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
ameliorate
v. To relieve, as from pain or hardship
waive
v. To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
bethink
v. To remind oneself.
transplant
v. To remove and plant in another place.
amputate
v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
excavate
v. To remove by digging or scooping out.
disinfect
v. To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
migrate
v. To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.
depopulate
v. To remove the inhabitants from.
compensate
v. To remunerate.
deprave
v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
irradiate
v. To render clear and intelligible.
extinguish
v. To render extinct.
embarrass
v. To render flustered or agitated.
necessitate
v. To render indispensable.
enervate
v. To render ineffective or inoperative.
clarify
v. To render intelligible.
parody
v. To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
invalidate
v. To render of no force or effect.
repeal
v. To render of no further effect.
equalize
v. To render uniform.
moralize
v. To render virtuous.
proceed
v. To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
abnegate
v. To renounce (a right or privilege).
forswear
v. To renounce upon oath.
requite
v. To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
retaliate
v. To repay evil with a similar evil.
recapitulate
v. To repeat again the principal points of.
adumbrate
v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
delineate
v. To represent by sketch or diagram.
upbraid
v. To reproach as deserving blame.
regenerate
v. To reproduce.
revoke
v. To rescind.
renovate
v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
furbish
v. To restore brightness or beauty to.
resuscitate
v. To restore from apparent death.
reinstate
v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
rehabilitate
v. To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
rejuvenate
v. To restore to youth.
reestablish
v. To restore.
regress
v. To return to a former place or condition.
revert
v. To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
rejoin
v. To reunite after separation.
confide
v. To reveal in trust or confidence.
reconsider
v. To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
gyrate
v. To revolve.
outride
v. To ride faster than.
deride
v. To ridicule.
gamble
v. To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency.
incite
v. To rouse to a particular action.
stimulate
v. To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
corrode
v. To ruin or destroy little by little.
domineer
v. To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
circumnavigate
v. To sail quite around.
satiate
v. To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
reiterate
v. To say or do again and again.
probe
v. To search through and through.
preempt
v. To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
philosophize
v. To seek ultimate causes and principles.
designate
v. To select or appoint, as by authority.
undersell
v. To sell at a lower price than.
relegate
v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
emit
v. To send or give out.
transmit
v. To send trough or across.
eliminate
v. To separate and cast aside.
isolate
v. To separate from others of its kind.
rupture
v. To separate the parts of by violence.
unyoke
v. To separate.
typify
v. To serve as a characteristic example of.
commemorate
v. To serve as a remembrance of.
consecrate
v. To set apart as sacred.
emblazon
v. To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
manumit
v. To set free from bondage.
liberate
v. To set free or release from bondage.
enkindle
v. To set on fire.
ingraft
v. To set or implant deeply and firmly.
redress
v. To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
preestablish
v. To settle or arrange beforehand.
sympathize
v. To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
exemplify
v. To show by example.
antipathize
v. To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
implicate
v. To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
exclude
v. To shut out purposely or forcibly.
imply
v. To signify.
scuttle
v. To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
defame
v. To slander.
besmear
v. To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
bedaub
v. To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
stifle
v. To smother.
appease
v. To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
mollify
v. To soothe.
tranquilize
v. To soothe.
disseminate
v. To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
malign
v. To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
eulogize
v. To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character.
accost
v. To speak to.
theorize
v. To speculate.
economize
v. To spend sparingly.
expend
v. To spend.
propagate
v. To spread abroad or from person to person.
bestrew
v. To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
discolor
v. To stain.
recoil
v. To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
predicate
v. To state as belonging to something.
purloin
v. To steal.
overstride
v. To step beyond.
adhere
v. To stick fast or together.
cohere
v. To stick together.
interrupt
v. To stop while in progress.
corroborate
v. To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
distend
v. To stretch out or expand in every direction.
overreach
v. To stretch out too far.
butt
v. To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
denude
v. To strip the covering from.
