GRE Big Book Word List abscission n. The act of cutting off, as account n.

A record or statement of
abase v. To lower in position, in a surgical operation. receipts and expenditures, or of
estimation, or the like; degrade. abscond v. To depart suddenly and business transactions.
abbess n. The lady superior of a secretly, as for the purpose of accouter v. To dress.
nunnery. escaping arrest. accredit v. To give credit or authority
abbey n. The group of buildings absence n. The fact of not being to.
which collectively form the dwelling- present or available. accumulate v. To become greater in
place of a society of monks or nuns. absent-minded adj. Lacking in quantity or number.
abbot n. The superior of a attention to immediate surroundings or accuracy n. Exactness.
community of monks. business. accurate adj. Conforming exactly to
abdicate v. To give up royal power absolution n. Forgiveness, or passing truth or to a standard.
or the like). over of offenses. accursed adj. Doomed to evil, misery,
abdomen n. In mammals, the absolve v. To free from sin or its or misfortune.
visceral cavity between the penalties. accusation n. A charge of crime,
diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the absorb v. To drink in or suck up, as a misdemeanor, or error.
belly. sponge absorbs water. accusatory adj. Of, pertaining to, or
abdominal n. Of, pertaining to, or absorption n. The act or process of involving an accusation.
situated on the abdomen. absorbing. accuse v. To charge with wrong doing,
abduction n. A carrying away of a abstain v. To keep oneself back from misconduct, or error.
person against his will, or illegally. doing or using something). accustom v. To make familiar by use.
abed adv. In bed; on a bed. abstemious adj. Characterized by self acerbity n. Sourness, with bitterness
aberration n. Deviation from a right, denial or abstinence, as in the use of and astringency.
customary, or prescribed course. drink, food. acetate n. A salt of acetic acid.
abet v. To aid, promote, or abstinence n. Self denial. acetic adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the
encourage the commission of an abstruse adj. Dealing with matters nature of vinegar.
offense). difficult to be understood.
abeyance n. A state of suspension absurd adj. Inconsistent with reason or
or temporary inaction. common sense.
abhorrence n. The act of detesting abundant adj. Plentiful. ache v. To be in pain or distress.
extremely. abusive adj. Employing harsh words or Achillean adj. Invulnerable.
abhorrent adj. Very repugnant; ill treatment. achromatic adj. Colorless,
hateful. abut v. To touch at the end or acid n. A sour substance.
abidance n. An abiding. boundary line. acidify v. To change into acid.
abject adj. Sunk to a low condition. abyss n. Bottomless gulf. acknowledge v. To recognize; to admit
abjure v. To recant, renounce, academic adj. Of or pertaining to an the genuineness or validity of.
repudiate under oath. academy, college, or university. acknowledgment n. Recognition.
able-bodied adj. Competent for academician n. A member of an acme n. The highest point, or summit.
physical service. academy of literature, art, or science. acoustic adj. Pertaining to the act or
ablution n. A washing or cleansing, academy n. Any institution where the sense of hearing.
especially of the body. higher branches of learning are taught. acquaint v. To make familiar or
abnegate v. To renounce a right or accede v. To agree. conversant.
privilege). acquiesce v. To comply; submit.
abnormal adj. Not conformed to the acquiescence n. Passive consent.
ordinary rule or standard. acquire v. To get as one's own.
abominable adj. Very hateful. accelerate v. To move faster. acquisition n. Anything gained, or
abominate v. To hate violently. accept v. To take when offered. made one's own, usually by effort or
abomination n. A very detestable act access n. A way of approach or labor.
or practice. entrance; passage. acquit v. To free or clear, as from
aboriginal adj. Primitive; accessible adj. Approachable. accusation.
unsophisticated. accession n. Induction or elevation, as acquittal n. A discharge from
aborigines n. The original of earliest to dignity, office, or government. accusation by judicial action.
known inhabitants of a country. accessory n. A person or thing that acquittance n. Release or discharge
aboveboard adv. & adj. Without aids the principal agent. from indebtedness, obligation, or
concealment, fraud, or trickery. acclaim v. To utter with a shout. responsibility.
abrade v. To wear away the surface accommodate v. To furnish something acreage n. Quantity or extent of land,
or some part of by friction. as a kindness or favor. especially of cultivated land.
abrasion n. That which is rubbed accompaniment n. A subordinate part acrid adj. Harshly pungent or bitter.
off. or parts, enriching or supporting the acrimonious adj. Full of bitterness.
abridge v. To make shorter in leading part. acrimony n. Sharpness or bitterness of
words, keeping the essential accompanist n. One who or that which speech or temper.
features, leaning out minor accompanies. actionable adj. Affording cause for
particles. accompany v. To go with, or be instituting an action, as trespass,
abridgment n. A condensed form as associated with, as a companion. slanderous words.
of a book or play. accomplice n. An associate in wrong- actuality n. Any reality.
abrogate v. To abolish, repeal. doing. actuary n. An officer, as of an
abrupt adj. Beginning, ending, or accomplish v. To bring to pass. insurance company, who calculates
changing suddenly or with a break. accordion n. A portable free-reed and states the risks and premiums.
abscess n. A Collection of pus in a musical instrument. actuate v. To move or incite to action.
cavity formed within some tissue of accost v. To speak to.
the body.
acumen n. Quickness of intellectual aeronaut n. One who navigates the air, album n. A book whose leaves are so
insight, or discernment; keenness a balloonist. made to form paper frames for holding
of discrimination. aeronautics n. the art or practice of photographs or the like.
acute adj. Having fine and flying aircraft alchemy n. Chemistry of the middle
penetrating discernment. aerostat n. A balloon or other ages, characterized by the pursuit of
adamant n. Any substance of apparatus floating in or sustained by changing base metals to gold.
exceeding hardness or the air. alcohol n. A volatile, inflammable,
impenetrability. aerostatics n. The branch of colorless liquid of a penetrating odor
addendum n. Something added, or pneumatics that treats of the and burning taste.
to be added. equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical alcoholism n. A condition resulting
addle v. To make inefficient or properties. from the inordinate or persistent use of
worthless; muddle. affable adj. Easy to approach. alcoholic beverages.
adduce v. To bring forward or name affect v. To act upon alcove n. A covered recess connected
for consideration. affectation n. A studied or ostentatious with or at the side of a larger room.
adhere v. To stick fast or together. pretense or attempt. alder n. Any shrub or small tree of the
adherence n. Attachment. affiliate n. Some auxiliary person or genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
adherent adj. Clinging or sticking thing. alderman n. A member of a municipal
fast. affirmative adj. Answering yes; to a legislative body, who usually exercises
adhesion n. The state of being question at issue. also certain judicial functions.
attached or joined. affix v. To fasten. aldermanship n. The dignity, condition,
adieu inter. Good-by; farewell. affluence n. A profuse or abundant office, or term of office of an alderman.
adjacency n. The state of being supply of riches. alias n. An assumed name.
adjacent. affront n. An open insult or indignity. alien n. One who owes allegiance to a
adjacent n. That which is near or afire adv. & adj. On fire, literally or foreign government.
bordering upon. figuratively. alienable adj. Capable of being aliened
adjudge v. To award or bestow by afoot adv. In progress. or alienated, as lands.
formal decision. aforesaid adj. Said in a preceding part alienate v. To cause to turn away.
adjunct n. Something joined to or or before. alienation n. Estrangement.
connected with another thing, but afresh adv. Once more, after rest or aliment n. That which nourishes.
holding a subordinate place. interval. alkali n. Anything that will neutralize an
adjuration n. A vehement appeal. afterthought n. A thought that comes acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
adjutant adj. Auxiliary. later than its appropriate or expected allay v. To calm the violence or reduce
administrator n. One who manages time. the intensity of; mitigate.
affairs of any kind. agglomerate v. To pile or heap allege v. To assert to be true,
admissible adj. Having the right or together. especially in a formal manner, as in
privilege of entry. aggrandize v. To cause to appear court.
admittance n. Entrance, or the right greatly. 7
or permission to enter. aggravate v. To make heavier, worse,
admonish v. To warn of a fault. or more burdensome. allegory n. The setting forth of a
admonition n. Gentle reproof. aggravation n. The fact of being made subject under the guise of another
ado n. unnecessary activity or heavier or more heinous, as a crime , subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
ceremony. offense, misfortune, etc. alleviate v. To make less burdensome
adoration n. Profound devotion. aggregate n. The entire number, sum, or less hard to bear.
adroit adj. Having skill in the use of mass, or quantity of something. alley n. A narrow street, garden path,
the bodily or mental powers. aggress v. To make the first attack. walk, or the like.
adulterant n. An adulterating aggression n. An unprovoked attack. alliance n. Any combination or union
substance. aggrieve v. To give grief or sorrow to. for some common purpose.
adulterate v. To make impure by the 6 allot v. To assign a definite thing or
admixture of other or baser part to a certain person.
ingredients. aghast adj. Struck with terror and allotment n. Portion.
adumbrate v. To represent amazement. allude v. To refer incidentally, or by
beforehand in outline or by emblem. agile adj. Able to move or act quickly, suggestion.
advent n. The coming or arrival, as physically, or mentally. allusion n. An indirect and incidental
of any important change, event, agitate v. To move or excite the reference to something without definite
state, or personage. feelings or thoughts). mention of it.
adverse adj. Opposing or opposed. agrarian adj. Pertaining to land, alluvion n. Flood.
adversity n. Misfortune. especially agricultural land. ally n. A person or thing connected
advert v. To refer incidentally. aide-de-camp n. An officer who with another, usually in some relation
advertiser n. One who advertises, receives and transmits the orders of of helpfulness.
especially in newspapers. the general. almanac n. A series of tables giving the
5 ailment n. Slight sickness. days of the week together with certain
airy adj. Delicate, ethereal. astronomical information.
advisory adj. Not mandatory. akin adj. Of similar nature or qualities. aloof adv. Not in sympathy with or
advocacy n. The act of pleading a alabaster n. A white or delicately tinted desiring to associate with others.
cause. fine-grained gypsum. altar n. Any raised place or structure
advocate n. One who pleads the alacrity n. Cheerful willingness. on which sacrifices may be offered or
cause of another, as in a legal or albeit conj. Even though. incense burned.
ecclesiastical court. albino n. A person with milky white alter v. To make change in.
aerial adj. Of, pertaining to, or like skin and hair, and eyes with bright red alteration n. Change or modification.
the air. pupil and usually pink iris.
altercate v. To contend angrily or amputate v. To remove by cutting, as a anonymous adj. Of unknown
zealously in words. limb or some portion of the body. authorship.
alternate n. One chosen to act in amusement n. Diversion. antagonism n. Mutual opposition or
place of another, in case of the anachronism n. Anything occurring or resistance of counteracting forces,
absence or incapacity of that other. existing out of its proper time. principles, or persons.
alternative n. Something that may or anagram n. The letters of a word or Antarctic adj. Pertaining to the south
must exist, be taken or chosen, or phrase so transposed as to make a pole or the regions near it.
done instead of something else. different word or phrase. 10
altitude n. Vertical distance or analogous adj. Corresponding to
elevation above any point or base- some other) in certain respects, as in ante v. In the game of poker, to put up
level, as the sea. form, proportion, relations. a stake before the cards are dealt.
alto n. The lowest or deepest female analogy n. Reasoning in which from antecede v. To precede.
voice or part. certain and known relations or antecedent n. One who or that which
altruism n. Benevolence to others resemblance others are formed. precedes or goes before, as in time,
on subordination to self-interest. analyst n. One who analyzes or makes place, rank, order, or causality.
altruist n. One who advocates or use of the analytical method. antechamber n. A waiting room for
practices altruism. analyze v. To examine minutely or those who seek audience.
amalgam n. An alloy or union of critically. antedate v. To assign or affix a date to
mercury with another metal. anarchy n. Absence or utter disregard earlier than the actual one.
amalgamate v. To mix or blend of government. antediluvian adj. Of or pertaining to the
together in a homogeneous body. anathema n. Anything forbidden, as by times, things, events before the great
amateur adj. Practicing an art or social usage. flood in the days of Noah.
occupation for the love of it, but not anatomy n. That branch of morphology antemeridian adj. Before noon.
as a profession. which treats of the structure of antemundane adj. Pertaining to time
amatory adj. Designed to excite organisms. before the world's creation.
love. 9 antenatal adj. Occurring or existing
ambidextrous adj. Having the ability before birth.
of using both hands with equal skill ancestry n. One's ancestors anterior adj. Prior.
or ease. collectively. anteroom n. A room situated before
ambiguous adj. Having a double anecdote n. A brief account of some and opening into another, usually
meaning. interesting event or incident. larger.
ambitious adj. Eagerly desirous and anemia n. Deficiency of blood or red anthology n. A collection of extracts
aspiring. corpuscles. from the writings of various authors.
8 anemic adj. Affected with anemia. anthracite n. Hard coal.
anemometer n. An instrument for anthropology n. The science of man in
ambrosial adj. Divinely sweet, measuring the force or velocity of general.
fragrant, or delicious. wind. anthropomorphous adj. Having or
ambulance n. A vehicle fitted for anesthetic adj. Pertaining to or resembling human form.
conveying the sick and wounded. producing loss of sensation. antic n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or
ambulate v. To walk about anew adv. Once more. fantastic action.
ambush n. The act or state of lying angelic adj. Saintly. Antichrist n. Any opponent or enemy
concealed for the purpose of Anglophobia n. Hatred or dread of of Christ, whether a person or a power.
surprising or attacking the enemy. England or of what is English. anticlimax n. A gradual or sudden
ameliorate v. To relieve, as from Anglo-Saxon n. The entire English race decrease in the importance or
pain or hardship wherever found, as in Europe, the impressiveness of what is said.
amenable adj. Willing and ready to United States, or India. anticyclone n. An atmospheric
submit. angular adj. Sharp-cornered. condition of high central pressure, with
Americanism n. A peculiar sense in anhydrous adj. Withered. currents flowing outward.
which an English word or phrase is animadversion n. The utterance of antidote n. Anything that will
used in the United States. criticism or censure. counteract or remove the effects of
amicable adj. Done in a friendly animadvert v. To pass criticism or poison, disease, or the like.
spirit. censure. antilogy n. Inconsistency or
amity n. Friendship. animalcule n. An animal of contradiction in terms or ideas.
amorous adj. Having a propensity microscopic smallness. antipathize v. To show or feel a feeling
for falling in love. animate v. To make alive. of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
amorphous adj. Without determinate animosity n. Hatred. antiphon n. A response or alteration of
shape. annalist n. Historian. responses, generally musical.
amour n. A love-affair, especially annals n. A record of events in their antiphony n. An anthem or other
one of an illicit nature. chronological order, year by year. composition sung responsively.
ampere n. The practical unit of annex v. To add or affix at the end. antipodes n. A place or region on the
electric-current strength. annihilate v. To destroy absolutely. opposite side of the earth.
ampersand n. The character &; and. annotate v. To make explanatory or antiquary n. One who collects and
amphibious adj. Living both on land critical notes on or upon. examines old things, as coins, books,
and in water. annual adj. Occurring every year. medals, weapons, etc.
amphitheater n. An edifice of annuity n. An annual allowance, antiquate v. To make old or out of date.
elliptical shape, constructed about a payment, or income. antique adj. Pertaining to ancient
central open space or arena. annunciation n. Proclamation. times.
amplitude n. Largeness. anode n. The point where or path by antiseptic n. Anything that destroys or
amply adv. Sufficiently. which a voltaic current enters an restrains the growth of putrefactive
electrolyte or the like. micro-organisms.
 11 appropriate adj. Suitable for the arrogant adj. Unduly or excessively
purpose and circumstances. proud, as of wealth, station, learning,
antislavery adj. Opposed to human aqueduct n. A water-conduit, etc.
slavery. particularly one for supplying a arrogate v. To take, demand, or claim,
antispasmodic adj. Tending to community from a distance. especially presumptuously or without
prevent or relieve non-inflammatory aqueous adj. Of, pertaining to, or reasons or grounds.
spasmodic affections. containing water. Artesian well n. A very deep bored
antistrophe n. The inversion of arbiter n. One chosen or appointed, by well. water rises due to underground
terms in successive classes, as in mutual consent of parties in dispute, to pressure
"the home of joy and the joy of decide matters. artful adj. Characterized by craft or
home". arbitrary adj. Fixed or done cunning.
antitoxin n. A substance which capriciously. Arthurian adj. Pertaining to King
neutralizes the poisonous products arbitrate v. To act or give judgment as Arthur, the real or legendary hero of
of micro-organisms. umpire. British poetic story.
antonym n. A word directly opposed arbor n. A tree. artifice n. Trickery.
to another in meaning. arboreal adj. Of or pertaining to a tree artless adj. Ingenuous.
anxious adj. Distressed in mind or trees. ascendant adj. Dominant.
respecting some uncertain matter. arborescent adj. Having the nature of a ascension n. The act of rising.
apathy n. Insensibility to emotion or tree. ascent n. A rising, soaring, or climbing.
passionate feeling. arboretum n. A botanical garden or ascetic adj. Given to severe self-denial
aperture n. Hole. place devoted to the cultivation of and practicing excessive abstinence
apex n. The highest point, as of a trees or shrubs. and devotion.
mountain. arboriculture n. The cultivation of trees ascribe v. To assign as a quality or
aphorism n. Proverb. or shrubs. attribute.
apiary n. A place where bees are arcade n. A vaulted passageway or asexual adj. Having no distinct sexual
kept. street; a roofed passageway having organs.
apogee n. The climax. shops, etc., opening from it. ashen adj. Pale.
apology n. A disclaimer of archaic adj. Antiquated askance adv. With a side or indirect
intentional error or offense. archaism n. Obsolescence. glance or meaning.
apostasy n. A total departure from archangel n. An angel of high rank. asperity n. Harshness or roughness of
one's faith or religion. archbishop n. The chief of the bishops temper.
apostate adj. False. of an ecclesiastical province in the aspirant n. One who seeks earnestly,
apostle n. Any messenger Greek, Roman, and Anglican church. as for advancement, honors, place.
commissioned by or as by divine archdeacon n. A high official aspiration n. An earnest wish for that
authority. administrator of the affairs of a which is above one's present reach.
apothecary n. One who keeps drugs diocese. aspire v. To have an earnest desire,
for sale and puts up prescriptions. archaeology n. The branch of wish, or longing, as for something high
apotheosis n. Deification. anthropology concerned with the and good, not yet attained.
appall v. To fill with dismay or systematic investigation of the relics of 14
horror. man.
apparent adj. Easily understood. archetype n. A prototype. assailant n. One who attacks.
apparition n. Ghost. archipelago n. Any large body of water assassin n. One who kills, or tries to
appease v. To soothe by quieting studded with islands, or the islands kill, treacherously or secretly.
anger or indignation. collectively themselves. assassinate v. To kill, as by surprise or
appellate adj. Capable of being ardent adj. Burning with passion. secret assault, especially the killing of
appealed to. ardor n. Intensity of passion or some eminent person.
appellation n. The name or title by affection. assassination n. Murderer, as by secret
which a particular person, class, or arid adj. Very dry. assault or treachery.
thing is called. aristocracy n. A hereditary nobility assay n. The chemical analysis or
append v. To add or attach, as aristocrat n. A hereditary noble or one testing of an alloy ore.
something accessory, subordinate, nearly connected with nobility. assent v. To express agreement with a
or supplementary. 13 statement or matter of opinion.
appertain v. To belong, as by right, armada n. A fleet of war-vessels. assess v. To determine the amount of
fitness, association, classification, armful n. As much as can be held in a tax or other sum to be paid).
possession, or natural relation. the arm or arms. assessor n. An officer whose duty it is
apposite adj. Appropriate. armory n. An arsenal. to assess taxes.
apposition n. The act of placing side aroma n. An agreeable odor. assets n. pl. Property in general,
by side, together, or in contact. arraign v. To call into court, as a regarded as applicable to the payment
appraise v. To estimate the money person indicted for crime, and demand of debts.
value of. whether he pleads guilty or not. assiduous adj. Diligent.
12 arrange v. To put in definite or proper assignee n. One who is appointed to
order. act for another in the management of
arrangement n. The act of putting in certain property and interests.
appreciable adj. Capable of being proper order, or the state of being put
discerned by the senses or intellect. assimilate v. To adapt.
in order. assonance n. Resemblance or
apprehend v. To make a prisoner of arrant adj. Notoriously bad.
a person) in the name of the law. correspondence in sound.
arrear n. Something overdue and assonant adj. Having resemblance of
apprehensible adj. Capable of being unpaid.
conceived. sound.
arrival n. A coming to stopping-place assonate v. To accord in sound,
approbation n. Sanction. or destination. especially vowel sound.
assuage v. To cause to be less autocracy n. Absolute government. barring prep. Apart from.
harsh, violent, or severe, as autocrat n. Any one who claims or 17
excitement, appetite, pain, or wields unrestricted or undisputed
disease. authority or influence. baritone adj. Having a register higher
astringent adj. Harsh in disposition automaton n. Any living being whose than bass and lower than tenor.
or character. actions are or appear to be involuntary bask v. To make warm by genial heat.
astute adj. Keen in discernment. or mechanical. bass adj. Low in tone or compass.
atheism n. The denial of the autonomous adj. Self-governing. baste v. To cover with melted fat,
existence of God. autonomy n. Self-government. gravy, while cooking.
athirst adj. Wanting water. autopsy n. The examination of a dead baton n. An official staff borne either
athwart adv. From side to side. body by dissection to ascertain the as a weapon or as an emblem of
atomizer n. An apparatus for cause of death. authority or privilege.
reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as autumnal adj. Of or pertaining to battalion n. A body of infantry
for disinfection, inhalation, etc. autumn. composed of two or more companies,
atone v. To make amends for. auxiliary n. One who or that which aids forming a part of a regiment.
atonement n. Amends, reparation, or helps, especially when regarded as batten n. A narrow strip of wood.
or expiation made from wrong or subsidiary or accessory. batter n. A thick liquid mixture of two
injury. avalanche n. The fall or sliding of a or more materials beaten together, to
atrocious adj. Outrageously or mass of snow or ice down a mountain- be used in cookery.
wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or slope, often bearing with it rock. bauble n. A trinket.
cruel. 16 bawl v. To proclaim by outcry.
atrocity n. Great cruelty or reckless beatify v. To make supremely happy.
wickedness. avarice n. Passion for getting and beatitude n. Any state of great
attache n. A subordinate member of keeping riches. happiness.
a diplomatic embassy. aver v. To assert as a fact. beau n. An escort or lover.
attest v. To certify as accurate, averse adj. Reluctant. becalm v. To make quiet.
genuine, or true. aversion n. A mental condition of fixed beck v. To give a signal to, by nod or
attorney-general n. The chief law- opposition to or dislike of some gesture.
officer of a government. particular thing. bedaub v. To smear over, as with
15 avert v. To turn away or aside. something oily or sticky.
aviary n. A spacious cage or enclosure bedeck v. To cover with ornament.
auburn adj. Reddish-brown, said in which live birds are kept. bedlam n. Madhouse.
usually of the hair. avidity n. Greediness. befog v. To confuse.
audacious adj. Fearless. avocation n. Diversion. befriend v. To be a friend to, especially
audible adj. Loud enough to be avow v. To declare openly. when in need.
heard. awaken v. To arouse, as emotion, beget v. To produce by sexual
audition n. The act or sensation of interest, or the like. generation.
hearing. awry adv. & adj. Out of the proper begrudge v. To envy one of the
auditory adj. Of or pertaining to form, direction, or position. possession of.
hearing or the organs or sense of aye adv. An expression of assent. belate v. To delay past the proper hour.
hearing. azalea n. A flowering shrub. belay v. To make fast, as a rope, by
augment v. To make bigger. azure n. The color of the sky. winding round a cleat.
augur v. To predict. Baconian adj. Of or pertaining to Lord belie v. To misrepresent.
Augustinian adj. Pertaining to St. Bacon or his system of philosophy. believe v. To accept as true on the
Augustine, his doctrines, or the bacterium n. A microbe. testimony or authority of others.
religious orders called after him. badger v. To pester. belittle v. To disparage.
aura n. Pervasive psychic influence baffle v. To foil or frustrate. belle n. A woman who is a center of
supposed to emanate from persons bailiff n. An officer of court having attraction because of her beauty,
aural adj. Of or pertaining to the ear. custody of prisoners under accomplishments, etc.
auricle n. One of the two chambers arraignment. bellicose adj. Warlike.
of the heart which receives the baize n. A single-colored napped 18
blood from the veins. woolen fabric used for table-covers,
auricular adj. Of or pertaining to the curtains, etc. belligerent adj. Manifesting a warlike
ear, its auricle, or the sense of bale n. A large package prepared for spirit.
hearing. transportation or storage. bemoan v. To lament
auriferous adj. Containing gold. baleful adj. Malignant. benediction n. a solemn invocation of
aurora n. A luminous phenomenon ballad n. Any popular narrative poem, the divine blessing.
in the upper regions of the often with epic subject and usually in benefactor n. A doer of kindly and
atmosphere. lyric form. charitable acts.
auspice n. favoring, protecting, or balsam n. A medical preparation, benefice n. A church office endowed
propitious influence or guidance. aromatic and oily, used for healing. with funds or property for the
austere adj. Severely simple; banal adj. Commonplace. maintenance of divine service.
unadorned. barcarole n. A boat-song of Venetian beneficent adj. Characterized by
autarchy n. Unrestricted power. gondoliers. charity and kindness.
authentic adj. Of undisputed origin. barograph n. An instrument that beneficial adj. Helpful.
authenticity n. The state or quality registers graphically and continuously beneficiary n. One who is lawfully
of being genuine, or of the origin the atmospheric pressure. entitled to the profits and proceeds of
and authorship claimed. barometer n. An instrument for an estate or property.
autobiography n. The story of one's indicating the atmospheric pressure benefit n. Helpful result.
life written by himself. per unit of surface.
benevolence n. Any act of kindness bitterness n. Acridity, as to the taste. bravado n. An aggressive display of
or well-doing. blase adj. Sated with pleasure. boldness.
benevolent adj. Loving others and blaspheme v. To indulge in profane bravo interj. Well done.
actively desirous of their well-being. oaths. 21
benign adj. Good and kind of heart. blatant adj. Noisily or offensively loud
benignant adj. Benevolent in feeling, or clamorous. bray n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry
character, or aspect. blaze n. A vivid glowing flame. of an ass or the blast of a horn.
benignity n. Kindness of feeling, blazon v. To make widely or generally braze v. To make of or ornament with
disposition, or manner. known. brass.
benison n. Blessing. bleak adj. Desolate. brazier n. An open pan or basin for
bequeath v. To give by will. blemish n. A mark that mars beauty. holding live coals.
bereave v. To make desolate with blithe adj. Joyous. breach n. The violation of official duty,
loneliness and grief. blithesome adj. Cheerful. lawful right, or a legal obligation.
berth n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, 20 breaker n. One who trains horses,
sleeping-car, etc. dogs, etc.
beseech v. To implore. blockade n. The shutting up of a town, breech n. The buttocks.
beset v. To attack on all sides. a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile brethren n. pl. Members of a
besmear v. To smear over, as with forces. brotherhood, gild, profession,
any oily or sticky substance. boatswain n. A subordinate officer of a association, or the like.
bestial adj. Animal. vessel, who has general charge of the brevity n. Shortness of duration.
bestrew v. To sprinkle or cover with rigging, anchors, etc. bric-a-brac n. Objects of curiosity or
things strewn. bodice n. A women's ornamental for decoration.
bestride v. To get or sit upon corset-shaped laced waist. bridle n. The head-harness of a horse
astride, as a horse. bodily adj. Corporeal. consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the
bethink v. To remind oneself. boisterous adj. Unchecked merriment reins.
betide v. To happen to or befall. or animal spirits. brigade n. A body of troops consisting
betimes adv. In good season or bole n. The trunk or body of a tree. of two or more regiments.
time. bolero n. A Spanish dance, illustrative brigadier n. General officer who
betroth v. To engage to marry. of the passion of love, accompanied by commands a brigade, ranking between
betrothal n. Engagement to marry. caste nets and singing. a colonel and a major-general.
19 boll n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as brigand n. One who lives by robbery
a flax or cotton. and plunder.
bevel n. Any inclination of two bolster v. To support, as something brimstone n. Sulfur.
surfaces other than 90 degrees. wrong. brine n. Water saturated with salt.
bewilder v. To confuse the bomb n. A hollow projectile containing bristle n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs
perceptions or judgment of. an explosive material. of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
bibliomania n. The passion for bombard v. To assail with any missile Britannia n. The United Kingdom of
collecting books. or with abusive speech. Great Britain.
bibliography n. A list of the words of bombardier n. A person who has Briticism n. A word, idiom, or phrase
an author, or the literature bearing charge of mortars, bombs, and shells. characteristic of Great Britain or the
on a particular subject. bombast n. Inflated or extravagant British.
bibliophile n. One who loves books. language, especially on unimportant brittle adj. Fragile.
bibulous adj. Fond of drinking. subjects. broach v. To mention, for the first time.
bide v. To await. boorish adj. Rude. broadcast adj. Disseminated far and
biennial n. A plant that produces bore v. To weary by tediousness or wide.
leaves and roots the first year and dullness. brogan n. A coarse, heavy shoe.
flowers and fruit the second. borough n. An incorporated village or brogue n. Any dialectic pronunciation
bier n. A horizontal framework with town. of English, especially that of the Irish
two handles at each end for carrying bosom n. The breast or the upper front people.
a corpse to the grave. of the thorax of a human being, brokerage n. The business of making
bigamist n. One who has two especially of a woman. sales and purchases for a commission;
spouses at the same time. botanical adj. Connected with the a broker.
bigamy n. The crime of marrying study or cultivation of plants. bromine n. A dark reddish-brown, non-
any other person while having a botanize v. To study plant-life. metallic liquid element with a
legal spouse living. botany n. The science that treats of suffocating odor.
bight n. A slightly receding bay plants. bronchitis n. Inflammation of the
between headlands, formed by a bountiful adj. Showing abundance. bronchial tubes.
long curve of a coast-line. Bowdlerize v. To expurgate in editing bronchus n. Either of the two
bilateral adj. Two-sided. a literary composition) by omitting subdivisions of the trachea conveying
bilingual adj. Speaking two words or passages. air into the lungs.
languages. bowler n. In cricket, the player who brooch n. An article of jewelry fastened
biograph n. A bibliographical sketch delivers the ball. by a hinged pin and hook on the
or notice. boycott v. To place the products or underside.
biography n. A written account of merchandise of under a ban. brotherhood n. Spiritual or social
one's life, actions, and character. brae n. Hillside. fellowship or solidarity.
biology n. The science of life or braggart n. A vain boaster. 22
living organisms. brandish v. To wave, shake, or flourish
biped n. An animal having two feet. triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or
birthright n. A privilege or spear.
possession into which one is born.
browbeat v. To overwhelm, or cadenza n. An embellishment or caret n. A sign ^) placed below a line,
attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, flourish, prepared or improvised, for a indicating where omitted words, etc.,
or rude address or manner. solo voice or instrument. should be inserted.
brusque adj. Somewhat rough or caitiff adj. Cowardly. caricature n. a picture or description in
rude in manner or speech. cajole v. To impose on or dupe by which natural characteristics are
buffoon n. A clown. flattering speech. exaggerated or distorted.
buffoonery n. Low drollery, coarse cajolery n. Delusive speech. carnage n. Massacre.
jokes, etc. calculable adj. That may be estimated carnal adj. Sensual.
bulbous adj. Of, or pertaining to, or by reckoning. carnivorous adj. Eating or living on
like a bulb. calculus n. A concretion formed in flesh.
bullock n. An ox. various parts of the body resembling a carouse v. To drink deeply and in
bulrush n. Any one of various tall pebble in hardness. boisterous or jovial manner.
rush-like plants growing in damp callosity n. The state of being hard and carrion n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
ground or water. insensible. cartilage n. An elastic animal tissue of
bulwark n. Anything that gives callow adj. Without experience of the firm consistence.
security or defense. world. cartridge n. A charge for a firearm, or
bumper n. A cup or glass filled to calorie n. Amount of heat needed to for blasting.
the brim, especially one to be drunk raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of caste n. The division of society on
as a toast or health. water 1 degree centigrade. artificial grounds.
bumptious adj. Full of offensive and calumny n. Slander. castigate v. To punish.
aggressive self-conceit. Calvary n. The place where Christ was casual adj. Accidental, by chance.
bungle v. To execute clumsily. crucified. casualty n. A fatal or serious accident
buoyancy n. Power or tendency to Calvinism n. The system of doctrine or disaster.
float on or in a liquid or gas. taught by John Calvin. cataclysm n. Any overwhelming flood
buoyant adj. Having the power or Calvinize v. To teach or imbue with the of water.
tendency to float or keep afloat. doctrines of Calvinism. cataract n. Opacity of the lens of the
bureau n. A chest of drawers for came n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved eye resulting in complete or partial
clothing, etc. strip for fastening panes in stained- blindness.
bureaucracy n. Government by glass windows. catastrophe n. Any great and sudden
departments of men transacting cameo n. Any small engraved or misfortune or calamity.
particular branches of public carved work in relief. cathode n. The negative pole or
business. campaign n. A complete series of electrode of a galvanic battery.
burgess n. In colonial times, a connected military operations. Catholicism n. The system, doctrine,
member of the lower house of the Canaanite n. A member of one of the and practice of the Roman Catholic
legislature of Maryland or Virginia. three tribes that dwelt in the land of Church.
burgher n. An inhabitant, citizen or Canaan, or western Palestine. catholicity n. Universal prevalence or
freeman of a borough burgh, or canary adj. Of a bright but delicate acceptance.
corporate town. yellow. cat-o-nine-tails n. An instrument
burnish v. To make brilliant or candid adj. Straightforward. consisting of nine pieces of cord,
shining. candor n. The quality of frankness or formerly used for flogging in the army
bursar n. A treasurer. outspokenness. and navy.
bustle v. To hurry. canine adj. Characteristic of a dog. caucus n. A private meeting of
butt v. To strike with or as with the canon n. Any rule or law. members of a political party to select
head, or horns. cant v. To talk in a singsong, preaching candidates.
butte n. A conspicuous hill, low tone with affected solemnity. 25
mountain, or natural turret, cantata n. A choral composition.
generally isolated. canto n. One of the divisions of an causal adj. Indicating or expressing a
buttress n. Any support or prop. extended poem. cause.
by-law n. A rule or law adopted by cantonment n. The part of the town or caustic adj. Sarcastic and severe.
an association, a corporation, or the district in which the troops are cauterize v. To burn or sear as with a
like. quartered. heated iron.
cabal n. A number of persons capacious adj. Roomy. cede v. To pass title to.
secretly united for effecting by capillary n. A minute vessel having censor n. An official examiner of
intrigue some private purpose. walls composed of a single layer of manuscripts empowered to prohibit
cabalism n. Superstitious devotion cells. their publication.
to one's religion. 24 censorious adj. Judging severely or
cabinet n. The body of men harshly.
constituting the official advisors of capitulate v. To surrender or stipulate census n. An official numbering of the
the executive head of a nation. terms. people of a country or district.
cacophony n. A disagreeable, harsh, caprice n. A whim. centenary adj. Pertaining to a hundred
or discordant sound or combination caption n. A heading, as of a chapter, years or a period of a hundred years.
of sounds or tones. section, document, etc. centiliter n. A hundredth of a liter.
cadaverous adj. Resembling a captious adj. Hypercritical. centimeter n. A length of one
corpse. captivate v. To fascinate, as by hundredth of a meter.
23 excellence. eloquence, or beauty. centurion n. A captain of a company of
carcass n. The dead body of an animal. one hundred infantry in the ancient
cadence n. Rhythmical or measured cardiac adj. Pertaining to the heart. Roman army.
flow or movement, as in poetry or cardinal adj. Of prime or special cereal adj. Pertaining to edible grain or
the time and pace of marching importance. farinaceous seeds.
troops.
ceremonial adj. Characterized by circumnavigate v. To sail quite around. collaborate v. To labor or cooperate
outward form or ceremony. circumscribe v. To confine within with another or others, especially in
ceremonious adj. Observant of bounds. literary or scientific pursuits.
ritual. circumspect adj. Showing collapse v. To cause to shrink, fall in,
cessation n. Discontinuance, as of watchfulness, caution, or careful or fail.
action or motion. consideration. collapsible adj. That may or can
cession n. Surrender, as of citadel n. Any strong fortress. collapse.
possessions or rights. cite v. To refer to specifically. colleague n. An associate in
chagrin n. Keen vexation, claimant n. One who makes a claim or professional employment.
annoyance, or mortification, as at demand, as of right. 28
one's failures or errors. clairvoyance n. Intuitive sagacity or
chameleon adj. Changeable in perception. collective adj. Consisting of a number
appearance. clamorous adj. Urgent in complaint or of persons or objects considered as
chancery n. A court of equity, as demand. gathered into a mass, or sum.
distinguished from a common-law clan n. A tribe. collector n. One who makes a
court. clandestine adj. Surreptitious. collection, as of objects of art, books,
chaos n. Any condition of which the clangor n. Clanking or a ringing, as of or the like.
elements or parts are in utter arms, chains, or bells; clamor. collegian n. A college student.
disorder and confusion. clarify v. To render intelligible. collide v. To meet and strike violently.
characteristic n. A distinctive clarion n. A small shrill trumpet or collier n. One who works in a coal-
feature. bugle. mine.
characterize v. To describe by 27 collision n. Violent contact.
distinctive marks or peculiarities. colloquial adj. Pertaining or peculiar to
charlatan n. A quack. classify v. To arrange in a class or common speech as distinguished from
chasm n. A yawning hollow, as in classes on the basis of observed literary.
the earth's surface. resemblance’s and differences. colloquialism n. Form of speech used
chasten v. To purify by affliction. clearance n. A certificate from the only or chiefly in conversation.
chastise v. To subject to punitive proper authorities that a vessel has colloquy n. Conversation.
measures. complied with the law and may sail. collusion n. A secret agreement for a
chastity n. Sexual or moral purity. clemency n. Mercy. wrongful purpose.
chateau n. A castle or manor-house. clement adj. Compassionate. colossus n. Any strikingly great person
chattel n. Any article of personal close-hauled adj. Having the sails set or object.
property. for sailing as close to the wind as comely adj. Handsome.
26 possible. comestible adj. Fit to be eaten.
clothier n. One who makes or sells comical adj. Funny.
check v. To hold back. cloth or clothing. commemorate v. To serve as a
chiffon n. A very thin gauze used for clumsy adj. Awkward of movement. remembrance of.
trimmings, evening dress, etc. coagulate v. To change into a clot or a commentary n. A series of illustrative
chivalry n. The knightly system of jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or or explanatory notes on any important
feudal times with its code, usages by a ferment. work.
and practices. coagulant adj. Producing coagulation. commingle v. To blend.
cholera n. An acute epidemic coalescence n. The act or process of commissariat n. The department of an
disease. coming together so as to form one army charged with the provision of its
choleric adj. Easily provoked to body, combination, or product. food and water and daily needs.
anger. coalition n. Combination in a body or commission v. To empower.
choral adj. Pertaining to, intended mass. commitment n. The act or process of
for, or performed by a chorus or coddle v. To treat as a baby or an entrusting or consigning for safe-
choir. invalid. keeping.
Christ n. A title of Jesus codicil n. A supplement adding to, committal n. The act, fact, or result of
christen v. To name in baptism. revoking, or explaining in the body of a committing, or the state of being
Christendom n. That part of the will. commodity n. Something that is
world where Christianity is generally coerce v. To force. bought and sold.
professed. coercion n. Forcible constraint or commotion n. A disturbance or violent
chromatic adj. Belonging, relating restraint, moral or physical. agitation.
to, or abounding in color. coercive adj. Serving or tending to commute v. To put something,
chronology n. The science that force. especially something less severe, in
treats of computation of time or of cogent adj. Appealing strongly to the place of.
investigation and arrangement of reason or conscience. comparable adj. Fit to be compared.
events. cognate adj. Akin. comparative adj. Relative.
chronometer n. A portable cognizant adj. Taking notice. comparison n. Examination of two or
timekeeper of the highest attainable cohere v. To stick together. more objects with reference to their
precision. cohesion n. Consistency. likeness or unlikeness.
cipher v. To calculate arithmetically. cohesive adj. Having the property of compensate v. To remunerate.
also a noun meaning zero or consistency. competence n. Adequate qualification
nothing) coincide v. To correspond. or capacity.
circulate v. To disseminate. coincidence n. A circumstance so 29
circumference n. The boundary-line agreeing with another: often implying
of a circle. accident. competent adj. Qualified.
circumlocution n. Indirect or coincident adj. Taking place at the
roundabout expression. same time.
competitive adj. characterized by condense v. To abridge. conjunction n. The state of being
rivalry. condescend v. To come down joined together, or the things so
competitor n. A rival. voluntarily to equal terms with joined.
complacence n. Satisfaction with inferiors. connive v. To be in collusion.
one's acts or surroundings. condolence n. Expression of sympathy connoisseur n. A critical judge of art,
complacent adj. Pleased or satisfied with a person in pain, sorrow, or especially one with thorough
with oneself. misfortune. knowledge and sound judgment of art.
complaisance n. Politeness. conduce v. To bring about. connote v. To mean; signify.
complaisant adj. Agreeable. conducive adj. Contributing to an end. connubial adj. Pertaining to marriage
complement v. To make complete. conductible adj. Capable of being or matrimony.
complex adj. Complicated. conducted or transmitted. conquer v. To overcome by force.
compliant adj. Yielding. conduit n. A means for conducting consanguineous adj. Descended from
complicate v. To make complex, something, particularly a tube, pipe, or the same parent or ancestor.
difficult, or hard to deal with. passageway for a fluid. 32
complication n. An intermingling or confectionery n. The candy collectively
combination of things or parts, that a confectioner makes or sells, as conscience n. The faculty in man by
especially in a perplexing manner. candy. which he distinguishes between right
complicity n. Participation or confederacy n. A number of states or and wrong in character and conduct.
partnership, as in wrong-doing or persons in compact or league with conscientious adj. Governed by moral
with a wrong-doer. each other, as for mutual aid. standard.
compliment v. To address or gratify confederate n. One who is united with conscious adj. Aware that one lives,
with expressions of delicate praise. others in a league, compact, or feels, and thinks.
component n. A constituent element agreement. conscript v. To force into military
or part. confer v. To bestow. service.
comport v. To conduct or behave conferee n. A person with whom consecrate v. To set apart as sacred.
oneself). another confers. consecutive adj. Following in
composure n. Calmness. confessor n. A spiritual advisor. uninterrupted succession.
comprehensible adj. Intelligible. confidant n. One to whom secrets are consensus n. A collective unanimous
comprehension n. Ability to know. entrusted. opinion of a number of persons.
comprehensive adj. Large in scope confide v. To reveal in trust or conservatism n. Tendency to adhere to
or content. confidence. the existing order of things.
compress v. To press together or 31 conservative adj. Adhering to the
into smaller space. existing order of things.
compressible adj. Capable of being confidence n. The state or feeling of conservatory n. An institution for
pressed into smaller compass. trust in or reliance upon another. instruction and training in music and
compression n. Constraint, as by confident adj. Assured. declamation.
force or authority. confinement n. Restriction within limits consign v. To entrust.
comprise v. To consist of. or boundaries. consignee n. A person to whom goods
compulsion n. Coercion. confiscate v. To appropriate private or other property has been entrusted.
compulsory adj. Forced. property) as forfeited to the public use consignor n. One who entrusts.
compunction n. Remorseful feeling. or treasury. consistency n. A state of permanence.
compute v. To ascertain by conflagration n. A great fire, as of console v. To comfort.
mathematical calculation. many buildings, a forest, or the like. consolidate v. To combine into one
concede v. To surrender. confluence n. The place where streams body or system.
30 meet. consonance n. The state or quality of
confluent n. A stream that unites with being in accord with.
conceit n. Self-flattering opinion. another. consonant adj. Being in agreement or
conceive v. To form an idea, mental conformance n. The act or state or harmony with.
image or thought of. conforming. consort n. A companion or associate.
concerto n. A musical composition. conformable adj. Harmonious. conspicuous adj. Clearly visible.
concession n. Anything granted or conformation n. General structure, conspirator n. One who agrees with
yielded, or admitted in response to a form, or outline. others to cooperate in accomplishing
demand, petition, or claim. conformity n. Correspondence in form, some unlawful purpose.
conciliate v. To obtain the friendship manner, or use. conspire v. To plot.
of. confront v. To encounter, as difficulties constable n. An officer whose duty is
conciliatory adj. Tending to or obstacles. to maintain the peace.
reconcile. congeal v. To coagulate. constellation n. An arbitrary
conclusive adj. Sufficient to congenial adj. Having kindred assemblage or group of stars.
convince or decide. character or tastes. consternation n. Panic.
concord n. Harmony. congest v. To collect into a mass. constituency n. The inhabitants or
concordance n. Harmony. congregate v. To bring together into a voters in a district represented in a
concur v. To agree. crowd. legislative body.
concurrence n. Agreement. coniferous adj. Cone-bearing trees. constituent n. One who has the right to
concurrent adj. Occurring or acting conjecture n. A guess. vote at an election.
together. conjoin v. To unite. constrict v. To bind.
concussion n. A violent shock to conjugal adj. Pertaining to marriage, consul n. An officer appointed to
some organ by a fall or a sudden marital rights, or married persons. reside in a foreign city, chiefly to
blow. conjugate adj. Joined together in pairs. represent his country.
condensation n. The act or process conjugation n. The state or condition 33
of making dense or denser. of being joined together.
 contrivance n. The act planning, corporal adj. Belonging or relating to
consulate n. The place in which a devising, inventing, or adapting the body as opposed to the mind.
consul transacts official business. something to or for a special purpose. corporate adj. Belonging to a
consummate v. To bring to contrive v. To manage or carry through corporation.
completion. by some device or scheme. corporeal adj. Of a material nature;
consumption n. Gradual control v. To exercise a directing, physical.
destruction, as by burning, eating, restraining, or governing influence corps n. A number or body of persons
etc., or by using up, wearing out, over. in some way associated or acting
etc. controller n. One who or that which together.
consumptive adj. Designed for regulates or directs. corpse n. A dead body.
gradual destruction. contumacious adj. Rebellious. corpulent adj. Obese.
contagion n. The communication of contumacy n. Contemptuous disregard corpuscle n. A minute particle of
disease from person to person. of the requirements of rightful matter.
contagious adj. Transmitting authority. correlate v. To put in some relation of
disease. contuse v. To bruise by a blow, either connection or correspondence.
contaminate v. To pollute. with or without the breaking of the correlative adj. Mutually involving or
contemplate v. To consider skin. implying one another.
thoughtfully. contusion n. A bruise. corrigible adj. Capable of reformation.
contemporaneous adj. Living, convalesce v. To recover after a corroborate v. To strengthen, as proof
occurring, or existing at the same sickness. or conviction.
time. convalescence n. The state of corroboration n. Confirmation.
contemporary adj. Living or existing progressive restoration to health and corrode v. To ruin or destroy little by
at the same time. strength after the cessation of disease. little.
contemptible adj. Worthy of scorn convalescent adj. Recovering health corrosion n. Gradual decay by
or disdain. after sickness. crumbling or surface disintegration.
contemptuous adj. Disdainful. convene v. To summon or cause to corrosive n. That which causes gradual
contender n. One who exerts assemble. decay by crumbling or surface
oneself in opposition or rivalry. convenience n. Fitness, as of time or disintegration.
contiguity n. Proximity. place. corruptible adj. Open to bribery.
contiguous adj. Touching or joining converge v. To cause to incline and corruption n. Loss of purity or
at the edge or boundary. approach nearer together. integrity.
continence n. Self-restraint with convergent adj. Tending to one point. cosmetic adj. Pertaining to the art of
respect to desires, appetites, and conversant adj. Thoroughly informed. beautifying, especially the complexion.
passion. conversion n. Change from one state cosmic adj. Pertaining to the universe.
contingency n. Possibility of or position to another, or from one cosmogony n. A doctrine of creation or
happening. form to another. of the origin of the universe.
contingent adj. Not predictable. convertible adj. Interchangeable. cosmography n. The science that
continuance n. Permanence. convex adj. Curving like the segment describes the universe, including
continuation n. Prolongation. of the globe or of the surface of a astronomy, geography, and geology.
continuity n. Uninterrupted circle. cosmology n. The general science of
connection in space, time, conveyance n. That by which anything the universe.
operation, or development. is transported. cosmopolitan adj. Common to all the
continuous adj. Connected, convivial adj. Devoted to feasting, or to world.
extended, or prolonged without good-fellowship in eating or drinking. 36
separation or interruption of convolution n. A winding motion.
sequence. convolve v. To move with a circling or cosmopolitanism n. A cosmopolitan
contort v. To twist into a misshapen winding motion. character.
form. convoy n. A protecting force cosmos n. The world or universe
contraband n. Trade forbidden by accompanying property in course of considered as a system, perfect in
law or treaty. transportation. order and arrangement.
contradiction n. The assertion of the convulse v. To cause spasms in. counter-claim n. A cross-demand
opposite of that which has been convulsion n. A violent and abnormal alleged by a defendant in his favor
said. muscular contraction of the body. against the plaintiff.
contradictory adj. Inconsistent with copious adj. Plenteous. counteract v. To act in opposition to.
itself. 35 counterbalance v. To oppose with an
contraposition n. A placing equal force.
opposite. coquette n. A flirt. countercharge v. To accuse in return.
contravene v. To prevent or obstruct cornice n. An ornamental molding counterfeit adj. Made to resemble
the operation of. running round the walls of a room something else.
contribution n. The act of giving for close to the ceiling. counterpart n. Something taken with
a common purpose. cornucopia n. The horn of plenty, another for the completion of either.
34 symbolizing peace and prosperity. countervail v. To offset.
corollary n. A proposition following so counting-house n. A house or office
contributor n. One who gives or obviously from another that it requires used for transacting business,
furnishes, in common with others, little demonstration. bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
for a common purpose. coronation n. The act or ceremony of countryman n. A rustic.
contrite adj. Broken in spirit crowning a monarch. courageous adj. Brave.
because of a sense of sin. coronet n. Inferior crown denoting, course n. Line of motion or direction.
according to its form, various degrees courser n. A fleet and spirited horse.
of noble rank less than sovereign.
courtesy n. Politeness originating in culinary adj. Of or pertaining to decasyllable n. A line of ten syllables.
kindness and exercised habitually. cooking or the kitchen. 39
covenant n. An agreement entered cull v. To pick or sort out from the rest.
into by two or more persons or culpable adj. Guilty. deceit n. Falsehood.
parties. culprit n. A guilty person. deceitful adj. Fraudulent.
covert adj. Concealed, especially for culvert n. Any artificial covered deceive v. To mislead by or as by
an evil purpose. channel for the passage of water falsehood.
covey n. A flock of quails or through a bank or under a road, canal. decency n. Moral fitness.
partridges. cupidity n. Avarice. decent adj. Characterized by propriety
cower v. To crouch down curable adj. Capable of being remedied of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
tremblingly, as through fear or or corrected. deciduous adj. Falling off at maturity
shame. curator n. A person having charge as as petals after flowering, fruit when
coxswain n. One who steers a of a library or museum. ripe, etc.
rowboat, or one who has charge of a curio n. A piece of bric-a-brac. decimal adj. Founded on the number
ship's boat and its crew under an cursive adj. Writing in which the letters 10.
officer. are joined together. decimate v. To destroy a measurable
crag n. A rugged, rocky projection cursory adj. Rapid and superficial. or large proportion of.
on a cliff or ledge. curt adj. Concise, compressed, and decipher v. To find out the true words
cranium n. The skull of an animal, abrupt in act or expression. or meaning of, as something hardly
especially that part enclosing the curtail v. To cut off or cut short. legible.
brain. curtsy n. A downward movement of the decisive ad. Conclusive.
crass adj. Coarse or thick in nature body by bending the knees. declamation n. A speech recited or
or structure, as opposed to thin or 38 intended for recitation from memory in
fine. public.
craving n. A vehement desire. cycloid adj. Like a circle. declamatory adj. A full and formal style
creak n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking cygnet n. A young swan. of utterance.
sound. cynical adj. Exhibiting moral declarative adj. Containing a formal,
creamery n. A butter-making skepticism. positive, or explicit statement or
establishment. cynicism n. Contempt for the opinions affirmation.
creamy adj. Resembling or of others and of what others value. declension n. The change of endings in
containing cream. cynosure n. That to which general nouns and adj. to express their
credence n. Belief. interest or attention is directed. different relations of gender.
credible adj. Believable. daring adj. Brave. decorate v. To embellish.
37 darkling adv. Blindly. decorous adj. Suitable for the occasion
Darwinism n. The doctrine that natural or circumstances.
credulous adj. Easily deceived. selection has been the prime cause of decoy n. Anything that allures, or is
creed n. A formal summary of evolution of higher forms. intended to allures into danger or
fundamental points of religious dastard n. A base coward. temptation.
belief. datum n. A premise, starting-point, or decrepit adj. Enfeebled, as by old age
crematory adj. A place for cremating given fact. or some chronic infirmity.
dead bodies. dauntless adj. Fearless. dedication n. The voluntary
crevasse n. A deep crack or fissure day-man n. A day-laborer. consecration or relinquishment of
in the ice of a glacier. dead-heat n. A race in which two or something to an end or cause.
crevice n. A small fissure, as more competitors come out even, and deduce v. To derive or draw as a
between two contiguous surfaces. there is no winner. conclusion by reasoning from given
criterion n. A standard by which to dearth n. Scarcity, as of something premises or principles.
determine the correctness of a customary, essential ,or desirable. deface v. To mar or disfigure the face
judgment or conclusion. death's-head n. A human skull as a or external surface of.
critique n. A criticism or critical symbol of death. defalcate v. To cut off or take away, as
review. debase v. To lower in character or a part of something.
crockery n. Earthenware made from virtue. defamation n. Malicious and
baked clay. debatable adj. Subject to contention or groundless injury done to the
crucible n. A trying and purifying dispute. reputation or good name of another.
test or agency. debonair adj. Having gentle or defame v. To slander.
crusade n. Any concerted courteous bearing or manner. default n. The neglect or omission of a
movement, vigorously prosecuted, debut n. A first appearance in society legal requirement.
in behalf of an idea or principle. or on the stage. defendant n. A person against whom a
crustacean adj. Pertaining to a decagon n. A figure with ten sides and suit is brought.
division of arthropods, containing ten angles. defensible adj. Capable of being
lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc. decagram n. A weight of 10 grams. maintained or justified.
crustaceous adj. Having a crust-like decaliter n. A liquid and dry measure of defensive adj. Carried on in resistance
shell. 10 liters. to aggression.
cryptogram n. Anything written in decalogue n. The ten commandments. defer v. To delay or put off to some
characters that are secret or so Decameron n. A volume consisting of other time.
arranged as to have hidden ten parts or books. 40
meaning. decameter n. A length of ten meters.
crystallize v. To bring together or decamp v. To leave suddenly or deference n. Respectful submission or
give fixed shape to. unexpectedly. yielding, as to another's opinion,
cudgel n. A short thick stick used as decapitate v. To behead. wishes, or judgment.
a club. decapod adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
defiant adj. Characterized by bold or demonstrate v. To prove indubitably. derivation n. That process by which a
insolent opposition. demonstrative adj. Inclined to strong word is traced from its original root or
deficiency n. Lack or insufficiency. exhibition or expression of feeling or primitive form and meaning.
deficient adj. Not having an thoughts. derivative adj. Coming or acquired
adequate or proper supply or demonstrator n. One who proves in a from some origin.
amount. convincing and conclusive manner. derive v. To deduce, as from a premise.
definite adj. Having an exact demulcent n. Any application soothing dermatology n. The branch of medical
signification or positive meaning. to an irritable surface science which relates to the skin and
deflect v. To cause to turn aside or demurrage n. the detention of a vessel its diseases.
downward. beyond the specified time of sailing. derrick n. An apparatus for hoisting
deforest v. To clear of forests. dendroid adj. Like a tree. and swinging great weights.
deform v. To disfigure. dendrology n. The natural history of descendant n. One who is descended
deformity n. A disfigurement. trees. lineally from another, as a child,
defraud v. To deprive of something denizen n. Inhabitant. grandchild, etc.
dishonestly. denominate v. To give a name or descendent adj. Proceeding
defray v. To make payment for. epithet to. downward.
degeneracy n. A becoming worse. denomination n. A body of Christians descent n. The act of moving or going
degenerate v. To become worse or united by a common faith and form of downward.
inferior. worship and discipline. 43
degradation n. Diminution, as of denominator n. Part of a fraction which
strength or magnitude. expresses the number of equal parts descry v. To discern.
degrade v. To take away honors or into which the unit is divided. desert v. To abandon without regard to
position from. denote v. To designate by word or the welfare of the abandoned
dehydrate v. To deprive of water. mark. desiccant n. Any remedy which, when
deify v. To regard or worship as a denouement n. That part of a play or applied externally, dries up or absorbs
god. story in which the mystery is cleared moisture, as that of wounds.
deign v. To deem worthy of notice up. designate v. To select or appoint, as by
or account. denounce v. To point out or publicly authority.
deist n. One who believes in God, accuse as deserving of punishment, desist v. To cease from action.
but denies supernatural revelation. censure, or odium. desistance n. Cessation.
deity n. A god, goddess, or divine dentifrice n. Any preparation used for despair n. Utter hopelessness and
person. cleaning the teeth. despondency.
deject v. To dishearten. denude v. To strip the covering from. desperado n. One without regard for
dejection n. Melancholy. denunciation n. The act of declaring an law or life.
delectable adj. Delightful to the taste action or person worthy of reprobation desperate adj. Resorted to in a last
or to the senses. or punishment. extremity, or as if prompted by utter
delectation n. Delight. 42 despair.
deleterious adj. Hurtful, morally or despicable adj. Contemptible.
physically. deplete v. To reduce or lessen, as by despite prep. In spite of.
delicacy n. That which is agreeable use, exhaustion, or waste. despond v. To lose spirit, courage, or
to a fine taste. deplorable adj. Contemptible. hope.
delineate v. To represent by sketch deplore v. To regard with grief or despondent adj. Disheartened.
or diagram. sorrow. despot n. An absolute and
deliquesce v. To dissolve gradually deponent adj. Laying down. irresponsible monarch.
and become liquid by absorption of depopulate v. To remove the despotism n. Any severe and strict rule
moisture from the air. inhabitants from. in which the judgment of the governed
delirious adj. Raving. deport v. To take or send away has little or no part.
41 forcibly, as to a penal colony. destitute adj. Poverty-stricken.
deportment n. Demeanor. desultory adj. Not connected with what
delude v. To mislead the mind or deposition n. Testimony legally taken precedes.
judgment of. on interrogatories and reduced to deter v. To frighten away.
deluge v. To overwhelm with a flood writing, for use as evidence in court. deteriorate v. To grow worse.
of water. depositor n. One who makes a deposit, determinate adj. Definitely limited or
delusion n. Mistaken conviction, or has an amount deposited. fixed.
especially when more or less depository n. A place where anything determination n. The act of deciding.
enduring. is kept in safety. deterrent adj. Hindering from action
demagnetize v. To deprive a deprave v. To render bad, especially through fear.
magnet) of magnetism. morally bad. detest v. To dislike or hate with
demagogue n. An unprincipled deprecate v. To express disapproval or intensity.
politician. regret for, with hope for the opposite. detract v. To take away in such manner
demeanor n. Deportment. depreciate v. To lessen the worth of. as to lessen value or estimation.
demented adj. Insane. depreciation n. A lowering in value or detriment n. Something that causes
demerit n. A mark for failure or bad an underrating in worth. damage, depreciation, or loss.
conduct. depress v. To press down. detrude v. To push down forcibly.
demise n. Death. depression n. A falling of the spirits. deviate v. To take a different course.
demobilize v. To disband, as troops. depth n. Deepness. devilry n. Malicious mischief.
demolish v. To annihilate. derelict adj. Neglectful of obligation. deviltry n. Wanton and malicious
demonstrable adj. Capable of deride v. To ridicule. mischief.
positive proof. derisible adj. Open to ridicule. 44
derision n. Ridicule.
 dimly adv. Obscurely. disenfranchise v. To deprive of any
devious adj. Out of the common or diphthong n. The sound produced by right privilege or power
regular track. combining two vowels in to a single disengage v. To become detached.
devise v. To invent. syllable or running together the disfavor n. Disregard.
devout adj. Religious. sounds. disfigure v. To impair or injure the
dexterity n. Readiness, precision, diplomacy n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
efficiency, and ease in any physical in conducting any kind of negotiations dishabille n. Undress or negligent
activity or in any mechanical work. or in social matters. attire.
diabolic adj. Characteristic of the diplomat n. A representative of one dishonest adj. Untrustworthy.
devil. sovereign state at the capital or court disillusion v. To disenchant.
diacritical adj. Marking a difference. of another. disinfect v. To remove or destroy the
diagnose v. To distinguish, as a diplomatic adj. Characterized by poison of infectious or contagious
disease, by its characteristic special tact in negotiations. diseases.
phenomena. diplomatist n. One remarkable for tact disinfectant n. A substance used to
diagnosis n. Determination of the and shrewd management. destroy the germs of infectious
distinctive nature of a disease. disagree v. To be opposite in opinion. diseases.
dialect n. Forms of speech disallow v. To withhold permission or disinherit v. To deprive of an
collectively that are peculiar to the sanction. inheritance.
people of a particular district. disappear v. To cease to exist, either disinterested adj. Impartial.
dialectician n. A logician. actually or for the time being. disjunctive adj. Helping or serving to
dialogue n. A formal conversation in disappoint v. To fail to fulfill the disconnect or separate.
which two or more take part. expectation, hope, wish, or desire of. dislocate v. To put out of proper place
diaphanous adj. Transparent. disapprove v. To regard with blame. or order.
diatomic adj. Containing only two disarm v. To deprive of weapons. 47
atoms. disarrange v. To throw out of order.
diatribe n. A bitter or malicious disavow v. To disclaim responsibility dismissal n. Displacement by authority
criticism. for. from an office or an employment.
dictum n. A positive utterance. disavowal n. Denial. dismount v. To throw down, push off,
didactic adj. Pertaining to teaching. disbeliever n. One who refuses to or otherwise remove from a horse or
difference n. Dissimilarity in any believe. the like.
respect. disburden v. To disencumber. disobedience n. Neglect or refusal to
differentia n. Any essential disburse v. To pay out or expend, as comply with an authoritative
characteristic of a species by money from a fund. injunction.
reason of which it differs from other discard v. To reject. disobedient adj. Neglecting or refusing
species. discernible adj. Perceivable. to obey.
differential adj. Distinctive. disciple n. One who believes the disown v. To refuse to acknowledge as
differentiate v. To acquire a distinct teaching of another, or who adopts and one's own or as connected with
and separate character. follows some doctrine. oneself.
diffidence n. Self-distrust. disciplinary adj. Having the nature of disparage v. To regard or speak of
diffident adj. Affected or possessed systematic training or subjection to slightingly.
with self-distrust. authority. disparity n. Inequality.
diffusible adj. Spreading rapidly discipline v. To train to obedience. dispel v. To drive away by or as by
through the system and acting 46 scattering in different directions.
quickly. dispensation n. That which is
diffusion n. Dispersion. disclaim v. To disavow any claim to, bestowed on or appointed to one from
dignitary n. One who holds high connection with, or responsibility to. a higher power.
rank. discolor v. To stain. displace v. To put out of the proper or
digraph n. A union of two characters discomfit v. To put to confusion. accustomed place.
representing a single sound. discomfort n. The state of being dispossess v. To deprive of actual
digress v. To turn aside from the positively uncomfortable. occupancy, especially of real estate.
main subject and for a time dwell on disconnect v. To undo or dissolve the disputation n. Verbal controversy.
some incidental matter. connection or association of. disqualify v. To debar.
dilapidated pa. Fallen into decay or disconsolate adj. Grief-stricken. disquiet v. To deprive of peace or
partial ruin. discontinuance n. Interruption or tranquillity.
dilate v. To enlarge in all directions. intermission. disregard v. To take no notice of.
45 discord n. Absence of disreputable adj. Dishonorable or
harmoniousness. disgraceful.
dilatory adj. Tending to cause delay. discountenance v. To look upon with disrepute n. A bad name or character.
dilemma n. A situation in which a disfavor. disrobe v. To unclothe.
choice between opposing modes of discover v. To get first sight or disrupt v. To burst or break asunder.
conduct is necessary. knowledge of, as something previously dissatisfy v. To displease.
dilettante n. A superficial amateur. unknown or unperceived. dissect v. To cut apart or to pieces.
diligence n. Careful and persevering discredit v. To injure the reputation of. dissection n. The act or operation of
effort to accomplish what is discreet adj. Judicious. cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant
undertaken. discrepant adj. Opposite. or an animal.
dilute v. To make more fluid or less discriminate v. To draw a distinction. dissemble v. To hide by pretending
concentrated by admixture with discursive adj. Passing from one something different.
something. subject to another. disseminate v. To sow or scatter
diminution n. Reduction. discussion n. Debate. abroad, as seed is sown.
dissension n. Angry or violent diversity n. Dissimilitude. drachma n. A modern and an ancient
difference of opinion. divert v. To turn from the accustomed Greek coin.
dissent n. Disagreement. course or a line of action already dragnet n. A net to be drawn along the
dissentient n. One who disagrees. established. bottom of the water.
dissentious adj. Contentious. divertible adj. Able to be turned from dragoon n. In the British army, a
dissertation n. Thesis. the accustomed course or a line of cavalryman.
48 action already established. drainage n. The means of draining
divest v. To strip, specifically of collectively, as a system of conduits,
disservice n. An ill turn. clothes, ornaments, or accouterments trenches, pipes, etc.
dissever v. To divide. or disinvestment. dramatist n. One who writes plays.
dissimilar adj. Different. divination n. The pretended forecast of dramatize v. To relate or represent in a
dissipate v. To disperse or future events or discovery of what is dramatic or theatrical manner.
disappear. lost or hidden. drastic adj. Acting vigorously.
dissipation n. The state of being divinity n. The quality or character of drought n. Dry weather, especially
dispersed or scattered. being godlike. when so long continued as to cause
dissolute adj. Lewd. divisible adj. Capable of being vegetation to wither.
dissolution n. A breaking up of a separated into parts. drowsy adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
union of persons. divisor n. That by which a number or drudgery n. Hard and constant work in
dissolve v. To liquefy or soften, as quantity is divided. any menial or dull occupation.
by heat or moisture. divulge v. To tell or make known, as dubious adj. Doubtful.
dissonance n. Discord. something previously private or secret. duckling n. A young duck.
dissonant adj. Harsh or divulgence n. A divulging. ductile adj. Capable of being drawn
disagreeable in sound. docile adj. Easy to manage. out, as into wire or a thread.
dissuade v. To change the purpose docket n. The registry of judgments of duet n. A composition for two voices
or alter the plans of by persuasion, a court. or instruments.
counsel, or pleading. doe n. The female of the deer. dun v. To make a demand or repeated
dissuasion n. The act of changing dogma n. A statement of religious faith demands on for payment.
the purpose of or altering the plans or duty formulated by a body claiming duplex adj. Having two parts.
of through persuasion, or pleading. authority. duplicity n. Double-dealing.
disyllable n. A word of two syllables. dogmatic adj. Making statements durance n. Confinement.
distemper n. A disease or malady. without argument or evidence. duration n. The period of time during
distend v. To stretch out or expand dogmatize v. To make positive which anything lasts.
in every direction. assertions without supporting them by 51
distensible adj. Capable of being argument or evidence.
stretched out or expanded in every doleful adj. Melancholy. duteous adj. Showing submission to
direction. dolesome adj. Melancholy. natural superiors.
distention n. Expansion. dolor n. Lamentation. dutiable adj. Subject to a duty,
distill v. To extract or produce by dolorous adj. Expressing or causing especially a customs duty.
vaporization and condensation. sorrow or pain. dutiful adj. Obedient.
distillation n. Separation of the more domain n. A sphere or field of action or dwindle v. To diminish or become less.
volatile parts of a substance from interest. dyne n. The force which, applied to a
those less volatile. domesticity n. Life in or fondness for mass of one gram for 1 second, would
distiller n. One occupied in the one's home and family. give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
business of distilling alcoholic domicile n. The place where one lives. earnest adj. Ardent in spirit and
liquors. dominance n. Ascendancy. speech.
distinction n. A note or designation dominant adj. Conspicuously earthenware n. Anything made of clay
of honor, officially recognizing prominent. and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
superiority or success in studies. dominate v. To influence controllingly. eatable adj. Edible.
distort v. To twist into an unnatural 50 ebullient adj. Showing enthusiasm or
or irregular form. exhilaration of feeling.
distrain v. To subject a person to domination n. Control by the exercise eccentric adj. Peculiar.
distress. of power or constituted authority. eccentricity n. Idiosyncrasy.
distrainor n. One who subjects a domineer v. To rule with insolence or eclipse n. The obstruction of a
person to distress. unnecessary annoyance. heavenly body by its entering into the
distraught adj. Bewildered. donate v. To bestow as a gift, shadow of another body.
distrust n. Lack of confidence in the especially for a worthy cause. economize v. To spend sparingly.
power, wisdom, or good intent of donator n. One who makes a donation ecstasy n. Rapturous excitement or
any person. or present. exaltation.
disunion n. Separation of relations donee n. A person to whom a donation ecstatic adj. Enraptured.
or interests. is made. edible adj. Suitable to be eaten.
diurnal adj. Daily. donor n. One who makes a donation or edict n. That which is uttered or
divagation n. Digression. present. proclaimed by authority as a rule of
49 dormant adj. Being in a state of or action.
resembling sleep. edify v. To build up, or strengthen,
divergent adj. Tending in different doublet n. One of a pair of like things. especially in morals or religion.
directions. doubly adv. In twofold degree or editorial n. An article in a periodical
diverse adj. Capable of various extent. written by the editor and published as
forms. dowry n. The property which a wife an official argument.
diversion n. Pastime. brings to her husband in marriage. educe v. To draw out.
efface v. To obliterate.
effect n. A consequence. Elizabethan adj. Relating to Elizabeth,
effective adj. Fit for a destined queen of England, or to her era. emphatic adj. Spoken with any special
purpose. elocution n. The art of correct impressiveness laid upon an act, word,
effectual adj. Efficient. intonation, inflection, and gesture in or set of words.
effeminacy n. Womanishness. public speaking or reading. employee n. One who works for wages
effeminate adj. Having womanish 53 or a salary.
traits or qualities. employer n. One who uses or engages
effervesce v. To bubble up. eloquent adj. Having the ability to the services of other persons for pay.
effervescent adj. Giving off bubbles express emotion or feeling in lofty and emporium n. A bazaar or shop.
of gas. impassioned speech. empower v. To delegate authority to.
effete adj. Exhausted, as having elucidate v. To bring out more clearly emulate v. To imitate with intent to
performed its functions. the facts concerning. equal or surpass.
52 elude v. To evade the search or pursuit enact v. To make into law, as by
of by dexterity or artifice. legislative act.
efficacious adj. Effective. elusion n. Evasion. enamor v. To inspire with ardent love.
efficacy n. The power to produce an emaciate v. To waste away in flesh. encamp v. To pitch tents for a resting-
intended effect as shown in the emanate v. To flow forth or proceed, as place.
production of it. from some source. encomium n. A formal or
efficiency n. The state of emancipate v. To release from discriminating expression of praise.
possessing adequate skill or bondage. encompass v. To encircle.
knowledge for the performance of a embargo n. Authoritative stoppage of encore n. The call for a repetition, as of
duty. foreign commerce or of any special some part of a play or performance.
efficient adj. Having and exercising trade. encourage v. To inspire with courage,
the power to produce effects or embark v. To make a beginning in hope, or strength of mind.
results. some occupation or scheme. encroach v. To invade partially or
efflorescence n. The state of being embarrass v. To render flustered or insidiously and appropriate the
flowery, or a flowery appearance. agitated. possessions of another.
efflorescent adj. Opening in flower. embellish v. To make beautiful or encumber v. To impede with obstacles.
effluvium n. A noxious or ill- elegant by adding attractive or encyclical adj. Intended for general
smelling exhalation from decaying ornamental features. circulation.
or putrefying matter. embezzle v. To misappropriate encyclopedia n. A work containing
effrontery n. Unblushing secretly. information on subjects, or exhaustive
impudence. emblazon v. To set forth publicly or in of one subject.
effulgence n. Splendor. glowing terms. endanger v. To expose to peril.
effuse v. To pour forth. emblem n. A symbol. endear v. To cause to be loved.
effusion n. an outpouring. embody v. To express, formulate, or endemic adj. Peculiar to some
egoism n. The theory that places exemplify in a concrete, compact or specified country or people.
man's chief good in the visible form. endue v. To endow with some quality,
completeness of self. embolden v. To give courage to. gift, or grace, usually spiritual.
egoist n. One who advocates or embolism n. An obstruction or endurable adj. Tolerable.
practices egoism. plugging up of an artery or other endurance n. The ability to suffer pain,
egotism n. Self-conceit. blood-vessel. distress, hardship, or stress of any
egotist n. One given to self-mention embroil v. To involve in dissension or kind without succumbing.
or who is constantly telling of his strife. energetic adj. Working vigorously.
own views and experiences. emerge v. To come into view or into enervate v. To render ineffective or
egregious adj. Extreme. existence. inoperative.
egress n. Any place of exit. emergence n. A coming into view. enfeeble v. To debilitate.
eject v. To expel. emergent adj. Coming into view. enfranchise v. To endow with a
elapse v. To quietly terminate: said emeritus adj. Retired from active privilege, especially with the right to
of time. service but retained to an honorary vote.
elasticity n. That property of matter position. engender v. To produce.
by which a body tends to return to a emigrant n. One who moves from one engrave v. To cut or carve in or upon
former shape after being changed. place to settle in another. some surface.
electrolysis n. The process of emigrate v. To go from one country, 55
decomposing a chemical compound state, or region for the purpose of
by the passage of an electric settling or residing in another. engross v. To occupy completely.
current. eminence n. An elevated position with enhance v. To intensify.
electrotype n. A metallic copy of any respect to rank, place, character, enigma n. A riddle.
surface, as a coin. condition, etc. enjoin v. To command.
elegy n. A lyric poem lamenting the eminent adj. High in station, merit, or enkindle v. To set on fire.
dead. esteem. enlighten v. To cause to see clearly.
element n. A component or emit v. To send or give out. enlist v. To enter voluntarily the
essential part. emphasis n. Any special military service by formal enrollment.
elicit v. To educe or extract impressiveness added to an utterance enmity n. Hatred.
gradually or without violence. or act, or stress laid upon some word. ennoble v. To dignify.
eligible adj. Qualified for selection. emphasize v. To articulate or enunciate enormity n. Immensity.
eliminate v. To separate and cast with special impressiveness upon a enormous adj. Gigantic.
aside. word, or a group of words. enrage v. To infuriate.
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enrapture v. To delight equalize v. To render uniform. evolution n. Development or growth.
extravagantly or intensely. equanimity n. Evenness of mind or evolve v. To unfold or expand.
enshrine v. To keep sacred. temper. exacerbate v. To make more sharp,
ensnare v. To entrap. equestrian adj. Pertaining to horses or severe, or virulent.
entail v. To involve; necessitate. horsemanship. exaggerate v. To overstate.
entangle v. To involve in difficulties, equilibrium n. A state of balance. exasperate v. To excite great anger in.
confusion, or complications. equitable adj. Characterized by excavate v. To remove by digging or
enthrall v. To bring or hold under fairness. scooping out.
any overmastering influence. equity n. Fairness or impartiality. exceed v. To go beyond, as in
enthrone v. To invest with sovereign equivalent adj. Equal in value, force, measure, quality, value, action, power,
power. meaning, or the like. skill, etc.
enthuse v. To yield to or display equivocal adj. Ambiguous. excel v. To be superior or
intense and rapturous feeling. equivocate v. To use words of double distinguished.
enthusiastic adj. Full of zeal and meaning. excellence n. Possession of eminently
fervor. eradicate v. To destroy thoroughly. or unusually good qualities.
entirety n. A complete thing. errant adj. Roving or wandering, as in excellency n. A title of honor bestowed
entomology n. The branch of search of adventure or opportunity for upon various high officials.
zoology that treats of insects. gallant deeds. excellent adj. Possessing
entrails n. pl. The internal parts of erratic adj. Irregular. distinguished merit.
an animal. 57 excerpt n. An extract or selection from
entreaty n. An earnest request. written or printed matter.
entree n. The act of entering. erroneous adj. Incorrect. excess n. That which passes the
entrench v. To fortify or protect, as erudite adj. Very-learned. ordinary, proper, or required limit,
with a trench or ditch and wall. erudition n. Extensive knowledge of measure, or experience.
entwine v. To interweave. literature, history, language, etc. excitable adj. Nervously high-strung.
enumerate v. To name one by one. eschew v. To keep clear of. excitation n. Intensified emotion or
56 espy v. To keep close watch. action.
esquire n. A title of dignity, office, or exclamation n. An abrupt or emphatic
epic n. A poem celebrating in formal courtesy. expression of thought or of feeling.
verse the mythical achievements of essence n. That which makes a thing exclude v. To shut out purposely or
great personages, heroes, etc. to be what it is. forcibly.
epicure n. One who cultivates a esthetic adj. Pertaining to beauty, exclusion n. Non-admission.
delicate taste for eating and taste, or the fine arts. excrescence n. Any unnatural addition,
drinking. estimable adj. Worthy of respect. outgrowth, or development.
Epicurean adj. Indulging, estrange v. To alienate. excretion n. The getting rid of waste
ministering, or pertaining to estuary n. A wide lower part of a tidal matter.
daintiness of appetite. river. excruciate v. To inflict severe pain or
epicycle n. A circle that rolls upon et cetera Latin. And so forth. agony upon.
the external or internal eugenic adj. Relating to the excursion n. A journey.
circumference of another circle. development and improvement of race. excusable adj. Justifiable.
epicycloid n. A curve traced by a eulogize v. To speak or write a execrable adj. Abominable.
point on the circumference of a laudation of a person's life or execration n. An accursed thing.
circle which rolls upon another character. executor n. A person nominated by the
circle. eulogy n. A spoken or written laudation will of another to execute the will.
epidemic n. Wide-spread of a person's life or character. exegesis n. Biblical exposition or
occurrence of a disease in a certain euphemism n. A figure of speech by interpretation.
region. which a phrase less offensive is 59
epidermis n. The outer skin. substituted.
epigram n. A pithy phrasing of a euphonious adj. Characterized by exemplar n. A model, pattern, or
shrewd observation. agreeableness of sound. original to be copied or imitated.
epilogue n. The close of a narrative euphony n. Agreeableness of sound. exemplary adj. Fitted to serve as a
or dramatic poem. eureka Greek. I have found it. model or example worthy of imitation.
epiphany n. Any appearance or evade v. To avoid by artifice. exemplify v. To show by example.
bodily manifestation of a deity. evanesce v. To vanish gradually. exempt adj. Free, clear, or released, as
episode n. An incident or story in a evanescent adj. Fleeting. from some liability, or restriction
literary work, separable from yet evangelical adj. Seeking the affecting others.
growing out of it. conversion of sinners. exert v. To make an effort.
epitaph n. An inscription on a tomb evangelist n. A preacher who goes exhale v. To breathe forth.
or monument in honor or in memory from place to place holding services. exhaust v. To empty by draining off the
of the dead. evasion n. Escape. contents.
epithet n. Word used adjectivally to eventual adj. Ultimate. exhaustible adj. Causing or tending to
describe some quality or attribute of evert v. To turn inside out. cause exhaustion.
is objects, as in "Father Aeneas". evict v. To dispossess pursuant to exhaustion n. Deprivation of strength
epitome n. A simplified judicial decree. or energy.
representation. evidential adj. Indicative. exhaustive adj. Thorough and
epizootic adj. Prevailing among 58 complete in execution.
animals. exhilarate v. To fill with high or
epoch n. A interval of time, evince v. To make manifest or evident. cheerful spirits.
memorable for extraordinary events. evoke v. To call or summon forth. exhume v. To dig out of the earth what
epode n. A species of lyric poems. has been buried).
exigency n. A critical period or extempore adv. Without studied or
condition. special preparation. fallacy n. Any unsound or delusive
exigent adj. Urgent. extensible adj. Capable of being thrust mode of reasoning, or anything based
existence n. Possession or out. on such reasoning.
continuance of being. extension n. A reaching or stretching fallible adj. Capable of erring.
exit n. A way or passage out. out, as in space, time or scope. fallow n. Land broken up and left to
exodus n. A going forth or departure extensive adj. Extended widely in become mellow or to rest.
from a place or country, especially space, time, or scope. famish v. To suffer extremity of hunger
of many people. extensor n. A muscle that causes or thirst.
exonerate v. To relieve or vindicate extension. fanatic n. A religious zealot.
from accusation, imputation, or extenuate v. To diminish the gravity or fancier n. One having a taste for or
blame. importance of. interest in special objects.
exorbitance n. Extravagance or exterior n. That which is outside. fanciless adj. Unimaginative.
enormity. external n. Anything relating or fastidious adj. Hard to please.
exorbitant adj. Going beyond usual belonging to the outside. fathom n. A measure of length, 6 feet.
and proper limits. extinct adj. Being no longer in fatuous adj. Idiotic
exorcise v. To cast or drive out by existence. faulty adj. Imperfect.
religious or magical means. 61 faun n. One of a class of deities of the
exotic adj. Foreign. woods and herds represented as half
expand v. To increase in range or extinguish v. To render extinct. human, with goats feet.
scope. extol v. To praise in the highest terms. fawn n. A young deer.
expanse n. A continuous area or extort v. To obtain by violence, threats, fealty n. Loyalty.
stretch. compulsion, or the subjection of feasible adj. That may be done,
expansion n. Increase of amount, another to some necessity. performed, or effected; practicable.
size, scope, or the like. extortion n. The practice of obtaining federate v. To league together.
expatriate v. To drive from one's by violence or compulsion. feint n. Any sham, pretense, or
own country. extradite v. To surrender the custody deceptive movement.
expect v. To look forward to as of. felicitate v. To wish joy or happiness
certain or probable. extradition n. The surrender by a to, especially in view of a coming
expectancy n. The act or state of government of a person accused of event.
looking forward to as certain or crime to the justice of another felicity n. A state of well-founded
probable. government. happiness.
expectorate v. To cough up and spit extrajudicial adj. Happening out of felon n. A criminal or depraved person.
forth. court. felonious adj. Showing criminal or evil
60 extraneous adj. Having no essential purpose.
relation to a subject. felony n. One of the highest class of
expediency n. Fitness to meet the extraordinary adj. Unusual. offenses, and punishable with death or
requirements of a particular case. extravagance n. Undue expenditure of imprisonment.
expedient adj. Contributing to money. feminine adj. Characteristic of woman
personal advantage. extravagant adj. Needlessly free or or womankind.
expedite v. To hasten the movement lavish in expenditure. fernery n. A place in which ferns are
or progress of. extremist n. One who supports grown.
expeditious adj. Speedy. extreme measures or holds extreme ferocious adj. Of a wild, fierce, and
expend v. To spend. views. savage nature.
expense n. The laying out or extremity n. The utmost point, side, or ferocity n. Savageness.
expending or money or other border, or that farthest removed from a fervent adj. Ardent in feeling.
resources, as time or strength. mean position. fervid adj. Intense.
expiate v. To make satisfaction or extricate v. Disentangle. fervor n. Ardor or intensity of feeling.
amends for. extrude v. To drive out or away. 63
explicate v. To clear from exuberance n. Rich supply.
involvement. exuberant adj. Marked by great festal adj. Joyous.
explicit adj. Definite. plentifulness. festive adj. Merry.
explode v. To cause to burst in fabricate v. To invent fancifully or fete n. A festival or feast.
pieces by force from within. falsely. fetus n. The young in the womb or in
explosion n. A sudden and violent fabulous adj. Incredible. the egg.
outbreak. facet n. One of the small triangular feudal adj. Pertaining to the relation of
explosive adj. Pertaining to a plane surfaces of a diamond or other lord and vassal.
sudden and violent outbreak. gem. feudalism n. The feudal system.
exposition n. Formal presentation. facetious adj. Amusing. fez n. A brimless felt cap in the shape
expository adj. Pertaining to a facial adj. Pertaining to the face. of a truncated cone, usually red with a
formal presentation. facile adj. Not difficult to do. black tassel.
expostulate v. To discuss. facilitate v. To make more easy. fiasco n. A complete or humiliating
exposure n. An open situation or facility n. Ease. failure.
position in relation to the sun, facsimile n. An exact copy or fickle adj. Unduly changeable in
elements, or points of the compass. reproduction. feeling, judgment, or purpose.
expressive adj. Full of meaning. faction n. A number of persons fictitious adj. Created or formed by the
expulsion n. Forcible ejection. combined for a common purpose. imagination.
extant adj. Still existing and known. factious adj. Turbulent. fidelity n. Loyalty.
extemporaneous adj. Done or made fallacious adj. Illogical. fiducial adj. Indicative of faith or trust.
without much or any preparation. 62
fief n. A landed estate held under folk-lore n. The traditions, beliefs, and formidable adj. Difficult to accomplish.
feudal tenure. customs of the common people. formula n. Fixed rule or set form.
filibuster n. One who attempts to fondle v. To handle tenderly and forswear v. To renounce upon oath.
obstruct legislation. lovingly. forte n. A strong point.
finale n. Concluding performance. foolery n. Folly. forth adv. Into notice or view.
finality n. The state or quality of foot-note n. A note of explanation or forthright adv. With directness.
being final or complete. comment at the foot of a page or fortify v. To provide with defensive
finally adv. At last. column. works.
financial adj. Monetary. foppery n. Dandyism. fortitude n. Patient courage.
financier n. One skilled in or foppish adj. Characteristic of one who foursome adj. Consisting of four.
occupied with financial affairs or is unduly devoted to dress and the fracture n. A break.
operations. niceties of manners. fragile adj. Easily broken.
finery n. That which is used to 65 frailty n. Liability to be broken or
decorate the person or dress. destroyed.
finesse n. Subtle contrivance used forbearance n. Patient endurance or fragile adj. Capable of being broken.
to gain a point. toleration of offenses. frankincense n. A gum or resin which
finite adj. Limited. forby adv. Besides. on burning yields aromatic fumes.
fiscal adj. Pertaining to the treasury forcible adj. Violent. frantic adj. Frenzied.
or public finances of a government. forecourt n. A court opening directly fraternal adj. Brotherly.
fishmonger n. One who sells fish. from the street. fraudulence n. Deceitfulness.
fissure n. A crack or crack-like forejudge v. To judge of before hearing fraudulent adj. Counterfeit.
depression. evidence. fray v. To fret at the edge so as to
fitful adj. Spasmodic. forepeak n. The extreme forward part loosen or break the threads.
fixture n. One who or that which is of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck. freemason n. A member of an ancient
expected to remain permanently in foreshore n. That part of a shore secret fraternity originally confined to
its position. uncovered at low tide. skilled artisans.
flag-officer n. The captain of a flag- forebode v. To be an omen or warning freethinker n. One who rejects
ship. sign of, especially of evil. authority or inspiration in religion.
flagrant adj. Openly scandalous. forecast v. To predict. free trade n. Commerce unrestricted by
64 forecastle n. That part of the upper tariff or customs.
deck of a ship forward of the after fore- frequency n. The comparative number
flamboyant adj. Characterized by shrouds. of any kind of occurrences within a
extravagance and in general by foreclose v. To bar by judicial given time or space.
want of good taste. proceedings the equitable right of a fresco n. The art of painting on a
flatulence n. Accumulation of gas in mortgagor to redeem property. surface of plaster, particularly on walls
the stomach and bowels. forefather n. An ancestor. and ceilings.
flection n. The act of bending. forego v. To deny oneself the pleasure freshness n. The state, quality, or
fledgling n. A young bird. or profit of. degree of being fresh.
flexible adj. Pliable. foreground n. That part of a landscape fretful adj. Disposed to peevishness.
flimsy adj. Thin and weak. or picture situated or represented as 67
flippant adj. Having a light, pert, nearest the spectator.
trifling disposition. forehead n. The upper part of the face, frightful adj. Apt to induce terror or
floe n. A collection of tabular between the eyes and the hair. alarm.
masses of floating polar ice. foreign adj. Belonging to, situated in, frigid adj. Lacking warmth.
flora n. The aggregate of plants or derived from another country. frigidarium n. A room kept at a low
growing without cultivation in a foreigner n. A citizen of a foreign temperature for preserving fruits, meat,
district. country. etc.
floral adj. Pertaining to flowers. foreknowledge n. Prescience. frivolity n. A trifling act, thought,
florid adj. Flushed with red. foreman n. The head man. saying, or practice.
florist n. A dealer in flowers. foreordain v. To predetermine. frivolous adj. Trivial.
fluctuate v. To pass backward and foreordination n. Predestination. frizz v. To give a crinkled, fluffy
forward irregularly from one state or forerun v. To go before as introducing appearance to.
degree to another. or ushering in. frizzle v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as
fluctuation n. Frequent irregular foresail n. A square sail. the hair.
change back and forth from one foresee v. To discern beforehand. frolicsome adj. Prankish.
state or degree to another. foresight n. Provision against harm or frontier n. The part of a nation's
flue n. A smoke-duct in a chimney. need. territory that abuts upon another
fluent adj. Having a ready or easy foretell v. To predict. country.
flow of words or ideas. forethought n. Premeditation. frowzy adj. Slovenly in appearance.
fluential adj. Pertaining to streams. forfeit v. To lose possession of frugal adj. Economical.
flux n. A state of constant through failure to fulfill some fruition n. Fulfillment.
movement, change, or renewal. obligation. fugacious adj. Fleeting.
foggy adj. Obscure. forfend v. To ward off. fulcrum n. The support on or against
foible n. A personal weakness or 66 which a lever rests, or the point about
failing. which it turns.
foist v. To palm off. forgery n. Counterfeiting. fulminate v. To cause to explode.
foliage n. Any growth of leaves. forgo v. To deny oneself. fulsome adj. Offensive from excess of
folio n. A sheet of paper folded formation n. Relative disposition of praise or commendation.
once, or of a size adapted to folding parts.
once.
fumigate v. To subject to the action gastritis n. Inflammation of the gnash v. To grind or strike the teeth
of smoke or fumes, especially for stomach. together, as from rage.
disinfection. gastronomy n. The art of preparing and Gordian knot n. Any difficulty the only
functionary n. An official. serving appetizing food. issue out of which is by bold or
fundamental adj. Basal. gendarme n. In continental Europe, unusual manners.
fungible adj. That may be measured, particularly in France, a uniformed and gourmand n. A connoisseur in the
counted, or weighed. armed police officer. delicacies of the table.
fungous adj. Spongy. genealogy n. A list, in the order of gosling n. A young goose.
fungus n. A plant destitute of succession, of ancestors and their gossamer adj. Flimsy.
chlorophyll, as a mushroom. descendants. gourd n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or
furbish v. To restore brightness or genealogist n. A tracer of pedigrees. some similar fruit having a hard rind.
beauty to. generality n. The principal portion. graceless adj. Ungracious.
furlong n. A measure, one-eighth of 69 gradation n. A step, degree, rank, or
a mile. relative position in an order or series.
furlough n. A temporary absence of generalize v. To draw general gradient adj. Moving or advancing by
a soldier or sailor by permission of inferences. steps.
the commanding officer. generally adv. Ordinarily. granary n. A storehouse for grain after
furrier n. A dealer in or maker of fur generate v. To produce or cause to be. it is thrashed or husked.
goods. generic adj. Noting a genus or kind; grandeur n. The quality of being grand
further adj. More distant or opposed to specific. or admirably great.
advanced. generosity n. A disposition to give grandiloquent adj. Speaking in or
furtherance n. Advancement. liberally or to bestow favors heartily. characterized by a pompous or
furtive adj. Stealthy or sly, like the genesis n. Creation. bombastic style.
actions of a thief. geniality n. Warmth and kindliness of grandiose adj. Having an imposing
68 disposition. style or effect.
genital adj. Of or pertaining to the grantee n. The person to whom
fuse v. To unite or blend as by animal reproductive organs. property is transferred by deed.
melting together. genitive adj. Indicating source, origin, grantor n. The maker of a deed.
fusible adj. Capable of being melted possession, or the like. granular adj. Composed of small
by heat. genteel adj. Well-bred or refined. grains or particles.
futile adj. Of no avail or effect. gentile adj. Belonging to a people not granulate v. To form into grains or
futurist n. A person of expectant Jewish. small particles.
temperament. geology n. The department of natural granule n. A small grain or particle.
gauge n. An instrument for science that treats of the constitution grapple v. To take hold of.
measuring. and structure of the earth. gratification n. Satisfaction.
gaiety n. Festivity. germane adj. Relevant. gratify v. To please, as by satisfying a
gaily adv. Merrily. germinate v. To begin to develop into physical or mental desire or need.
gait n. Carriage of the body in going. an embryo or higher form. gratuitous adj. Voluntarily.
gallant adj. Possessing a brave or gestation n. Pregnancy. gratuity n. That which is given without
chivalrous spirit. gesticulate v. To make gestures or demand or claim. Tip.
galore adj. Abundant. motions, as in speaking, or in place of gravity n. Seriousness.
galvanic adj. Pertaining or relating speech. gregarious adj. Not habitually solitary
to electricity produced by chemical gesture n. A movement or action of the or living alone.
action. hands or face, expressive of some idea 71
galvanism n. Current electricity, or emotion.
especially that arising from ghastly adj. Hideous. grenadier n. A member of a regiment
chemical action. gibe v. To utter taunts or reproaches. composed of men of great stature.
galvanize v. To imbue with life or giddy adj. Affected with a whirling or grief n. Sorrow.
animation. swimming sensation in the head. grievance n. That which oppresses,
gamble v. To risk money or other gigantic adj. Tremendous. injures, or causes grief and at the
possession on an event, chance, or giver n. One who gives, in any sense. same time a sense of wrong.
contingency. glacial adj. Icy, or icily cold. grievous adj. Creating affliction.
gambol n. Playful leaping or glacier n. A field or stream of ice. grimace n. A distortion of the features,
frisking. gladden v. To make joyous. occasioned by some feeling of pain,
gamester n. A gambler. glazier n. One who cuts and fits panes disgust, etc.
gamut n. The whole range or of glass, as for windows. grindstone n. A flat circular stone,
sequence. glimmer n. A faint, wavering, unsteady used for sharpening tools.
garnish v. In cookery, to surround light. grisly adj. Fear-inspiring.
with additions for embellishment. glimpse n. A momentary look. grotesque adj. Incongruously
garrison n. The military force globose adj. Spherical. composed or ill-proportioned.
stationed in a fort, town, or other 70 grotto n. A small cavern.
place for its defense. ground n. A pavement or floor or any
garrote v. To execute by strangling. globular adj. Spherical. supporting surface on which one may
garrulous adj. Given to constant glorious adj. Of excellence and walk.
trivial talking. splendor. guess n. Surmise.
gaseous adj. Light and glutinous adj. Sticky. guile n. Duplicity.
unsubstantial. gluttonous adj. Given to excess in guileless adj. Frank.
gastric adj. Of, pertaining to, or near eating. guinea n. An English monetary unit.
the stomach. guise n. The external appearance as
produced by garb or costume.
gullible adj. Credulous. herbaceous adj. Having the character homophone n. A word agreeing in
gumption n. Common sense. of a herb. sound with but different in meaning
gusto n. Keen enjoyment. 73 from another.
guy n. Stay-rope. honorarium n. A token fee or payment
guzzle v. To swallow greedily or herbarium n. A collection of dried to a professional man for services.
hastily; gulp. plants scientifically arranged for study. hoodwink v. To deceive.
gynecocracy n. Female supremacy. herbivorous adj. Feeding on herbs or horde n. A gathered multitude of
gynecology n. The science that other vegetable matter, as animals. human beings.
treats of the functions and diseases hereditary adj. Passing naturally from hosiery n. A stocking.
peculiar to women. parent to child. hospitable adj. Disposed to treat
gyrate v. To revolve. heredity n. Transmission of physical or strangers or guests with generous
gyroscope n. An instrument for mental qualities, diseases, etc., from kindness.
illustrating the laws of rotation. parent to offspring. hospitality n. The practice of receiving
habitable adj. Fit to be dwelt in. heresy n. An opinion or doctrine and entertaining strangers and guests
habitant n. Dweller. subversive of settled beliefs or with kindness.
habitual adj. According to usual accepted principles. hostility n. Enmity.
practice. heretic n. One who holds opinions huckster n. One who retails small
habitude n. Customary relation or contrary to the recognized standards wares.
association. or tenets of any philosophy. humane adj. Compassionate.
hackney v. To make stale or trite by heritage n. Birthright. humanitarian n. A philanthropist.
repetition. hernia n. Protrusion of any internal humanize v. To make gentle or refined.
72 organ in whole or in part from its humbug n. Anything intended or
normal position. calculated to deceive or mislead.
haggard adj. Worn and gaunt in hesitancy n. A pausing to consider. humiliate v. To put to shame.
appearance. hesitant adj. Vacillating. hussar n. A light-horse trooper armed
halcyon adj. Calm. hesitation n. Vacillation. with saber and carbine.
hale adj. Of sound and vigorous heterodox adj. At variance with any hustle v. To move with haste and
health. commonly accepted doctrine or promptness.
handwriting n. Penmanship. opinion. hybrid adj. Cross-bred.
hanger-on n. A parasite. heterogeneity n. Unlikeness of hydra n. The seven- or nine-headed
happy-go-lucky adj. Improvident. constituent parts. water-serpent slain by Hercules.
harangue n. A tirade. heterogeneous adj. Consisting of hydraulic adj. Involving the moving of
harass v. To trouble with dissimilar elements or ingredients of water, of the force exerted by water in
importunities, cares, or annoyances. different kinds. motion.
harbinger n. One who or that which heteromorphic adj. Deviating from the hydrodynamics n. The branch of
foreruns and announces the coming normal form or standard type. mechanics that treats of the dynamics
of any person or thing. hexangular adj. Having six angles. of fluids.
hard-hearted adj. Lacking pity or hexapod adj. Having six feet. hydroelectric adj. Pertaining to
sympathy. hexagon n. A figure with six angles. electricity developed water or steam.
hardihood n. Foolish daring. hiatus n. A break or vacancy where hydromechanics n. The mechanics of
harmonious adj. Concordant in something necessary to supply the fluids.
sound. connection is wanting. hydrometer n. An instrument for
havoc n. Devastation. hibernal adj. Pertaining to winter. determining the density of solids and
hawthorn n. A thorny shrub much Hibernian adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or liquids by flotation.
used in England for hedges. its people. 75
hazard n. Risk. hideous adj. Appalling.
head first adv. Precipitately, as in hilarious adj. Boisterously merry. hydrostatics n. The branch of science
diving. hillock n. A small hill or mound. that treats of the pressure and
head foremost adv. Precipitately, as hinder v. To obstruct. equilibrium of fluids.
in diving. hindmost adj. Farthest from the front. hydrous adj. Watery.
heartrending adj. Very depressing. hindrance n. An obstacle. hygiene n. The branch of medical
heathenish adj. Irreligious. hirsute adj. Having a hairy covering. science that relates to improving
heedless adj. Thoughtless. hoard v. To gather and store away for health.
heifer n. A young cow. the sake of accumulation. hypercritical adj. Faultfinding.
heinous adj. Odiously sinful. 74 hypnosis n. An artificial trance-sleep.
hemorrhage n. Discharge of blood hypnotic adj. Tending to produce
from a ruptured or wounded blood- hoarse adj. Having the voice harsh or sleep.
vessel. rough, as from a cold or fatigue. hypnotism n. An artificially induced
hemorrhoids n. pl. Tumors homage n. Reverential regard or somnambulistic state in which the
composed of enlarged and worship. mind readily acts on suggestion.
thickened blood-vessels, at the homogeneity n. Congruity of the hypnotize v. To produce a
lower end of the rectum. members or elements or parts. somnambulistic state in which the
henchman n. A servile assistant and homogeneous adj. Made up of similar mind readily acts on suggestions.
subordinate. parts or elements. hypocrisy n. Extreme insincerity.
henpeck v. To worry or harass by ill homologous adj. Identical in nature, hypocrite n. One who makes false
temper and petty annoyances. make-up, or relation. professions of his views or beliefs.
heptagon n. A figure having seven homonym n. A word agreeing in sound hypodermic adj. Pertaining to the area
sides and seven angles. with but different in meaning from under the skin.
heptarchy n. A group of seven another.
governments.
hypotenuse n. The side of a right- immeasurable adj. Indefinitely impiety n. Irreverence toward God.
angled triangle opposite the right extensive. impious adj. Characterized by
angle. immense adj. Very great in degree, irreverence or irreligion.
hypothesis n. A proposition taken extent, size, or quantity. implausible adj. Not plausible.
for granted as a premise from which immerse v. To plunge or dip entirely impliable adj. Capable of being
to reach a conclusion. under water or other fluid. inferred.
hysteria n. A nervous affection immersion n. The act of plunging or implicate v. To show or prove to be
occurring typically in paroxysms of dipping entirely under water or another involved in or concerned
laughing and crying. fluid. implicit adj. Implied.
ichthyic adj. Fish-like. immigrant n. A foreigner who enters a imply v. To signify.
ichthyology n. The branch of country to settle there. impolitic adj. Inexpedient.
zoology that treats of fishes. 77 importation n. The act or practice of
ichthyosaurs n. A fossil reptile. bringing from one country into
icily adv. Frigidly. immigrate v. To come into a country or another.
iciness n. The state of being icy. region from a former habitat. importunate adj. Urgent in character,
icon n. An image or likeness. imminence n. Impending evil or request, or demand.
iconoclast n. An image-breaker. danger. importune v. To harass with persistent
idealize v. To make to conform to imminent adj. Dangerous and close at demands or entreaties.
some mental or imaginary standard. hand. impotent adj. Destitute of or lacking in
idiom n. A use of words peculiar to immiscible adj. Separating, as oil and power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
a particular language. water. impoverish v. To make indigent or
idiosyncrasy n. A mental quality or immoral adj. Habitually engaged in poor.
habit peculiar to an individual. licentious or lewd practices. impracticable adj. Not feasible.
idolize v. To regard with inordinate immortalize v. To cause to last or to be impregnable adj. That can not be taken
love or admiration. known or remembered throughout a by assault.
ignoble adj. Low in character or great or indefinite length of time. impregnate v. To make pregnant.
purpose. immovable adj. Steadfast. impromptu n. Anything done or said on
ignominious adj. Shameful. immune adj. Exempt, as from disease. the impulse of the moment.
Iliad n. A Greek epic poem immutable adj. Unchangeable. improper adj. Not appropriate, suitable,
describing scenes from the siege of impair v. To cause to become less or or becoming.
Troy. worse. impropriety n. The state or quality of
illegal adj. Not according to law. impalpable adj. Imperceptible to the being unfit, unseemly, or
76 touch. inappropriate.
impartial adj. Unbiased. improvident adj. Lacking foresight or
illegible adj. Undecipherable. impassable adj. That can not be thrift.
illegitimate adj. Unlawfully begotten. passed through or over. improvise v. To do anything
illiberal adj. Stingy. impassible adj. Not moved or affected extemporaneously or offhand.
illicit adj. Unlawful. by feeling. imprudent adj. Heedless.
illimitable adj. Boundless. impassive adj. Unmoved by or not 79
illiterate adj. Having little or no exhibiting feeling.
book-learning. impatience n. Unwillingness to brook impudence n. Insolent disrespect.
ill-natured adj. Surly. delays or wait the natural course of impugn v. To assail with arguments,
illogical adj. Contrary to the rules of things. insinuations, or accusations.
sound thought. impeccable adj. Blameless. impulsion n. Impetus.
illuminant n. That which may be impecunious adj. Having no money. impulsive adj. Unpremeditated.
used to produce light. impede v. To be an obstacle or to place impunity n. Freedom from punishment.
illuminate v. To supply with light. obstacles in the way of. impure adj. Tainted.
illumine v. To make bright or clear. impel v. To drive or urge forward. impute v. To attribute.
illusion n. An unreal image impend v. To be imminent. inaccessible adj. Difficult of approach.
presented to the senses. imperative adj. Obligatory. inaccurate adj. Not exactly according
illusive adj. Deceptive. imperceptible adj. Indiscernible. to the facts.
illusory adj. Deceiving or tending to imperfectible adj. That can not be inactive adj. Inert.
deceive, as by false appearance. perfected. inadequate adj. Insufficient.
imaginable adj. That can be imperil v. To endanger. inadmissible adj. Not to be approved,
imagined or conceived in the mind. imperious adj. Insisting on obedience. considered, or allowed, as testimony.
imaginary adj. Fancied. impermissible adj. Not permissible. inadvertent adj. Accidental.
imbibe v. To drink or take in. impersonal adj. Not relating to a inadvisable adj. Unadvisable.
imbroglio n. A misunderstanding particular person or thing. inane adj. Silly.
attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or impersonate v. To appear or act in the inanimate adj. Destitute of animal life.
strife. character of. inapprehensible adj. Not to be
imbrue v. To wet or moisten. 78 understood.
imitation n. That which is made as a inapt adj. Awkward or slow.
likeness or copy. impersuadable adj. Unyielding. inarticulate adj. Speechless.
imitator n. One who makes in impertinence n. Rudeness. inaudible adj. That can not be heard.
imitation. imperturbable adj. Calm. inborn adj. Implanted by nature.
immaculate adj. Without spot or impervious adj. Impenetrable. inbred adj. Innate.
blemish. impetuosity n. Rashness. incandescence n. The state of being
immaterial adj. Of no essential impetuous adj. Impulsive. white or glowing with heat.
consequence. impetus n. Any impulse or incentive. incandescent adj. White or glowing
immature adj. Not full-grown. with heat.
incapacitate v. To deprive of power, inconstant adj. Changeable. inexorable adj. Unrelenting.
capacity, competency, or incontrovertible adj. Indisputable. inexpedient adj. Unadvisable.
qualification. inconvenient adj. Interfering with inexpensive adj. Low-priced.
incapacity n. Want of power to comfort or progress. inexperience n. Lack of or deficiency in
apprehend, understand, and indefensible adj. Untenable. experience.
manage. indefinitely adv. In a vague or inexplicable adj. Such as can not be
incarcerate v. To imprison. uncertain way. made plain.
incendiary n. Chemical or person indelible adj. That can not be blotted inexpressible adj. Unutterable.
who starts a fire-literally or out, effaced, destroyed, or removed. inextensible adj. Of unchangeable
figuratively. indescribable adj. That can not be length or area.
incentive n. That which moves the described. infallible adj. Exempt from error of
mind or inflames the passions. indestructible adj. That can not be judgment, as in opinion or statement.
80 destroyed. infamous adj. Publicly branded or
indicant adj. That which points out. notorious, as for vice, or crime.
inception n. The beginning. indicator n. One who or that which infamy n. Total loss or destitution of
inceptive adj. Beginning. points out. honor or reputation.
incessant adj. Unceasing. indict v. To find and declare inference n. The derivation of a
inchmeal adv. Piecemeal. chargeable with crime. judgment from any given material of
inchoate adj. Incipient. indigence n. Poverty. knowledge on the ground of law.
inchoative n. That which begins, or indigenous adj. Native. infernal adj. Akin to or befitting hell or
expresses beginning. indigent adj. Poor. its occupants.
incidence n. Casual occurrence. indigestible adj. Not digestible, or infest v. To be present in such
incident n. A happening in general, difficult to digest. numbers as to be a source of
especially one of little importance. indigestion n. Difficulty or failure in the annoyance, trouble, or danger.
incidentally adv. Without intention. alimentary canal in changing food into 83
incinerate v. To reduce to ashes. absorptive nutriment.
incipience n. Beginning. indignant adj. Having such anger and infidel n. One who denies the existence
incipient adj. Initial. scorn as is aroused by meanness or of God.
incisor n. A front or cutting tooth. wickedness. infidelity n. Disloyalty.
incite v. To rouse to a particular indignity n. Unmerited contemptuous infinite adj. Measureless.
action. conduct or treatment. infinity n. Boundless or immeasurable
incitement n. That which moves to indiscernible adj. Not perceptible. extension or duration.
action, or serves as an incentive or indiscreet adj. Lacking wise judgment. infirm adj. Lacking in bodily or mental
stimulus. indiscriminate adj. Promiscuous. strength.
incoercible adj. Incapable of being indispensable adj. Necessary or infirmary n. A place for the reception or
forced, constrained, or compelled. requisite for the purpose. treatment of the sick.
incoherence n. Want of connection, indistinct adj. Vague. infirmity n. A physical, mental, or moral
or agreement, as of parts or ideas in indivertible adj. That can not be turned weakness or flaw.
thought, speech, etc. aside. inflammable adj. Easily set on fire or
incoherent adj. Not logically indivisible adj. Not separable into excited.
coordinated, as to parts, elements, parts. inflammation n. A morbid process in
or details. indolence n. Laziness. some part of the body characterized by
incombustible adj. That can not be indolent adj. Habitually inactive or idle. heat, swelling, and pain.
burned. 82 inflexible adj. That can not be altered
incomparable adj. Matchless. or varied.
incompatible adj. Discordant. indomitable adj. Unconquerable. influence n. Ability to sway the will of
incompetence n. General lack of induct v. To bring in. another.
capacity or fitness. indulgence n. The yielding to influential adj. Having the power to
incompetent adj. Not having the inclination, passion, desire, or sway the will of another.
abilities desired or necessary for propensity in oneself or another. influx n. Infusion.
any purpose. indulgent adj. Yielding to the desires or infrequence n. Rareness.
incomplete adj. Lacking some humor of oneself or those under one's infrequent adj. Uncommon.
element, part, or adjunct necessary care. infringe v. To trespass upon.
or required. inebriate v. To intoxicate. infuse v. To instill, introduce, or
incomprehensible adj. Not inedible adj. Not good for food. inculcate, as principles or qualities.
understandable. ineffable adj. Unutterable. infusion n. The act of imbuing, or
incompressible adj. Resisting all inefficient adj. Not accomplishing an pouring in.
attempts to reduce volume by intended purpose. ingenious adj. Evincing skill,
pressure. inefficiency n. That which does not originality, or cleverness, as in
inconceivable adj. accomplish an intended purpose. contrivance or arrangement.
Incomprehensible. ineligible adj. Not suitable to be ingenuity n. Cleverness in contriving,
incongruous adj. Unsuitable for the selected or chosen. combining, or originating.
time, place, or occasion. inept adj. Not fit or suitable. ingenuous adj. Candid, frank, or open
inconsequential adj. Valueless. inert adj. Inanimate. in character or quality.
81 inestimable adj. Above price. inglorious adj. Shameful.
inevitable adj. Unavoidable. ingraft v. To set or implant deeply and
inconsiderable adj. Small in quantity inexcusable adj. Not to be justified. firmly.
or importance. inexhaustible adj. So large or ingratiate v. To win confidence or good
inconsistent adj. Contradictory. furnishing so great a supply as not to graces for oneself.
be emptied, wasted, or spent. ingratitude n. Insensibility to kindness.
ingredient n. Component. insistent adj. Urgent. intermediate adj. Being in a middle
inherence n. The state of being insolence n. Pride or haughtiness place or degree or between extremes.
permanently existing in something. exhibited in contemptuous and interminable adj. Having no limit or
inherent adj. Intrinsic. overbearing treatment of others. end.
inhibit v. To hold back or in. insolent adj. Impudent. intermission n. A recess.
84 insomnia n. Sleeplessness. intermit v. To cause to cease
inspector n. An official appointed to temporarily.
inhospitable adj. Not disposed to examine or oversee any matter of intermittent adj. A temporary
entertain strangers gratuitously. public interest or importance. discontinuance.
inhuman adj. Savage. instance n. A single occurrence or interpolation n. Verbal interference.
inhume v. To place in the earth, as a happening of a given kind. interpose v. To come between other
dead body. instant n. A very brief portion of time. things or persons.
inimical adj. Adverse. instantaneous adj. Done without interposition n. A coming between.
iniquity n. Gross wrong or injustice. perceptible lapse of time. interpreter n. A person who makes
initiate v. To perform the first act or instigate v. To provoke. intelligible the speech of a foreigner by
rite. instigator n. One who incites to evil. oral translation.
inject v. To introduce, as a fluid, by instill v. To infuse. interrogate v. To examine formally by
injection. instructive adj. Conveying knowledge. questioning.
injunction n. Mandate. insufficiency n. Inadequacy. 87
inkling n. A hint. insufficient adj. Inadequate for some
inland adj. Remote from the sea. need, purpose, or use. interrogative adj. Having the nature or
inlet n. A small body of water insular adj. Pertaining to an island. form of a question.
leading into a larger. insulate v. To place in a detached state interrogatory n. A question or inquiry.
inmost adj. Deepest within. or situation. interrupt v. To stop while in progress.
innocuous adj. Harmless. insuperable adj. Invincible. intersect v. To cut through or into so
innovate v. To introduce or strive to insuppressible adj. Incapable of being as to divide.
introduce new things. concealed. intervale n. A low tract of land between
innuendo n. Insinuation. insurgence n. Uprising. hills, especially along a river.
innumerable adj. Countless. insurgent n. One who takes part in intervene v. To interfere for some end.
inoffensive adj. Causing nothing forcible opposition to the constituted intestacy n. The condition resulting
displeasing or disturbing. authorities of a place. from one's dying not having made a
inopportune adj. Unsuitable or insurrection n. The state of being in valid will.
inconvenient, especially as to time. active resistance to authority. intestate adj. Not having made a valid
inquire v. To ask information about. 86 will.
inquisition n. A court or tribunal for intestine n. That part of the digestive
examination and punishment of intangible adj. Not perceptible to the tube below or behind the stomach,
heretics. touch. extending to the anus.
inquisitive adj. Given to integrity n. Uprightness of character intimacy n. Close or confidential
questioning, especially out of and soundness of moral principle. friendship.
curiosity. intellect n. The faculty of perception or intimidate v. To cause to become
inquisitor n. One who makes an thought. frightened.
investigation. intellectual adj. Characterized by intolerable adj. Insufferable.
inroad n. Forcible encroachment or intelligence. intolerance n. Inability or unwillingness
trespass. intelligence n. Capacity to know or to bear or endure.
insatiable adj. That desires or understand. intolerant adj. Bigoted.
craves immoderately or intelligible adj. Comprehensible. intoxicant n. Anything that unduly
unappeasably. intemperance n. Immoderate action or exhilarates or excites.
inscribe v. To enter in a book, or on indulgence, as of the appetites. intoxicate v. To make drunk.
a list, roll, or document, by writing. intension n. The act of stringing or intracellular adj. Occurring or situated
inscrutable adj. Impenetrably stretching, or state of being strained. within a cell.
mysterious or profound. intensive adj. Adding emphasis or intramural adj. Situated within the
insecure adj. Not assured of safety. force. walls of a city.
insensible adj. Imperceptible. intention n. That upon which the mind intrepid adj. Fearless and bold.
insentient adj. Lacking the power of is set. intricacy n. Perplexity.
feeling or perceiving. interact v. To act reciprocally. intricate adj. Difficult to follow or
85 intercede v. To mediate between understand.
persons. intrigue n. A plot or scheme, usually
inseparable adj. That can not be intercept v. To interrupt the course of. complicated and intended to
separated. intercession n. Entreaty in behalf of accomplish something by secret ways.
insidious adj. Working ill by slow others. intrinsic adj. Inherent.
and stealthy means. intercessor n. A mediator. introductory adj. Preliminary.
insight n. Intellectual discernment. interdict n. Authoritative act of introgression n. Entrance.
insignificance n. Lack of import or prohibition. intromit v. To insert.
of importance. interim n. Time between acts or introspect v. To look into.
insignificant adj. Without periods. introspection n. The act of observing
importance, force, or influence. interlocutor n. One who takes part in a and analyzing one's own thoughts and
insinuate v. To imply. conversation or oral discussion. feelings.
insipid adj. Tasteless. interlude n. An action or event introversion n. The act of turning or
insistence n. Urgency. considered as coming between others directing inward, physically or
of greater length. mentally.
 88 iridescent adj. Exhibiting changing itinerate v. To wander from place to
rainbow-colors due to the interference place.
introvert v. To turn within. of the light. jargon n. Confused, unintelligible
intrude v. To come in without leave irk v. To afflict with pain, vexation, or speech or highly technical speech.
or license. fatigue. jaundice n. A morbid condition, due to
intrusion n. The act of entering irksome adj. Wearisome. obstructed excretion of bile or
without warrant or invitation; irony n. Censure or ridicule under characterized by yellowing of the skin.
encroachment. cover of praise or compliment. jeopardize v. To imperil.
intuition n. Instinctive knowledge or irradiance n. Luster. Jingo n. One of a party in Great Britain
feeling. irradiate v. To render clear and in favor of spirited and demonstrative
inundate v. To fill with an intelligible. foreign policy.
overflowing abundance. irrational adj. Not possessed of jocose adj. Done or made in jest.
inundation n. Flood. reasoning powers or understanding. jocular adj. Inclined to joke.
inure v. To harden or toughen by irreducible adj. That can not be joggle n. A sudden irregular shake or a
use, exercise, or exposure. lessened. push causing such a shake.
invalid adj. Having no force, weight, irrefragable adj. That can not be journalize v. To keep a diary.
or cogency. refuted or disproved. jovial adj. Merry.
invalid n. One who is disabled by irrefrangible adj. That can not be jubilation n. Exultation.
illness or injury. broken or violated. judgment n. The faculty by the exercise
invalidate v. To render of no force or irrelevant adj. Inapplicable. of which a deliberate conclusion is
effect. irreligious adj. Indifferent or opposed reached.
invaluable adj. Exceedingly to religion. judicature n. Distribution and
precious. irreparable adj. That can not be administration of justice by trial and
invariable adj. Unchangeable. rectified or made amends for. judgment.
invasion n. Encroachment, as by an irrepressible adj. That can not be judicial adj. Pertaining to the
act of intrusion or trespass. restrained or kept down. administration of justice.
invective n. An utterance intended irresistible adj. That can not be judiciary n. That department of
to cast censure, or reproach. successfully withstood or opposed. government which administers the law
inveigh v. To utter vehement irresponsible adj. Careless of or unable relating to civil and criminal justice.
censure or invective. to meet responsibilities. 91
inventive adj. Quick at contrivance. irreverence n. The quality showing or
inverse adj. Contrary in tendency or expressing a deficiency of veneration, judicious adj. Prudent.
direction. especially for sacred things. juggle v. To play tricks of sleight of
inversion n. Change of order so that irreverent adj. Showing or expressing a hand.
the first shall become last and the deficiency of veneration, especially for jugglery n. The art or practice of
last first. sacred things. sleight of hand.
invert v. To turn inside out, upside irreverential adj. Showing or jugular adj. Pertaining to the throat.
down, or in opposite direction. expressing a deficiency of veneration, juicy adj. Succulent.
investigator n. One who especially for sacred things. junction n. The condition of being
investigates. irreversible adj. Irrevocable. joined.
investor n. One who invests money. irrigant adj. Serving to water lands by juncture n. An articulation, joint, or
inveterate adj. Habitual. artificial means. seam.
invidious adj. Showing or feeling 90 junta n. A council or assembly that
envy. deliberates in secret upon the affairs of
invigorate v. To animate. irrigate v. To water, as land, by ditches government.
invincible adj. Not to be conquered, or other artificial means. juridical adj. Assumed by law to exist.
subdued, or overcome. irritable adj. Showing impatience or ill jurisdiction n. Lawful power or right to
inviolable adj. Incapable of being temper on little provocation. exercise official authority.
injured or disturbed. irritancy n. The quality of producing jurisprudence n. The science of rights
invoke v. To call on for assistance vexation. in accordance with positive law.
or protection. irritant n. A mechanical, chemical, or juror n. One who serves on a jury or is
involuntary adj. Unwilling. pathological agent of inflammation, sworn in for jury duty in a court of
involution n. Complication. pain, or tension. justice.
89 irritate v. To excite ill temper or joust v. To engage in a tilt with lances
impatience in. on horseback.
involve v. To draw into irruption n. Sudden invasion. justification n. Vindication.
entanglement, literally or isle n. An island. juvenile adj. Characteristic of youth.
figuratively. islet n. A little island. juxtapose v. To place close together.
invulnerable adj. That can not be isobar n. A line joining points at which keepsake n. Anything kept or given to
wounded or hurt. the barometric pressure is the same at be kept for the sake of the giver.
inwardly adv. With no outward a specified moment. kerchief n. A square of linen, silk, or
manifestation. isochronous adj. Relating to or other material, used as a covering for
iota n. A small or insignificant mark denoting equal intervals of time. the head or neck.
or part. isolate v. To separate from others of its kernel n. A grain or seed.
irascible adj. Prone to anger. kind. kiln n. An oven or furnace for baking,
irate adj. Moved to anger. isothermal adj. Having or marking burning, or drying industrial products.
ire n. Wrath. equality of temperature. kiloliter n. One thousand liters.
iridescence n. A many-colored itinerant adj. Wandering. kilometer n. A length of 1,000 meters.
appearance. itinerary n. A detailed account or diary kilowatt n. One thousand watts.
of a journey.
kimono n. A loose robe, fastening lave v. To wash or bathe. lifelong adj. Lasting or continuous
with a sash, the principal outer lawgiver n. A legislator. through life.
garment in Japan. lawmaker n. A legislator. lifetime n. The time that life continues.
kind-hearted adj. Having a kind and lax adj. Not stringent or energetic. ligament n. That which binds objects
sympathetic nature. laxative adj. Having power to open or together.
kingling n. A petty king. loosen the bowels. ligature n. Anything that constricts, or
kingship n. Royal state. lea n. A field. serves for binding or tying.
kinsfolk n. pl. Relatives. leaflet n. A little leaf or a booklet. light-hearted adj. Free from care.
knavery n. Deceitfulness in dealing. leaven v. To make light by ligneous adj. Having the texture of
92 fermentation, as dough. appearance of wood.
leeward n. That side or direction likelihood n. A probability.
knead v. To mix and work into a toward which the wind blows. likely adj. Plausible.
homogeneous mass, especially with left-handed adj. Using the left hand or 95
the hands. arm more dexterously than the right.
knickknack n. A small article, more legacy n. A bequest. liking n. Fondness.
for ornament that use. legalize v. To give the authority of law limitation n. A restriction.
knight errant n. One of the to. linear adj. Of the nature of a line.
wandering knights who in the legging n. A covering for the leg. liner n. A vessel belonging to a
middle ages went forth in search of legible adj. That may be read with ease. steamship-line.
adventure. legionary n. A member of an ancient lingo n. Language.
knighthood n. Chivalry. Roman legion or of the modern French lingua n. The tongue.
laborious adj. Toilsome. Legion of Honor. lingual adj. Pertaining to the use of the
labyrinth n. A maze. legislate v. To make or enact a law or tongue in utterance.
lacerate v. To tear rudely or laws. linguist n. One who is acquainted with
raggedly. legislative adj. That makes or enacts several languages.
lackadaisical adj. Listless. laws. linguistics n. The science of
lactation n. The secretion of milk. legislator n. A lawgiver. languages, or of the origin, history,
lacteal adj. Milky. legitimacy n. Accordance with law. and significance of words.
lactic adj. Pertaining to milk. legitimate adj. Having the sanction of liniment n. A liquid preparation for
laddie n. A lad. law or established custom. rubbing on the skin in cases of
ladle n. A cup-shaped vessel with a leisure n. Spare time. bruises, inflammation, etc.
long handle, intended for dipping up leniency n. Forbearance. liquefacient adj. Possessing a
and pouring liquids. lenient adj. Not harsh. liquefying nature or power.
laggard adj. Falling behind. 94 liquefy v. To convert into a liquid or
landholder n. Landowner. into liquid form.
landlord n. A man who owns and leonine adj. Like a lion. liqueur n. An alcoholic cordial
lets a tenement or tenements. lethargy n. Prolonged sluggishness of sweetened and flavored with aromatic
landmark n. A familiar object in the body or mind. substances.
landscape serving as a guide to an levee n. An embankment beside a river liquidate v. To deliver the amount or
area otherwise easily lost track of. or stream or an arm of the sea, to value of.
landscape n. A rural view, especially prevent overflow. liquor n. Any alcoholic or intoxicating
one of picturesque effect, as seen lever n. That which exerts, or through liquid.
from a distance or an elevation. which one may exert great power. listless adj. Inattentive.
languid adj. Relaxed. leviathan n. Any large animal, as a literacy n. The state or condition of
languor n. Lassitude of body or whale. knowing how to read and write.
depression. levity n. Frivolity. literal adj. Following the exact words.
lapse n. A slight deviation from what levy v. To impose and collect by force literature n. The written or printed
is right, proper, or just. or threat of force. productions of the human mind
lascivious adj. Lustful. lewd adj. Characterized by lust or collectively.
lassie n. A little lass. lasciviousness. lithe adj. Supple.
latent adj. Dormant. lexicographer n. One who makes lithesome adj. Nimble.
latency n. The state of being dictionaries. lithograph n. A print made by printing
dormant. lexicography n. The making of from stone.
later adv. At a subsequent time. dictionaries. lithotype n. In engraving, an etched
lateral adj. Directed toward the side. lexicon n. A dictionary. stone surface for printing.
latish adj. Rather late. liable adj. Justly or legally responsible. litigant n. A party to a lawsuit.
lattice n. Openwork of metal or libel n. Defamation. litigate v. To cause to become the
wood, formed by crossing or liberalism n. Opposition to subject-matter of a suit at law.
interlacing strips or bars. conservatism. litigious adj. Quarrelsome.
93 liberate v. To set free or release from littoral adj. Of, pertaining to, or living
bondage. on a shore.
laud v. To praise in words or song. licentious adj. Wanton. liturgy n. A ritual.
laudable adj. Praiseworthy. licit adj. Lawful. livelihood n. Means of subsistence.
laudation n. High praise. liege adj. Sovereign. 96
laudatory adj. Pertaining to, lien n. A legal claim or hold on
expressing, or containing praise. property, as security for a debt or livid adj. Black-and-blue, as contused
laundress n. Washerwoman. charge. flesh.
laureate adj. Crowned with laurel, as lieu n. Stead. loam n. A non-coherent mixture of
a mark of distinction. lifelike adj. Realistic. sand and clay.
loath adj. Averse. machinist n. One who makes or repairs mane n. The long hair growing upon
loathe v. To abominate. machines, or uses metal-working tools. and about the neck of certain animals,
locative adj. Indicating place, or the macrocosm n. The whole of any sphere as the horse and the lion.
place where or wherein an action or department of nature or knowledge man-eater n. An animal that devours
occurs. to which man is related. human beings.
loch n. A lake. madden v. To inflame with passion. maneuver v. To make adroit or artful
locomotion n. The act or power of Madonna n. A painted or sculptured moves: manage affairs by strategy.
moving from one place to another. representation of the Virgin, usually mania n. Insanity.
lode n. A somewhat continuous with the infant Jesus. maniac n. a person raving with
unstratified metal- bearing vein. magician n. A sorcerer. madness.
lodgment n. The act of furnishing magisterial adj. Having an air of 99
with temporary quarters. authority.
logic n. The science of correct magistracy n. The office or dignity of a manifesto n. A public declaration,
thinking. magistrate. making announcement, explanation or
logical adj. Capable of or magnanimous adj. Generous in defense of intentions, or motives.
characterized by clear reasoning. treating or judging others. manlike adj. Like a man.
logician n. An expert reasoner. magnate n. A person of rank or manliness n. The qualities
loiterer n. One who consumes time importance. characteristic of a true man, as
idly. magnet n. A body possessing that bravery, resolution, etc.
loneliness n. Solitude. peculiar form of polarity found in mannerism n. Constant or excessive
longevity n. Unusually prolonged nature in the lodestone. adherence to one manner, style, or
life. magnetize v. To make a magnet of, peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
loot v. To plunder. permanently, or temporarily. manor n. The landed estate of a lord or
loquacious adj. Talkative. magnificence n. The exhibition of nobleman.
lordling n. A little lord. greatness of action, character, mantel n. The facing, sometimes richly
lough n. A lake or loch. intellect, wealth, or power. ornamented, about a fireplace,
louse n. A small insect parasitic on 98 including the usual shelf above it.
and sucking the blood of mammals. mantle n. A cloak.
lovable adj. Amiable. magnificent adj. Grand or majestic in manufacturer n. A person engaged in
low-spirited adj. Despondent. appearance, quality, or action. manufacturing as a business.
lowly adv. Rudely. magnitude n. Importance. manumission n. Emancipation.
lucid adj. Mentally sound. maharaja n. A great Hindu prince. manumit v. To set free from bondage.
lucrative adj. Highly profitable. maidenhood n. Virginity. marine adj. Of or pertaining to the sea
ludicrous adj. Laughable. maintain v. To hold or preserve in any or matters connected with the sea.
luminary n. One of the heavenly particular state or condition. maritime adj. Situated on or near the
bodies as a source of light. maintenance n. That which supports or sea.
luminescent adj. Showing increase sustains. maroon v. To put ashore and abandon
of light. maize n. Indian corn: usually in the a person) on a desolate coast or
luminescence n. Showing increase. United States called simply corn. island.
97 makeup n. The arrangements or martial adj. Pertaining to war or
combination of the parts of which military operations.
luminosity n. The quality of giving anything is composed. Martian adj. Pertaining to Mars, either
or radiating light. malady n. Any physical disease or the Roman god of war or the planet.
luminous adj. Giving or radiating disorder, especially a chronic or deep- martyrdom n. Submission to death or
light. seated one. persecution for the sake of faith or
lunacy n. Mental unsoundness. malaria n. A fever characterized by principle.
lunar adj. Pertaining to the moon. alternating chills, fever, and sweating. marvel v. To be astonished and
lunatic n. An insane person. malcontent n. One who is dissatisfied perplexed because of something).
lune n. The moon. with the existing state of affairs. masonry n. The art or work of
lurid adj. Ghastly and sensational. malediction n. The calling down of a constructing, as buildings, walls, etc.,
luscious adj. Rich, sweet, and curse or curses. with regularly arranged stones.
delicious. malefactor n. One who injures another. masquerade n. A social party
lustrous adj. Shining. maleficent adj. Mischievous. composed of persons masked and
luxuriance n. Excessive or malevolence n. Ill will. costumed so as to be disguised.
superfluous growth or quantity. malevolent adj. Wishing evil to others. massacre n. The unnecessary and
luxuriant adj. Abundant or malign v. To speak evil of, especially to indiscriminate killing of human beings.
superabundant in growth. do so falsely and severely. massive adj. Of considerable bulk and
luxuriate v. To live sumptuously. malignant adj. Evil in nature or tending weight.
lying n. Untruthfulness. to do great harm or mischief. masterpiece n. A superior production.
lyre n. One of the most ancient of malleable adj. Pliant. mastery n. The attainment of superior
stringed instruments of the harp mallet n. A wooden hammer. skill.
class. maltreat v. To treat ill, unkindly, material n. That of which anything is
lyric adj. Fitted for expression in roughly, or abusively. composed or may be constructed.
song. man-trap n. A place or structure materialize v. To take perceptible or
macadamize v. To cover or pave, as dangerous to human life. substantial form.
a path or roadway, with small mandate n. A command. maternal adj. Pertaining or peculiar to
broken stone. mandatory adj. Expressive of positive a mother or to motherhood.
machinery n. The parts of a machine command, as distinguished from matinee n. An entertainment
or engine, taken collectively. merely directory. especially theatrical) held in the
daytime.
matricide n. The killing, especially mercantile adj. Conducted or acting on migrate v. To remove or pass from one
the murdering, of one's mother. business principles; commercial. country, region, or habitat to another.
matrimony n. The union of a man mercenary adj. Greedy migratory adj. Wandering.
and a woman in marriage. merciful adj. Disposed to pity and mileage n. A distance in miles.
100 forgive. militant adj. Of a warlike or combative
merciless adj. Cruel. disposition or tendency.
matrix n. That which contains and meretricious adj. Alluring by false or militarism n. A policy of maintaining
gives shape or form to anything. gaudy show. great standing armies.
matter of fact n. Something that has mesmerize v. To hypnotize. militate v. To have weight or influence
actual and undeniable existence or messieurs n. pl. Gentlemen. in determining a question).
reality. metal n. An element that forms a base militia n. Those citizens, collectively,
maudlin adj. Foolishly and tearfully by combining with oxygen, is usually who are enrolled and drilled in
affectionate. hard, heavy, and lustrous. temporary military organizations.
mausoleum n. A tomb of more than metallurgy n. The art or science of Milky Way n. The galaxy.
ordinary size or architectural extracting a metal from ores, as by millet n. A grass cultivated for forage
pretensions. smelting. and cereal.
mawkish adj. Sickening or insipid. metamorphosis n. A passing from one mimic v. To imitate the speech or
maxim n. A principle accepted as form or shape into another. actions of.
true and acted on as a rule or guide. metaphor n. A figure of speech in miniature adj. Much smaller than
maze n. A labyrinth. which one object is likened to another, reality or that the normal size.
mead n. A meadow. by speaking as if the other. minimize v. To reduce to the smallest
meager adj. scanty. metaphysical adj. Philosophical. possible amount or degree.
mealy-mouthed adj. Afraid to metaphysician n. One skilled in minion n. A servile favorite.
express facts or opinions plainly. metaphysics. ministration n. Any religious
meander v. To wind and turn while metaphysics n. The principles of ceremonial.
proceeding in a course. philosophy as applied to explain the ministry n. A service.
mechanics n. The branch of physics methods of any particular science. minority n. The smaller in number of
that treats the phenomena caused mete v. To apportion. two portions into which a number or a
by the action of forces. metempsychosis n. Transition of the group is divided.
medallion n. A large medal. soul of a human being at death into minute adj. Exceedingly small in extent
meddlesome adj. Interfering. another body, whether human or beast. or quantity.
medial adj. Of or pertaining to the meticulous adj. Over-cautious. minutia n. A small or unimportant
middle. metonymy n. A figure of speech that particular or detail.
mediate v. To effect by negotiating consists in the naming of a thing by mirage n. An optical effect looking like
as an agent between parties. one of its attributes. a sheet of water in the desert.
medicine n. A substance metric adj. Relating to measurement. misadventure n. An unlucky accident.
possessing or reputed to possess metronome n. An instrument for 103
curative or remedial properties. indicating and marking exact time in
medieval adj. Belonging or relating music. misanthropic adj. Hating mankind.
to or descriptive of the middle ages. metropolis n. A chief city, either the misanthropy n. Hatred of mankind.
mediocre adj. Ordinary. capital or the largest or most important misapprehend v. To misunderstand.
meditation n. The turning or city of a state. misbehave v. To behave ill.
revolving of a subject in the mind. metropolitan adj. Pertaining to a chief misbehavior n. Ill or improper
medley n. A composition of different city. behavior.
songs or parts of songs arranged to mettle n. Courage. mischievous adj. Fond of tricks.
run as a continuous whole. mettlesome adj. Having courage or miscount v. To make a mistake in
meliorate v. To make better or spirit. counting.
improve, as in quality or social or microcosm n. The world or universe on miscreant n. A villain.
physical condition. a small scale. misdeed n. A wrong or improper act.
mellifluous adj. Sweetly or smoothly 102 misdemeanor n. Evil conduct, small
flowing. crime.
melodious adj. Characterized by a micrometer n. An instrument for miser n. A person given to saving and
sweet succession of sounds. measuring very small angles or hoarding unduly.
melodrama n. A drama with a dimensions. mishap n. Misfortune.
romantic story or plot and microphone n. An apparatus for misinterpret v. To misunderstand.
sensational situation and incidents. magnifying faint sounds. mislay v. To misplace.
memento n. A souvenir. microscope n. An instrument for mismanage v. To manage badly,
memorable adj. Noteworthy. assisting the eye in the vision of improperly, or unskillfully.
menace n. A threat. minute objects or features of objects. misnomer n. A name wrongly or
menagerie n. A collection of wild microscopic adj. Adapted to or mistakenly applied.
animals, especially when kept for characterized by minute observation. misogamy n. Hatred of marriage.
exhibition. microscopy n. The art of examing misogyny n. Hatred of women.
101 objects with the microscope. misplace v. To put into a wrong place.
midsummer n. The middle of the misrepresent v. To give a wrong
mendacious adj. Untrue. summer. impression.
mendicant n. A beggar. midwife n. A woman who makes a misrule v. To misgovern.
mentality n. Intellectuality. business of assisting at childbirth. missal n. The book containing the
mentor n. A wise and faithful mien n. The external appearance or service for the celebration of mass.
teacher, guide, and friend. manner of a person.
migrant adj. Wandering.
missile n. Any object, especially a monogram n. A character consisting of multiform adj. Having many shapes, or
weapon, thrown or intended to be two or more letters interwoven into appearances.
thrown. one, usually initials of a name. multiplicity n. the condition of being
missive n. A message in writing. 105 manifold or very various.
mistrust v. To regard with suspicion mundane adj. Worldly, as opposed to
or jealousy. monograph n. A treatise discussing a spiritual or celestial.
misty adj. Lacking clearness single subject or branch of a subject. municipal adj. Of or pertaining to a
misunderstand v. To Take in a monolith n. Any structure or sculpture town or city, or to its corporate or local
wrong sense. in stone formed of a single piece. government.
misuse v. To maltreat. monologue n. A story or drama told or municipality n. A district enjoying
mite n. A very small amount, performed by one person. municipal government.
portion, or particle. monomania n. The unreasonable munificence n. A giving characterized
104 pursuit of one idea. by generous motives and extraordinary
monopoly n. The control of a thing, as liberality.
miter n. The junction of two bodies a commodity, to enable a person to munificent adj. Extraordinarily
at an equally divided angle. raise its price. generous.
mitigate v. To make milder or more monosyllable n. A word of one syllable. muster n. An assemblage or review of
endurable. monotone n. The sameness or troops for parade or inspection, or for
mnemonics n. A system of monotony of utterance. numbering off.
principles and formulas designed to monotonous adj. Unchanging and mutation n. The act or process of
assist the recollection in certain tedious. change.
instances. monotony n. A lack of variety. mutilate v. To disfigure.
moat n. A ditch on the outside of a monsieur n. A French title of respect, mutiny n. Rebellion against lawful or
fortress wall. equivalent to Mr. and sir. constituted authority.
mobocracy n. Lawless control of monstrosity n. Anything unnaturally myriad n. A vast indefinite number.
public affairs by the mob or huge or distorted. mystic n. One who professes direct
populace. moonbeam n. A ray of moonlight. divine illumination, or relies upon
moccasin n. A foot-covering made morale n. A state of mind with meditation to acquire truth.
of soft leather or buckskin. reference to confidence, courage, zeal, mystification n. The act of artfully
mockery n. Ridicule. and the like. perplexing.
moderation n. Temperance. moralist n. A writer on ethics. myth n. A fictitious narrative presented
moderator n. The presiding officer morality n. Virtue. as historical, but without any basis of
of a meeting. moralize v. To render virtuous. fact.
modernity n. The state or character moratorium n. An emergency mythology n. The whole body of
of being modern. legislation authorizing a government legends cherished by a race
modernize v. To make characteristic suspend some action temporarily. concerning gods and heroes.
of the present or of recent times. morbid adj. Caused by or denoting a nameless adj. Having no fame or
modification n. A change. diseased or unsound condition of body reputation.
modify v. To make somewhat or mind. naphtha n. A light, colorless, volatile,
different. mordacious adj. Biting or giving to inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in
modish adj. Fashionable. biting. manufacture of paints.
modulate v. To vary in tone, mordant adj. Biting. Narcissus n. The son of the Athenian
inflection, pitch or other quality of moribund adj. On the point of dying. river-god Cephisus, fabled to have
sound. morose adj. Gloomy. fallen in love with his reflection.
mollify v. To soothe. morphology n. the science of organic narrate v. To tell a story.
molt v. To cast off, as hair, feathers, forms. narration n. The act of recounting the
etc. motley adj. Composed of particulars of an event in the order of
momentary adj. Lasting but a short heterogeneous or inharmonious time or occurrence.
time. elements. narrative n. An orderly continuous
momentous adj. Very significant. motto n. An expressive word or pithy account of the successive particulars
momentum n. An impetus. sentence enunciating some guiding of an event.
monarchy n. Government by a rule of life, or faith. narrator n. One who narrates anything.
single, sovereign ruler. mountaineer n. One who travels among narrow-minded adj. Characterized by
monastery n. A dwelling-place or climbs mountains for pleasure or illiberal views or sentiments.
occupied in common by persons exercise. nasal adj. Pertaining to the nose.
under religious vows of seclusion. mountainous adj. Full of or abounding natal adj. Pertaining to one's birth.
monetary adj. Financial. in mountains. 107
mongrel n. The progeny resulting mouthful n. As much as can be or is
from the crossing of different usually put into the or exercise. nationality n. A connection with a
breeds or varieties. muddle v. To confuse or becloud, particular nation.
monition n. Friendly counsel given especially with or as with drink. naturally adv. According to the usual
by way of warning and implying 106 order of things.
caution or reproof. nausea n. An affection of the stomach
monitory n. Admonition or warning. muffle v. To deaden the sound of, as producing dizziness and usually an
monocracy n. Government by a by wraps. impulse to vomit
single person. mulatto n. The offspring of a white nauseate v. To cause to loathe.
monogamy n. The habit of pairing, person and a black person. nauseous adj. Loathsome.
or having but one mate. muleteer n. A mule-driver. nautical adj. Pertaining to ships,
seamen, or navigation.
naval adj. Pertaining to ships.
navel n. The depression on the neophyte adj. Having the character of a novellette n. A short novel.
abdomen where the umbilical cord beginner. novice n. A beginner in any business
of the fetus was attached. nestle v. To adjust cozily in snug or occupation.
navigable adj. Capable of quarters. nowadays adv. In the present time or
commercial navigation. nestling adj. Recently hatched. age.
navigate v. To traverse by ship. nettle v. To excite sensations of nowhere adv. In no place or state.
nebula n. A gaseous body of uneasiness or displeasure in. noxious adj. Hurtful.
unorganized stellar substance. network n. Anything that presents a nuance n. A slight degree of difference
necessary adj. Indispensably system of cross- lines. in anything perceptible to the sense of
requisite or absolutely needed to neural adj. Pertaining to the nerves or the mind.
accomplish a desired result. nervous system. nucleus n. A central point or part about
necessitate v. To render neurology n. The science of the which matter is aggregated.
indispensable. nervous system. nude adj. Naked.
necessity n. That which is neuter adj. Neither masculine nor nugatory adj. Having no power or
indispensably requisite to an end feminine. force.
desired. neutral adj. Belonging to or under nuisance n. That which annoys, vexes,
necrology n. A list of persons who control of neither of two contestants. or irritates.
have died in a certain place or time. nevertheless conj. Notwithstanding. 110
necromancer n. One who practices Newtonian adj. Of or pertaining to Sir
the art of foretelling the future by Isaac Newton, the English philosopher. numeration n. The act or art of reading
means of communication with the niggardly adj. Stingy. no longer or naming numbers.
dead. acceptable to use) numerical adj. Of or pertaining to
necropolis n. A city of the dead. nihilist n. An advocate of the doctrine number.
necrosis n. the death of part of the that nothing either exists or can be nunnery n. A convent for nuns.
body. known. nuptial adj. Of or pertaining to
nectar n. Any especially sweet and nil n. Nothing marriage, especially to the marriage
delicious drink. nimble adj. Light and quick in motion ceremony.
nectarine n. A variety of the peach. or action. nurture n. The process of fostering or
needlework n. Embroidery. nit n. The egg of a louse or some other promoting growth.
needy adj. Being in need, want, or insect. nutriment n. That which nourishes.
poverty. nocturnal adj. Of or pertaining to the nutritive adj. Having nutritious
nefarious adj. Wicked in the night. properties.
extreme. noiseless adj. Silent. oaken adj. Made of or from oak.
negate v. To deny. noisome adj. Very offensive, oakum n. Hemp-fiber obtained by
negation n. The act of denying or of particularly to the sense of smell. untwisting and picking out loosely the
asserting the falsity of a noisy adj. Clamorous. yarns of old hemp rope.
proposition. 109 obdurate adj. Impassive to feelings of
neglectful adj. Exhibiting or humanity or pity.
indicating omission. nomad adj. Having no fixed abode. obelisk n. A square shaft with
negligee n. A loose gown worn by nomic adj. Usual or customary. pyramidal top, usually monumental or
women. nominal adj. Trivial. commemorative.
negligence n. Omission of that nominate v. To designate as a obese adj. Exceedingly fat.
which ought to be done. candidate for any office. obesity n. Excessive fatness.
negligent adj. Apt to omit what nomination n. The act or ceremony of obituary adj. A published notice of a
ought to be done. naming a man or woman for office. death.
108 nominee n. One who receives a objective adj. Grasping and
nomination. representing facts as they are.
negligible adj. Transferable by non-existent n. That which does not objector n. One who objects, as to a
assignment, endorsement, or exist. proposition, measure, or ruling.
delivery. non-resident adj. Not residing within a obligate v. To hold to the fulfillment of
negotiable v. To bargain with others given jurisdiction. duty.
for an agreement, as for a treaty or nonchalance n. A state of mind obligatory adj. Binding in law or
transfer of property. indicating lack of interest. conscience.
Nemesis n. A goddess; divinity of non-combatant n. One attached to the oblique adj. Slanting; said of lines.
chastisement and vengeance. army or navy, but having duties other obliterate v. To cause to disappear.
neocracy n. Government than that of fighting. oblivion n. The state of having passed
administered by new or untried nondescript adj. Indescribable. out of the memory or of being utterly
persons. nonentity n. A person or thing of little forgotten.
neo-Darwinsim n. Darwinism as or no account. oblong adj. Longer than broad: applied
modified and extended by more nonpareil n. One who or that which is most commonly to rectangular objects
recent students. of unequaled excellence. considerably elongated
neo-Latin n. Modernized Latin. norm n. A model. obnoxious adj. Detestable.
neopaganism n. A new or revived normalcy n. The state of being normal. obsequies n. Funeral rites.
paganism. Norman adj. Of or peculiar to obsequious adj. Showing a servile
Neolithic adj. Pertaining to the later Normandy, in northern France. readiness to fall in with the wishes or
stone age. nostrum n. Any scheme or recipe of a will of another.
neology n. The coining or using of charlatan character. observance n. A traditional form or
new words or new meanings of noticeable adj. Perceptible. customary act.
words. notorious adj. Unfavorably known to observant adj. Quick to notice.
the general public.
observatory n. A building designed odoriferous adj. Having or diffusing an opportunist n. One who takes
for systematic astronomical odor or scent, especially an agreeable advantage of circumstances to gain his
observations. one. ends.
obsolescence n. The condition or 112 opportunity n. Favorable or
process of gradually falling into advantageous chance or opening.
disuse. odorous adj. Having an odor, opposite adj. Radically different or
111 especially a fragrant one. contrary in action or movement.
off adj. Farther or more distant. opprobrium n. The state of being
obsolescent adj. Passing out of use, offhand adv. Without preparation. scornfully reproached or accused of
as a word. officiate v. To act as an officer or evil.
obsolete adj. No longer practiced or leader. optic n. Pertaining to the eye or vision.
accepted. officious adj. Intermeddling with what optician n. One who makes or deals in
obstetrician n. A practitioner of is not one's concern. optical instruments or eye-glasses.
midwifery. offshoot n. Something that branches optics n. The science that treats of
obstetrics n. The branch of medical off from the parent stock. light and vision, and all that is
science concerned with the ogre n. A demon or monster that was connected with sight.
treatment and care of women during supposed to devour human beings. optimism n. The view that everything in
pregnancy. ointment n. A fatty preparation with a nature and the history of mankind is
obstinacy n. Stubborn adherence to butter-like consistency in which a ordered for the best.
opinion, arising from conceit or the medicinal substance exists. option n. The right, power, or liberty of
desire to have one's own way. olfactory adj. of or pertaining to the choosing.
obstreperous adj. Boisterous. sense of smell. optometry n. Measurement of the
obstruct v. To fill with impediments olive-branch n. A branch of the olive- powers of vision.
so as to prevent passage, either tree, as an emblem of peace. opulence n. Affluence.
wholly or in part. ominous adj. Portentous. opulent adj. Wealthy.
obstruction n. Hindrance. omission n. Exclusion. oral adj. Uttered through the mouth.
obtrude v. To be pushed or to push omnipotence n. Unlimited and orate v. To deliver an elaborate or
oneself into undue prominence. universal power. formal public speech.
obtrusive adj. Tending to be pushed Omnipotent adj. Possessed of oration n. An elaborate or formal public
or to push oneself into undue unlimited and universal power. speech.
prominence. omniscience n. Unlimited or infinite orator n. One who delivers an
obvert v. To turn the front or knowledge. elaborate or formal speech.
principal side of a thing) toward any omniscient adj. Characterized by oratorio n. A composition for solo
person or object. unlimited or infinite knowledge. voices, chorus, and orchestra,
obviate v. To clear away or provide omnivorous adj. Eating or living upon generally taken from the Scriptures.
for, as an objection or difficulty. food of all kinds indiscriminately. oratory n. The art of public speaking.
occasion n. An important event or onerous adj. Burdensome or ordeal n. Anything that severely tests
celebration. oppressive. courage, strength, patience,
Occident n. The countries lying west onrush n. Onset. conscience, etc.
of Asia and the Turkish dominions. onset n. An assault, especially of ordinal n. That form of the numeral that
occlude v. To absorb, as a gas by a troops, upon an enemy or fortification. shows the order of anything in a
metal. onslaught n. A violent onset. series, as first, second, third.
occult adj. Existing but not onus n. A burden or responsibility. ordination n. A consecration to the
immediately perceptible. opalescence n. The property of ministry.
occupant n. A tenant in possession combined refraction and reflection of ordnance n. A general name for all
of property, as distinguished from light, resulting in smoky tints. kinds of weapons and their appliances
the actual owner. opaque adj. Impervious to light. used in war.
occurrence n. A happening. operate v. To put in action and orgies n. Wild or wanton revelry.
octagon n. A figure with eight sides supervise the working of. origin n. The beginning of that which
and eight angles. operative adj. Active. becomes or is made to be.
octave n. A note at this interval operator n. One who works with or original adj. Not copied nor produced
above or below any other, controls some machine or scientific by imitation.
considered in relation to that other. apparatus. originate v. To cause or constitute the
octavo n. A book, or collection of operetta n. A humorous play in beginning or first stage of the
paper in which the sheets are so dialogue and music, of more than one existence of.
folded as to make eight leaves. act. ornate adj. Ornamented to a marked
octogenarian adj. A person of opinion n. A conclusion or judgment degree.
between eighty and ninety years. held with confidence, but falling short 114
ocular adj. Of or pertaining to the of positive knowledge.
eye. 113 orthodox adj. Holding the commonly
oculist n. One versed or skilled in accepted faith.
treating diseases of the eye. opponent n. One who supports the orthodoxy n. Acceptance of the
oddity n. An eccentricity. opposite side in a debate, discussion, common faith.
ode n. The form of lyric poetry struggle, or sport. orthogonal adj. Having or determined
anciently intended to be sung. opportune adj. Especially fit as by right angles.
odious adj. Hateful. occurring, said, or done at the right orthopedic adj. Relating to the
odium n. A feeling of extreme moment. correcting or preventing of deformity
repugnance, or of dislike and orthopedist n. One who practices the
disgust. correcting or preventing of deformity
oscillate v. To swing back and forth.
osculate v. To kiss. overproduction n. Excessive pantomime n. Sign-language.
ossify v. to convert into bone. production. pantoscope n. A very wide-angled
ostentation n. A display dictated by overreach v. To stretch out too far. photographic lens.
vanity and intended to invite overrun v. To infest or ravage. papacy n. The official head of the
applause or flattery. oversee v. To superintend. Roman Catholic Church.
ostracism n. Exclusion from overseer n. A supervisor. 117
intercourse or favor, as in society or overshadow v. To cast into the shade
politics. or render insignificant by comparison. papyrus n. The writing-paper of the
ostracize v. To exclude from public overstride v. To step beyond. ancient Egyptians, and later of the
or private favor. overthrow v. To vanquish an Romans.
ought v. To be under moral established ruler or government. parable n. A brief narrative founded on
obligation to be or do. overtone n. A harmonic. real scenes or events usually with a
oust v. To eject. overture n. An instrumental prelude to moral.
out-and-out adv. Genuinely. an opera, oratorio, or ballet. paradox n. A statement or doctrine
outbreak n. A sudden and violent overweight n. Preponderance. seemingly in contradiction to the
breaking forth, as of something that pacify v. To bring into a peaceful state. received belief.
has been pent up or restrained. packet n. A bundle, as of letters. paragon n. A model of excellence.
outburst n. A violent issue, pact n. A covenant. parallel v. To cause to correspond or
especially of passion in an 116 lie in the same direction and
individual. equidistant in all parts.
outcast n. One rejected and pagan n. A worshiper of false gods. parallelism n. Essential likeness.
despised, especially socially. pageant n. A dramatic representation, paralysis n. Loss of the power of
outcry n. A vehement or loud cry or especially a spectacular one. contractility in the voluntary or
clamor. palate n. The roof of the mouth. involuntary muscles.
outdo v. To surpass. palatial adj. Magnificent. paralyze v. To deprive of the power to
outlandish adj. Of barbarous, paleontology n. The branch of biology act.
uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or that treats of ancient life and fossil paramount adj. Supreme in authority.
action. organisms. paramour n. One who is unlawfully and
outlast v. To last longer than. palette n. A thin tablet, with a hole for immorally a lover or a mistress.
outlaw n. A habitual lawbreaker. the thumb, upon which artists lay their paraphernalia n. Miscellaneous articles
outlive v. To continue to exist after. colors for painting. of equipment or adornment.
out-of-the-way adj. Remotely palinode n. A retraction. paraphrase v. Translate freely.
situated. pall v. To make dull by satiety. pare v. To cut, shave, or remove the
outpost n. A detachment of troops palliate v. To cause to appear less outside) from anything.
stationed at a distance from the guilty. parentage n. The relation of parent to
main body to guard against pallid adj. Of a pale or wan appearance. child, of the producer to the produced,
surprise. palpable n. perceptible by feeling or or of cause to effect.
outrage n. A gross infringement of touch. Pariah n. A member of a degraded
morality or decency. palsy n. Paralysis. class; a social outcast.
outrageous adj. Shocking in paly adj. Lacking color or brilliancy. parish n. The ecclesiastical district in
conduct. pamphlet n. A brief treatise or essay, charge of a pastor.
outreach v. To reach or go beyond. usually on a subject of current interest. Parisian adj. Of or pertaining to the city
outride v. To ride faster than. pamphleteer v. To compose or issue of Paris.
115 pamphlets, especially controversial parity n. Equality, as of condition or
ones. rank.
outrigger n. A part built or arranged panacea n. A remedy or medicine parlance n. Mode of speech.
to project beyond a natural outline proposed for or professing to cure all parley v. To converse in.
for support. diseases. parliament n. A legislative body.
outright adv. Entirely. Pan-American adj. Including or parlor n. A room for reception of
outskirt n. A border region. pertaining to the whole of America, callers or entertainment of guests.
outstretch v. To extend. both North and South. parody v. To render ludicrous by
outstrip v. To go beyond. pandemic adj. Affecting a whole people imitating the language of.
outweigh v. To surpass in or all classes, as a disease. paronymous adj. Derived from the
importance or excellence. pandemonium n. A fiendish or riotous same root or primitive word.
overdo v. To overtax the strength of. uproar. paroxysm n. A sudden outburst of any
overdose n. An excessive dose, panegyric n. A formal and elaborate kind of activity.
usually so large a dose of a eulogy, written or spoken, of a person parricide n. The murder of a parent.
medicine that its effect is toxic. or of an act. parse v. To describe, as a sentence, by
overeat v. To eat to excess. panel n. A rectangular piece set in or separating it into its elements and
overhang n. A portion of a structure as in a frame. describing each word.
which projects or hangs over. panic n. A sudden, unreasonable, parsimonious adj. Unduly sparing in
overleap v. To leap beyond. overpowering fear. the use or expenditure of money.
overlord n. One who holds panoply n. A full set of armor. partible adj. Separable.
supremacy over another. panorama n. A series of large pictures 118
overpass v. To pass across or over, representing a continuous scene.
as a river. pantheism n. The worship of nature for participant n. One having a share or
overpay v. To pay or reward in itself or its beauty. part.
excess. Pantheon n. A circular temple at Rome participate v. To receive or have a part
overpower v. To gain supremacy or with a fine Corinthian portico and a or share of.
victory over by superior power. great domed roof.
partition n. That which separates pedigree n. One's line of ancestors. percipient n. One who or that which
anything into distinct parts. peddler n. One who travels from house perceives.
partisan adj. Characterized by or to house with an assortment of goods percolate v. To filter.
exhibiting undue or unreasoning for retail. percolator n. A filter.
devotion to a party. peerage n. The nobility. percussion n. The sharp striking of one
passible adj. Capable of feeling of peerless adj. Of unequaled excellence body against another.
suffering. or worth. peremptory adj. Precluding question or
passive adj. Unresponsive. peevish adj. Petulant. irritable) appeal.
pastoral adj. Having the spirit or pellucid adj. Translucent. perennial adj. Continuing though the
sentiment of rural life. penalty n. The consequences that year or through many years.
paternal adj. Fatherly. follow the transgression of natural or perfectible adj. Capable of being made
paternity n. Fatherhood. divine law. perfect.
pathos n. The quality in any form of penance n. Punishment to which one perfidy n. Treachery.
representation that rouses emotion voluntarily submits or subjects himself perforate v. To make a hole or holes
or sympathy. as an expression of penitence. through.
patriarch n. The chief of a tribe or penchant n. A bias in favor of perform v. To accomplish.
race who rules by paternal right. something. perfumery n. The preparation of
patrician adj. Of senatorial or noble pendant n. Anything that hangs from perfumes.
rank. something else, either for ornament or perfunctory adj. Half-hearted.
patrimony n. An inheritance from an for use. perhaps adv. Possibly.
ancestor, especially from one's pendulous adj. Hanging, especially so perigee n. The point in the orbit of the
father. as to swing by an attached end or part. moon when it is nearest the earth.
patriotism n. Love and devotion to pendulum n. A weight hung on a rod, 121
one's country. serving by its oscillation to regulate
patronize v. To exercise an arrogant the rate of a clock. periodicity n. The habit or
condescension toward. penetrable adj. That may be pierced by characteristic of recurrence at regular
patronymic adj. Formed after one's physical, moral, or intellectual force. intervals.
father's name. penetrate v. To enter or force a way peripatetic adj. Walking about.
patter v. To mumble something over into the interior parts of. perjure v. To swear falsely to.
and over. penetration n. Discernment. perjury n. A solemn assertion of a
paucity n. Fewness. peninsular adj. Pertaining to a piece of falsity.
pauper n. One without means of land almost surrounded by water. permanence n. A continuance in the
support. penitence n. Sorrow for sin with desire same state, or without any change that
pauperism n. Dependence on to amend and to atone. destroys the essential form or nature.
charity. penitential adj. Pertaining to sorrow for permanent adj. Durable.
pavilion n. An open structure for sin with desire to amend and to atone. permeate v. To pervade.
temporary shelter. pennant n. A small flag. permissible adj. That may be allowed.
payee n. A person to whom money pension n. A periodical allowance to an permutation n. Reciprocal change,
has been or is to be paid. individual on account of past service different ordering of same items.
peaceable adj. Tranquil. done by him/her. pernicious adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
peaceful adj. Tranquil. 120 perpendicular adj. Straight up and
peccable adj. Capable of sinning. down.
peccadillo n. A small breach of pentagram n. A figure having five perpetrator n. The doer of a wrong or a
propriety or principle. points or lobes. criminal act.
peccant adj. Guilty. pentavalent adj. Quinqeuvalent. perpetuate v. To preserve from
pectoral adj. Pertaining to the breast pentad n. The number five. extinction or oblivion.
or thorax. pentagon n. A figure, especially, with perquisite n. Any profit from service
pecuniary adj. Consisting of money. five angles and five sides. beyond the amount fixed as salary or
119 pentahedron n. A solid bounded by wages.
five plane faces. persecution n. Harsh or malignant
pedagogics n. The science and art pentameter n. In prosody, a line of oppression.
of teaching. verse containing five units or feet. perseverance n. A persistence in
pedagogue n. A schoolmaster. pentathlon n. The contest of five purpose and effort.
pedagogy n. The science and art of associated exercises in the great persevere v. To continue striving in
teaching games and the same contestants. spite of discouragements.
pedal n. A lever for the foot usually penultimate adj. A syllable or member persiflage n. Banter.
applied only to musical instruments, of a series that is last but one. persist v. To continue steadfast
cycles, and other machines. penurious adj. Excessively sparing in against opposition.
pedant n. A scholar who makes the use of money. persistence n. A fixed adherence to a
needless and inopportune display of penury n. Indigence. resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
his learning. perambulate v. To walk about. personage n. A man or woman as an
peddle v. To go about with a small perceive v. To have knowledge of, or individual, especially one of rank or
stock of goods to sell. receive impressions concerning, high station.
pedestal n. A base or support as for through the medium of the body personal adj. Not general or public.
a column, statue, or vase. senses. personality n. The attributes, taken
pedestrian n. One who journeys on perceptible adj. Cognizable. collectively, that make up the character
foot. perception n. Knowledge through the and nature of an individual.
pediatrics n. The department of senses of the existence and properties personnel n. The force of persons
medical science that relates to the of matter or the external world. collectively employed in some service.
treatment of diseases of childhood. percipience n. The act of perceiving.
perspective n. The relative 123 pincers n. An instrument having two
importance of facts or matters from lever-handles and two jaws working on
any special point of view. philanthropic adj. Benevolent. a pivot.
perspicacious adj. Astute. philanthropist n. One who endeavors pinchers n. An instrument having two
perspicacity n. Acuteness or to help his fellow men. jaws working on a pivot.
discernment. philanthropy n. Active pinnacle n. A high or topmost point, as
perspicuous adj. Lucid. humanitarianism. a mountain-peak.
perspiration n. Sweat. philately n. The study and collection of pioneer n. One among the first to
122 stamps. explore a country.
philharmonic adj. Fond of music. pious adj. Religious.
perspire v. To excrete through the philogynist n. One who is fond of pique v. To excite a slight degree of
pores of the skin. women. anger in.
persuade v. To win the mind of by philologist n. An expert in linguistics. piteous adj. Compassionate.
argument, eloquence, evidence, or philology n. The study of language in pitiable adj. Contemptible.
reflection. connection with history and literature. pitiful adj. Wretched.
persuadable adj. capable of philosophize v. To seek ultimate pitiless adj. Hard-hearted.
influencing to action by entreaty, causes and principles. pittance n. Any small portion or
statement, or anything that moves philosophy n. The general principles, meager allowance.
the feelings. laws, or causes that furnish the placate v. To bring from a state of
pertinacious adj. Persistent or rational explanation of anything. angry or hostile feeling to one of
unyielding. phlegmatic adj. Not easily roused to patience or friendliness.
pertinacity n. Unyielding adherence. feeling or action. placid adj. Serene.
pertinent adj. Relevant. phonetic adj. Representing articulate plagiarism n. The stealing of passages
perturb v. To disturb greatly. sounds or speech. from the writings of another and
perturbation n. Mental excitement or phonic adj. Pertaining to the nature of publishing them as one's own.
confusion. sound. planisphere n. A polar projection of the
perusal n. The act of reading phonogram n. A graphic character heavens on a chart.
carefully or thoughtfully. symbolizing an articulate sound. plasticity n. The property of some
pervade v. To pass or spread phonology n. The science of human substances through which the form of
through every part. vocal sounds. the mass can readily be changed.
pervasion n. The state of spreading phosphorescence n. The property of platitude n. A written or spoken
through every part. emitting light. statement that is flat, dull, or
pervasive adj. Thoroughly photoelectric adj. Pertaining to the commonplace.
penetrating or permeating. combined action of light and plaudit n. An expression of applause.
perverse adj. Unreasonable. electricity. plausible adj. Seeming likely to be true,
perversion n. Diversion from the photometer n. Any instrument for though open to doubt.
true meaning or proper purpose. measuring the intensity of light or playful adj. Frolicsome.
perversity n. Wickedness. comparing the intensity of two lights. playwright n. A maker of plays for the
pervert n. One who has forsaken a photometry n. The art of measuring the stage.
doctrine regarded as true for one intensity of light. plea n. An argument to obtain some
esteemed false. physicist n. A specialist in the science desired action.
pervious adj. Admitting the entrance that treats of the phenomena pleasant adj. Agreeable.
or passage of another substance. associated with matter and energy. pleasurable adj. Affording gratification.
pestilence n. A raging epidemic. physics n. The science that treats of plebeian adj. Common.
pestilent adj. Having a malign the phenomena associated with matter pledgee n. The person to whom
influence or effect. and energy. anything is pledged.
pestilential adj. having the nature of physiocracy n. The doctrine that land 125
or breeding pestilence. and its products are the only true
peter v. To fail or lose power, wealth. pledgeor n. One who gives a pledge.
efficiency, or value. physiognomy n. The external plenary adj. Entire.
petrify v. To convert into a appearance merely. plenipotentiary n. A person fully
substance of stony hardness and physiography n. Description of nature. empowered to transact any business.
character. physiology n. The science of organic plenitude n. Abundance.
petulance n. The character or functions. plenteous adj. Abundant.
condition of being impatient, physique n. The physical structure or plumb n. A weight suspended by a line
capricious or petulant. organization of a person. to test the verticality of something.
petulant adj. Displaying impatience. picayune adj. Of small value. plummet n. A piece of lead for making
pharmacopoeia n. A book piccolo n. A small flute. soundings, adjusting walls to the
containing the formulas and piece n. A loose or separated part, as vertical.
methods of preparation of distinguished from the whole or the pluperfect adj. Expressing past time or
medicines for the use of druggists. mass. action prior to some other past time or
pharmacy n. The art or business of 124 action.
compounding and dispensing plural adj. Containing or consisting of
medicines. piecemeal adv. Gradually. more than one.
phenomenal adj. Extraordinary or pillage n. Open robbery, as in war. plurality n. A majority.
marvelous. pillory n. A wooden framework in plutocracy n. A wealthy class in a
phenomenon n. Any unusual which an offender is fastened to political community who control the
occurrence. boards and is exposed to public scorn. government by means of their money.
philander v. To play at courtship pneumatic adj. Pertaining to or
with a woman. consisting of air or gas.
poesy n. Poetry. positive adj. Free from doubt or predicament n. A difficult, trying
poetaster n. An inferior poet. hesitation. situation or plight.
poetic adj. Pertaining to poetry. posse n. A force of men. predicate v. To state as belonging to
poetics n. The rules and principles possess v. To own. something.
of poetry. possession n. The having, holding, or predict v. To foretell.
poignancy n. Severity or acuteness, detention of property in one's power or prediction n. A prophecy.
especially of pain or grief. command. 128
poignant adj. Severely painful or possessive adj. Pertaining to the
acute to the spirit. having, holding, or detention of predominance n. Ascendancy or
poise n. Equilibrium. property in one's power or command. preponderance.
polar adj. Pertaining to the poles of possessor n. One who owns, enjoys, predominant adj. Superior in power,
a sphere, especially of the earth. or controls anything, as property. influence, effectiveness, number, or
polemics n. The art of controversy possible adj. Being not beyond the degree.
or disputation. reach of power natural, moral, or predominate v. To be chief in
pollen n. The fine dust-like grains or supernatural. importance, quantity, or degree.
powder formed within the anther of postdate v. To make the date of any preeminence n. Special eminence.
a flowering plant. writing later than the real date. preempt v. To secure the right of
pollute v. To contaminate. posterior n. The hinder part. preference in the purchase of public
polyarchy n. Government by several postgraduate adj. Pertaining to studies land.
or many persons of what- ever that are pursued after receiving a preemption n. The right or act of
class. degree. purchasing before others.
polycracy n. The rule of many. postscript n. Something added to a preengage v. To preoccupy.
polygamy n. the fact or condition of letter after the writer's signature. preestablish v. To settle or arrange
having more than one wife or potency n. Power. beforehand.
husband at once. potent adj. Physically powerful. preexist v. To exist at a period or in a
polyglot adj. Speaking several 127 state earlier than something else.
tongues. preexistence n. Existence antecedent
polygon n. A figure having many potentate n. One possessed of great to something.
angles. power or sway. preface n. A brief explanation or
polyhedron n. A solid bounded by potential n. Anything that may be address to the reader, at the beginning
plane faces, especially by more than possible. of a book.
four. potion n. A dose of liquid medicine. prefatory adj. Pertaining to a brief
126 powerless adj. Impotent. explanation to the reader at the
practicable adj. Feasible. beginning of a book.
polysyllable adj. Having several prate v. To talk about vainly or prefer v. To hold in higher estimation.
syllables, especially more than three foolishly. preferable adj. More desirable than
syllables. prattle v. To utter in simple or childish others.
polytechnic adj. Pertaining to, talk. preference n. An object of favor or
embracing, or practicing many arts. preamble n. A statement introductory choice.
polytheism n. The doctrine or belief to and explanatory of what follows. preferential adj. Possessing, giving, or
that there are more gods than one. precarious adj. Perilous. constituting preference or priority.
pommel v. To beat with something precaution n. A provision made in preferment n. Preference.
thick or bulky. advance for some possible emergency prefix v. To attach at the beginning.
pomposity n. The quality of being or danger. prehensible adj. Capable of being
marked by an assumed stateliness precede v. To happen first. grasped.
and impressiveness of manner. precedence n. Priority in place, time, or prehensile adj. Adapted for grasping or
pompous adj. Marked by an rank. holding.
assumed stateliness and precedent n. An instance that may prehension n. The act of laying hold of
impressiveness of manner. serve as a guide or basis for a rule. or grasping.
ponder v. To meditate or reflect precedential adj. Of the nature of an prejudice n. A judgment or opinion
upon. instance that may serve as a guide or formed without due examination of the
ponderous adj. Unusually weighty basis for a rule. facts.
or forcible. precession n. The act of going forward. prelacy n. A system of church
pontiff n. The Pope. precipice n. A high and very steep or government.
populace n. The common people. approximately vertical cliff. prelate n. One of a higher order of
populous adj. Containing many precipitant adj. Moving onward quickly clergy having direct authority over
inhabitants, especially in proportion and heedlessly. other clergy.
to the territory. precipitate v. To force forward prelude n. An introductory or opening
portend v. To indicate as being prematurely. performance.
about to happen, especially by precise adj. Exact. premature adj. Coming too soon.
previous signs. precision n. Accuracy of limitation, premier adj. First in rank or position.
portent n. Anything that indicates definition, or adjustment. premise n. A judgment as a
what is to happen. preclude v. To prevent. conclusion.
portfolio n. A portable case for precocious adj. Having the mental premonition n. Foreboding.
holding writing-materials, drawings, faculties prematurely developed. 129
etc. precursor n. A forerunner or herald.
posit v. To present in an orderly predatory adj. Prone to pillaging. preoccupation n. The state of having
manner. predecessor n. An incumbent of a the mind, attention, or inclination
position n. The manner in which a given office previous to another. preoccupied.
thing is placed.
preoccupy v. To fill the mind of a priory n. A monastic house. prohibitory adj. Involving or equivalent
person to the exclusion of other pristine adj. Primitive. to prohibition, especially of the sale of
subjects. privateer n. A vessel owned and alcoholic beverages.
preordain v. To foreordain. officered by private persons, but projection n. A prominence.
preparation n. An act or proceeding carrying on maritime war. proletarian n. A person of the lowest or
designed to bring about some privilege n. A right or immunity not poorest class.
event. enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed prolific adj. Producing offspring or
preparatory adj. Having to do with only under special conditions. fruit.
what is preliminary. privity n. Knowledge shared with prolix adj. Verbose.
preponderant adj. Prevalent. another or others regarding a private prologue n. A prefatory statement or
preponderate v. To exceed in matter. explanation to a poem, discourse, or
influence or power. privy adj. Participating with another or performance.
prepossession n. A preconceived others in the knowledge of a secret prolong v. To extend in time or
liking. transaction. duration.
preposterous adj. Utterly ridiculous probate adj. Relating to making proof, promenade v. To walk for amusement
or absurd. as of a will. or exercise.
prerogative adj. Having superior probation n. Any proceeding designed prominence n. The quality of being
rank or precedence. to ascertain or test character, noticeable or distinguished.
presage v. To foretell. qualification, or the like. prominent adj. Conspicuous in
prescience n. Knowledge of events probe v. To search through and position, character, or importance.
before they take place. through. promiscuous adj. Brought together
prescient adj. Foreknowing. probity n. Virtue or integrity tested and without order, distinction, or design
prescript adj. Prescribed as a rule or confirmed. for sex).
model. procedure n. A manner or method of promissory adj. Expressing an
prescriptible adj. Derived from acting. engagement to pay.
authoritative direction. proceed v. To renew motion or action, promontory n. A high point of land
prescription n. An authoritative as after rest or interruption. extending outward from the coastline
direction. proclamation n. Any announcement into the sea.
presentient adj. Perceiving or made in a public manner. 132
feeling beforehand. procrastinate v. To put off till tomorrow
presentiment n. Foreboding. or till a future time. promoter n. A furtherer, forwarder, or
presentment n. Semblance. procrastination n. Delay. encourager.
preservation n. Conservation. proctor n. An agent acting for another. promulgate v. To proclaim.
presumption n. That which may be prodigal n. One wasteful or propaganda n. Any institution or
logically assumed to be true until extravagant, especially in the use of systematic scheme for propagating a
disproved. money or property. doctrine or system.
presumptuous adj. Assuming too prodigious adj. Immense. propagate v. To spread abroad or from
much. 131 person to person.
pretension n. A bold or propel v. To drive or urge forward.
presumptuous assertion. prodigy n. A person or thing of very propellant adj. Propelling.
pretentious adj. Marked by pretense, remarkable gifts or qualities. propeller n. One who or that which
conceit, or display. productive adj. Yielding in abundance. propels.
preternatural adj. Extraordinary. profession n. Any calling or prophecy n. Any prediction or
pretext n. A fictitious reason or occupation involving special mental or foretelling.
motive. other special disciplines. prophesy v. To predict or foretell,
prevalence n. Frequency. professor n. A public teacher of the especially under divine inspiration and
prevalent adj. Of wide extent or highest grade in a university or guidance.
frequent occurrence. college. propitious adj. Kindly disposed.
prevaricate v. To use ambiguous or proffer v. To offer to another for proportionate adj. Being in proportion.
evasive language for the purpose of acceptance. propriety n. Accordance with
deceiving or diverting attention. proficiency n. An advanced state of recognized usage, custom, or
130 acquirement, as in some knowledge, principles.
art, or science. propulsion n. A driving onward or
prevention n. Thwarting. proficient adj. Possessing ample and forward.
prickle v. To puncture slightly with ready knowledge or of skill in any art, prosaic adj. Unimaginative.
fine, sharp points. science, or industry. proscenium n. That part of the stage
priggish adj. Conceited. profile n. An outline or contour. between the curtain and the orchestra.
prim adj. Stiffly proper. profiteer n. One who profits. proscribe v. To reject, as a teaching or
prima adj. First. profligacy n. Shameless viciousness. a practice, with condemnation or
primer n. An elementary reading- profligate adj. Abandoned to vice. denunciation.
book for children. profuse adj. Produced or displayed in proscription n. Any act of
primeval adj. Belonging to the first overabundance. condemnation and rejection from favor
ages. progeny n. Offspring. and privilege.
primitive adj. Pertaining to the progression n. A moving forward or proselyte n. One who has been won
beginning or early times. proceeding in course. over from one religious belief to
principal adj. Most important. prohibition n. A decree or an order another.
principality n. The territory of a forbidding something. prosody n. The science of poetical
reigning prince. prohibitionist n. One who favors the forms.
principle n. A general truth or prohibition by law of the manufacture
proposition. and sale of alcoholic beverages.
prospector n. One who makes prurient adj. Inclined to lascivious quantity n. Magnitude.
exploration, search, or examination, thoughts and desires. quarantine n. The enforced isolation of
especially for minerals. pseudapostle n. A pretended or false any person or place infected with
prospectus n. A paper or pamphlet apostle. contagious disease.
containing information of a pseudonym n. A fictitious name, quarrelsome adj. Irascible.
proposed undertaking. especially when assumed by a writer. quarter n. One of four equal parts into
prostrate adj. Lying prone, or with pseudonymity n. The state or character which anything is or may be divided.
the head to the ground. of using a fictitious name. quarterly adj. Occurring or made at
protagonist n. A leader in any psychiatry n. The branch of medicine intervals of three months.
enterprise or contest. that relates to mental disease. quartet n. A composition for four
protection n. Preservation from psychic adj. Pertaining to the mind or voices or four instruments.
harm, danger, annoyance, or any soul. quarto n. An eight-page newspaper of
other evil. psychopathic adj. Morally any size.
protective adj. Sheltering. irresponsible. quay n. A wharf or artificial landing-
protector n. A defender. psychotherapy n. The treatment of place on the shore of a harbor or
protege n. One specially cared for mental disease. projecting into it.
and favored by another usually 134 querulous adj. Habitually complaining.
older person. query v. To make inquiry.
Protestant n. A Christian who pudgy adj. Small and fat. queue n. A file of persons waiting in
denies the authority of the Pope and puerile adj. Childish. order of their arrival, as for admittance.
holds the right of special judgment. pugnacious adj. Quarrelsome. quibble n. An utterly trivial distinction
protomartyr n. The earliest victim in puissant adj. Possessing strength. or objection.
any cause. pulmonary adj. Pertaining to the lungs. quiescence n. Quiet.
133 punctilious adj. Strictly observant of quiescent adj. Being in a state of
the rules or forms prescribed by law or repose or inaction.
protocol n. A declaration or custom. quiet adj. Making no noise.
memorandum of agreement less punctual adj. Observant and exact in quietus n. A silencing, suppressing, or
solemn and formal than a treaty. points of time. ending.
protoplasm n. The substance that pungent adj. Affecting the sense of quintessence n. The most essential
forms the principal portion of an smell. part of anything.
animal or vegetable cell. pungency n. The quality of affecting quintet n. Musical composition
prototype n. A work, original in the sense of smell. arranged for five voices or
character, afterward imitated in form punitive adj. Pertaining to punishment. instruments.
or spirit. pupilage n. The state or period of being quite adv. Fully.
protract v. To prolong. a student. Quixotic adj. Chivalrous or romantic to
protrude v. To push out or thrust purgatory n. An intermediate state a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
forth. where souls are made fit for paradise rabid adj. Affected with rabies or
protrusion n. The act of protruding. or heaven by expiatory suffering. hydrophobia.
protuberance n. Something that purl v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy. racy adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the
swells out from a surrounding purloin v. To steal. mind.
surface. purport n. Intent. radiance n. Brilliant or sparkling luster.
protuberant adj. Bulging. purveyor n. one who supplies radiate v. To extend in all directions, as
protuberate v. To swell or bulge pusillanimous adj. Without spirit or from a source or focus.
beyond the surrounding surface. bravery. radical n. One who holds extreme
proverb n. A brief, pithy saying, putrescent adj. Undergoing views or advocates extreme measures.
condensing in witty or striking form decomposition of animal or vegetable radix n. That from or on which
the wisdom of experience. matter accompanied by fetid odors. something is developed.
provident adj. Anticipating and pyre n. A heap of combustibles raillery n. Good-humored satire.
making ready for future wants or arranged for burning a dead body. ramify v. To divide or subdivide into
emergencies. pyromania n. An insane propensity to branches or subdivisions.
providential adj. Effected by divine set things on fire. ramose adj. Branch-like.
guidance. pyrotechnic adj. Pertaining to 136
provincial adj. Uncultured in fireworks or their manufacture.
thought and manner. pyx n. A vessel or casket, usually of rampant adj. Growing, climbing, or
proviso n. A clause in a contract, precious metal, in which the host is running without check or restraint.
will, etc., by which its operation is preserved. rampart n. A bulwark or construction
rendered conditional. quackery n. Charlatanry to oppose assault or hostile entry.
provocation n. An action or mode of quadrate v. To divide into quarters. rancor n. Malice.
conduct that excites resentment. quadruple v. To multiply by four. rankle v. To produce irritation or
prowess n. Strength, skill, and qualification n. A requisite for an festering.
intrepidity in battle. employment, position, right, or rapacious adj. Disposed to seize by
proximately adv. Immediately. privilege. violence or by unlawful or greedy
proxy n. A person who is qualify v. To endow or furnish with methods.
empowered by another to represent requisite ability, character, knowledge, rapid adj. Having great speed.
him or her in a given matter. skill, or possessions. rapine n. The act of seizing and
prudence n. Caution. qualm n. A fit of nausea. carrying off property by superior force,
prudential adj. Proceeding or quandary n. A puzzling predicament. as in war.
marked by caution. 135 rapt adj. Enraptured.
prudery n. An undue display of raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring
modesty or delicacy. living prey.
ration v. To provide with a fixed reckless adj. Foolishly headless of referable adj. Ascribable.
allowance or portion, especially of danger. referee n. An umpire.
food. reclaim v. To demand or to obtain the refinery n. A place where some crude
rationalism n. The formation of return or restoration of. material, as sugar or petroleum, is
opinions by relying upon reason recline v. To cause to assume a purified.
alone, independently of authority. leaning or recumbent attitude or reflectible adj. Capable of being turned
raucous adj. Harsh. position. back.
ravage v. To lay waste by pillage, recluse n. One who lives in retirement reflection n. The throwing off or back
rapine, devouring, or other or seclusion. of light, heat, sound, or any form of
destructive methods. reclusory n. A hermitage. energy that travels in waves.
ravenous adj. Furiously voracious recognizance n. An acknowledgment reflector n. A mirror, as of metal, for
or hungry. entered into before a court with reflecting light, heat, or sound in a
ravine n. A deep gorge or hollow, condition to do some particular act. particular direction.
especially one worn by a stream or recognize v. To recall the identity of a reflexible adj. Capable of being
flow of water. person or thing). reflected.
reaction n. Tendency towards a recoil v. To start back as in dismay, reform n. Change for the better.
former, or opposite state of things, loathing, or dread. reformer n. One who carries out a
as after reform, revolution, or recollect v. To recall the knowledge of. reform.
inflation. reconcilable adj. Capable of being 139
reactionary adj. Pertaining to, of the adjusted or harmonized.
nature of, causing, or favoring reconnoiter v. To make a preliminary refract v. To bend or turn from a direct
reaction. examination of for military, surveying, course.
readily adv. Without objection or or geological purposes. refractory adj. Not amenable to control.
reluctance. reconsider v. To review with care, refragable adj. Capable of being
readjust v. To put in order after especially with a view to a reversal of refuted.
disarrangement. previous action. refringency n. Power to refract.
ready adj. In a state of preparedness reconstruct v. To rebuild. refringent adj. Having the power to
for any given purpose or occasion. recourse n. Resort to or application for refract.
realism n. The principle and practice help in exigency or trouble. refusal n. Denial of what is asked.
of depicting persons and scenes as recover v. To regain. refute v. To prove to be wrong.
they are believed really to exist. recreant n. A cowardly or faithless regale v. To give unusual pleasure.
rearrange v. To arrange again or in a person. regalia n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
different order. recreate v. To refresh after labor. regality n. Royalty.
reassure v. To give new confidence. Recrudescence n. The state of regenerate v. To reproduce.
rebellious adj. Insubordinate. becoming raw or sore again. regent n. One who is lawfully deputized
rebuff n. A peremptory or 138 to administer the government for the
unexpected rejection of advances or time being in the name of the ruler.
approaches. recrudescent adj. Becoming raw or regicide n. The killing of a king or
rebuild v. To build again or anew. sore again. sovereign.
rebut v. To oppose by argument or a recruit v. To enlist men for military or regime n. Particular conduct or
sufficient answer. naval service. administration of affairs.
recant v. To withdraw formally one's rectify v. To correct. regimen n. A systematized order or
belief in something previously rectitude n. The quality of being course of living with reference to food,
believed or maintained). upright in principles and conduct. clothing and personal habits.
recapitulate v. To repeat again the recuperate v. To recover. regiment n. A body of soldiers.
principal points of. recur v. To happen again or repeatedly, regnant adj. Exercising royal authority
137 especially at regular intervals. in one's own right.
recure v. To cure again. regress v. To return to a former place
recapture v. To capture again. recurrent adj. Returning from time to or condition.
recede v. To move back or away. time, especially at regular or stated regretful adj. Feeling, expressive of, or
receivable adj. Capable of being or intervals. full of regret.
fit to be received - often money. redemption n. The recovery of what is rehabilitate v. To restore to a former
receptive adj. Having the capacity, mortgaged or pledged, by paying the status, capacity, right rank, or
quality, or ability of receiving, as debt. privilege.
truths or impressions. redolent adj. Smelling sweet and reign v. To hold and exercise
recessive adj. Having a tendency to agreeable. sovereign power.
go back. redolence n. Smelling sweet and reimburse v. To pay back as an
recidivist n. A confirmed criminal. agreeable. equivalent of what has been expended.
reciprocal adj. Mutually redoubtable adj. Formidable. rein n. A step attached to the bit for
interchangeable or convertible. redound n. Rebound. controlling a horse or other draft-
reciprocate v. To give and take redress v. To set right, as a wrong by animal.
mutually. compensation or the punishment of reinstate v. To restore to a former
reciprocity n. Equal mutual rights the wrong-doer. state, station, or authority.
and benefits granted and enjoyed. reducible adj. That may be reduced. reiterate v. To say or do again and
recitation n. The act of reciting or redundance n. Excess. again.
repeating, especially in public and redundant adj. Constituting an excess. rejoin v. To reunite after separation.
from memory. reestablish v. To restore. rejuvenate v. To restore to youth.
reck v. To have a care or thought refer v. To direct or send for rejuvenescence n. A renewal of youth.
for. information or other purpose. relapse v. To suffer a return of a
referrer n. One who refers. disease after partial recovery.
 140 repertory n. A place where things are resilience n. The power of springing
stored or gathered together. back to a former position
relegate v. To send off or consign, repetition n. The act of repeating. resilient adj. Having the quality of
as to an obscure position or remote repine v. To indulge in fretfulness and springing back to a former position.
destination. faultfinding. resistance n. The exertion of opposite
relent v. To yield. replenish v. To fill again, as something effort or effect.
relevant adj. Bearing upon the that has been emptied. resistant adj. Offering or tending to
matter in hand. replete adj. Full to the uttermost. produce resistance.
reliance n. Dependence. replica n. A duplicate executed by the resistive adj. Having or exercising the
reliant adj. Having confidence. artist himself, and regarded, equally power of resistance.
relinquish v. To give up using or with the first, as an original. resistless adj. Powerless.
having. repository n. A place in which goods resonance n. The quality of being able
reliquary n. A casket, coffer, or are stored. to reinforce sound by sympathetic
repository in which relics are kept. reprehend v. To find fault with. vibrations.
relish v. To like the taste or savor of. reprehensible adj. Censurable. resonance adj. Able to reinforce sound
reluctance n. Unwillingness. reprehension n. Expression of blame. by sympathetic vibrations.
reluctant adj. Unwilling. repress v. To keep under restraint or resonate v. To have or produce
remembrance n. Recollection. control. resonance.
reminiscence n. The calling to mind repressible adj. Able to be kept under resource n. That which is restored to,
of incidents within the range of restraint or control. relied upon, or made available for aid
personal knowledge or experience. reprieve v. To grant a respite from or support.
reminiscent adj. Pertaining to the punishment to. respite n. Interval of rest.
recollection of matters of personal reprimand v. To chide or rebuke for a resplendent adj. Very bright.
interest. fault. respondent adj. Answering.
remiss adj. Negligent. reprisal n. Any infliction or act by way restitution n. Restoration of anything
remission n. Temporary diminution of retaliation on an enemy. to the one to whom it properly belongs.
of a disease. reprobate n. One abandoned to resumption n. The act of taking back,
remodel v. Reconstruct. depravity and sin. or taking again.
remonstrance n. Reproof. reproduce v. To make a copy of. resurgent adj. Surging back or again.
remonstrant adj. Having the reproduction n. The process by which resurrection n. A return from death to
character of a reproof. an animal or plant gives rise to another life
remonstrate v. To present a verbal of its kind. resuscitate v. To restore from apparent
or written protest to those who have reproof n. An expression of death.
power to right or prevent a wrong. disapproval or blame personally 143
remunerate v. To pay or pay for. addressed to one censured.
remuneration n. Compensation. repudiate v. To refuse to have anything retaliate v. To repay evil with a similar
Renaissance n. The revival of to do with. evil.
letters, and then of art, which marks repugnance n. Thorough dislike. retch v. To make an effort to vomit.
the transition from medieval to repugnant adj. Offensive to taste and retention n. The keeping of a thing
modern time. feeling. within one's power or possession.
rendezvous n. A prearranged place repulse n. The act of beating or driving reticence n. The quality of habitually
of meeting. back, as an attacking or advancing keeping silent or being reserved in
rendition n. Interpretation. enemy. utterance.
renovate v. To restore after repulsive adj. Grossly offensive. reticent adj. Habitually keeping silent
deterioration, as a building. 142 or being reserved in utterance.
renunciation n. An explicit retinue n. The body of persons who
disclaimer of a right or privilege. repute v. To hold in general opinion. attend a person of importance in travel
reorganize v. To change to a more requiem n. A solemn mass sung for the or public appearance.
satisfactory form of organization. repose of the souls of the dead. retort n. A retaliatory speech.
reparable adj. Capable of repair. requisite adj. Necessary. retouch v. To modify the details of.
reparation n. The act of making requital n. Adequate return for good or retrace v. To follow backward or
amends, as for an injury, loss, or ill. toward the place of beginning, as a
wrong. requite v. To repay either good or evil track or marking.
141 to, as to a person. retract v. To recall or take back
rescind v. To make void, as an act, by something that one has said).
repartee n. A ready, witty, or apt the enacting authority or a superior retrench v. To cut down or reduce in
reply. authority. extent or quantity.
repeal v. To render of no further reseat v. To place in position of office retrieve v. To recover something by
effect. again. searching.
repel v. To force or keep back in a resemblance n. Similarity in quality or retroactive adj. Operative on, affecting,
manner, physically or mentally. form. or having reference to past events,
repellent adj. Having power to force resent v. To be indignant at, as an transactions, responsibilities.
back in a manner, physically or injury or insult. retrograde v. To cause to deteriorate or
mentally. reservoir n. A receptacle where a to move backward.
repentance n. Sorrow for something quantity of some material, especially of retrogression n. A going or moving
done or left undone, with desire to a liquid or gas, may be kept. backward or in a reverse direction.
make things right by undoing the residue n. A remainder or surplus after retrospect n. A view or contemplation
wrong. a part has been separated or otherwise of something past.
treated. retrospective adj. Looking back on the
past.
reunite v. To unite or join again, as rudimentary adj. Being in an initial, satiate v. To satisfy fully the appetite or
after separation. early, or incomplete stage of desire of.
revelation n. A disclosing, development. satire n. The employment of sarcasm,
discovering, or making known of rue v. To regret extremely. irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing
what was before secret, private, or ruffian adj. A lawless or recklessly vices.
unknown. brutal fellow. satiric adj. Resembling poetry, in
revere v. To regard with worshipful ruminant adj. Chewing the cud. which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is
veneration. ruminate v. To chew over again, as held up to ridicule.
reverent adj. Humble. food previously swallowed and satirize v. To treat with sarcasm or
reversion n. A return to or toward regurgitated. derisive wit.
some former state or condition. rupture v. To separate the parts of by satyr n. A very lascivious person.
revert v. To return, or turn or look violence. savage n. A wild and uncivilized
back, as toward a former position or rustic adj. Characteristic of dwelling in human being.
the like. the country. savor v. To perceive by taste or smell.
revile v. To heap approach or abuse 145 scabbard n. The sheath of a sword or
upon. similar bladed weapon.
revisal n. Revision. ruth n. Sorrow for another's misery. scarcity n. Insufficiency of supply for
revise v. To examine for the sacrifice v. To make an offering of to needs or ordinary demands.
correction of errors, or for the deity, especially by presenting on an scholarly adj. Characteristic of an
purpose of making changes. altar. erudite person.
revocation n. Repeal. sacrificial adj. Offering or offered as an scholastic adj. Pertaining to education
revoke v. To rescind. atonement for sin. or schools.
rhapsody n. Rapt or rapturous sacrilege n. The act of violating or scintilla n. The faintest ray.
utterance. profaning anything sacred. scintillate v. To emit or send forth
144 sacrilegious adj. Impious. sparks or little flashes of light.
safeguard v. To protect. scope n. A range of action or view.
rhetoric n. The art of discourse. sagacious adj. Able to discern and scoundrel n. A man without principle.
rhetorician n. A showy writer or distinguish with wise perception. scribble n. Hasty, careless writing.
speaker. salacious adj. Having strong sexual scribe n. One who writes or is skilled in
ribald adj. Indulging in or desires. writing.
manifesting coarse indecency or salience n. The condition of standing script n. Writing or handwriting of the
obscenity. out distinctly. ordinary cursive form.
riddance n. The act or ridding or salient adj. Standing out prominently. Scriptural adj. Pertaining to, contained
delivering from something saline adj. Constituting or consisting in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
undesirable. of salt. scruple n. Doubt or uncertainty
ridicule n. Looks or acts expressing salutary adj. Beneficial. regarding a question of moral right or
amused contempt. salutation n. Any form of greeting, duty.
ridiculous adj. Laughable and hailing, or welcome, whether by word scrupulous adj. Cautious in action for
contemptible. or act. fear of doing wrong.
rife adj. Abundant. salutatory n. The opening oration at scurrilous adj. Grossly indecent or
righteousness n. Rectitude. the commencement in American vulgar.
rightful adj. Conformed to a just colleges. scuttle v. To sink a ship) by making
claim according to established laws salvage n. Any act of saving property. holes in the bottom.
or usage. salvo n. A salute given by firing all the scythe n. A long curved blade for
rigmarole n. Nonsense. guns, as at the funeral of an officer. mowing, reaping, etc.
rigor n. Inflexibility. sanctimonious adj. Making an seance n. A meeting of spirituals for
rigorous adj. Uncompromising. ostentatious display or hypocritical consulting spirits.
ripplet n. A small ripple, as of water. pretense of holiness or piety. sear v. To burn on the surface.
risible adj. capable of exciting sanction v. To approve authoritatively. sebaceous adj. Pertaining to or
laughter. sanctity n. Holiness. appearing like fat.
rivulet n. A small stream or brook. sanguinary adj. Bloody. secant adj. Cutting, especially into two
robust adj. Characterized by great sanguine adj. Having the color of parts.
strength or power of endurance. blood. 147
rondo n. A musical composition sanguineous adj. Consisting of blood.
during which the first part or subject sapid adj. Affecting the sense of taste. secede v. To withdraw from union or
is repeated several times. sapience n. Deep wisdom or association, especially from a political
rookery n. A place where crows knowledge. or religious body.
congregate to breed. sapient adj. Possessing wisdom. secession n. Voluntary withdrawal
rotary adj. Turning around its axis, sapiential adj. Possessing wisdom. from fellowship, especially from
like a wheel, or so constructed as to saponaceous adj. Having the nature or political or religious bodies.
turn thus. quality of soap. seclude v. To place, keep, or withdraw
rotate v. To cause to turn on or as sarcasm n. Cutting and reproachful from the companionship of others.
on its axis, as a wheel. language. seclusion n. Solitude.
rote n. Repetition of words or sarcophagus n. A stone coffin or a secondary adj. Less important or
sounds as a means of learning chest-like tomb. effective than that which is primary.
them, with slight attention. 146 secondly adv. In the second place in
rotund adj. Round from fullness or order or succession.
plumpness. sardonic adj. Scornfully or bitterly second-rate adj. Second in quality,
sarcastic. size, rank, importance, etc.
secrecy n. Concealment.
secretary n. One who attends to sentience n. Capacity for sensation or significant adj. Important, especially as
correspondence, keeps records. or sense-perception. pointing something out.
does other writing for others. sentient adj. Possessing the power of signification n. The meaning conveyed
secretive adj. Having a tendency to sense or sense-perception. by language, actions, or signs.
conceal. sentinel n. Any guard or watch similar adj. Bearing resemblance to
sedate adj. Even-tempered. stationed for protection. one another or to something else.
sedentary adj. Involving or requiring separable adj. Capable of being simile n. A comparison which directs
much sitting. disjoined or divided. the mind to the representative object
sediment n. Matter that settles to the separate v. To take apart. itself.
bottom of a liquid. separatist n. A seceder. similitude n. Similarity.
sedition n. Conduct directed against septennial adj. Recurring every seven simplify v. To make less complex or
public order and the tranquillity of years. difficult.
the state. sepulcher n. A burial-place. simulate v. Imitate.
seditious adj. Promotive of conduct sequacious adj. Ready to be led. simultaneous adj. Occurring, done, or
directed against public order and sequel n. That which follows in existing at the same time.
the tranquillity of the state. consequence of what has previously sinecure n. Any position having
seduce v. To entice to surrender happened. emoluments with few or no duties.
chastity. sequence n. The order in which a 150
sedulous adj. Persevering in effort number or persons, things, or events
or endeavor. follow one another in space or time. singe v. To burn slightly or
seer n. A prophet. sequent adj. Following in the order of superficially.
seethe v. To be violently excited or time. sinister adj. Evil.
agitated. sequester v. To cause to withdraw or sinuosity n. The quality of curving in
seignior n. A title of honor or retire, as from society or public life. and out.
respectful address, equivalent to sir. sequestrate v. To confiscate. sinuous adj. Curving in and out.
seismograph n. An instrument for sergeant n. A non-commissioned sinus n. An opening or cavity.
recording the phenomena of military officer ranking next above a siren n. A sea-nymph, described by
earthquakes. corporal. Homer as dwelling between the island
seize v. To catch or take hold of sergeant-at-arms n. An executive of Circe and Scylla.
suddenly and forcibly. officer in legislative bodies who sirocco n. hot winds from Africa.
selective adj. Having the power of enforces the orders of the presiding sisterhood n. A body of sisters united
choice. officer. by some bond of sympathy or by a
self-respect n. Rational self-esteem. sergeant-major n. The highest non- religious vow.
semblance n. Outward appearance. commissioned officer in a regiment. skeptic n. One who doubts any
semicivilized adj. Half-civilized. service n. Any work done for the statements.
semiconscious adj. Partially benefit of another. skepticism n. The entertainment of
conscious. 149 doubt concerning something.
semiannual adj. Recurring at skiff n. Usually, a small light boat
intervals of six months. serviceable adj. Durable. propelled by oars.
semicircle n. A half-circle. servitude n. Slavery. skirmish n. Desultory fighting between
148 severance n. Separation. advanced detachments of two armies.
severely adv. Extremely. sleight n. A trick or feat so deftly done
seminar n. Any assemblage of sextet n. A band of six singers or that the manner of performance
pupils for real research in some players. escapes observation.
specific study under a teacher. sextuple adj. Multiplied by six. slight adj. Of a small importance or
seminary n. A special school, as of sheer adj. Absolute. significance.
theology or pedagogics. shiftless adj. Wanting in resource, slothful adj. Lazy.
senile adj. Peculiar to or proceeding energy, or executive ability. sluggard n. A person habitually lazy or
from the weakness or infirmity of shrewd adj. Characterized by skill at idle.
old age. understanding and profiting by sociable adj. Inclined to seek company.
sensation n. A condition of mind circumstances. socialism n. A theory of civil polity that
resulting from spiritual or inherent shriek n. A sharp, shrill outcry or aims to secure the reconstruction of
feeling. scream, caused by agony or terror. society.
sense n. The signification conveyed shrinkage n. A contraction of any socialist adj. One who advocates
by some word, phrase, or action. material into less bulk or dimension. reconstruction of society by collective
sensibility n. Power to perceive or shrivel v. To draw or be drawn into ownership of land and capital.
feel. wrinkles. sociology n. The philosophical study
sensitive adj. Easily affected by shuffle n. A mixing or changing the of society.
outside operations or influences. order of things. Sol n. The sun.
sensorium n. The sensory sibilance n. A hissing sound. solace n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or
apparatus. sibilant adj. Made with a hissing calamity.
sensual adj. Pertaining to the body sound. solar adj. Pertaining to the sun.
or the physical senses. sibilate v. To give a hissing sound to, solder n. A fusible alloy used for
sensuous adj. Having a warm as in pronouncing the letter s. joining metallic surfaces or margins.
appreciation of the beautiful or of sidelong adj. Inclining or tending to soldier n. A person engaged in military
the refinements of luxury. one side. service.
sentence n. A related group of sidereal adj. Pertaining to stars or solecism n. Any violation of
words containing a subject and a constellations. established rules or customs.
predicate and expressing a siege n. A beleaguerment. solicitor n. One who represents a client
complete thought. significance n. Importance. in court of justice; an attorney.
solicitude n. Uneasiness of mind speculate v. To pursue inquiries and stiletto n. A small dagger.
occasioned by desire, anxiety, or form conjectures. stimulant n. Anything that rouses to
fear. speculator n. One who makes an activity or to quickened action.
soliloquy n. A monologue. investment that involves a risk of loss, stimulate v. To rouse to activity or to
151 but also a chance of profit. quickened action.
sphericity n. The state or condition of stimulus n. Incentive.
solstice n. The time of year when being a sphere. stingy adj. Cheap, unwilling to spend
the sun is at its greatest declination. spheroid n. A body having nearly the money.
soluble adj. Capable of being form of a sphere. stipend n. A definite amount paid at
dissolved, as in a fluid. spherometer n. An instrument for stated periods in compensation for
solvent adj. Having sufficient funds measuring curvature or radii of services or as an allowance.
to pay all debts. spherical surfaces. Stoicism n. The principles or the
somber adj. Gloomy. spinous adj. Having spines. practice of the Stoics-being very even
somniferous adj. Tending to spinster n. A woman who has never tempered in success and failure.
produce sleep. been married. stolid adj. Expressing no power of
somnolence n. Oppressive spontaneous adj. Arising from inherent feeling or perceiving.
drowsiness. qualities or tendencies without strait n. A narrow passage of water
somnolent adj. Sleepy. external efficient cause. connecting two larger bodies of water.
sonata n. An instrumental sprightly adj. Vivacious. stratagem n. Any clever trick or device
composition. spurious adj. Not genuine. for obtaining an advantage.
sonnet n. A poem of fourteen squabble v. To quarrel. stratum n. A natural or artificial layer,
decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines squalid adj. Having a dirty, mean, bed, or thickness of any substance or
expressing two successive phrases. poverty-stricken appearance. material.
sonorous adj. Resonant. squatter n. One who settles on land streamlet n. Rivulet.
soothsayer n. One who claims to without permission or right. stringency n. Strictness.
have supernatural insight or stagnant adj. Not flowing: said of stringent adj. Rigid.
foresight. water, as in a pool. stripling n. A mere youth.
sophism n. A false argument stagnate v. To become dull or inert. studious adj. Having or showing
understood to be such by the stagnation n. The condition of not devotion to the acquisition of
reasoner himself and intentionally flowing or not changing. knowledge.
used to deceive stagy adj. Having a theatrical manner. stultify v. To give an appearance of
sophistical adj. Fallacious. staid adj. Of a steady and sober foolishness to.
sophisticate v. To deprive of character. stupendous adj. Of prodigious size,
simplicity of mind or manner. stallion n. An uncastrated male horse, bulk, or degree.
sophistry n. Reasoning sound in commonly one kept for breeding. stupor n. Profound lethargy.
appearance only, especially when stanchion n. A vertical bar, or a pair of suasion n. The act of persuading.
designedly deceptive. bars, used to confine cattle in a stall. 154
soprano n. A woman's or boy's stanza n. A group of rimed lines,
voice of high range. usually forming one of a series of suave adj. Smooth and pleasant in
sorcery n. Witchcraft. similar divisions in a poem. manner.
sordid adj. Of degraded character or statecraft n. The art of conducting subacid adj. Somewhat sharp or biting.
nature. state affairs. subaquatic adj. Being, formed, or
souvenir n. A token of static adj. Pertaining to or designating operating under water.
remembrance. bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. subconscious adj. Being or occurring
sparse adj. Thinly diffused. statics n. The branch of mechanics in the mind, but without attendant
Spartan adj. Exceptionally brave; that treats of the relations that subsist consciousness or conscious
rigorously severe. among forces in order. perception.
spasmodic adj. Convulsive. stationary adj. Not moving. subjacent adj. Situated directly
specialize v. To assume an statistician n. One who is skilled in underneath.
individual or specific character, or collecting and tabulating numerical subjection n. The act of bringing into a
adopt a singular or special course. facts. state of submission.
specialty n. An employment limited statuesque adj. Having the grace, subjugate v. To conquer.
to one particular line of work. pose, or quietude of a statue. subliminal adj. Being beneath the
specie n. A coin or coins of gold, 153 threshold of consciousness.
silver, copper, or other metal. sublingual adj. Situated beneath the
species n. A classificatory group of statuette n. A figurine. tongue.
animals or plants subordinate to a stature n. The natural height of an submarine adj. Existing, done, or
genus. animal body. operating beneath the surface of the
specimen n. One of a class of statute n. Any authoritatively declared sea.
persons or things regarded as rule, ordinance, decree, or law. submerge v. To place or plunge under
representative of the class. stealth n. A concealed manner of water.
specious adj. Plausible. acting. submergence n. The act of
spectator n. One who beholds or stellar adj. Pertaining to the stars. submerging.
looks on. steppe n. One of the extensive plains submersible adj. Capable of being put
152 in Russia and Siberia. underwater.
sterling adj. Genuine. submersion n. The act of submerging.
specter n. Apparition. stifle v. To smother. submission n. A yielding to the power
spectrum n. An image formed by stigma n. A mark of infamy or token of or authority of another.
rays of light or other radiant energy. disgrace attaching to a person as the submittal n. The act of submitting.
result of evil-doing.
subordinate adj. Belonging to an superintend v. To have the charge and syllable n. That which is uttered in a
inferior order in a classification. direction of, especially of some work single vocal impulse.
subsequent adj. Following in time. or movement. syllabus n. Outline of a subject,
subservience n. The quality, superintendence n. Direction and course, lecture, or treatise.
character, or condition of being management. sylph n. A slender, graceful young
servilely following another's superintendent n. One who has the woman or girl.
behests. charge and direction of, especially of symmetrical adj. Well-balanced.
subservient adj. Servilely following some work or movement. symmetry n. Relative proportion and
another's behests. superlative n. That which is of the harmony.
subside v. To relapse into a state of highest possible excellence or sympathetic adj. Having a fellow-
repose and tranquillity. eminence. feeling for or like feelings with another
subsist v. To be maintained or supernatural adj. Caused miraculously or others.
sustained. or by the immediate exercise of divine sympathize v. To share the sentiments
subsistence n. Sustenance. power. or mental states of another.
substantive adj. Solid. supernumerary adj. Superfluous. symphonic adj. Characterized by a
subtend v. To extend opposite to. supersede v. To displace. harmonious or agreeable mingling of
subterfuge n. Evasion. supine adj. Lying on the back. sounds.
subterranean adj. Situated or supplant v. To take the place of. symphonious adj. Marked by a
occurring below the surface of the supple adj. Easily bent. harmonious or agreeable mingling of
earth. supplementary adj. Being an addition sounds.
subtle adj. Discriminating. to. symphony n. A harmonious or
subtrahend n. That which is to be supplicant n. One who asks humbly agreeable mingling of sounds.
subtracted. and earnestly. synchronism n. Simultaneousness.
subversion n. An overthrow, as from supplicate v. To beg. syndicate n. An association of
the foundation. supposition n. Conjecture. individuals united for the prosecution
subvert v. To bring to ruin. suppress v. To prevent from being of some enterprise.
succeed v. To accomplish what is disclosed or punished. syneresis n. The coalescence of two
attempted or intended. suppressible adj. Capable of being vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
success n. A favorable or suppressed. synod n. An ecclesiastical council.
prosperous course or termination of suppression n. A forcible putting or synonym n. A word having the same or
anything attempted. keeping down. almost the same meaning as some
successful adj. Having reached a supramundane adj. Supernatural. other.
high degree of worldly prosperity. surcharge n. An additional amount synopsis n. A syllabus or summary.
successor n. One who or that which charged. systematic adj. Methodical.
takes the place of a predecessor or surety n. Security for payment or tableau n. An arrangement of
preceding thing. performance. inanimate figures representing a scene
succinct adj. Concise. surfeit v. To feed to fullness or to from real life.
succulent adj. Juicy. satiety. tacit adj. Understood.
succumb v. To cease to resist. surmise v. To conjecture. taciturn adj. Disinclined to
sufferance n. Toleration. surmount v. To overcome by force of conversation.
sufficiency n. An ample or adequate will. tack n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
supply. surreptitious adj. Clandestine. tact n. Fine or ready mental
suffrage n. The right or privilege of surrogate n. One who or that which is discernment shown in saying or doing
voting. substituted for or appointed to act in the proper thing.
suffuse v. To cover or fill the place of another. tactician n. One who directs affairs
surface of. surround v. To encircle. with skill and shrewdness.
suggestible adj. That can be surveyor n. A land-measurer. tactics n. Any maneuvering or adroit
suggested. susceptibility n. A specific capability of management for effecting an object.
suggestive adj. Stimulating to feeling or emotion. tangency n. The state of touching.
thought or reflection. susceptible adj. Easily under a tangent adj. Touching.
summary n. An abstract. specified power or influence. tangible adj. Perceptible by touch.
sumptuous adj. Rich and costly. suspense n. Uncertainty. tannery n. A place where leather is
superabundance n. An excessive suspension n. A hanging from a tanned.
amount. support. tantalize v. To tease.
superadd v. To add in addition to suspicious adj. Inclined to doubt or tantamount adj. Having equal or
what has been added. mistrust. equivalent value, effect, or import.
superannuate v. To become sustenance n. Food. tapestry n. A fabric to which a pattern
deteriorated or incapacitated by swarthy adj. Having a dark hue, is applied with a needle, designed for
long service. especially a dark or sunburned ornamental hangings.
superb adj. Sumptuously elegant. complexion. tarnish v. To lessen or destroy the
supercilious adj. Exhibiting haughty Sybarite n. A luxurious person. luster of in any way.
and careless contempt. sycophant n. A servile flatterer, taut adj. Stretched tight.
superficial adj. Knowing and especially of those in authority or taxation n. A levy, by government, of a
understanding only the ordinary and influence. fixed contribution.
the obvious. syllabic adj. Consisting of that which is taxidermy n. The art or process of
superfluity n. That part of anything uttered in a single vocal impulse. preserving dead animals or parts of
that is in excess of what is needed. syllabication n. Division of words into them.
superfluous adj. Being more than is that which is uttered in a single vocal technic adj. Technical.
needed. impulse. technicality n. Something peculiar to a
superheat v. To heat to excess. particular art, trade, or the like.
technique n. Manner of theocrasy n. The mixed worship of transalpine adj. Situated on the other
performance. polytheism. side of the Alps.
technography n. The scientific theologian n. A professor of divinity. transact v. To do business.
description or study of human arts theological adj. Based on or growing transatlantic adj. Situated beyond or
and industries in their historic out of divine revelation. on the other side of the Atlantic.
development. theology n. The branch of theological transcend v. To surpass.
technology n. The knowledge science that treats of God. transcendent adj. Surpassing.
relating to industries and theoretical adj. Directed toward transcontinental adj. Extending or
manufactures. knowledge for its own sake without passing across a continent.
teem v. To be full to overflowing. respect to applications. transcribe v. To write over again
telepathy n. Thought-transference. theorist n. One given to speculating. something already written)
telephony n. The art or process of theorize v. To speculate. transcript n. A copy made directly from
communicating by telephone. thereabout adv. Near that number, an original.
telescope v. To drive together so quantity, degree, place, or time, transfer v. To convey, remove, or
that one slides into the another like approximately. cause to pass from one person or
the sections of a spy-glass. therefor adv. For that or this. place to another.
telltale adj. That gives warning or thermal adj. Of or pertaining to heat. transferable adj. Capable of being
information. thermoelectric adj. Denoting electricity conveyed from one person or place to
temerity n. Recklessness. produced by heat. another.
temporal adj. Pertaining to or thermoelectricity n. Electricity transferee n. The person to whom a
concerned with the affairs of the generated by differences of transfer is made.
present life. temperature, transference n. The act of conveying
temporary adj. Lasting for a short thesis n. An essay or treatise on a from one person or place to another.
time only. particular subject. transferrer n. One who or that which
temporize v. To pursue a policy of thoroughbred adj. Bred from the best conveys from one person or place to
delay. or purest blood or stock. another.
tempt v. To offer to somebody) an thoroughfare n. A public street or road. transfigure v. To give an exalted
inducement to do wrong. thrall n. One controlled by an appetite meaning or glorified appearance to.
tempter n. An allurer or enticer to or a passion. transfuse v. To pour or cause to pass,
evil. tilth n. Cultivation. as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
tenacious adj. Unyielding. timbre n. The quality of a tone, as transfusible adj. Capable of being
tenant n. An occupant. distinguished from intensity and pitch. poured from one vessel to another.
tendency n. Direction or inclination, timorous adj. Lacking courage. transfusion n. The act of pouring from
as toward some objector end. tincture n. A solution, usually one vessel to another.
tenet n. Any opinion, principle, alcoholic, of some principle used in transgress v. To break a law.
dogma, or doctrine that a person medicine. transience n. Something that is of
believes or maintains as true. tinge n. A faint trace of color. short duration.
tenor n. A settled course or manner tipsy adj. Befuddled with drinks. transient n. One who or that which is
of progress. tirade n. Harangue. only of temporary existence.
tense adj. Strained to stiffness. tireless adj. Untiring. transition n. Passage from one place,
tentative adj. Done as an tiresome adj. Wearisome. condition, or action to another.
experiment. Titanic adj. Of vast size or strength. transitory adj. Existing for a short time
tenure n. The term during which a toilsome adj. Laborious. only.
thing is held. tolerable adj. Moderately good. translate v. To give the sense or
tercentenary adj. Pertaining to a tolerance n. Forbearance in judging of equivalent of in another language or
period of 300 years. the acts or opinions of others. dialect.
termagant adj. Violently abusive and tolerant adj. Indulgent. translator n. An interpreter.
quarrelsome. tolerate v. To passively permit or put translucence n. The property or state
terminal adj. Pertaining to or up with. of allowing the passage of light.
creative of a boundary, limit. toleration n. A spirit of charitable translucent adj. Allowing the passage
terminate v. To put an end or stop leniency. of light.
to. topography n. The art of representing transmissible adj. That may e sent
termination n. The act of ending or on a map the physical features of any through or across.
concluding. locality or region with accuracy. transmission n. The act of sending
terminus n. The final point or goal. torpor n. Apathy. through or across.
terrify v. To fill with extreme fear. torrid adj. Excessively hot. transmit v. To send trough or across.
territorial adj. Pertaining to the tortious adj. Wrongful. transmute v. To change in nature,
domain over which a sovereign tortuous adj. Abounding in irregular substance, or form.
state exercises jurisdiction. bends or turns. transparent adj. Easy to see through or
terse adj. Pithy. torturous adj. Marked by extreme understand.
testament n. A will. suffering. transpire v. To come to pass.
testator n. The maker of a will. tractable adj. Easily led or controlled. transplant v. To remove and plant in
testimonial n. A formal token of trait n. A distinguishing feature or another place.
regard, often presented in public. quality. transposition n. The act of reversing
thearchy n. Government by a trajectory n. The path described by a the order or changing the place of.
supreme deity. projectile moving under given forces. transverse adj. Lying or being across
theism n. Belief in God. trammel n. An impediment. or in a crosswise direction.
theocracy n. A government tranquil adj. Calm. travail n. Hard or agonizing labor.
administered by ecclesiastics. tranquilize v. To soothe. travesty n. A grotesque imitation.
tranquility n. Calmness. treacherous adj. Perfidious.
treachery n. Violation of allegiance, tutelage n. The act of training or the undersell v. To sell at a lower price
confidence, or plighted faith. state of being under instruction. than.
treasonable adj. Of the nature of tutelar adj. Protective. undersized adj. Of less than the
betrayal, treachery, or breech of tutorship n. The office of a guardian. customary size.
allegiance. twinge n. A darting momentary local underhanded adj. Clandestinely carried
treatise n. An elaborate literary pain. on.
composition presenting a subject in typical adj. Characteristic. underlie v. To be the ground or support
all its parts. typify v. To serve as a characteristic of.
treble adj. Multiplied by three. example of. underling n. A subordinate.
trebly adv. Triply. typographical adj. Pertaining to undermine v. To subvert in an
tremendous adj. Awe-inspiring. typography or printing. underhand way.
tremor n. An involuntary trembling typography n. The arrangement of underrate v. To undervalue.
or shivering. composed type, or the appearance of understate v. To fail to put strongly
tremulous adj. Characterized by printed matter. enough, as a case.
quivering or unsteadiness. tyrannical adj. Despotic. undervalue v. To underestimate.
trenchant adj. Cutting deeply and tyranny n. Absolute power arbitrarily or underworld n. Hades.
quickly. unjustly administrated. underwrite v. To issue or be party to
trepidation n. Nervous uncertainty tyro n. One slightly skilled in or the issue of a policy of insurance.
of feeling. acquainted with any trade or undue adj. More than sufficient.
trestle n. An open braced framework profession. undulate v. To move like a wave or in
for supporting the horizontal ubiquitous adj. Being present waves.
stringers of a railway-bridge. everywhere. undulous adj. Resembling waves.
triad n. A group of three persons of ulterior adj. Not so pertinent as unfavorable adj. Adverse.
things. something else to the matter spoken ungainly adj. Clumsy.
tribune n. Any champion of the of. unguent n. Any ointment or lubricant
rights and liberties of the people: ultimate adj. Beyond which there is for local application.
often used as the name for a nothing else. unicellular adj. Consisting of a single
newspaper. ultimatum n. A final statement or cell.
trickery n. Artifice. proposal, as concerning terms or univalence n. Monovalency.
tricolor adj. Of three colors. conditions. unify v. To cause to be one.
tricycle n. A three-wheeled vehicle. ultramundane adj. Pertaining to unique adj. Being the only one of its
trident n. The three-pronged fork supernatural things or to another life. kind.
that was the emblem of Neptune. ultramontane adj. Beyond the unison n. A condition of perfect
triennial adj. Taking place every mountains, especially beyond the Alps agreement and accord.
third year. that is, on their Italian side). unisonant adj. Being in a condition of
trimness n. Neatness. umbrage n. A sense of injury. perfect agreement and accord.
trinity n. A threefold personality unaccountable adj. Inexplicable. Unitarian adj. Pertaining to a religious
existing in the one divine being or unaffected adj. Sincere. body that rejects the doctrine of the
substance. unanimous adj. Sharing the same Trinity.
trio n. Three things grouped or views or sentiments. unlawful adj. Illegal.
associated together. unanimity n. The state or quality of unlimited adj. Unconstrained.
triple adj. Threefold. being of one mind. unnatural adj. Artificial.
triplicate adj. Composed of or unavoidable adj. Inevitable. unnecessary adj. Not essential under
pertaining to three related things or unbearable adj. Unendurable. the circumstances.
parts. unbecoming adj. Unsuited to the unsettle v. To put into confusion.
triplicity n. The state of being triple wearer, place, or surroundings. unsophisticated adj. Showing
or threefold. unbelief n. Doubt. inexperience.
tripod n. A three-legged stand, unbiased adj. Impartial, as judgment. unspeakable adj. Abominable.
usually hinged near the top, for unbridled adj. Being without restraint. untimely adj. Unseasonable.
supporting some instrument. uncommon adj. Rare. untoward adj. Causing annoyance or
trisect v. To divide into three parts, unconscionable adj. Ridiculously or hindrance.
especially into three equal parts. unjustly excessive. unutterable adj. Inexpressible.
trite adj. Made commonplace by unconscious adj. Not cognizant of unwieldy adj. Moved or managed with
frequent repetition. objects, actions, etc. difficulty, as from great size or
triumvir n. One of three men united unction n. The art of anointing as with awkward shape.
coordinately in public office or oil. unwise adj. Foolish.
authority. unctuous adj. Oily. unyoke v. To separate.
trivial adj. Of little importance or undeceive v. To free from deception, up-keep n. Maintenance.
value. as by apprising of the real state of upbraid v. To reproach as deserving
troublesome adj. Burdensome. affairs. blame.
truculence n. Ferocity. undercharge v. To make an inadequate upcast n. A throwing upward.
truculent adj. Having the character charge for. upheaval n. Overthrow or violent
or the spirit of a savage. underexposed adj. Insufficiently disturbance of established order or
truism n. A statement so plainly true exposed for proper or full condition.
as hardly to require statement or development, as negatives in upheave v. To raise or lift with effort.
proof. photography. uppermost adj. First in order of
truthful adj. Veracious. undergarment n. A garment to be worn precedence.
turgid adj. Swollen. under the ordinary outer garments. uproarious adj. Noisy.
turpitude n. Depravity. underman v. To equip with less than uproot v. To eradicate.
the full complement of men. upturn v. To throw into confusion.
urban adj. Of, or pertaining to, or vegetation n. Plant-life in the vie v. To contend.
like a city. aggregate. vigilance n. Alert and intent mental
urbanity n. Refined or elegant vegetative adj. Pertaining to the watchfulness in guarding against
courtesy. process of plant-life. danger.
urchin n. A roguish, mischievous vehement adj. Very eager or urgent. vigilant adj. Being on the alert to
boy. velocity n. Rapid motion. discover and ward off danger or insure
urgency n. The pressure of velvety adj. Marked by lightness and safety.
necessity. softness. vignette n. A picture having a
usage n. Treatment. venal adj. Mercenary, corrupt. background or that is shaded off
usurious adj. Taking unlawful or vendible adj. Marketable. gradually.
exorbitant interest on money vendition n. The act of selling. vincible adj. Conquerable.
loaned. vendor n. A seller. vindicate v. To prove true, right, or
usurp v. To take possession of by veneer n. Outside show or elegance. real.
force. venerable adj. Meriting or commanding vindicatory adj. Punitive.
usury n. The demanding for the use high esteem. vindicative adj. Revengeful.
of money as a loan, a rate of interest venerate v. To cherish reverentially. vinery n. A greenhouse for grapes.
beyond what is allowed by law. venereal adj. Pertaining to or viol n. A stringed instrument of the
utilitarianism n. The ethical doctrine proceeding from sexual intercourse. violin class.
that actions are right because they venial adj. That may be pardoned or viola n. A musical instrument
are useful or of beneficial tendency. forgiven, a forgivable sin. somewhat larger than a violin.
utility n. Fitness for some desirable venison n. The flesh of deer. violator n. One who transgresses.
practical purpose. venom n. The poisonous fluid that violation n. Infringement.
utmost n. The greatest possible certain animals secrete. violoncello n. A stringed instrument
extent. venous adj. Of, pertaining to, or held between the player's knees.
vacate v. To leave. contained or carried in a vein or veins. virago n. A bold, impudent, turbulent
vaccinate v. To inoculate with veracious adj. Habitually disposed to woman.
vaccine virus or virus of cowpox. speak the truth. virile adj. Masculine.
vacillate v. To waver. veracity n. Truthfulness. virtu n. Rare, curious, or beautiful
vacuous adj. Empty. verbatim adv. Word for word. quality.
vacuum n. A space entirely devoid verbiage n. Use of many words without virtual adj. Being in essence or effect,
of matter. necessity. but not in form or appearance.
vagabond n. A wanderer. verbose adj. Wordy. virtuoso n. A master in the technique
vagrant n. An idle wanderer. verdant adj. Green with vegetation. of some particular fine art.
vainglory n. Excessive, pretentious, verification n. The act of proving to be virulence n. Extreme poisonousness.
and demonstrative vanity. true, exact, or accurate. virulent adj. Exceedingly noxious or
vale n. Level or low land between verify v. To prove to be true, exact, or deleterious.
hills. accurate. visage n. The face, countenance, or
valediction n. A bidding farewell. verily adv. In truth. look of a person.
valedictorian n. Student who verity n. Truth. viscount n. In England, a title of
delivers an address at graduating vermin n. A noxious or troublesome nobility, ranking fourth in the order of
exercises of an educational animal. British peerage.
institution. vernacular n. The language of one's vista n. A view or prospect.
valedictory n. A parting address. country. visual adj. Perceptible by sight.
valid adj. Founded on truth. vernal adj. Belonging to or suggestive visualize v. To give pictorial vividness
valorous adj. Courageous. of the spring. to a mental representation.
vapid adj. Having lost sparkling versatile adj. Having an aptitude for vitality n. The state or quality of being
quality and flavor. applying oneself to new and varied necessary to existence or continuance.
vaporizer n. An atomizer. tasks or to various subjects. vitalize v. To endow with life or energy.
variable adj. Having a tendency to version n. A description or report of vitiate v. To contaminate.
change. something as modified by one's vituperable adj. Deserving of censure.
variance n. Change. character or opinion. vivacity n. Liveliness.
variant n. A thing that differs from vertex n. Apex. vivify v. To endue with life.
another in form only, being the vertical adj. Lying or directed vivisection n. The dissection of a living
same in essence or substance. perpendicularly to the horizon. animal.
variation n. Modification. vertigo n. Dizziness. vocable n. a word, especially one
variegate v. To mark with different vestige n. A visible trace, mark, or regarded in relation merely to its
shades or colors. impression, of something absent, lost, qualities of sound.
vassal n. A slave or bondman. or gone. vocative adj. Of or pertaining to the act
vaudeville n. A variety show. vestment n. Clothing or covering. of calling.
vegetal adj. Of or pertaining to veto n. The constitutional right in a vociferance n. The quality of making a
plants. chief executive of refusing to approve clamor.
vegetarian n. One who believes in an enactment. vociferate v. To utter with a loud and
the theory that man's food should vicarious adj. Suffered or done in place vehement voice.
be exclusively vegetable. of or for the sake of another. vociferous adj. Making a loud outcry.
168 viceroy n. A ruler acting with royal vogue n. The prevalent way or fashion.
authority in place of the sovereign in a volant adj. Flying or able to fly.
vegetate v. To live in a monotonous, colony or province. volatile adj. Changeable.
passive way without exercise of the vicissitude n. A change, especially a volition n. An act or exercise of will.
mental faculties. complete change, of condition or volitive adj. Exercising the will.
circumstances, as of fortune.
voluble adj. Having great fluency in witless adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
speaking. witling n. A person who has little
voluptuous adj. having fullness of understanding.
beautiful form, as a woman, with or witticism n. A witty, brilliant, or original
without sensuous or sensual saying or sentiment.
quality. wittingly adv. With knowledge and by
voracious adj. Eating with design.
greediness or in very large wizen v. To become or cause to
quantities. become withered or dry.
vortex n. A mass of rotating or wizen-faced adj. Having a shriveled
whirling fluid, especially when face.
sucked spirally toward the center. working-man n. One who earns his
votary adj. Consecrated by a vow or bread by manual labor.
promise. workmanlike adj. Like or befitting a
votive adj. Dedicated by a vow. skilled workman.
vulgarity n. Lack of refinement in workmanship n. The art or skill of a
conduct or speech. workman.
vulnerable adj. Capable of receiving wrangle v. To maintain by noisy
injuries. argument or dispute.
waif n. A homeless, neglected wreak v. To inflict, as a revenge or
wanderer. punishment.
waistcoat n. A vest. wrest v. To pull or force away by or as
waive v. To relinquish, especially by violent twisting or wringing.
temporarily, as a right or claim. wretchedness n. Extreme misery or
wampum n. Beads strung on unhappiness.
threads, formerly used among the writhe v. To twist the body, face, or
American Indians as currency. limbs or as in pain or distress.
wane v. To diminish in size and writing n. The act or art of tracing or
brilliancy. inscribing on a surface letters or
wantonness n. Recklessness. ideographs.
warlike adj. Belligerent. wry adj. Deviating from that which is
wavelet n. A ripple. proper or right.
weak-kneed adj. Without resolute yearling n. A young animal past its first
purpose or energy. year and not yet two years old.
weal n. Well-being. zealot n. One who espouses a cause or
wean v. To transfer the young) from pursues an object in an immoderately
dependence on mother's milk to partisan manner.
another form of nourishment. zeitgeist n. The intellectual and moral
wearisome adj. Fatiguing. tendencies that characterize any age or
wee adj. Very small. epoch.
well-bred adj. Of good ancestry. zenith n. The culminating-point of
well-doer n. A performer of moral prosperity, influence, or greatness.
and social duties. zephyr n. Any soft, gentle wind.
well-to-do adj. In prosperous zodiac n. An imaginary belt encircling
circumstances. the heavens within which are the larger
whereabouts n. The place in or near planets.
which a person or thing is.
whereupon adv. After which.
wherever adv. In or at whatever
place.
wherewith n. The necessary means
or resources.
whet v. To make more keen or
eager.
whimsical adj. Capricious.
whine v. To utter with complaining
tone.
wholly adv. Completely.
wield v. To use, control, or manage,
as a weapon, or instrument,
especially with full command.
wile n. An act or a means of cunning
deception.
winsome adj. Attractive.
wintry adj. Lacking warmth of
manner.
wiry adj. Thin, but tough and
sinewy.
witchcraft n. Sorcery.