divest
v. To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
botanize
v. To study plant-life.
distrain
v. To subject a person to distress.
chastise
v. To subject to punitive measures.
fumigate
v. To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection.
undermine
v. To subvert in an underhand way.
relapse
v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
famish
v. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
convene
v. To summon or cause to assemble.
oversee
v. To superintend.
illuminate
v. To supply with light.
bolster
v. To support, as something wrong.
outweigh
v. To surpass in importance or excellence.
outdo
v. To surpass.
transcend
v. To surpass.
capitulate
v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
extradite
v. To surrender the custody of.
concede
v. To surrender.
guzzle
v. To swallow greedily or hastily, gulp.
perjure
v. To swear falsely to.
protuberate
v. To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
oscillate
v. To swing back and forth.
deviate
v. To take a different course.
separate
v. To take apart.
degrade
v. To take away honors or position from.
detract
v. To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
grapple
v. To take hold of.
disregard
v. To take no notice of.
deport
v. To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
materialize
v. To take perceptible or substantial form.
usurp
v. To take possession of by force.
supplant
v. To take the place of.
accept
v. To take when offered.
arrogate
v. To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
prate
v. To talk about vainly or foolishly.
cant
v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
Calvinize
v. To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
lacerate
v. To tear rudely or raggedly.
tantalize
v. To tease.
narrate
v. To tell a story.
divulge
v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
dismount
v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
upturn
v. To throw into confusion.
disarrange
v. To throw out of order.
abut
v. To touch at the end or boundary line.
discipline
v. To train to obedience.
wean
v. To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
navigate
v. To traverse by ship.
coddle
v. To treat as a baby or an invalid.
maltreat
v. To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
satirize
v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
infringe
v. To trespass upon.
harass
v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
digress
v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
avert
v. To turn away or aside.
divert
v. To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
invert
v. To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction.
evert
v. To turn inside out.
obvert
v. To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
introvert
v. To turn within.
contort
v. To twist into a misshapen form.
distort
v. To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
writhe
v. To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
disrobe
v. To unclothe.
undervalue
v. To underestimate.
underrate
v. To undervalue.
disconnect
v. To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
evolve
v. To unfold or expand.
fuse
v. To unite or blend as by melting together.
reunite
v. To unite or join again, as after separation.
conjoin
v. To unite.
prevaricate
v. To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
equivocate
v. To use words of double meaning.
wield
v. To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
prattle
v. To utter in simple or childish talk.
gibe
v. To utter taunts or reproaches.
inveigh
v. To utter vehement censure or invective.
vociferate
v. To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
acclaim
v. To utter with a shout.
whine
v. To utter with complaining tone.
evanesce
v. To vanish gradually.
overthrow
v. To vanquish an established ruler or government.
modulate
v. To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
ambulate
v. To walk about
perambulate
v. To walk about.
promenade
v. To walk for amusement or exercise.
itinerate
v. To wander from place to place.
forfend
v. To ward off.
admonish
v. To warn of a fault.
lave
v. To wash or bathe.
emaciate
v. To waste away in flesh.
irrigate
v. To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
brandish
v. To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
vacillate
v. To waver.
abrade
v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
bore
v. To weary by tediousness or dullness.
imbrue
v. To wet or moisten.
ingratiate
v. To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
persuade
v. To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
meander
v. To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
felicitate
v. To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
recant
v. To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
secede
v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
disallow
v. To withhold permission or sanction.
henpeck
v. To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
transcribe
v. To write over again (something already written)
enthuse
v. To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
relent
v. To yield.
paraphrase
v. Translate freely.
ossify
v. to convert into bone.
operative
adj. Active.
assimilate
v. To adapt.
prehensile
adj. Adapted for grasping or holding.
creamery
n. A butter-making establishment.
superadd
v. To add in addition to what has been added.
annex
v. To add or affix at the end.
death's-head n.
A human skull as a symbol of death.
divertible
adj. Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
sagacious
adj. Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
agile
adj. Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
resonance
adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
execrable
adj. Abominable.
unspeakable
adj. Abominable.
tortuous
adj. Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
inestimable
adj. Above price.
sheer
adj. Absolute.
luxuriant
adj. Abundant or superabundant in growth.
galore
adj. Abundant.
plenteous
adj. Abundant.
rife
adj. Abundant.
casual
adj. Accidental, by chance.
inadvertent
adj. Accidental.
Milky
Way n. The galaxy.
intermittent
adj. A temporary discontinuance.
profligate
adj. Abandoned to vice.
habitual
adj. According to usual practice.
drastic
adj. Acting vigorously.
repressible
adj. Able to be kept under restraint or control.
decisive
ad. Conclusive.
declamatory
adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
ruffian
adj. A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
octogenarian
adj. A person of between eighty and ninety years.
crematory
adj. A place for cremating dead bodies.
obituary
adj. A published notice of a death.
penultimate
adj. A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
albeit
conj. Even though.
nevertheless
conj. Notwithstanding.
knight
errant n. One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
centurion
n. A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
head
first adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
abduction
n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
head
foremost adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
adieu
inter. Good-by, farewell.
bravo
interj. Well done.
reliquary
n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
Gordian
knot n. Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
chateau
n. A castle or manor-house.
nucleus
n. A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
clearance
n. A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
rampart
n. A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
packet
n. A bundle, as of letters.
berth
n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
onus
n. A burden or responsibility.
sepulcher
n. A burial-place.
Protestant
n. A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
abscess
n. A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
monsieur
n. A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
Iliad
n. A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
bolero
n. A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
disrepute
n. A bad name or character.
aerostat
n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
sextet
n. A band of six singers or players.
dastard
n. A base coward.
pedestal
n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
emporium
n. A bazaar or shop.
degeneracy
n. A becoming worse.
mendicant
n. A beggar.
novice
n. A beginner in any business or occupation.
siege
n. A beleaguerment.
legacy
n. A bequest.
penchant
n. A bias in favor of something.
biograph
n. A bibliographical sketch or notice.
valediction
n. A bidding farewell.
diatribe
n. A bitter or malicious criticism.
barcarole
n. A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
spheroid
n. A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
denomination
n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
battalion
n. A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
sisterhood
n. A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
regiment
n. A body of soldiers.
brigade
n. A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
magnet
n. A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
pretension
n. A bold or presumptuous assertion.
virago
n. A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
pharmacopoeia
n. A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
album
n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
octavo
n. A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
outskirt
n. A border region.
arboretum
n. A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
olive-branch
n. A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
hiatus
n. A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
fracture
n. A break.
dissolution
n. A breaking up of a union of persons.
anecdote
n. A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
preface
n. A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
parable
n. A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
pamphlet
n. A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
proverb
n. A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
fez
n. A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
contusion
n. A bruise.
observatory
n. A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
matter
of fact n. Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality.
dilapidated
pa. Fallen into decay or partial ruin.
despite
prep. In spite of.
barring
prep. Apart from.
append
v. To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
compliment
v. To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
nestle
v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
irk
v. To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
accede
v. To agree.
believe
v. To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
succeed
v. To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
perform
v. To accomplish.
assonate
v. To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
countercharge
v. To accuse in return.
differentiate
v. To acquire a distinct and separate character.
officiate
v. To act as an officer or leader.
free
trade n. Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
counteract
v. To act in opposition to.
arbitrate
v. To act or give judgment as umpire.
concur
v. To agree.
interact
v. To act reciprocally.
affect
v. To act upon
extricate
v. Disentangle.
simulate
v. Imitate.
garnish
v. In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
ante
v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
remodel
v. Reconstruct.
misunderstand
v. To Take in a wrong sense.
desert
v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
abrogate
v. To abolish, repeal.
loathe
v. To abominate.
condense
v. To abridge.
occlude
v. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
Artesian
well n. A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure