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Sat Vocabulary (4994 Cards)
5000 SAT vocabulary words
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| abase v | To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade |
| abbess n | The lady superior of a nunnery |
| abbey n | The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns |
| abbot n | The superior of a community of monks |
| abdicate v | To give up (royal power or the like) |
| abdomen n | In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly |
| abdominal n | Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen |
| abduction n | A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally |
| abed adv | In bed; on a bed |
| aberration n | Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course |
| abet v | To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense) |
| abeyance n | A state of suspension or temporary inaction |
| abhorrence n | The act of detesting extremely |
| abhorrent adj | Very repugnant; hateful |
| abidance n | An abiding |
| abject adj | Sunk to a low condition |
| abjure v | To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath |
| able-bodied adj | Competent for physical service |
| ablution n | A washing or cleansing, especially of the body |
| abnegate v | To renounce (a right or privilege) |
| abnormal adj | Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard |
| abominable adj | Very hateful |
| abominate v | To hate violently |
| abomination n | A very detestable act or practice |
| aboriginal adj | Primitive; unsophisticated |
| aborigines n | The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country |
| abrade v | To wear away the surface or some part of by friction |
| abrasion n | That which is rubbed off |
| abridge v | To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles |
| abridgment n | A condensed form as of a book or play |
| abrogate v | To abolish, repeal |
| abrupt adj | Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break |
| abscess n | A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body |
| abscission n | The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation |
| abscond v | To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest |
| absence n | The fact of not being present or available |
| absent-minded adj | Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business |
| absolution n | Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses |
| absolve v | To free from sin or its penalties |
| absorb v | To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water |
| absorption n | The act or process of absorbing |
| abstain v | To keep oneself back (from doing or using something) |
| abstemious adj | Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food |
| abstinence n | Self denial |
| abstruse adj | Dealing with matters difficult to be understood |
| absurd adj | Inconsistent with reason or common sense |
| abundant adj | Plentiful |
| abusive adj | Employing harsh words or ill treatment |
| abut v | To touch at the end or boundary line |
| abyss n | Bottomless gulf |
| academic adj | Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university |
| academician n | A member of an academy of literature, art, or science |
| academy n | Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught |
| accede v | To agree |
| accelerate v | To move faster |
| accept v | To take when offered |
| access n | A way of approach or entrance; passage |
| accessible adj | Approachable |
| accession n | Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government |
| accessory n | A person or thing that aids the principal agent |
| acclaim v | To utter with a shout |
| accommodate v | To furnish something as a kindness or favor |
| accompaniment n | A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part |
| accompanist n | One who or that which accompanies |
| accompany v | To go with, or be associated with, as a companion |
| accomplice n | An associate in wrong-doing |
| accomplish v | To bring to pass |
| accordion n | A portable free-reed musical instrument |
| accost v | To speak to |
| account n | A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions |
| accouter v | To dress |
| accredit v | To give credit or authority to |
| accumulate v | To become greater in quantity or number |
| accuracy n | Exactness |
| accurate adj | Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard |
| accursed adj | Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune |
| accusation n | A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error |
| accusatory adj | Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation |
| accuse v | To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error |
| accustom v | To make familiar by use |
| acerbity n | Sourness, with bitterness and astringency |
| acetate n | A salt of acetic acid |
| acetic adj | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar |
| ache v | To be in pain or distress |
| Achillean adj | Invulnerable |
| achromatic adj | Colorless, |
| acid n | A sour substance |
| acidify v | To change into acid |
| acknowledge v | To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of |
| acknowledgment n | Recognition |
| acme n | The highest point, or summit |
| acoustic adj | Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing |
| acquaint v | To make familiar or conversant |
| acquiesce v | To comply; submit |
| acquiescence n | Passive consent |
| acquire v | To get as one's own |
| acquisition n | Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor |
| acquit v | To free or clear, as from accusation |
| acquittal n | A discharge from accusation by judicial action |
| acquittance n | Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility |
| acreage n | Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land |
| acrid adj | Harshly pungent or bitter |
| acrimonious adj | Full of bitterness |
| acrimony n | Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper |
| actionable adj | Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words |
| actuality n | Any reality |
| actuary n | An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums |
| actuate v | To move or incite to action |
| acumen n | Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination |
| acute adj | Having fine and penetrating discernment |
| adamant n | Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability |
| addendum n | Something added, or to be added |
| addle v | To make inefficient or worthless; muddle |
| adduce v | To bring forward or name for consideration |
| adhere v | To stick fast or together |
| adherence n | Attachment |
| adherent adj | Clinging or sticking fast |
| adhesion n | The state of being attached or joined |
| adieu inter | Good-by; farewell |
| adjacency n | The state of being adjacent |
| adjacent n | That which is near or bordering upon |
| adjudge v | To award or bestow by formal decision |
| adjunct n | Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place |
| adjuration n | A vehement appeal |
| adjutant adj | Auxiliary |
| administrator n | One who manages affairs of any kind |
| admissible adj | Having the right or privilege of entry |
| admittance n | Entrance, or the right or permission to enter |
| admonish v | To warn of a fault |
| admonition n | Gentle reproof |
| ado n | unnecessary activity or ceremony |
| adoration n | Profound devotion |
| adroit adj | Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers |
| adulterant n | An adulterating substance |
| adulterate v | To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients |
| adumbrate v | To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem |
| advent n | The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage |
| adverse adj | Opposing or opposed |
| adversity n | Misfortune |
| advert v | To refer incidentally |
| advertiser n | One who advertises, especially in newspapers |
| advisory adj | Not mandatory |
| advocacy n | The act of pleading a cause |
| advocate n | One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court |
| aerial adj | Of, pertaining to, or like the air |
| aeronaut n | One who navigates the air, a balloonist |
| aeronautics n | the art or practice of flying aircraft |
| aerostat n | A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air |
| aerostatics n | The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties |
| affable adj | Easy to approach |
| affect v | To act upon |
| affectation n | A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt |
| affiliate n | Some auxiliary person or thing |
| affirmative adj | Answering yes; to a question at issue |
| affix v | To fasten |
| affluence n | A profuse or abundant supply of riches |
| affront n | An open insult or indignity |
| afoot adv | In progress |
| aforesaid adj | Said in a preceding part or before |
| afresh adv | Once more, after rest or interval |
| afterthought n | A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time |
| agglomerate v | To pile or heap together |
| aggrandize v | To cause to appear greatly |
| aggravate v | To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome |
| aggravation n | The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc |
| aggregate n | The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something |
| aggress v | To make the first attack |
| aggression n | An unprovoked attack |
| aggrieve v | To give grief or sorrow to |
| aghast adj | Struck with terror and amazement |
| agile adj | Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally |
| agitate v | To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts) |
| agrarian adj | Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land |
| aide-de-camp n | An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general |
| ailment n | Slight sickness |
| airy adj | Delicate, ethereal |
| akin adj | Of similar nature or qualities |
| alabaster n | A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum |
| alacrity n | Cheerful willingness |
| albeit conj | Even though |
| albino n | A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris |
| album n | A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like |
| alchemy n | Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold |
| alcohol n | A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste |
| alcoholism n | A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages |
| alcove n | A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room |
| alder n | Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family |
| alderman n | A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions |
| aldermanship n | The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman |
| alias n | An assumed name |
| alien n | One who owes allegiance to a foreign government |
| alienable adj | Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands |
| alienate v | To cause to turn away |
| alienation n | Estrangement |
| aliment n | That which nourishes |
| alkali n | Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc |
| allay v | To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate |
| allege v | To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court |
| allegory n | The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness |
| alleviate v | To make less burdensome or less hard to bear |
| alley n | A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like |
| alliance n | Any combination or union for some common purpose |
| allot v | To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person |
| allotment n | Portion |
| allude v | To refer incidentally, or by suggestion |
| allusion n | An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it |
| alluvion n | Flood |
| ally n | A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness |
| almanac n | A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information |
| aloof adv | Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others |
| altar n | Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned |
| alter v | To make change in |
| alteration n | Change or modification |
| altercate v | To contend angrily or zealously in words |
| alternate n | One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other |
| alternative n | Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else |
| altitude n | Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea |
| alto n | The lowest or deepest female voice or part |
| altruism n | Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest |
| altruist n | One who advocates or practices altruism |
| amalgam n | An alloy or union of mercury with another metal |
| amalgamate v | To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body |
| amateur adj | Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession |
| amatory adj | Designed to excite love |
| ambidextrous adj | Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease |
| ambiguous adj | Having a double meaning |
| ambitious adj | Eagerly desirous and aspiring |
| ambrosial adj | Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious |
| ambulance n | A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded |
| ambulate v | To walk about |
| ambush n | The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy |
| ameliorate v | To relieve, as from pain or hardship |
| amenable adj | Willing and ready to submit |
| Americanism n | A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States |
| amicable adj | Done in a friendly spirit |
| amity n | Friendship |
| amorous adj | Having a propensity for falling in love |
| amorphous adj | Without determinate shape |
| amour n | A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature |
| ampere n | The practical unit of electric-current strength |
| ampersand n | The character &; and |
| amphibious adj | Living both on land and in water |
| amphitheater n | An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena |
| amplitude n | Largeness |
| amply adv | Sufficiently |
| amputate v | To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body |
| amusement n | Diversion |
| anachronism n | Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time |
| anagram n | The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase |
| analogous adj | Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations |
| analogy n | Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed |
| analyst n | One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method |
| analyze v | To examine minutely or critically |
| anarchy n | Absence or utter disregard of government |
| anathema n | Anything forbidden, as by social usage |
| anatomy n | That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms |
| ancestry n | One's ancestors collectively |
| anecdote n | A brief account of some interesting event or incident |
| anemia n | Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles |
| anemic adj | Affected with anemia |
| anemometer n | An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind |
| anesthetic adj | Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation |
| anew adv | Once more |
| angelic adj | Saintly |
| Anglophobia n | Hatred or dread of England or of what is English |
| Anglo-Saxon n | The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India |
| angular adj | Sharp-cornered |
| anhydrous adj | Withered |
| animadversion n | The utterance of criticism or censure |
| animadvert v | To pass criticism or censure |
| animalcule n | An animal of microscopic smallness |
| animate v | To make alive |
| animosity n | Hatred |
| annalist n | Historian |
| annals n | A record of events in their chronological order, year by year |
| annex v | To add or affix at the end |
| annihilate v | To destroy absolutely |
| annotate v | To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon |
| annual adj | Occurring every year |
| annuity n | An annual allowance, payment, or income |
| annunciation n | Proclamation |
| anode n | The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like |
| anonymous adj | Of unknown authorship |
| antagonism n | Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons |
| Antarctic adj | Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it |
| ante v | In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt |
| antecede v | To precede |
| antecedent n | One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality |
| antechamber n | A waiting room for those who seek audience |
| antedate v | To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one |
| antediluvian adj | Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah |
| antemeridian adj | Before noon |
| antemundane adj | Pertaining to time before the world's creation |
| antenatal adj | Occurring or existing before birth |
| anterior adj | Prior |
| anteroom n | A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger |
| anthology n | A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors |
| anthracite n | Hard coal |
| anthropology n | The science of man in general |
| anthropomorphous adj | Having or resembling human form |
| antic n | A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action |
| Antichrist n | Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power |
| anticlimax n | A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said |
| anticyclone n | An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward |
| antidote n | Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like |
| antilogy n | Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas |
| antipathize v | To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike |
| antiphon n | A response or alteration of responses, generally musical |
| antiphony n | An anthem or other composition sung responsively |
| antipodes n | A place or region on the opposite side of the earth |
| antiquary n | One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc |
| antiquate v | To make old or out of date |
| antique adj | Pertaining to ancient times |
| antiseptic n | Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms |
| antislavery adj | Opposed to human slavery |
| antispasmodic adj | Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections |
| antistrophe n | The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home" |
| antitoxin n | A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms |
| antonym n | A word directly opposed to another in meaning |
| anxious adj | Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter |
| apathy n | Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling |
| aperture n | Hole |
| apex n | The highest point, as of a mountain |
| aphorism n | Proverb |
| apiary n | A place where bees are kept |
| apogee n | The climax |
| apology n | A disclaimer of intentional error or offense |
| apostasy n | A total departure from one's faith or religion |
| apostate adj | False |
| apostle n | Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority |
| apothecary n | One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions |
| apotheosis n | Deification |
| appall v | To fill with dismay or horror |
| apparent adj | Easily understood |
| apparition n | Ghost |
| appease v | To soothe by quieting anger or indignation |
| appellate adj | Capable of being appealed to |
| appellation n | The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called |
| append v | To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary |
| appertain v | To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation |
| apposite adj | Appropriate |
| apposition n | The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact |
| appraise v | To estimate the money value of |
| appreciable adj | Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect |
| apprehend v | To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law |
| apprehensible adj | Capable of being conceived |
| approbation n | Sanction |
| appropriate adj | Suitable for the purpose and circumstances |
| aqueduct n | A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance |
| aqueous adj | Of, pertaining to, or containing water |
| arbiter n | One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters |
| arbitrary adj | Fixed or done capriciously |
| arbitrate v | To act or give judgment as umpire |
| arbor n | A tree |
| arboreal adj | Of or pertaining to a tree or trees |
| arborescent adj | Having the nature of a tree |
| arboretum n | A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs |
| arboriculture n | The cultivation of trees or shrubs |
| arcade n | A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc, opening from it |
| archaic adj | Antiquated |
| archaism n | Obsolescence |
| archangel n | An angel of high rank |
| archbishop n | The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church |
| archdeacon n | A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese |
| archaeology n | The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man |
| archetype n | A prototype |
| archipelago n | Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves |
| ardent adj | Burning with passion |
| ardor n | Intensity of passion or affection |
| arid adj | Very dry |
| aristocracy n | A hereditary nobility |
| aristocrat n | A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility |
| armada n | A fleet of war-vessels |
| armful n | As much as can be held in the arm or arms |
| armory n | An arsenal |
| aroma n | An agreeable odor |
| arraign v | To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not |
| arrange v | To put in definite or proper order |
| arrangement n | The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order |
| arrant adj | Notoriously bad |
| arrear n | Something overdue and unpaid |
| arrival n | A coming to stopping-place or destination |
| arrogant adj | Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc |
| arrogate v | To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds |
| artful adj | Characterized by craft or cunning |
| Arthurian adj | Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story |
| artifice n | Trickery |
| artless adj | Ingenuous |
| ascendant adj | Dominant |
| ascension n | The act of rising |
| ascent n | A rising, soaring, or climbing |
| ascetic adj | Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion |
| ascribe v | To assign as a quality or attribute |
| asexual adj | Having no distinct sexual organs |
| ashen adj | Pale |
| askance adv | With a side or indirect glance or meaning |
| asperity n | Harshness or roughness of temper |
| aspirant n | One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place |
| aspiration n | An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach |
| aspire v | To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained |
| assailant n | One who attacks |
| assassin n | One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly |
| assassinate v | To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person |
| assassination n | Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery |
| assay n | The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore |
| assent v | To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion |
| assess v | To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) |
| assessor n | An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes |
| assiduous adj | Diligent |
| assignee n | One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests |
| assimilate v | To adapt |
| assonance n | Resemblance or correspondence in sound |
| assonant adj | Having resemblance of sound |
| assonate v | To accord in sound, especially vowel sound |
| assuage v | To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease |
| astringent adj | Harsh in disposition or character |
| astute adj | Keen in discernment |
| atheism n | The denial of the existence of God |
| athirst adj | Wanting water |
| athwart adv | From side to side |
| atomizer n | An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc |
| atone v | To make amends for |
| atonement n | Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury |
| atrocious adj | Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel |
| atrocity n | Great cruelty or reckless wickedness |
| attache n | A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy |
| attest v | To certify as accurate, genuine, or true |
| attorney-general n | The chief law-officer of a government |
| auburn adj | Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair |
| audacious adj | Fearless |
| audible adj | Loud enough to be heard |
| audition n | The act or sensation of hearing |
| auditory adj | Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing |
| augment v | To make bigger |
| augur v | To predict |
| aura n | Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons |
| aural adj | Of or pertaining to the ear |
| auricle n | One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins |
| auricular adj | Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing |
| auriferous adj | Containing gold |
| aurora n | A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere |
| auspice n | favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance |
| austere adj | Severely simple; unadorned |
| autarchy n | Unrestricted power |
| authentic adj | Of undisputed origin |
| authenticity n | The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed |
| autobiography n | The story of one's life written by himself |
| autocracy n | Absolute government |
| autocrat n | Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence |
| automaton n | Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical |
| autonomous adj | Self-governing |
| autonomy n | Self-government |
| autopsy n | The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death |
| autumnal adj | Of or pertaining to autumn |
| auxiliary n | One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory |
| avalanche n | The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock |
| avarice n | Passion for getting and keeping riches |
| aver v | To assert as a fact |
| averse adj | Reluctant |
| aversion n | A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing |
| avert v | To turn away or aside |
| aviary n | A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept |
| avidity n | Greediness |
| avocation n | Diversion |
| avow v | To declare openly |
| awaken v | To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like |
| aye adv | An expression of assent |
| azalea n | A flowering shrub |
| azure n | The color of the sky |
| Baconian adj | Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy |
| bacterium n | A microbe |
| badger v | To pester |
| baffle v | To foil or frustrate |
| bailiff n | An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment |
| baize n | A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc |
| bale n | A large package prepared for transportation or storage |
| baleful adj | Malignant |
| ballad n | Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form |
| balsam n | A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing |
| banal adj | Commonplace |
| barcarole n | A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers |
| barograph n | An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure |
| barometer n | An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface |
| barring prep | Apart from |
| baritone adj | Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor |
| bask v | To make warm by genial heat |
| bass adj | Low in tone or compass |
| baste v | To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking |
| baton n | An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege |
| battalion n | A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment |
| batten n | A narrow strip of wood |
| batter n | A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery |
| bauble n | A trinket |
| bawl v | To proclaim by outcry |
| beatify v | To make supremely happy |
| beatitude n | Any state of great happiness |
| beau n | An escort or lover |
| becalm v | To make quiet |
| beck v | To give a signal to, by nod or gesture |
| bedaub v | To smear over, as with something oily or sticky |
| bedeck v | To cover with ornament |
| bedlam n | Madhouse |
| befog v | To confuse |
| befriend v | To be a friend to, especially when in need |
| beget v | To produce by sexual generation |
| begrudge v | To envy one of the possession of |
| belate v | To delay past the proper hour |
| belay v | To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat |
| belie v | To misrepresent |
| believe v | To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others |
| belittle v | To disparage |
| belle n | A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc |
| bellicose adj | Warlike |
| belligerent adj | Manifesting a warlike spirit |
| bemoan v | To lament |
| benediction n | a solemn invocation of the divine blessing |
| benefactor n | A doer of kindly and charitable acts |
| benefice n | A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service |
| beneficent adj | Characterized by charity and kindness |
| beneficial adj | Helpful |
| beneficiary n | One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property |
| benefit n | Helpful result |
| benevolence n | Any act of kindness or well-doing |
| benevolent adj | Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being |
| benign adj | Good and kind of heart |
| benignant adj | Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect |
| benignity n | Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner |
| benison n | Blessing |
| bequeath v | To give by will |
| bereave v | To make desolate with loneliness and grief |
| berth n | A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc |
| beseech v | To implore |
| beset v | To attack on all sides |
| besmear v | To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance |
| bestial adj | Animal |
| bestrew v | To sprinkle or cover with things strewn |
| bestride v | To get or sit upon astride, as a horse |
| bethink v | To remind oneself |
| betide v | To happen to or befall |
| betimes adv | In good season or time |
| betroth v | To engage to marry |
| betrothal n | Engagement to marry |
| bevel n | Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees |
| bewilder v | To confuse the perceptions or judgment of |
| bibliomania n | The passion for collecting books |
| bibliography n | A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject |
| bibliophile n | One who loves books |
| bibulous adj | Fond of drinking |
| bide v | To await |
| biennial n | A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second |
| bier n | A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave |
| bigamist n | One who has two spouses at the same time |
| bigamy n | The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living |
| bight n | A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line |
| bilateral adj | Two-sided |
| bilingual adj | Speaking two languages |
| biograph n | A bibliographical sketch or notice |
| biography n | A written account of one's life, actions, and character |
| biology n | The science of life or living organisms |
| biped n | An animal having two feet |
| birthright n | A privilege or possession into which one is born |
| bitterness n | Acridity, as to the taste |
| blase adj | Sated with pleasure |
| blaspheme v | To indulge in profane oaths |
| blatant adj | Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous |
| blaze n | A vivid glowing flame |
| blazon v | To make widely or generally known |
| bleak adj | Desolate |
| blemish n | A mark that mars beauty |
| blithe adj | Joyous |
| blithesome adj | Cheerful |
| blockade n | The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces |
| boatswain n | A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc |
| bodice n | A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist |
| bodily adj | Corporeal |
| boisterous adj | Unchecked merriment or animal spirits |
| bole n | The trunk or body of a tree |
| bolero n | A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing |
| boll n | A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton |
| bolster v | To support, as something wrong |
| bomb n | A hollow projectile containing an explosive material |
| bombard v | To assail with any missile or with abusive speech |
| bombardier n | A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells |
| bombast n | Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects |
| boorish adj | Rude |
| bore v | To weary by tediousness or dullness |
| borough n | An incorporated village or town |
| bosom n | The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman |
| botanical adj | Connected with the study or cultivation of plants |
| botanize v | To study plant-life |
| botany n | The science that treats of plants |
| bountiful adj | Showing abundance |
| Bowdlerize v | To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages |
| bowler n | In cricket, the player who delivers the ball |
| boycott v | To place the products or merchandise of under a ban |
| brae n | Hillside |
| braggart n | A vain boaster |
| brandish v | To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear |
| bravado n | An aggressive display of boldness |
| bravo interj | Well done |
| bray n | A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn |
| braze v | To make of or ornament with brass |
| brazier n | An open pan or basin for holding live coals |
| breach n | The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation |
| breaker n | One who trains horses, dogs, etc |
| breech n | The buttocks |
| brevity n | Shortness of duration |
| bric-a-brac n | Objects of curiosity or for decoration |
| bridle n | The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins |
| brigade n | A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments |
| brigadier n | General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general |
| brigand n | One who lives by robbery and plunder |
| brimstone n | Sulfur |
| brine n | Water saturated with salt |
| bristle n | One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc |
| Britannia n | The United Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Briticism n | A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British |
| brittle adj | Fragile |
| broach v | To mention, for the first time |
| broadcast adj | Disseminated far and wide |
| brogan n | A coarse, heavy shoe |
| brogue n | Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people |
| brokerage n | The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker |
| bromine n | A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor |
| bronchitis n | Inflammation of the bronchial tubes |
| bronchus n | Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs |
| brooch n | An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside |
| brotherhood n | Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity |
| browbeat v | To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner |
| brusque adj | Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech |
| buffoon n | A clown |
| buffoonery n | Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc |
| bulbous adj | Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb |
| bullock n | An ox |
| bulrush n | Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water |
| bulwark n | Anything that gives security or defense |
| bumper n | A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health |
| bumptious adj | Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit |
| bungle v | To execute clumsily |
| buoyancy n | Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas |
| buoyant adj | Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat |
| bureau n | A chest of drawers for clothing, etc |
| bureaucracy n | Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business |
| burgess n | In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia |
| burgher n | An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town |
| burnish v | To make brilliant or shining |
| bursar n | A treasurer |
| bustle v | To hurry |
| butt v | To strike with or as with the head, or horns |
| butte n | A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated |
| buttress n | Any support or prop |
| by-law n | A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like |
| cabal n | A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose |
| cabalism n | Superstitious devotion to one's religion |
| cabinet n | The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation |
| cacophony n | A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones |
| cadaverous adj | Resembling a corpse |
| cadence n | Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops |
| cadenza n | An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument |
| caitiff adj | Cowardly |
| cajole v | To impose on or dupe by flattering speech |
| cajolery n | Delusive speech |
| calculable adj | That may be estimated by reckoning |
| calculus n | A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness |
| callosity n | The state of being hard and insensible |
| callow adj | Without experience of the world |
| calorie n | Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade |
| calumny n | Slander |
| Calvary n | The place where Christ was crucified |
| Calvinism n | The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin |
| Calvinize v | To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism |
| came n | A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows |
| cameo n | Any small engraved or carved work in relief |
| campaign n | A complete series of connected military operations |
| Canaanite n | A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine |
| canary adj | Of a bright but delicate yellow |
| candid adj | Straightforward |
| candor n | The quality of frankness or outspokenness |
| canine adj | Characteristic of a dog |
| canon n | Any rule or law |
| cant v | To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity |
| cantata n | A choral composition |
| canto n | One of the divisions of an extended poem |
| cantonment n | The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered |
| capacious adj | Roomy |
| capillary n | A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells |
| capitulate v | To surrender or stipulate terms |
| caprice n | A whim |
| caption n | A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc |
| captious adj | Hypercritical |
| carcass n | The dead body of an animal |
| cardiac adj | Pertaining to the heart |
| cardinal adj | Of prime or special importance |
| caret n | A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc, should be inserted |
| caricature n | a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted |
| carnage n | Massacre |
| carnal adj | Sensual |
| carnivorous adj | Eating or living on flesh |
| carouse v | To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner |
| carrion n | Dead and putrefying flesh |
| cartilage n | An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence |
| cartridge n | A charge for a firearm, or for blasting |
| caste n | The division of society on artificial grounds |
| castigate v | To punish |
| casual adj | Accidental, by chance |
| casualty n | A fatal or serious accident or disaster |
| cataclysm n | Any overwhelming flood of water |
| cataract n | Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness |
| catastrophe n | Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity |
| cathode n | The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery |
| Catholicism n | The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church |
| catholicity n | Universal prevalence or acceptance |
| cat-o-nine-tails n | An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy |
| caucus n | A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates |
| causal adj | Indicating or expressing a cause |
| caustic adj | Sarcastic and severe |
| cauterize v | To burn or sear as with a heated iron |
| cede v | To pass title to |
| censor n | An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication |
| censorious adj | Judging severely or harshly |
| census n | An official numbering of the people of a country or district |
| centenary adj | Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years |
| centiliter n | A hundredth of a liter |
| centimeter n | A length of one hundredth of a meter |
| centurion n | A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army |
| cereal adj | Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds |
| ceremonial adj | Characterized by outward form or ceremony |
| ceremonious adj | Observant of ritual |
| cessation n | Discontinuance, as of action or motion |
| cession n | Surrender, as of possessions or rights |
| chagrin n | Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors |
| chameleon adj | Changeable in appearance |
| chancery n | A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court |
| chaos n | Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion |
| characteristic n | A distinctive feature |
| characterize v | To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities |
| charlatan n | A quack |
| chasm n | A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface |
| chasten v | To purify by affliction |
| chastise v | To subject to punitive measures |
| chastity n | Sexual or moral purity |
| chateau n | A castle or manor-house |
| chattel n | Any article of personal property |
| check v | To hold back |
| chiffon n | A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc |
| chivalry n | The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices |
| cholera n | An acute epidemic disease |
| choleric adj | Easily provoked to anger |
| choral adj | Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir |
| Christ n | A title of Jesus |
| christen v | To name in baptism |
| Christendom n | That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed |
| chromatic adj | Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color |
| chronology n | The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events |
| chronometer n | A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision |
| circulate v | To disseminate |
| circumference n | The boundary-line of a circle |
| circumlocution n | Indirect or roundabout expression |
| circumnavigate v | To sail quite around |
| circumscribe v | To confine within bounds |
| circumspect adj | Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration |
| citadel n | Any strong fortress |
| cite v | To refer to specifically |
| claimant n | One who makes a claim or demand, as of right |
| clairvoyance n | Intuitive sagacity or perception |
| clamorous adj | Urgent in complaint or demand |
| clan n | A tribe |
| clandestine adj | Surreptitious |
| clangor n | Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor |
| clarify v | To render intelligible |
| clarion n | A small shrill trumpet or bugle |
| classify v | To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance’s and differences |
| clearance n | A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail |
| clemency n | Mercy |
| clement adj | Compassionate |
| close-hauled adj | Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible |
| clothier n | One who makes or sells cloth or clothing |
| clumsy adj | Awkward of movement |
| coagulate v | To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment |
| coagulant adj | Producing coagulation |
| coalescence n | The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product |
| coalition n | Combination in a body or mass |
| coddle v | To treat as a baby or an invalid |
| codicil n | A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will |
| coerce v | To force |
| coercion n | Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical |
| coercive adj | Serving or tending to force |
| cogent adj | Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience |
| cognate adj | Akin |
| cognizant adj | Taking notice |
| cohere v | To stick together |
| cohesion n | Consistency |
| cohesive adj | Having the property of consistency |
| coincide v | To correspond |
| coincidence n | A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident |
| coincident adj | Taking place at the same time |
| collaborate v | To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits |
| collapse v | To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail |
| collapsible adj | That may or can collapse |
| colleague n | An associate in professional employment |
| collective adj | Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum |
| collector n | One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like |
| collegian n | A college student |
| collide v | To meet and strike violently |
| collier n | One who works in a coal-mine |
| collision n | Violent contact |
| colloquial adj | Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary |
| colloquialism n | Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation |
| colloquy n | Conversation |
| collusion n | A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose |
| colossus n | Any strikingly great person or object |
| comely adj | Handsome |
| comestible adj | Fit to be eaten |
| comical adj | Funny |
| commemorate v | To serve as a remembrance of |
| commentary n | A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work |
| commingle v | To blend |
| commissariat n | The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs |
| commission v | To empower |
| commitment n | The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping |
| committal n | The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being |
| commodity n | Something that is bought and sold |
| commotion n | A disturbance or violent agitation |
| commute v | To put something, especially something less severe, in place of |
| comparable adj | Fit to be compared |
| comparative adj | Relative |
| comparison n | Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness |
| compensate v | To remunerate |
| competence n | Adequate qualification or capacity |
| competent adj | Qualified |
| competitive adj | characterized by rivalry |
| competitor n | A rival |
| complacence n | Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings |
| complacent adj | Pleased or satisfied with oneself |
| complaisance n | Politeness |
| complaisant adj | Agreeable |
| complement v | To make complete |
| complex adj | Complicated |
| compliant adj | Yielding |
| complicate v | To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with |
| complication n | An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner |
| complicity n | Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer |
| compliment v | To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise |
| component n | A constituent element or part |
| comport v | To conduct or behave (oneself) |
| composure n | Calmness |
| comprehensible adj | Intelligible |
| comprehension n | Ability to know |
| comprehensive adj | Large in scope or content |
| compress v | To press together or into smaller space |
| compressible adj | Capable of being pressed into smaller compass |
| compression n | Constraint, as by force or authority |
| comprise v | To consist of |
| compulsion n | Coercion |
| compulsory adj | Forced |
| compunction n | Remorseful feeling |
| compute v | To ascertain by mathematical calculation |
| concede v | To surrender |
| conceit n | Self-flattering opinion |
| conceive v | To form an idea, mental image or thought of |
| concerto n | A musical composition |
| concession n | Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim |
| conciliate v | To obtain the friendship of |
| conciliatory adj | Tending to reconcile |
| conclusive adj | Sufficient to convince or decide |
| concord n | Harmony |
| concordance n | Harmony |
| concur v | To agree |
| concurrence n | Agreement |
| concurrent adj | Occurring or acting together |
| concussion n | A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow |
| condensation n | The act or process of making dense or denser |
| condense v | To abridge |
| condescend v | To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors |
| condolence n | Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune |
| conduce v | To bring about |
| conducive adj | Contributing to an end |
| conductible adj | Capable of being conducted or transmitted |
| conduit n | A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid |
| confectionery n | The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy |
| confederacy n | A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid |
| confederate n | One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement |
| confer v | To bestow |
| conferee n | A person with whom another confers |
| confessor n | A spiritual advisor |
| confidant n | One to whom secrets are entrusted |
| confide v | To reveal in trust or confidence |
| confidence n | The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another |
| confident adj | Assured |
| confinement n | Restriction within limits or boundaries |
| confiscate v | To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury |
| conflagration n | A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like |
| confluence n | The place where streams meet |
| confluent n | A stream that unites with another |
| conformance n | The act or state or conforming |
| conformable adj | Harmonious |
| conformation n | General structure, form, or outline |
| conformity n | Correspondence in form, manner, or use |
| confront v | To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles |
| congeal v | To coagulate |
| congenial adj | Having kindred character or tastes |
| congest v | To collect into a mass |
| congregate v | To bring together into a crowd |
| coniferous adj | Cone-bearing trees |
| conjecture n | A guess |
| conjoin v | To unite |
| conjugal adj | Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons |
| conjugate adj | Joined together in pairs |
| conjugation n | The state or condition of being joined together |
| conjunction n | The state of being joined together, or the things so joined |
| connive v | To be in collusion |
| connoisseur n | A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art |
| connote v | To mean; signify |
| connubial adj | Pertaining to marriage or matrimony |
| conquer v | To overcome by force |
| consanguineous adj | Descended from the same parent or ancestor |
| conscience n | The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct |
| conscientious adj | Governed by moral standard |
| conscious adj | Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks |
| conscript v | To force into military service |
| consecrate v | To set apart as sacred |
| consecutive adj | Following in uninterrupted succession |
| consensus n | A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons |
| conservatism n | Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things |
| conservative adj | Adhering to the existing order of things |
| conservatory n | An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation |
| consign v | To entrust |
| consignee n | A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted |
| consignor n | One who entrusts |
| consistency n | A state of permanence |
| console v | To comfort |
| consolidate v | To combine into one body or system |
| consonance n | The state or quality of being in accord with |
| consonant adj | Being in agreement or harmony with |
| consort n | A companion or associate |
| conspicuous adj | Clearly visible |
| conspirator n | One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose |
| conspire v | To plot |
| constable n | An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace |
| constellation n | An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars |
| consternation n | Panic |
| constituency n | The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body |
| constituent n | One who has the right to vote at an election |
| constrict v | To bind |
| consul n | An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country |
| consulate n | The place in which a consul transacts official business |
| consummate v | To bring to completion |
| consumption n | Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc, or by using up, wearing out, etc |
| consumptive adj | Designed for gradual destruction |
| contagion n | The communication of disease from person to person |
| contagious adj | Transmitting disease |
| contaminate v | To pollute |
| contemplate v | To consider thoughtfully |
| contemporaneous adj | Living, occurring, or existing at the same time |
| contemporary adj | Living or existing at the same time |
| contemptible adj | Worthy of scorn or disdain |
| contemptuous adj | Disdainful |
| contender n | One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry |
| contiguity n | Proximity |
| contiguous adj | Touching or joining at the edge or boundary |
| continence n | Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion |
| contingency n | Possibility of happening |
| contingent adj | Not predictable |
| continuance n | Permanence |
| continuation n | Prolongation |
| continuity n | Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development |
| continuous adj | Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence |
| contort v | To twist into a misshapen form |
| contraband n | Trade forbidden by law or treaty |
| contradiction n | The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said |
| contradictory adj | Inconsistent with itself |
| contraposition n | A placing opposite |
| contravene v | To prevent or obstruct the operation of |
| contribution n | The act of giving for a common purpose |
| contributor n | One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose |
| contrite adj | Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin |
| contrivance n | The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose |
| contrive v | To manage or carry through by some device or scheme |
| control v | To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over |
| controller n | One who or that which regulates or directs |
| contumacious adj | Rebellious |
| contumacy n | Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority |
| contuse v | To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin |
| contusion n | A bruise |
| convalesce v | To recover after a sickness |
| convalescence n | The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease |
| convalescent adj | Recovering health after sickness |
| convene v | To summon or cause to assemble |
| convenience n | Fitness, as of time or place |
| converge v | To cause to incline and approach nearer together |
| convergent adj | Tending to one point |
| conversant adj | Thoroughly informed |
| conversion n | Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another |
| convertible adj | Interchangeable |
| convex adj | Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle |
| conveyance n | That by which anything is transported |
| convivial adj | Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking |
| convolution n | A winding motion |
| convolve v | To move with a circling or winding motion |
| convoy n | A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation |
| convulse v | To cause spasms in |
| convulsion n | A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body |
| copious adj | Plenteous |
| coquette n | A flirt |
| cornice n | An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling |
| cornucopia n | The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity |
| corollary n | A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration |
| coronation n | The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch |
| coronet n | Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign |
| corporal adj | Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind |
| corporate adj | Belonging to a corporation |
| corporeal adj | Of a material nature; physical |
| corps n | A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together |
| corpse n | A dead body |
| corpulent adj | Obese |
| corpuscle n | A minute particle of matter |
| correlate v | To put in some relation of connection or correspondence |
| correlative adj | Mutually involving or implying one another |
| corrigible adj | Capable of reformation |
| corroborate v | To strengthen, as proof or conviction |
| corroboration n | Confirmation |
| corrode v | To ruin or destroy little by little |
| corrosion n | Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration |
| corrosive n | That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration |
| corruptible adj | Open to bribery |
| corruption n | Loss of purity or integrity |
| cosmetic adj | Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion |
| cosmic adj | Pertaining to the universe |
| cosmogony n | A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe |
| cosmography n | The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology |
| cosmology n | The general science of the universe |
| cosmopolitan adj | Common to all the world |
| cosmopolitanism n | A cosmopolitan character |
| cosmos n | The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement |
| counter-claim n | A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff |
| counteract v | To act in opposition to |
| counterbalance v | To oppose with an equal force |
| countercharge v | To accuse in return |
| counterfeit adj | Made to resemble something else |
| counterpart n | Something taken with another for the completion of either |
| countervail v | To offset |
| counting-house n | A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc |
| countryman n | A rustic |
| courageous adj | Brave |
| course n | Line of motion or direction |
| courser n | A fleet and spirited horse |
| courtesy n | Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually |
| covenant n | An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties |
| covert adj | Concealed, especially for an evil purpose |
| covey n | A flock of quails or partridges |
| cower v | To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame |
| coxswain n | One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer |
| crag n | A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge |
| cranium n | The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain |
| crass adj | Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine |
| craving n | A vehement desire |
| creak n | A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound |
| creamery n | A butter-making establishment |
| creamy adj | Resembling or containing cream |
| credence n | Belief |
| credible adj | Believable |
| credulous adj | Easily deceived |
| creed n | A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief |
| crematory adj | A place for cremating dead bodies |
| crevasse n | A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier |
| crevice n | A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces |
| criterion n | A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion |
| critique n | A criticism or critical review |
| crockery n | Earthenware made from baked clay |
| crucible n | A trying and purifying test or agency |
| crusade n | Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle |
| crustacean adj | Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc |
| crustaceous adj | Having a crust-like shell |
| cryptogram n | Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning |
| crystallize v | To bring together or give fixed shape to |
| cudgel n | A short thick stick used as a club |
| culinary adj | Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen |
| cull v | To pick or sort out from the rest |
| culpable adj | Guilty |
| culprit n | A guilty person |
| culvert n | Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal |
| cupidity n | Avarice |
| curable adj | Capable of being remedied or corrected |
| curator n | A person having charge as of a library or museum |
| curio n | A piece of bric-a-brac |
| cursive adj | Writing in which the letters are joined together |
| cursory adj | Rapid and superficial |
| curt adj | Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression |
| curtail v | To cut off or cut short |
| curtsy n | A downward movement of the body by bending the knees |
| cycloid adj | Like a circle |
| cygnet n | A young swan |
| cynical adj | Exhibiting moral skepticism |
| cynicism n | Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value |
| cynosure n | That to which general interest or attention is directed |
| daring adj | Brave |
| darkling adv | Blindly |
| Darwinism n | The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms |
| dastard n | A base coward |
| datum n | A premise, starting-point, or given fact |
| dauntless adj | Fearless |
| day-man n | A day-laborer |
| dead-heat n | A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner |
| dearth n | Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable |
| death's-head n | A human skull as a symbol of death |
| debase v | To lower in character or virtue |
| debatable adj | Subject to contention or dispute |
| debonair adj | Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner |
| debut n | A first appearance in society or on the stage |
| decagon n | A figure with ten sides and ten angles |
| decagram n | A weight of 10 grams |
| decaliter n | A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters |
| decalogue n | The ten commandments |
| Decameron n | A volume consisting of ten parts or books |
| decameter n | A length of ten meters |
| decamp v | To leave suddenly or unexpectedly |
| decapitate v | To behead |
| decapod adj | Ten-footed or ten-armed |
| decasyllable n | A line of ten syllables |
| deceit n | Falsehood |
| deceitful adj | Fraudulent |
| deceive v | To mislead by or as by falsehood |
| decency n | Moral fitness |
| decent adj | Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress |
| deciduous adj | Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc |
| decimal adj | Founded on the number 10 |
| decimate v | To destroy a measurable or large proportion of |
| decipher v | To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible |
| decisive ad | Conclusive |
| declamation n | A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public |
| declamatory adj | A full and formal style of utterance |
| declarative adj | Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation |
| decorate v | To embellish |
| decorous adj | Suitable for the occasion or circumstances |
| decoy n | Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation |
| decrepit adj | Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity |
| dedication n | The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause |
| deduce v | To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles |
| deface v | To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of |
| defalcate v | To cut off or take away, as a part of something |
| defamation n | Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another |
| defame v | To slander |
| default n | The neglect or omission of a legal requirement |
| defendant n | A person against whom a suit is brought |
| defensible adj | Capable of being maintained or justified |
| defensive adj | Carried on in resistance to aggression |
| defer v | To delay or put off to some other time |
| deference n | Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment |
| defiant adj | Characterized by bold or insolent opposition |
| deficiency n | Lack or insufficiency |
| deficient adj | Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount |
| definite adj | Having an exact signification or positive meaning |
| deflect v | To cause to turn aside or downward |
| deforest v | To clear of forests |
| deform v | To disfigure |
| deformity n | A disfigurement |
| defraud v | To deprive of something dishonestly |
| defray v | To make payment for |
| degeneracy n | A becoming worse |
| degenerate v | To become worse or inferior |
| degradation n | Diminution, as of strength or magnitude |
| degrade v | To take away honors or position from |
| dehydrate v | To deprive of water |
| deify v | To regard or worship as a god |
| deign v | To deem worthy of notice or account |
| deist n | One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation |
| deity n | A god, goddess, or divine person |
| deject v | To dishearten |
| dejection n | Melancholy |
| delectable adj | Delightful to the taste or to the senses |
| delectation n | Delight |
| deleterious adj | Hurtful, morally or physically |
| delicacy n | That which is agreeable to a fine taste |
| delineate v | To represent by sketch or diagram |
| deliquesce v | To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air |
| delirious adj | Raving |
| delude v | To mislead the mind or judgment of |
| deluge v | To overwhelm with a flood of water |
| delusion n | Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring |
| demagnetize v | To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism |
| demagogue n | An unprincipled politician |
| demeanor n | Deportment |
| demented adj | Insane |
| demerit n | A mark for failure or bad conduct |
| demise n | Death |
| demobilize v | To disband, as troops |
| demolish v | To annihilate |
| demonstrable adj | Capable of positive proof |
| demonstrate v | To prove indubitably |
| demonstrative adj | Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts |
| demonstrator n | One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner |
| demulcent n | Any application soothing to an irritable surface |
| demurrage n | the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing |
| dendroid adj | Like a tree |
| dendrology n | The natural history of trees |
| denizen n | Inhabitant |
| denominate v | To give a name or epithet to |
| denomination n | A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline |
| denominator n | Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided |
| denote v | To designate by word or mark |
| denouement n | That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up |
| denounce v | To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium |
| dentifrice n | Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth |
| denude v | To strip the covering from |
| denunciation n | The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment |
| deplete v | To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste |
| deplorable adj | Contemptible |
| deplore v | To regard with grief or sorrow |
| deponent adj | Laying down |
| depopulate v | To remove the inhabitants from |
| deport v | To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony |
| deportment n | Demeanor |
| deposition n | Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court |
| depositor n | One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited |
| depository n | A place where anything is kept in safety |
| deprave v | To render bad, especially morally bad |
| deprecate v | To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite |
| depreciate v | To lessen the worth of |
| depreciation n | A lowering in value or an underrating in worth |
| depress v | To press down |
| depression n | A falling of the spirits |
| depth n | Deepness |
| derelict adj | Neglectful of obligation |
| deride v | To ridicule |
| derisible adj | Open to ridicule |
| derision n | Ridicule |
| derivation n | That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning |
| derivative adj | Coming or acquired from some origin |
| derive v | To deduce, as from a premise |
| dermatology n | The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases |
| derrick n | An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights |
| descendant n | One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc |
| descendent adj | Proceeding downward |
| descent n | The act of moving or going downward |
| descry v | To discern |
| desert v | To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned |
| desiccant n | Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds |
| designate v | To select or appoint, as by authority |
| desist v | To cease from action |
| desistance n | Cessation |
| despair n | Utter hopelessness and despondency |
| desperado n | One without regard for law or life |
| desperate adj | Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair |
| despicable adj | Contemptible |
| despite prep | In spite of |
| despond v | To lose spirit, courage, or hope |
| despondent adj | Disheartened |
| despot n | An absolute and irresponsible monarch |
| despotism n | Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part |
| destitute adj | Poverty-stricken |
| desultory adj | Not connected with what precedes |
| deter v | To frighten away |
| deteriorate v | To grow worse |
| determinate adj | Definitely limited or fixed |
| determination n | The act of deciding |
| deterrent adj | Hindering from action through fear |
| detest v | To dislike or hate with intensity |
| detract v | To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation |
| detriment n | Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss |
| detrude v | To push down forcibly |
| deviate v | To take a different course |
| devilry n | Malicious mischief |
| deviltry n | Wanton and malicious mischief |
| devious adj | Out of the common or regular track |
| devise v | To invent |
| devout adj | Religious |
| dexterity n | Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work |
| diabolic adj | Characteristic of the devil |
| diacritical adj | Marking a difference |
| diagnose v | To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena |
| diagnosis n | Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease |
| dialect n | Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district |
| dialectician n | A logician |
| dialogue n | A formal conversation in which two or more take part |
| diaphanous adj | Transparent |
| diatomic adj | Containing only two atoms |
| diatribe n | A bitter or malicious criticism |
| dictum n | A positive utterance |
| didactic adj | Pertaining to teaching |
| difference n | Dissimilarity in any respect |
| differentia n | Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species |
| differential adj | Distinctive |
| differentiate v | To acquire a distinct and separate character |
| diffidence n | Self-distrust |
| diffident adj | Affected or possessed with self-distrust |
| diffusible adj | Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly |
| diffusion n | Dispersion |
| dignitary n | One who holds high rank |
| digraph n | A union of two characters representing a single sound |
| digress v | To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter |
| dilapidated pa | Fallen into decay or partial ruin |
| dilate v | To enlarge in all directions |
| dilatory adj | Tending to cause delay |
| dilemma n | A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary |
| dilettante n | A superficial amateur |
| diligence n | Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken |
| dilute v | To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something |
| diminution n | Reduction |
| dimly adv | Obscurely |
| diphthong n | The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds |
| diplomacy n | Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters |
| diplomat n | A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another |
| diplomatic adj | Characterized by special tact in negotiations |
| diplomatist n | One remarkable for tact and shrewd management |
| disagree v | To be opposite in opinion |
| disallow v | To withhold permission or sanction |
| disappear v | To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being |
| disappoint v | To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of |
| disapprove v | To regard with blame |
| disarm v | To deprive of weapons |
| disarrange v | To throw out of order |
| disavow v | To disclaim responsibility for |
| disavowal n | Denial |
| disbeliever n | One who refuses to believe |
| disburden v | To disencumber |
| disburse v | To pay out or expend, as money from a fund |
| discard v | To reject |
| discernible adj | Perceivable |
| disciple n | One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine |
| disciplinary adj | Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority |
| discipline v | To train to obedience |
| disclaim v | To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to |
| discolor v | To stain |
| discomfit v | To put to confusion |
| discomfort n | The state of being positively uncomfortable |
| disconnect v | To undo or dissolve the connection or association of |
| disconsolate adj | Grief-stricken |
| discontinuance n | Interruption or intermission |
| discord n | Absence of harmoniousness |
| discountenance v | To look upon with disfavor |
| discover v | To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived |
| discredit v | To injure the reputation of |
| discreet adj | Judicious |
| discrepant adj | Opposite |
| discriminate v | To draw a distinction |
| discursive adj | Passing from one subject to another |
| discussion n | Debate |
| disenfranchise v | To deprive of any right privilege or power |
| disengage v | To become detached |
| disfavor n | Disregard |
| disfigure v | To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of |
| dishabille n | Undress or negligent attire |
| dishonest adj | Untrustworthy |
| disillusion v | To disenchant |
| disinfect v | To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases |
| disinfectant n | A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases |
| disinherit v | To deprive of an inheritance |
| disinterested adj | Impartial |
| disjunctive adj | Helping or serving to disconnect or separate |
| dislocate v | To put out of proper place or order |
| dismissal n | Displacement by authority from an office or an employment |
| dismount v | To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like |
| disobedience n | Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction |
| disobedient adj | Neglecting or refusing to obey |
| disown v | To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself |
| disparage v | To regard or speak of slightingly |
| disparity n | Inequality |
| dispel v | To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions |
| dispensation n | That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power |
| displace v | To put out of the proper or accustomed place |
| dispossess v | To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate |
| disputation n | Verbal controversy |
| disqualify v | To debar |
| disquiet v | To deprive of peace or tranquillity |
| disregard v | To take no notice of |
| disreputable adj | Dishonorable or disgraceful |
| disrepute n | A bad name or character |
| disrobe v | To unclothe |
| disrupt v | To burst or break asunder |
| dissatisfy v | To displease |
| dissect v | To cut apart or to pieces |
| dissection n | The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal |
| dissemble v | To hide by pretending something different |
| disseminate v | To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown |
| dissension n | Angry or violent difference of opinion |
| dissent n | Disagreement |
| dissentient n | One who disagrees |
| dissentious adj | Contentious |
| dissertation n | Thesis |
| disservice n | An ill turn |
| dissever v | To divide |
| dissimilar adj | Different |
| dissipate v | To disperse or disappear |
| dissipation n | The state of being dispersed or scattered |
| dissolute adj | Lewd |
| dissolution n | A breaking up of a union of persons |
| dissolve v | To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture |
| dissonance n | Discord |
| dissonant adj | Harsh or disagreeable in sound |
| dissuade v | To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading |
| dissuasion n | The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading |
| disyllable n | A word of two syllables |
| distemper n | A disease or malady |
| distend v | To stretch out or expand in every direction |
| distensible adj | Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction |
| distention n | Expansion |
| distill v | To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation |
| distillation n | Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile |
| distiller n | One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors |
| distinction n | A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies |
| distort v | To twist into an unnatural or irregular form |
| distrain v | To subject a person to distress |
| distrainor n | One who subjects a person to distress |
| distraught adj | Bewildered |
| distrust n | Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person |
| disunion n | Separation of relations or interests |
| diurnal adj | Daily |
| divagation n | Digression |
| divergent adj | Tending in different directions |
| diverse adj | Capable of various forms |
| diversion n | Pastime |
| diversity n | Dissimilitude |
| divert v | To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established |
| divertible adj | Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established |
| divest v | To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment |
| divination n | The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden |
| divinity n | The quality or character of being godlike |
| divisible adj | Capable of being separated into parts |
| divisor n | That by which a number or quantity is divided |
| divulge v | To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret |
| divulgence n | A divulging |
| docile adj | Easy to manage |
| docket n | The registry of judgments of a court |
| doe n | The female of the deer |
| dogma n | A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority |
| dogmatic adj | Making statements without argument or evidence |
| dogmatize v | To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence |
| doleful adj | Melancholy |
| dolesome adj | Melancholy |
| dolor n | Lamentation |
| dolorous adj | Expressing or causing sorrow or pain |
| domain n | A sphere or field of action or interest |
| domesticity n | Life in or fondness for one's home and family |
| domicile n | The place where one lives |
| dominance n | Ascendancy |
| dominant adj | Conspicuously prominent |
| dominate v | To influence controllingly |
| domination n | Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority |
| domineer v | To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance |
| donate v | To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause |
| donator n | One who makes a donation or present |
| donee n | A person to whom a donation is made |
| donor n | One who makes a donation or present |
| dormant adj | Being in a state of or resembling sleep |
| doublet n | One of a pair of like things |
| doubly adv | In twofold degree or extent |
| dowry n | The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage |
| drachma n | A modern and an ancient Greek coin |
| dragnet n | A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water |
| dragoon n | In the British army, a cavalryman |
| drainage n | The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc |
| dramatist n | One who writes plays |
| dramatize v | To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner |
| drastic adj | Acting vigorously |
| drought n | Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither |
| drowsy adj | Heavy with sleepiness |
| drudgery n | Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation |
| dubious adj | Doubtful |
| duckling n | A young duck |
| ductile adj | Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread |
| duet n | A composition for two voices or instruments |
| dun v | To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment |
| duplex adj | Having two parts |
| duplicity n | Double-dealing |
| durance n | Confinement |
| duration n | The period of time during which anything lasts |
| duteous adj | Showing submission to natural superiors |
| dutiable adj | Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty |
| dutiful adj | Obedient |
| dwindle v | To diminish or become less |
| dyne n | The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s |
| earnest adj | Ardent in spirit and speech |
| earthenware n | Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun |
| eatable adj | Edible |
| ebullient adj | Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling |
| eccentric adj | Peculiar |
| eccentricity n | Idiosyncrasy |
| eclipse n | The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body |
| economize v | To spend sparingly |
| ecstasy n | Rapturous excitement or exaltation |
| ecstatic adj | Enraptured |
| edible adj | Suitable to be eaten |
| edict n | That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action |
| edify v | To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion |
| editorial n | An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument |
| educe v | To draw out |
| efface v | To obliterate |
| effect n | A consequence |
| effective adj | Fit for a destined purpose |
| effectual adj | Efficient |
| effeminacy n | Womanishness |
| effeminate adj | Having womanish traits or qualities |
| effervesce v | To bubble up |
| effervescent adj | Giving off bubbles of gas |
| effete adj | Exhausted, as having performed its functions |
| efficacious adj | Effective |
| efficacy n | The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it |
| efficiency n | The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty |
| efficient adj | Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results |
| efflorescence n | The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance |
| efflorescent adj | Opening in flower |
| effluvium n | A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter |
| effrontery n | Unblushing impudence |
| effulgence n | Splendor |
| effuse v | To pour forth |
| effusion n | an outpouring |
| egoism n | The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self |
| egoist n | One who advocates or practices egoism |
| egotism n | Self-conceit |
| egotist n | One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences |
| egregious adj | Extreme |
| egress n | Any place of exit |
| eject v | To expel |
| elapse v | To quietly terminate: said of time |
| elasticity n | That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed |
| electrolysis n | The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current |
| electrotype n | A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin |
| elegy n | A lyric poem lamenting the dead |
| element n | A component or essential part |
| elicit v | To educe or extract gradually or without violence |
| eligible adj | Qualified for selection |
| eliminate v | To separate and cast aside |
| Elizabethan adj | Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era |
| elocution n | The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading |
| eloquent adj | Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech |
| elucidate v | To bring out more clearly the facts concerning |
| elude v | To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice |
| elusion n | Evasion |
| emaciate v | To waste away in flesh |
| emanate v | To flow forth or proceed, as from some source |
| emancipate v | To release from bondage |
| embargo n | Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade |
| embark v | To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme |
| embarrass v | To render flustered or agitated |
| embellish v | To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features |
| embezzle v | To misappropriate secretly |
| emblazon v | To set forth publicly or in glowing terms |
| emblem n | A symbol |
| embody v | To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form |
| embolden v | To give courage to |
| embolism n | An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel |
| embroil v | To involve in dissension or strife |
| emerge v | To come into view or into existence |
| emergence n | A coming into view |
| emergent adj | Coming into view |
| emeritus adj | Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position |
| emigrant n | One who moves from one place to settle in another |
| emigrate v | To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another |
| eminence n | An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc |
| eminent adj | High in station, merit, or esteem |
| emit v | To send or give out |
| emphasis n | Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word |
| emphasize v | To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words |
| emphatic adj | Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words |
| employee n | One who works for wages or a salary |
| employer n | One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay |
| emporium n | A bazaar or shop |
| empower v | To delegate authority to |
| emulate v | To imitate with intent to equal or surpass |
| enact v | To make into law, as by legislative act |
| enamor v | To inspire with ardent love |
| encamp v | To pitch tents for a resting-place |
| encomium n | A formal or discriminating expression of praise |
| encompass v | To encircle |
| encore n | The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance |
| encourage v | To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind |
| encroach v | To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another |
| encumber v | To impede with obstacles |
| encyclical adj | Intended for general circulation |
| encyclopedia n | A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject |
| endanger v | To expose to peril |
| endear v | To cause to be loved |
| endemic adj | Peculiar to some specified country or people |
| endue v | To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual |
| endurable adj | Tolerable |
| endurance n | The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing |
| energetic adj | Working vigorously |
| enervate v | To render ineffective or inoperative |
| enfeeble v | To debilitate |
| enfranchise v | To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote |
| engender v | To produce |
| engrave v | To cut or carve in or upon some surface |
| engross v | To occupy completely |
| enhance v | To intensify |
| enigma n | A riddle |
| enjoin v | To command |
| enkindle v | To set on fire |
| enlighten v | To cause to see clearly |
| enlist v | To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment |
| enmity n | Hatred |
| ennoble v | To dignify |
| enormity n | Immensity |
| enormous adj | Gigantic |
| enrage v | To infuriate |
| enrapture v | To delight extravagantly or intensely |
| enshrine v | To keep sacred |
| ensnare v | To entrap |
| entail v | To involve; necessitate |
| entangle v | To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications |
| enthrall v | To bring or hold under any overmastering influence |
| enthrone v | To invest with sovereign power |
| enthuse v | To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling |
| enthusiastic adj | Full of zeal and fervor |
| entirety n | A complete thing |
| entomology n | The branch of zoology that treats of insects |
| entreaty n | An earnest request |
| entree n | The act of entering |
| entrench v | To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall |
| entwine v | To interweave |
| enumerate v | To name one by one |
| epic n | A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc |
| epicure n | One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking |
| Epicurean adj | Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite |
| epicycle n | A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle |
| epicycloid n | A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle |
| epidemic n | Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region |
| epidermis n | The outer skin |
| epigram n | A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation |
| epilogue n | The close of a narrative or dramatic poem |
| epiphany n | Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity |
| episode n | An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it |
| epitaph n | An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead |
| epithet n | Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas" |
| epitome n | A simplified representation |
| epizootic adj | Prevailing among animals |
| epoch n | A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events |
| epode n | A species of lyric poems |
| equalize v | To render uniform |
| equanimity n | Evenness of mind or temper |
| equestrian adj | Pertaining to horses or horsemanship |
| equilibrium n | A state of balance |
| equitable adj | Characterized by fairness |
| equity n | Fairness or impartiality |
| equivalent adj | Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like |
| equivocal adj | Ambiguous |
| equivocate v | To use words of double meaning |
| eradicate v | To destroy thoroughly |
| errant adj | Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds |
| erratic adj | Irregular |
| erroneous adj | Incorrect |
| erudite adj | Very-learned |
| erudition n | Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc |
| eschew v | To keep clear of |
| espy v | To keep close watch |
| esquire n | A title of dignity, office, or courtesy |
| essence n | That which makes a thing to be what it is |
| esthetic adj | Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts |
| estimable adj | Worthy of respect |
| estrange v | To alienate |
| estuary n | A wide lower part of a tidal river |
| et cetera Latin | And so forth |
| eugenic adj | Relating to the development and improvement of race |
| eulogize v | To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character |
| eulogy n | A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character |
| euphemism n | A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted |
| euphonious adj | Characterized by agreeableness of sound |
| euphony n | Agreeableness of sound |
| eureka Greek | I have found it |
| evade v | To avoid by artifice |
| evanesce v | To vanish gradually |
| evanescent adj | Fleeting |
| evangelical adj | Seeking the conversion of sinners |
| evangelist n | A preacher who goes from place to place holding services |
| evasion n | Escape |
| eventual adj | Ultimate |
| evert v | To turn inside out |
| evict v | To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree |
| evidential adj | Indicative |
| evince v | To make manifest or evident |
| evoke v | To call or summon forth |
| evolution n | Development or growth |
| evolve v | To unfold or expand |
| exacerbate v | To make more sharp, severe, or virulent |
| exaggerate v | To overstate |
| exasperate v | To excite great anger in |
| excavate v | To remove by digging or scooping out |
| exceed v | To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc |
| excel v | To be superior or distinguished |
| excellence n | Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities |
| excellency n | A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials |
| excellent adj | Possessing distinguished merit |
| excerpt n | An extract or selection from written or printed matter |
| excess n | That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience |
| excitable adj | Nervously high-strung |
| excitation n | Intensified emotion or action |
| exclamation n | An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling |
| exclude v | To shut out purposely or forcibly |
| exclusion n | Non-admission |
| excrescence n | Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development |
| excretion n | The getting rid of waste matter |
| excruciate v | To inflict severe pain or agony upon |
| excursion n | A journey |
| excusable adj | Justifiable |
| execrable adj | Abominable |
| execration n | An accursed thing |
| executor n | A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will |
| exegesis n | Biblical exposition or interpretation |
| exemplar n | A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated |
| exemplary adj | Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation |
| exemplify v | To show by example |
| exempt adj | Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others |
| exert v | To make an effort |
| exhale v | To breathe forth |
| exhaust v | To empty by draining off the contents |
| exhaustible adj | Causing or tending to cause exhaustion |
| exhaustion n | Deprivation of strength or energy |
| exhaustive adj | Thorough and complete in execution |
| exhilarate v | To fill with high or cheerful spirits |
| exhume v | To dig out of the earth (what has been buried) |
| exigency n | A critical period or condition |
| exigent adj | Urgent |
| existence n | Possession or continuance of being |
| exit n | A way or passage out |
| exodus n | A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people |
| exonerate v | To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame |
| exorbitance n | Extravagance or enormity |
| exorbitant adj | Going beyond usual and proper limits |
| exorcise v | To cast or drive out by religious or magical means |
| exotic adj | Foreign |
| expand v | To increase in range or scope |
| expanse n | A continuous area or stretch |
| expansion n | Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like |
| expatriate v | To drive from one's own country |
| expect v | To look forward to as certain or probable |
| expectancy n | The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable |
| expectorate v | To cough up and spit forth |
| expediency n | Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case |
| expedient adj | Contributing to personal advantage |
| expedite v | To hasten the movement or progress of |
| expeditious adj | Speedy |
| expend v | To spend |
| expense n | The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength |
| expiate v | To make satisfaction or amends for |
| explicate v | To clear from involvement |
| explicit adj | Definite |
| explode v | To cause to burst in pieces by force from within |
| explosion n | A sudden and violent outbreak |
| explosive adj | Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak |
| exposition n | Formal presentation |
| expository adj | Pertaining to a formal presentation |
| expostulate v | To discuss |
| exposure n | An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass |
| expressive adj | Full of meaning |
| expulsion n | Forcible ejection |
| extant adj | Still existing and known |
| extemporaneous adj | Done or made without much or any preparation |
| extempore adv | Without studied or special preparation |
| extensible adj | Capable of being thrust out |
| extension n | A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope |
| extensive adj | Extended widely in space, time, or scope |
| extensor n | A muscle that causes extension |
| extenuate v | To diminish the gravity or importance of |
| exterior n | That which is outside |
| external n | Anything relating or belonging to the outside |
| extinct adj | Being no longer in existence |
| extinguish v | To render extinct |
| extol v | To praise in the highest terms |
| extort v | To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity |
| extortion n | The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion |
| extradite v | To surrender the custody of |
| extradition n | The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government |
| extrajudicial adj | Happening out of court |
| extraneous adj | Having no essential relation to a subject |
| extraordinary adj | Unusual |
| extravagance n | Undue expenditure of money |
| extravagant adj | Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure |
| extremist n | One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views |
| extremity n | The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position |
| extricate v | Disentangle |
| extrude v | To drive out or away |
| exuberance n | Rich supply |
| exuberant adj | Marked by great plentifulness |
| fabricate v | To invent fancifully or falsely |
| fabulous adj | Incredible |
| facet n | One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem |
| facetious adj | Amusing |
| facial adj | Pertaining to the face |
| facile adj | Not difficult to do |
| facilitate v | To make more easy |
| facility n | Ease |
| facsimile n | An exact copy or reproduction |
| faction n | A number of persons combined for a common purpose |
| factious adj | Turbulent |
| fallacious adj | Illogical |
| fallacy n | Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning |
| fallible adj | Capable of erring |
| fallow n | Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest |
| famish v | To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst |
| fanatic n | A religious zealot |
| fancier n | One having a taste for or interest in special objects |
| fanciless adj | Unimaginative |
| fastidious adj | Hard to please |
| fathom n | A measure of length, 6 feet |
| fatuous adj | Idiotic |
| faulty adj | Imperfect |
| faun n | One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet |
| fawn n | A young deer |
| fealty n | Loyalty |
| feasible adj | That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable |
| federate v | To league together |
| feint n | Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement |
| felicitate v | To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event |
| felicity n | A state of well-founded happiness |
| felon n | A criminal or depraved person |
| felonious adj | Showing criminal or evil purpose |
| felony n | One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment |
| feminine adj | Characteristic of woman or womankind |
| fernery n | A place in which ferns are grown |
| ferocious adj | Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature |
| ferocity n | Savageness |
| fervent adj | Ardent in feeling |
| fervid adj | Intense |
| fervor n | Ardor or intensity of feeling |
| festal adj | Joyous |
| festive adj | Merry |
| fete n | A festival or feast |
| fetus n | The young in the womb or in the egg |
| feudal adj | Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal |
| feudalism n | The feudal system |
| fez n | A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel |
| fiasco n | A complete or humiliating failure |
| fickle adj | Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose |
| fictitious adj | Created or formed by the imagination |
| fidelity n | Loyalty |
| fiducial adj | Indicative of faith or trust |
| fief n | A landed estate held under feudal tenure |
| filibuster n | One who attempts to obstruct legislation |
| finale n | Concluding performance |
| finality n | The state or quality of being final or complete |
| finally adv | At last |
| financial adj | Monetary |
| financier n | One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations |
| finery n | That which is used to decorate the person or dress |
| finesse n | Subtle contrivance used to gain a point |
| finite adj | Limited |
| fiscal adj | Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government |
| fishmonger n | One who sells fish |
| fissure n | A crack or crack-like depression |
| fitful adj | Spasmodic |
| fixture n | One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position |
| flag-officer n | The captain of a flag-ship |
| flagrant adj | Openly scandalous |
| flamboyant adj | Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste |
| flatulence n | Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels |
| flection n | The act of bending |
| fledgling n | A young bird |
| flexible adj | Pliable |
| flimsy adj | Thin and weak |
| flippant adj | Having a light, pert, trifling disposition |
| floe n | A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice |
| flora n | The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district |
| floral adj | Pertaining to flowers |
| florid adj | Flushed with red |
| florist n | A dealer in flowers |
| fluctuate v | To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another |
| fluctuation n | Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another |
| flue n | A smoke-duct in a chimney |
| fluent adj | Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas |
| fluential adj | Pertaining to streams |
| flux n | A state of constant movement, change, or renewal |
| foggy adj | Obscure |
| foible n | A personal weakness or failing |
| foist v | To palm off |
| foliage n | Any growth of leaves |
| folio n | A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once |
| folk-lore n | The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people |
| fondle v | To handle tenderly and lovingly |
| foolery n | Folly |
| foot-note n | A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column |
| foppery n | Dandyism |
| foppish adj | Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners |
| forbearance n | Patient endurance or toleration of offenses |
| forby adv | Besides |
| forcible adj | Violent |
| forecourt n | A court opening directly from the street |
| forejudge v | To judge of before hearing evidence |
| forepeak n | The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck |
| foreshore n | That part of a shore uncovered at low tide |
| forebode v | To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil |
| forecast v | To predict |
| forecastle n | That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds |
| foreclose v | To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property |
| forefather n | An ancestor |
| forego v | To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of |
| foreground n | That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator |
| forehead n | The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair |
| foreign adj | Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country |
| foreigner n | A citizen of a foreign country |
| foreknowledge n | Prescience |
| foreman n | The head man |
| foreordain v | To predetermine |
| foreordination n | Predestination |
| forerun v | To go before as introducing or ushering in |
| foresail n | A square sail |
| foresee v | To discern beforehand |
| foresight n | Provision against harm or need |
| foretell v | To predict |
| forethought n | Premeditation |
| forfeit v | To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation |
| forfend v | To ward off |
| forgery n | Counterfeiting |
| forgo v | To deny oneself |
| formation n | Relative disposition of parts |
| formidable adj | Difficult to accomplish |
| formula n | Fixed rule or set form |
| forswear v | To renounce upon oath |
| forte n | A strong point |
| forth adv | Into notice or view |
| forthright adv | With directness |
| fortify v | To provide with defensive works |
| fortitude n | Patient courage |
| foursome adj | Consisting of four |
| fracture n | A break |
| fragile adj | Easily broken |
| frailty n | Liability to be broken or destroyed |
| fragile adj | Capable of being broken |
| frankincense n | A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes |
| frantic adj | Frenzied |
| fraternal adj | Brotherly |
| fraudulence n | Deceitfulness |
| fraudulent adj | Counterfeit |
| fray v | To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads |
| freemason n | A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans |
| freethinker n | One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion |
| free trade n | Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs |
| frequency n | The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space |
| fresco n | The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings |
| freshness n | The state, quality, or degree of being fresh |
| fretful adj | Disposed to peevishness |
| frightful adj | Apt to induce terror or alarm |
| frigid adj | Lacking warmth |
| frigidarium n | A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc |
| frivolity n | A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice |
| frivolous adj | Trivial |
| frizz v | To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to |
| frizzle v | To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair |
| frolicsome adj | Prankish |
| frontier n | The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country |
| frowzy adj | Slovenly in appearance |
| frugal adj | Economical |
| fruition n | Fulfillment |
| fugacious adj | Fleeting |
| fulcrum n | The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns |
| fulminate v | To cause to explode |
| fulsome adj | Offensive from excess of praise or commendation |
| fumigate v | To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection |
| functionary n | An official |
| fundamental adj | Basal |
| fungible adj | That may be measured, counted, or weighed |
| fungous adj | Spongy |
| fungus n | A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom |
| furbish v | To restore brightness or beauty to |
| furlong n | A measure, one-eighth of a mile |
| furlough n | A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer |
| furrier n | A dealer in or maker of fur goods |
| further adj | More distant or advanced |
| furtherance n | Advancement |
| furtive adj | Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief |
| fuse v | To unite or blend as by melting together |
| fusible adj | Capable of being melted by heat |
| futile adj | Of no avail or effect |
| futurist n | A person of expectant temperament |
| gauge n | An instrument for measuring |
| gaiety n | Festivity |
| gaily adv | Merrily |
| gait n | Carriage of the body in going |
| gallant adj | Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit |
| galore adj | Abundant |
| galvanic adj | Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action |
| galvanism n | Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action |
| galvanize v | To imbue with life or animation |
| gamble v | To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency |
| gambol n | Playful leaping or frisking |
| gamester n | A gambler |
| gamut n | The whole range or sequence |
| garnish v | In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment |
| garrison n | The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense |
| garrote v | To execute by strangling |
| garrulous adj | Given to constant trivial talking |
| gaseous adj | Light and unsubstantial |
| gastric adj | Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach |
| gastritis n | Inflammation of the stomach |
| gastronomy n | The art of preparing and serving appetizing food |
| gendarme n | In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer |
| genealogy n | A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants |
| genealogist n | A tracer of pedigrees |
| generality n | The principal portion |
| generalize v | To draw general inferences |
| generally adv | Ordinarily |
| generate v | To produce or cause to be |
| generic adj | Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific |
| generosity n | A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily |
| genesis n | Creation |
| geniality n | Warmth and kindliness of disposition |
| genital adj | Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs |
| genitive adj | Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like |
| genteel adj | Well-bred or refined |
| gentile adj | Belonging to a people not Jewish |
| geology n | The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth |
| germane adj | Relevant |
| germinate v | To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form |
| gestation n | Pregnancy |
| gesticulate v | To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech |
| gesture n | A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion |
| ghastly adj | Hideous |
| gibe v | To utter taunts or reproaches |
| giddy adj | Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head |
| gigantic adj | Tremendous |
| giver n | One who gives, in any sense |
| glacial adj | Icy, or icily cold |
| glacier n | A field or stream of ice |
| gladden v | To make joyous |
| glazier n | One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows |
| glimmer n | A faint, wavering, unsteady light |
| glimpse n | A momentary look |
| globose adj | Spherical |
| globular adj | Spherical |
| glorious adj | Of excellence and splendor |
| glutinous adj | Sticky |
| gluttonous adj | Given to excess in eating |
| gnash v | To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage |
| Gordian knot n | Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners |
| gourmand n | A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table |
| gosling n | A young goose |
| gossamer adj | Flimsy |
| gourd n | A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind |
| graceless adj | Ungracious |
| gradation n | A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series |
| gradient adj | Moving or advancing by steps |
| granary n | A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked |
| grandeur n | The quality of being grand or admirably great |
| grandiloquent adj | Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style |
| grandiose adj | Having an imposing style or effect |
| grantee n | The person to whom property is transferred by deed |
| grantor n | The maker of a deed |
| granular adj | Composed of small grains or particles |
| granulate v | To form into grains or small particles |
| granule n | A small grain or particle |
| grapple v | To take hold of |
| gratification n | Satisfaction |
| gratify v | To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need |
| gratuitous adj | Voluntarily |
| gravity n | Seriousness |
| gregarious adj | Not habitually solitary or living alone |
| grenadier n | A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature |
| grief n | Sorrow |
| grievance n | That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong |
| grievous adj | Creating affliction |
| grimace n | A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc |
| grindstone n | A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools |
| grisly adj | Fear-inspiring |
| grotesque adj | Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned |
| grotto n | A small cavern |
| ground n | A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk |
| guess n | Surmise |
| guile n | Duplicity |
| guileless adj | Frank |
| guinea n | An English monetary unit |
| guise n | The external appearance as produced by garb or costume |
| gullible adj | Credulous |
| gumption n | Common sense |
| gusto n | Keen enjoyment |
| guy n | Stay-rope |
| guzzle v | To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp |
| gynecocracy n | Female supremacy |
| gynecology n | The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women |
| gyrate v | To revolve |
| gyroscope n | An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation |
| habitable adj | Fit to be dwelt in |
| habitant n | Dweller |
| habitual adj | According to usual practice |
| habitude n | Customary relation or association |
| hackney v | To make stale or trite by repetition |
| haggard adj | Worn and gaunt in appearance |
| halcyon adj | Calm |
| hale adj | Of sound and vigorous health |
| handwriting n | Penmanship |
| hanger-on n | A parasite |
| happy-go-lucky adj | Improvident |
| harangue n | A tirade |
| harass v | To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances |
| harbinger n | One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing |
| hard-hearted adj | Lacking pity or sympathy |
| hardihood n | Foolish daring |
| harmonious adj | Concordant in sound |
| havoc n | Devastation |
| hawthorn n | A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges |
| hazard n | Risk |
| head first adv | Precipitately, as in diving |
| head foremost adv | Precipitately, as in diving |
| heartrending adj | Very depressing |
| heathenish adj | Irreligious |
| heedless adj | Thoughtless |
| heifer n | A young cow |
| heinous adj | Odiously sinful |
| hemorrhage n | Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel |
| henchman n | A servile assistant and subordinate |
| henpeck v | To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances |
| heptagon n | A figure having seven sides and seven angles |
| heptarchy n | A group of seven governments |
| herbaceous adj | Having the character of a herb |
| herbarium n | A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study |
| herbivorous adj | Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals |
| hereditary adj | Passing naturally from parent to child |
| heredity n | Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc, from parent to offspring |
| heresy n | An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles |
| heretic n | One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy |
| heritage n | Birthright |
| hernia n | Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position |
| hesitancy n | A pausing to consider |
| hesitant adj | Vacillating |
| hesitation n | Vacillation |
| heterodox adj | At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion |
| heterogeneity n | Unlikeness of constituent parts |
| heterogeneous adj | Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds |
| heteromorphic adj | Deviating from the normal form or standard type |
| hexangular adj | Having six angles |
| hexapod adj | Having six feet |
| hexagon n | A figure with six angles |
| hiatus n | A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting |
| hibernal adj | Pertaining to winter |
| Hibernian adj | Pertaining to Ireland, or its people |
| hideous adj | Appalling |
| hilarious adj | Boisterously merry |
| hillock n | A small hill or mound |
| hinder v | To obstruct |
| hindmost adj | Farthest from the front |
| hindrance n | An obstacle |
| hirsute adj | Having a hairy covering |
| hoard v | To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation |
| hoarse adj | Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue |
| homage n | Reverential regard or worship |
| homogeneity n | Congruity of the members or elements or parts |
| homogeneous adj | Made up of similar parts or elements |
| homologous adj | Identical in nature, make-up, or relation |
| homonym n | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another |
| homophone n | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another |
| honorarium n | A token fee or payment to a professional man for services |
| hoodwink v | To deceive |
| horde n | A gathered multitude of human beings |
| hosiery n | A stocking |
| hospitable adj | Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness |
| hospitality n | The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness |
| hostility n | Enmity |
| huckster n | One who retails small wares |
| humane adj | Compassionate |
| humanitarian n | A philanthropist |
| humanize v | To make gentle or refined |
| humbug n | Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead |
| humiliate v | To put to shame |
| hussar n | A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine |
| hustle v | To move with haste and promptness |
| hybrid adj | Cross-bred |
| hydra n | The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules |
| hydraulic adj | Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion |
| hydrodynamics n | The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids |
| hydroelectric adj | Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam |
| hydromechanics n | The mechanics of fluids |
| hydrometer n | An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation |
| hydrostatics n | The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids |
| hydrous adj | Watery |
| hygiene n | The branch of medical science that relates to improving health |
| hypercritical adj | Faultfinding |
| hypnosis n | An artificial trance-sleep |
| hypnotic adj | Tending to produce sleep |
| hypnotism n | An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion |
| hypnotize v | To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions |
| hypocrisy n | Extreme insincerity |
| hypocrite n | One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs |
| hypodermic adj | Pertaining to the area under the skin |
| hypotenuse n | The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle |
| hypothesis n | A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion |
| hysteria n | A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying |
| ichthyic adj | Fish-like |
| ichthyology n | The branch of zoology that treats of fishes |
| ichthyosaurs n | A fossil reptile |
| icily adv | Frigidly |
| iciness n | The state of being icy |
| icon n | An image or likeness |
| iconoclast n | An image-breaker |
| idealize v | To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard |
| idiom n | A use of words peculiar to a particular language |
| idiosyncrasy n | A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual |
| idolize v | To regard with inordinate love or admiration |
| ignoble adj | Low in character or purpose |
| ignominious adj | Shameful |
| Iliad n | A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy |
| illegal adj | Not according to law |
| illegible adj | Undecipherable |
| illegitimate adj | Unlawfully begotten |
| illiberal adj | Stingy |
| illicit adj | Unlawful |
| illimitable adj | Boundless |
| illiterate adj | Having little or no book-learning |
| ill-natured adj | Surly |
| illogical adj | Contrary to the rules of sound thought |
| illuminant n | That which may be used to produce light |
| illuminate v | To supply with light |
| illumine v | To make bright or clear |
| illusion n | An unreal image presented to the senses |
| illusive adj | Deceptive |
| illusory adj | Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance |
| imaginable adj | That can be imagined or conceived in the mind |
| imaginary adj | Fancied |
| imbibe v | To drink or take in |
| imbroglio n | A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife |
| imbrue v | To wet or moisten |
| imitation n | That which is made as a likeness or copy |
| imitator n | One who makes in imitation |
| immaculate adj | Without spot or blemish |
| immaterial adj | Of no essential consequence |
| immature adj | Not full-grown |
| immeasurable adj | Indefinitely extensive |
| immense adj | Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity |
| immerse v | To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid |
| immersion n | The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid |
| immigrant n | A foreigner who enters a country to settle there |
| immigrate v | To come into a country or region from a former habitat |
| imminence n | Impending evil or danger |
| imminent adj | Dangerous and close at hand |
| immiscible adj | Separating, as oil and water |
| immoral adj | Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices |
| immortalize v | To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time |
| immovable adj | Steadfast |
| immune adj | Exempt, as from disease |
| immutable adj | Unchangeable |
| impair v | To cause to become less or worse |
| impalpable adj | Imperceptible to the touch |
| impartial adj | Unbiased |
| impassable adj | That can not be passed through or over |
| impassible adj | Not moved or affected by feeling |
| impassive adj | Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling |
| impatience n | Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things |
| impeccable adj | Blameless |
| impecunious adj | Having no money |
| impede v | To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of |
| impel v | To drive or urge forward |
| impend v | To be imminent |
| imperative adj | Obligatory |
| imperceptible adj | Indiscernible |
| imperfectible adj | That can not be perfected |
| imperil v | To endanger |
| imperious adj | Insisting on obedience |
| impermissible adj | Not permissible |
| impersonal adj | Not relating to a particular person or thing |
| impersonate v | To appear or act in the character of |
| impersuadable adj | Unyielding |
| impertinence n | Rudeness |
| imperturbable adj | Calm |
| impervious adj | Impenetrable |
| impetuosity n | Rashness |
| impetuous adj | Impulsive |
| impetus n | Any impulse or incentive |
| impiety n | Irreverence toward God |
| impious adj | Characterized by irreverence or irreligion |
| implausible adj | Not plausible |
| impliable adj | Capable of being inferred |
| implicate v | To show or prove to be involved in or concerned |
| implicit adj | Implied |
| imply v | To signify |
| impolitic adj | Inexpedient |
| importation n | The act or practice of bringing from one country into another |
| importunate adj | Urgent in character, request, or demand |
| importune v | To harass with persistent demands or entreaties |
| impotent adj | Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual |
| impoverish v | To make indigent or poor |
| impracticable adj | Not feasible |
| impregnable adj | That can not be taken by assault |
| impregnate v | To make pregnant |
| impromptu n | Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment |
| improper adj | Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming |
| impropriety n | The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate |
| improvident adj | Lacking foresight or thrift |
| improvise v | To do anything extemporaneously or offhand |
| imprudent adj | Heedless |
| impudence n | Insolent disrespect |
| impugn v | To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations |
| impulsion n | Impetus |
| impulsive adj | Unpremeditated |
| impunity n | Freedom from punishment |
| impure adj | Tainted |
| impute v | To attribute |
| inaccessible adj | Difficult of approach |
| inaccurate adj | Not exactly according to the facts |
| inactive adj | Inert |
| inadequate adj | Insufficient |
| inadmissible adj | Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony |
| inadvertent adj | Accidental |
| inadvisable adj | Unadvisable |
| inane adj | Silly |
| inanimate adj | Destitute of animal life |
| inapprehensible adj | Not to be understood |
| inapt adj | Awkward or slow |
| inarticulate adj | Speechless |
| inaudible adj | That can not be heard |
| inborn adj | Implanted by nature |
| inbred adj | Innate |
| incandescence n | The state of being white or glowing with heat |
| incandescent adj | White or glowing with heat |
| incapacitate v | To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification |
| incapacity n | Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage |
| incarcerate v | To imprison |
| incendiary n | Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively |
| incentive n | That which moves the mind or inflames the passions |
| inception n | The beginning |
| inceptive adj | Beginning |
| incessant adj | Unceasing |
| inchmeal adv | Piecemeal |
| inchoate adj | Incipient |
| inchoative n | That which begins, or expresses beginning |
| incidence n | Casual occurrence |
| incident n | A happening in general, especially one of little importance |
| incidentally adv | Without intention |
| incinerate v | To reduce to ashes |
| incipience n | Beginning |
| incipient adj | Initial |
| incisor n | A front or cutting tooth |
| incite v | To rouse to a particular action |
| incitement n | That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus |
| incoercible adj | Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled |
| incoherence n | Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc |
| incoherent adj | Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details |
| incombustible adj | That can not be burned |
| incomparable adj | Matchless |
| incompatible adj | Discordant |
| incompetence n | General lack of capacity or fitness |
| incompetent adj | Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose |
| incomplete adj | Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required |
| incomprehensible adj | Not understandable |
| incompressible adj | Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure |
| inconceivable adj | Incomprehensible |
| incongruous adj | Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion |
| inconsequential adj | Valueless |
| inconsiderable adj | Small in quantity or importance |
| inconsistent adj | Contradictory |
| inconstant adj | Changeable |
| incontrovertible adj | Indisputable |
| inconvenient adj | Interfering with comfort or progress |
| indefensible adj | Untenable |
| indefinitely adv | In a vague or uncertain way |
| indelible adj | That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed |
| indescribable adj | That can not be described |
| indestructible adj | That can not be destroyed |
| indicant adj | That which points out |
| indicator n | One who or that which points out |
| indict v | To find and declare chargeable with crime |
| indigence n | Poverty |
| indigenous adj | Native |
| indigent adj | Poor |
| indigestible adj | Not digestible, or difficult to digest |
| indigestion n | Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment |
| indignant adj | Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness |
| indignity n | Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment |
| indiscernible adj | Not perceptible |
| indiscreet adj | Lacking wise judgment |
| indiscriminate adj | Promiscuous |
| indispensable adj | Necessary or requisite for the purpose |
| indistinct adj | Vague |
| indivertible adj | That can not be turned aside |
| indivisible adj | Not separable into parts |
| indolence n | Laziness |
| indolent adj | Habitually inactive or idle |
| indomitable adj | Unconquerable |
| induct v | To bring in |
| indulgence n | The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another |
| indulgent adj | Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care |
| inebriate v | To intoxicate |
| inedible adj | Not good for food |
| ineffable adj | Unutterable |
| inefficient adj | Not accomplishing an intended purpose |
| inefficiency n | That which does not accomplish an intended purpose |
| ineligible adj | Not suitable to be selected or chosen |
| inept adj | Not fit or suitable |
| inert adj | Inanimate |
| inestimable adj | Above price |
| inevitable adj | Unavoidable |
| inexcusable adj | Not to be justified |
| inexhaustible adj | So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent |
| inexorable adj | Unrelenting |
| inexpedient adj | Unadvisable |
| inexpensive adj | Low-priced |
| inexperience n | Lack of or deficiency in experience |
| inexplicable adj | Such as can not be made plain |
| inexpressible adj | Unutterable |
| inextensible adj | Of unchangeable length or area |
| infallible adj | Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement |
| infamous adj | Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime |
| infamy n | Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation |
| inference n | The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law |
| infernal adj | Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants |
| infest v | To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger |
| infidel n | One who denies the existence of God |
| infidelity n | Disloyalty |
| infinite adj | Measureless |
| infinity n | Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration |
| infirm adj | Lacking in bodily or mental strength |
| infirmary n | A place for the reception or treatment of the sick |
| infirmity n | A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw |
| inflammable adj | Easily set on fire or excited |
| inflammation n | A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain |
| inflexible adj | That can not be altered or varied |
| influence n | Ability to sway the will of another |
| influential adj | Having the power to sway the will of another |
| influx n | Infusion |
| infrequence n | Rareness |
| infrequent adj | Uncommon |
| infringe v | To trespass upon |
| infuse v | To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities |
| infusion n | The act of imbuing, or pouring in |
| ingenious adj | Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement |
| ingenuity n | Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating |
| ingenuous adj | Candid, frank, or open in character or quality |
| inglorious adj | Shameful |
| ingraft v | To set or implant deeply and firmly |
| ingratiate v | To win confidence or good graces for oneself |
| ingratitude n | Insensibility to kindness |
| ingredient n | Component |
| inherence n | The state of being permanently existing in something |
| inherent adj | Intrinsic |
| inhibit v | To hold back or in |
| inhospitable adj | Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously |
| inhuman adj | Savage |
| inhume v | To place in the earth, as a dead body |
| inimical adj | Adverse |
| iniquity n | Gross wrong or injustice |
| initiate v | To perform the first act or rite |
| inject v | To introduce, as a fluid, by injection |
| injunction n | Mandate |
| inkling n | A hint |
| inland adj | Remote from the sea |
| inlet n | A small body of water leading into a larger |
| inmost adj | Deepest within |
| innocuous adj | Harmless |
| innovate v | To introduce or strive to introduce new things |
| innuendo n | Insinuation |
| innumerable adj | Countless |
| inoffensive adj | Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing |
| inopportune adj | Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time |
| inquire v | To ask information about |
| inquisition n | A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics |
| inquisitive adj | Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity |
| inquisitor n | One who makes an investigation |
| inroad n | Forcible encroachment or trespass |
| insatiable adj | That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably |
| inscribe v | To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing |
| inscrutable adj | Impenetrably mysterious or profound |
| insecure adj | Not assured of safety |
| insensible adj | Imperceptible |
| insentient adj | Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving |
| inseparable adj | That can not be separated |
| insidious adj | Working ill by slow and stealthy means |
| insight n | Intellectual discernment |
| insignificance n | Lack of import or of importance |
| insignificant adj | Without importance, force, or influence |
| insinuate v | To imply |
| insipid adj | Tasteless |
| insistence n | Urgency |
| insistent adj | Urgent |
| insolence n | Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others |
| insolent adj | Impudent |
| insomnia n | Sleeplessness |
| inspector n | An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance |
| instance n | A single occurrence or happening of a given kind |
| instant n | A very brief portion of time |
| instantaneous adj | Done without perceptible lapse of time |
| instigate v | To provoke |
| instigator n | One who incites to evil |
| instill v | To infuse |
| instructive adj | Conveying knowledge |
| insufficiency n | Inadequacy |
| insufficient adj | Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use |
| insular adj | Pertaining to an island |
| insulate v | To place in a detached state or situation |
| insuperable adj | Invincible |
| insuppressible adj | Incapable of being concealed |
| insurgence n | Uprising |
| insurgent n | One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place |
| insurrection n | The state of being in active resistance to authority |
| intangible adj | Not perceptible to the touch |
| integrity n | Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle |
| intellect n | The faculty of perception or thought |
| intellectual adj | Characterized by intelligence |
| intelligence n | Capacity to know or understand |
| intelligible adj | Comprehensible |
| intemperance n | Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites |
| intension n | The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained |
| intensive adj | Adding emphasis or force |
| intention n | That upon which the mind is set |
| interact v | To act reciprocally |
| intercede v | To mediate between persons |
| intercept v | To interrupt the course of |
| intercession n | Entreaty in behalf of others |
| intercessor n | A mediator |
| interdict n | Authoritative act of prohibition |
| interim n | Time between acts or periods |
| interlocutor n | One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion |
| interlude n | An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length |
| intermediate adj | Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes |
| interminable adj | Having no limit or end |
| intermission n | A recess |
| intermit v | To cause to cease temporarily |
| intermittent adj | A temporary discontinuance |
| interpolation n | Verbal interference |
| interpose v | To come between other things or persons |
| interposition n | A coming between |
| interpreter n | A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation |
| interrogate v | To examine formally by questioning |
| interrogative adj | Having the nature or form of a question |
| interrogatory n | A question or inquiry |
| interrupt v | To stop while in progress |
| intersect v | To cut through or into so as to divide |
| intervale n | A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river |
| intervene v | To interfere for some end |
| intestacy n | The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will |
| intestate adj | Not having made a valid will |
| intestine n | That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus |
| intimacy n | Close or confidential friendship |
| intimidate v | To cause to become frightened |
| intolerable adj | Insufferable |
| intolerance n | Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure |
| intolerant adj | Bigoted |
| intoxicant n | Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites |
| intoxicate v | To make drunk |
| intracellular adj | Occurring or situated within a cell |
| intramural adj | Situated within the walls of a city |
| intrepid adj | Fearless and bold |
| intricacy n | Perplexity |
| intricate adj | Difficult to follow or understand |
| intrigue n | A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways |
| intrinsic adj | Inherent |
| introductory adj | Preliminary |
| introgression n | Entrance |
| intromit v | To insert |
| introspect v | To look into |
| introspection n | The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings |
| introversion n | The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally |
| introvert v | To turn within |
| intrude v | To come in without leave or license |
| intrusion n | The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment |
| intuition n | Instinctive knowledge or feeling |
| inundate v | To fill with an overflowing abundance |
| inundation n | Flood |
| inure v | To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure |
| invalid adj | Having no force, weight, or cogency |
| invalid n | One who is disabled by illness or injury |
| invalidate v | To render of no force or effect |
| invaluable adj | Exceedingly precious |
| invariable adj | Unchangeable |
| invasion n | Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass |
| invective n | An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach |
| inveigh v | To utter vehement censure or invective |
| inventive adj | Quick at contrivance |
| inverse adj | Contrary in tendency or direction |
| inversion n | Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first |
| invert v | To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction |
| investigator n | One who investigates |
| investor n | One who invests money |
| inveterate adj | Habitual |
| invidious adj | Showing or feeling envy |
| invigorate v | To animate |
| invincible adj | Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome |
| inviolable adj | Incapable of being injured or disturbed |
| invoke v | To call on for assistance or protection |
| involuntary adj | Unwilling |
| involution n | Complication |
| involve v | To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively |
| invulnerable adj | That can not be wounded or hurt |
| inwardly adv | With no outward manifestation |
| iota n | A small or insignificant mark or part |
| irascible adj | Prone to anger |
| irate adj | Moved to anger |
| ire n | Wrath |
| iridescence n | A many-colored appearance |
| iridescent adj | Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light |
| irk v | To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue |
| irksome adj | Wearisome |
| irony n | Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment |
| irradiance n | Luster |
| irradiate v | To render clear and intelligible |
| irrational adj | Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding |
| irreducible adj | That can not be lessened |
| irrefragable adj | That can not be refuted or disproved |
| irrefrangible adj | That can not be broken or violated |
| irrelevant adj | Inapplicable |
| irreligious adj | Indifferent or opposed to religion |
| irreparable adj | That can not be rectified or made amends for |
| irrepressible adj | That can not be restrained or kept down |
| irresistible adj | That can not be successfully withstood or opposed |
| irresponsible adj | Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities |
| irreverence n | The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things |
| irreverent adj | Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things |
| irreverential adj | Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things |
| irreversible adj | Irrevocable |
| irrigant adj | Serving to water lands by artificial means |
| irrigate v | To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means |
| irritable adj | Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation |
| irritancy n | The quality of producing vexation |
| irritant n | A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension |
| irritate v | To excite ill temper or impatience in |
| irruption n | Sudden invasion |
| isle n | An island |
| islet n | A little island |
| isobar n | A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment |
| isochronous adj | Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time |
| isolate v | To separate from others of its kind |
| isothermal adj | Having or marking equality of temperature |
| itinerant adj | Wandering |
| itinerary n | A detailed account or diary of a journey |
| itinerate v | To wander from place to place |
| jargon n | Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech |
| jaundice n | A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin |
| jeopardize v | To imperil |
| Jingo n | One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy |
| jocose adj | Done or made in jest |
| jocular adj | Inclined to joke |
| joggle n | A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake |
| journalize v | To keep a diary |
| jovial adj | Merry |
| jubilation n | Exultation |
| judgment n | The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached |
| judicature n | Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment |
| judicial adj | Pertaining to the administration of justice |
| judiciary n | That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice |
| judicious adj | Prudent |
| juggle v | To play tricks of sleight of hand |
| jugglery n | The art or practice of sleight of hand |
| jugular adj | Pertaining to the throat |
| juicy adj | Succulent |
| junction n | The condition of being joined |
| juncture n | An articulation, joint, or seam |
| junta n | A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government |
| juridical adj | Assumed by law to exist |
| jurisdiction n | Lawful power or right to exercise official authority |
| jurisprudence n | The science of rights in accordance with positive law |
| juror n | One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice |
| joust v | To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback |
| justification n | Vindication |
| juvenile adj | Characteristic of youth |
| juxtapose v | To place close together |
| keepsake n | Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver |
| kerchief n | A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck |
| kernel n | A grain or seed |
| kiln n | An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products |
| kiloliter n | One thousand liters |
| kilometer n | A length of 1,000 meters |
| kilowatt n | One thousand watts |
| kimono n | A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan |
| kind-hearted adj | Having a kind and sympathetic nature |
| kingling n | A petty king |
| kingship n | Royal state |
| knavery n | Deceitfulness in dealing |
| knead v | To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands |
| knickknack n | A small article, more for ornament that use |
| knight errant n | One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure |
| knighthood n | Chivalry |
| laborious adj | Toilsome |
| labyrinth n | A maze |
| lacerate v | To tear rudely or raggedly |
| lackadaisical adj | Listless |
| lactation n | The secretion of milk |
| lacteal adj | Milky |
| lactic adj | Pertaining to milk |
| laddie n | A lad |
| ladle n | A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids |
| laggard adj | Falling behind |
| landholder n | Landowner |
| landlord n | A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements |
| landmark n | A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of |
| landscape n | A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation |
| languid adj | Relaxed |
| languor n | Lassitude of body or depression |
| lapse n | A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just |
| lascivious adj | Lustful |
| lassie n | A little lass |
| latent adj | Dormant |
| latency n | The state of being dormant |
| later adv | At a subsequent time |
| lateral adj | Directed toward the side |
| latish adj | Rather late |
| lattice n | Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars |
| laud v | To praise in words or song |
| laudable adj | Praiseworthy |
| laudation n | High praise |
| laudatory adj | Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise |
| laundress n | Washerwoman |
| laureate adj | Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction |
| lave v | To wash or bathe |
| lawgiver n | A legislator |
| lawmaker n | A legislator |
| lax adj | Not stringent or energetic |
| laxative adj | Having power to open or loosen the bowels |
| lea n | A field |
| leaflet n | A little leaf or a booklet |
| leaven v | To make light by fermentation, as dough |
| leeward n | That side or direction toward which the wind blows |
| left-handed adj | Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right |
| legacy n | A bequest |
| legalize v | To give the authority of law to |
| legging n | A covering for the leg |
| legible adj | That may be read with ease |
| legionary n | A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor |
| legislate v | To make or enact a law or laws |
| legislative adj | That makes or enacts laws |
| legislator n | A lawgiver |
| legitimacy n | Accordance with law |
| legitimate adj | Having the sanction of law or established custom |
| leisure n | Spare time |
| leniency n | Forbearance |
| lenient adj | Not harsh |
| leonine adj | Like a lion |
| lethargy n | Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind |
| levee n | An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow |
| lever n | That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power |
| leviathan n | Any large animal, as a whale |
| levity n | Frivolity |
| levy v | To impose and collect by force or threat of force |
| lewd adj | Characterized by lust or lasciviousness |
| lexicographer n | One who makes dictionaries |
| lexicography n | The making of dictionaries |
| lexicon n | A dictionary |
| liable adj | Justly or legally responsible |
| libel n | Defamation |
| liberalism n | Opposition to conservatism |
| liberate v | To set free or release from bondage |
| licentious adj | Wanton |
| licit adj | Lawful |
| liege adj | Sovereign |
| lien n | A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge |
| lieu n | Stead |
| lifelike adj | Realistic |
| lifelong adj | Lasting or continuous through life |
| lifetime n | The time that life continues |
| ligament n | That which binds objects together |
| ligature n | Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying |
| light-hearted adj | Free from care |
| ligneous adj | Having the texture of appearance of wood |
| likelihood n | A probability |
| likely adj | Plausible |
| liking n | Fondness |
| limitation n | A restriction |
| linear adj | Of the nature of a line |
| liner n | A vessel belonging to a steamship-line |
| lingo n | Language |
| lingua n | The tongue |
| lingual adj | Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance |
| linguist n | One who is acquainted with several languages |
| linguistics n | The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words |
| liniment n | A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc |
| liquefacient adj | Possessing a liquefying nature or power |
| liquefy v | To convert into a liquid or into liquid form |
| liqueur n | An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances |
| liquidate v | To deliver the amount or value of |
| liquor n | Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid |
| listless adj | Inattentive |
| literacy n | The state or condition of knowing how to read and write |
| literal adj | Following the exact words |
| literature n | The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively |
| lithe adj | Supple |
| lithesome adj | Nimble |
| lithograph n | A print made by printing from stone |
| lithotype n | In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing |
| litigant n | A party to a lawsuit |
| litigate v | To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law |
| litigious adj | Quarrelsome |
| littoral adj | Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore |
| liturgy n | A ritual |
| livelihood n | Means of subsistence |
| livid adj | Black-and-blue, as contused flesh |
| loam n | A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay |
| loath adj | Averse |
| loathe v | To abominate |
| locative adj | Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs |
| loch n | A lake |
| locomotion n | The act or power of moving from one place to another |
| lode n | A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein |
| lodgment n | The act of furnishing with temporary quarters |
| logic n | The science of correct thinking |
| logical adj | Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning |
| logician n | An expert reasoner |
| loiterer n | One who consumes time idly |
| loneliness n | Solitude |
| longevity n | Unusually prolonged life |
| loot v | To plunder |
| loquacious adj | Talkative |
| lordling n | A little lord |
| lough n | A lake or loch |
| louse n | A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals |
| lovable adj | Amiable |
| low-spirited adj | Despondent |
| lowly adv | Rudely |
| lucid adj | Mentally sound |
| lucrative adj | Highly profitable |
| ludicrous adj | Laughable |
| luminary n | One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light |
| luminescent adj | Showing increase of light |
| luminescence n | Showing increase |
| luminosity n | The quality of giving or radiating light |
| luminous adj | Giving or radiating light |
| lunacy n | Mental unsoundness |
| lunar adj | Pertaining to the moon |
| lunatic n | An insane person |
| lune n | The moon |
| lurid adj | Ghastly and sensational |
| luscious adj | Rich, sweet, and delicious |
| lustrous adj | Shining |
| luxuriance n | Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity |
| luxuriant adj | Abundant or superabundant in growth |
| luxuriate v | To live sumptuously |
| lying n | Untruthfulness |
| lyre n | One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class |
| lyric adj | Fitted for expression in song |
| macadamize v | To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone |
| machinery n | The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively |
| machinist n | One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools |
| macrocosm n | The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related |
| madden v | To inflame with passion |
| Madonna n | A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus |
| magician n | A sorcerer |
| magisterial adj | Having an air of authority |
| magistracy n | The office or dignity of a magistrate |
| magnanimous adj | Generous in treating or judging others |
| magnate n | A person of rank or importance |
| magnet n | A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone |
| magnetize v | To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily |
| magnificence n | The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power |
| magnificent adj | Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action |
| magnitude n | Importance |
| maharaja n | A great Hindu prince |
| maidenhood n | Virginity |
| maintain v | To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition |
| maintenance n | That which supports or sustains |
| maize n | Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn |
| makeup n | The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed |
| malady n | Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one |
| malaria n | A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating |
| malcontent n | One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs |
| malediction n | The calling down of a curse or curses |
| malefactor n | One who injures another |
| maleficent adj | Mischievous |
| malevolence n | Ill will |
| malevolent adj | Wishing evil to others |
| malign v | To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely |
| malignant adj | Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief |
| malleable adj | Pliant |
| mallet n | A wooden hammer |
| maltreat v | To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively |
| man-trap n | A place or structure dangerous to human life |
| mandate n | A command |
| mandatory adj | Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory |
| mane n | The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion |
| man-eater n | An animal that devours human beings |
| maneuver v | To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy |
| mania n | Insanity |
| maniac n | a person raving with madness |
| manifesto n | A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives |
| manlike adj | Like a man |
| manliness n | The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc |
| mannerism n | Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct |
| manor n | The landed estate of a lord or nobleman |
| mantel n | The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it |
| mantle n | A cloak |
| manufacturer n | A person engaged in manufacturing as a business |
| manumission n | Emancipation |
| manumit v | To set free from bondage |
| marine adj | Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea |
| maritime adj | Situated on or near the sea |
| maroon v | To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island |
| martial adj | Pertaining to war or military operations |
| Martian adj | Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet |
| martyrdom n | Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle |
| marvel v | To be astonished and perplexed because of (something) |
| masonry n | The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc, with regularly arranged stones |
| masquerade n | A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised |
| massacre n | The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings |
| massive adj | Of considerable bulk and weight |
| masterpiece n | A superior production |
| mastery n | The attainment of superior skill |
| material n | That of which anything is composed or may be constructed |
| materialize v | To take perceptible or substantial form |
| maternal adj | Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood |
| matinee n | An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime |
| matricide n | The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother |
| matrimony n | The union of a man and a woman in marriage |
| matrix n | That which contains and gives shape or form to anything |
| matter of fact n | Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality |
| maudlin adj | Foolishly and tearfully affectionate |
| mausoleum n | A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions |
| mawkish adj | Sickening or insipid |
| maxim n | A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide |
| maze n | A labyrinth |
| mead n | A meadow |
| meager adj | scanty |
| mealy-mouthed adj | Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly |
| meander v | To wind and turn while proceeding in a course |
| mechanics n | The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces |
| medallion n | A large medal |
| meddlesome adj | Interfering |
| medial adj | Of or pertaining to the middle |
| mediate v | To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties |
| medicine n | A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties |
| medieval adj | Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages |
| mediocre adj | Ordinary |
| meditation n | The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind |
| medley n | A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole |
| meliorate v | To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition |
| mellifluous adj | Sweetly or smoothly flowing |
| melodious adj | Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds |
| melodrama n | A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents |
| memento n | A souvenir |
| memorable adj | Noteworthy |
| menace n | A threat |
| menagerie n | A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition |
| mendacious adj | Untrue |
| mendicant n | A beggar |
| mentality n | Intellectuality |
| mentor n | A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend |
| mercantile adj | Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial |
| mercenary adj | Greedy |
| merciful adj | Disposed to pity and forgive |
| merciless adj | Cruel |
| meretricious adj | Alluring by false or gaudy show |
| mesmerize v | To hypnotize |
| metal n | An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous |
| metallurgy n | The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting |
| metamorphosis n | A passing from one form or shape into another |
| metaphor n | A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other |
| metaphysical adj | Philosophical |
| metaphysician n | One skilled in metaphysics |
| metaphysics n | The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science |
| mete v | To apportion |
| metempsychosis n | Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast |
| meticulous adj | Over-cautious |
| metonymy n | A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes |
| metric adj | Relating to measurement |
| metronome n | An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music |
| metropolis n | A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state |
| metropolitan adj | Pertaining to a chief city |
| mettle n | Courage |
| mettlesome adj | Having courage or spirit |
| microcosm n | The world or universe on a small scale |
| micrometer n | An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions |
| microphone n | An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds |
| microscope n | An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects |
| microscopic adj | Adapted to or characterized by minute observation |
| microscopy n | The art of examing objects with the microscope |
| midsummer n | The middle of the summer |
| midwife n | A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth |
| mien n | The external appearance or manner of a person |
| migrant adj | Wandering |
| migrate v | To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another |
| migratory adj | Wandering |
| mileage n | A distance in miles |
| militant adj | Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency |
| militarism n | A policy of maintaining great standing armies |
| militate v | To have weight or influence (in determining a question) |
| militia n | Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations |
| Milky Way n | The galaxy |
| millet n | A grass cultivated for forage and cereal |
| mimic v | To imitate the speech or actions of |
| miniature adj | Much smaller than reality or that the normal size |
| minimize v | To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree |
| minion n | A servile favorite |
| ministration n | Any religious ceremonial |
| ministry n | A service |
| minority n | The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided |
| minute adj | Exceedingly small in extent or quantity |
| minutia n | A small or unimportant particular or detail |
| mirage n | An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert |
| misadventure n | An unlucky accident |
| misanthropic adj | Hating mankind |
| misanthropy n | Hatred of mankind |
| misapprehend v | To misunderstand |
| misbehave v | To behave ill |
| misbehavior n | Ill or improper behavior |
| mischievous adj | Fond of tricks |
| miscount v | To make a mistake in counting |
| miscreant n | A villain |
| misdeed n | A wrong or improper act |
| misdemeanor n | Evil conduct, small crime |
| miser n | A person given to saving and hoarding unduly |
| mishap n | Misfortune |
| misinterpret v | To misunderstand |
| mislay v | To misplace |
| mismanage v | To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully |
| misnomer n | A name wrongly or mistakenly applied |
| misogamy n | Hatred of marriage |
| misogyny n | Hatred of women |
| misplace v | To put into a wrong place |
| misrepresent v | To give a wrong impression |
| misrule v | To misgovern |
| missal n | The book containing the service for the celebration of mass |
| missile n | Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown |
| missive n | A message in writing |
| mistrust v | To regard with suspicion or jealousy |
| misty adj | Lacking clearness |
| misunderstand v | To Take in a wrong sense |
| misuse v | To maltreat |
| mite n | A very small amount, portion, or particle |
| miter n | The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle |
| mitigate v | To make milder or more endurable |
| mnemonics n | A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances |
| moat n | A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall |
| mobocracy n | Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace |
| moccasin n | A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin |
| mockery n | Ridicule |
| moderation n | Temperance |
| moderator n | The presiding officer of a meeting |
| modernity n | The state or character of being modern |
| modernize v | To make characteristic of the present or of recent times |
| modification n | A change |
| modify v | To make somewhat different |
| modish adj | Fashionable |
| modulate v | To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound |
| mollify v | To soothe |
| molt v | To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc |
| momentary adj | Lasting but a short time |
| momentous adj | Very significant |
| momentum n | An impetus |
| monarchy n | Government by a single, sovereign ruler |
| monastery n | A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion |
| monetary adj | Financial |
| mongrel n | The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties |
| monition n | Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof |
| monitory n | Admonition or warning |
| monocracy n | Government by a single person |
| monogamy n | The habit of pairing, or having but one mate |
| monogram n | A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name |
| monograph n | A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject |
| monolith n | Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece |
| monologue n | A story or drama told or performed by one person |
| monomania n | The unreasonable pursuit of one idea |
| monopoly n | The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price |
| monosyllable n | A word of one syllable |
| monotone n | The sameness or monotony of utterance |
| monotonous adj | Unchanging and tedious |
| monotony n | A lack of variety |
| monstrosity n | Anything unnaturally huge or distorted |
| moonbeam n | A ray of moonlight |
| morale n | A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like |
| moralist n | A writer on ethics |
| morality n | Virtue |
| moralize v | To render virtuous |
| moratorium n | An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily |
| morbid adj | Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind |
| mordacious adj | Biting or giving to biting |
| mordant adj | Biting |
| moribund adj | On the point of dying |
| morose adj | Gloomy |
| morphology n | the science of organic forms |
| motley adj | Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements |
| motto n | An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith |
| mountaineer n | One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise |
| mountainous adj | Full of or abounding in mountains |
| mouthful n | As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise |
| muddle v | To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink |
| muffle v | To deaden the sound of, as by wraps |
| mulatto n | The offspring of a white person and a black person |
| muleteer n | A mule-driver |
| multiform adj | Having many shapes, or appearances |
| multiplicity n | the condition of being manifold or very various |
| mundane adj | Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial |
| municipal adj | Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government |
| municipality n | A district enjoying municipal government |
| munificence n | A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality |
| munificent adj | Extraordinarily generous |
| muster n | An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off |
| mutation n | The act or process of change |
| mutilate v | To disfigure |
| mutiny n | Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority |
| myriad n | A vast indefinite number |
| mystic n | One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth |
| mystification n | The act of artfully perplexing |
| myth n | A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact |
| mythology n | The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes |
| nameless adj | Having no fame or reputation |
| naphtha n | A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints |
| Narcissus n | The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection |
| narrate v | To tell a story |
| narration n | The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence |
| narrative n | An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event |
| narrator n | One who narrates anything |
| narrow-minded adj | Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments |
| nasal adj | Pertaining to the nose |
| natal adj | Pertaining to one's birth |
| nationality n | A connection with a particular nation |
| naturally adv | According to the usual order of things |
| nausea n | An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit |
| nauseate v | To cause to loathe |
| nauseous adj | Loathsome |
| nautical adj | Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation |
| naval adj | Pertaining to ships |
| navel n | The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached |
| navigable adj | Capable of commercial navigation |
| navigate v | To traverse by ship |
| nebula n | A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance |
| necessary adj | Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result |
| necessitate v | To render indispensable |
| necessity n | That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired |
| necrology n | A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time |
| necromancer n | One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead |
| necropolis n | A city of the dead |
| necrosis n | the death of part of the body |
| nectar n | Any especially sweet and delicious drink |
| nectarine n | A variety of the peach |
| needlework n | Embroidery |
| needy adj | Being in need, want, or poverty |
| nefarious adj | Wicked in the extreme |
| negate v | To deny |
| negation n | The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition |
| neglectful adj | Exhibiting or indicating omission |
| negligee n | A loose gown worn by women |
| negligence n | Omission of that which ought to be done |
| negligent adj | Apt to omit what ought to be done |
| negligible adj | Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery |
| negotiable v | To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property |
| Nemesis n | A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance |
| neocracy n | Government administered by new or untried persons |
| neo-Darwinsim n | Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students |
| neo-Latin n | Modernized Latin |
| neopaganism n | A new or revived paganism |
| Neolithic adj | Pertaining to the later stone age |
| neology n | The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words |
| neophyte adj | Having the character of a beginner |
| nestle v | To adjust cozily in snug quarters |
| nestling adj | Recently hatched |
| nettle v | To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in |
| network n | Anything that presents a system of cross- lines |
| neural adj | Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system |
| neurology n | The science of the nervous system |
| neuter adj | Neither masculine nor feminine |
| neutral adj | Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants |
| nevertheless conj | Notwithstanding |
| Newtonian adj | Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher |
| nihilist n | An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known |
| nil n | Nothing |
| nimble adj | Light and quick in motion or action |
| nit n | The egg of a louse or some other insect |
| nocturnal adj | Of or pertaining to the night |
| noiseless adj | Silent |
| noisome adj | Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell |
| noisy adj | Clamorous |
| nomad adj | Having no fixed abode |
| nomic adj | Usual or customary |
| nominal adj | Trivial |
| nominate v | To designate as a candidate for any office |
| nomination n | The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office |
| nominee n | One who receives a nomination |
| non-existent n | That which does not exist |
| non-resident adj | Not residing within a given jurisdiction |
| nonchalance n | A state of mind indicating lack of interest |
| non-combatant n | One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting |
| nondescript adj | Indescribable |
| nonentity n | A person or thing of little or no account |
| nonpareil n | One who or that which is of unequaled excellence |
| norm n | A model |
| normalcy n | The state of being normal |
| Norman adj | Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France |
| nostrum n | Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character |
| noticeable adj | Perceptible |
| notorious adj | Unfavorably known to the general public |
| novellette n | A short novel |
| novice n | A beginner in any business or occupation |
| nowadays adv | In the present time or age |
| nowhere adv | In no place or state |
| noxious adj | Hurtful |
| nuance n | A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind |
| nucleus n | A central point or part about which matter is aggregated |
| nude adj | Naked |
| nugatory adj | Having no power or force |
| nuisance n | That which annoys, vexes, or irritates |
| numeration n | The act or art of reading or naming numbers |
| numerical adj | Of or pertaining to number |
| nunnery n | A convent for nuns |
| nuptial adj | Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony |
| nurture n | The process of fostering or promoting growth |
| nutriment n | That which nourishes |
| nutritive adj | Having nutritious properties |
| oaken adj | Made of or from oak |
| oakum n | Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope |
| obdurate adj | Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity |
| obelisk n | A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative |
| obese adj | Exceedingly fat |
| obesity n | Excessive fatness |
| obituary adj | A published notice of a death |
| objective adj | Grasping and representing facts as they are |
| objector n | One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling |
| obligate v | To hold to the fulfillment of duty |
| obligatory adj | Binding in law or conscience |
| oblique adj | Slanting; said of lines |
| obliterate v | To cause to disappear |
| oblivion n | The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten |
| oblong adj | Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated |
| obnoxious adj | Detestable |
| obsequies n | Funeral rites |
| obsequious adj | Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another |
| observance n | A traditional form or customary act |
| observant adj | Quick to notice |
| observatory n | A building designed for systematic astronomical observations |
| obsolescence n | The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse |
| obsolescent adj | Passing out of use, as a word |
| obsolete adj | No longer practiced or accepted |
| obstetrician n | A practitioner of midwifery |
| obstetrics n | The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy |
| obstinacy n | Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way |
| obstreperous adj | Boisterous |
| obstruct v | To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part |
| obstruction n | Hindrance |
| obtrude v | To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence |
| obtrusive adj | Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence |
| obvert v | To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object |
| obviate v | To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty |
| occasion n | An important event or celebration |
| Occident n | The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions |
| occlude v | To absorb, as a gas by a metal |
| occult adj | Existing but not immediately perceptible |
| occupant n | A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner |
| occurrence n | A happening |
| octagon n | A figure with eight sides and eight angles |
| octave n | A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other |
| octavo n | A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves |
| octogenarian adj | A person of between eighty and ninety years |
| ocular adj | Of or pertaining to the eye |
| oculist n | One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye |
| oddity n | An eccentricity |
| ode n | The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung |
| odious adj | Hateful |
| odium n | A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust |
| odoriferous adj | Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one |
| odorous adj | Having an odor, especially a fragrant one |
| off adj | Farther or more distant |
| offhand adv | Without preparation |
| officiate v | To act as an officer or leader |
| officious adj | Intermeddling with what is not one's concern |
| offshoot n | Something that branches off from the parent stock |
| ogre n | A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings |
| ointment n | A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists |
| olfactory adj | of or pertaining to the sense of smell |
| olive-branch n | A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace |
| ominous adj | Portentous |
| omission n | Exclusion |
| omnipotence n | Unlimited and universal power |
| Omnipotent adj | Possessed of unlimited and universal power |
| omniscience n | Unlimited or infinite knowledge |
| omniscient adj | Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge |
| omnivorous adj | Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately |
| onerous adj | Burdensome or oppressive |
| onrush n | Onset |
| onset n | An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification |
| onslaught n | A violent onset |
| onus n | A burden or responsibility |
| opalescence n | The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints |
| opaque adj | Impervious to light |
| operate v | To put in action and supervise the working of |
| operative adj | Active |
| operator n | One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus |
| operetta n | A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act |
| opinion n | A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge |
| opponent n | One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport |
| opportune adj | Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment |
| opportunist n | One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends |
| opportunity n | Favorable or advantageous chance or opening |
| opposite adj | Radically different or contrary in action or movement |
| opprobrium n | The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil |
| optic n | Pertaining to the eye or vision |
| optician n | One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses |
| optics n | The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight |
| optimism n | The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best |
| option n | The right, power, or liberty of choosing |
| optometry n | Measurement of the powers of vision |
| opulence n | Affluence |
| opulent adj | Wealthy |
| oral adj | Uttered through the mouth |
| orate v | To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech |
| oration n | An elaborate or formal public speech |
| orator n | One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech |
| oratorio n | A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures |
| oratory n | The art of public speaking |
| ordeal n | Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc |
| ordinal n | That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third |
| ordination n | A consecration to the ministry |
| ordnance n | A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war |
| orgies n | Wild or wanton revelry |
| origin n | The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be |
| original adj | Not copied nor produced by imitation |
| originate v | To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of |
| ornate adj | Ornamented to a marked degree |
| orthodox adj | Holding the commonly accepted faith |
| orthodoxy n | Acceptance of the common faith |
| orthogonal adj | Having or determined by right angles |
| orthopedic adj | Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity |
| orthopedist n | One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity |
| oscillate v | To swing back and forth |
| osculate v | To kiss |
| ossify v | to convert into bone |
| ostentation n | A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery |
| ostracism n | Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics |
| ostracize v | To exclude from public or private favor |
| ought v | To be under moral obligation to be or do |
| oust v | To eject |
| out-and-out adv | Genuinely |
| outbreak n | A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained |
| outburst n | A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual |
| outcast n | One rejected and despised, especially socially |
| outcry n | A vehement or loud cry or clamor |
| outdo v | To surpass |
| outlandish adj | Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action |
| outlast v | To last longer than |
| outlaw n | A habitual lawbreaker |
| outlive v | To continue to exist after |
| out-of-the-way adj | Remotely situated |
| outpost n | A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise |
| outrage n | A gross infringement of morality or decency |
| outrageous adj | Shocking in conduct |
| outreach v | To reach or go beyond |
| outride v | To ride faster than |
| outrigger n | A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support |
| outright adv | Entirely |
| outskirt n | A border region |
| outstretch v | To extend |
| outstrip v | To go beyond |
| outweigh v | To surpass in importance or excellence |
| overdo v | To overtax the strength of |
| overdose n | An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic |
| overeat v | To eat to excess |
| overhang n | A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over |
| overleap v | To leap beyond |
| overlord n | One who holds supremacy over another |
| overpass v | To pass across or over, as a river |
| overpay v | To pay or reward in excess |
| overpower v | To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power |
| overproduction n | Excessive production |
| overreach v | To stretch out too far |
| overrun v | To infest or ravage |
| oversee v | To superintend |
| overseer n | A supervisor |
| overshadow v | To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison |
| overstride v | To step beyond |
| overthrow v | To vanquish an established ruler or government |
| overtone n | A harmonic |
| overture n | An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet |
| overweight n | Preponderance |
| pacify v | To bring into a peaceful state |
| packet n | A bundle, as of letters |
| pact n | A covenant |
| pagan n | A worshiper of false gods |
| pageant n | A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one |
| palate n | The roof of the mouth |
| palatial adj | Magnificent |
| paleontology n | The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms |
| palette n | A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting |
| palinode n | A retraction |
| pall v | To make dull by satiety |
| palliate v | To cause to appear less guilty |
| pallid adj | Of a pale or wan appearance |
| palpable n | perceptible by feeling or touch |
| palsy n | Paralysis |
| paly adj | Lacking color or brilliancy |
| pamphlet n | A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest |
| pamphleteer v | To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones |
| panacea n | A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases |
| Pan-American adj | Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South |
| pandemic adj | Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease |
| pandemonium n | A fiendish or riotous uproar |
| panegyric n | A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act |
| panel n | A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame |
| panic n | A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear |
| panoply n | A full set of armor |
| panorama n | A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene |
| pantheism n | The worship of nature for itself or its beauty |
| Pantheon n | A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof |
| pantomime n | Sign-language |
| pantoscope n | A very wide-angled photographic lens |
| papacy n | The official head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| papyrus n | The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans |
| parable n | A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral |
| paradox n | A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief |
| paragon n | A model of excellence |
| parallel v | To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts |
| parallelism n | Essential likeness |
| paralysis n | Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles |
| paralyze v | To deprive of the power to act |
| paramount adj | Supreme in authority |
| paramour n | One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress |
| paraphernalia n | Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment |
| paraphrase v | Translate freely |
| pare v | To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything |
| parentage n | The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect |
| Pariah n | A member of a degraded class; a social outcast |
| parish n | The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor |
| Parisian adj | Of or pertaining to the city of Paris |
| parity n | Equality, as of condition or rank |
| parlance n | Mode of speech |
| parley v | To converse in |
| parliament n | A legislative body |
| parlor n | A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests |
| parody v | To render ludicrous by imitating the language of |
| paronymous adj | Derived from the same root or primitive word |
| paroxysm n | A sudden outburst of any kind of activity |
| parricide n | The murder of a parent |
| parse v | To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word |
| parsimonious adj | Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money |
| partible adj | Separable |
| participant n | One having a share or part |
| participate v | To receive or have a part or share of |
| partition n | That which separates anything into distinct parts |
| partisan adj | Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party |
| passible adj | Capable of feeling of suffering |
| passive adj | Unresponsive |
| pastoral adj | Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life |
| paternal adj | Fatherly |
| paternity n | Fatherhood |
| pathos n | The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy |
| patriarch n | The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right |
| patrician adj | Of senatorial or noble rank |
| patrimony n | An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father |
| patriotism n | Love and devotion to one's country |
| patronize v | To exercise an arrogant condescension toward |
| patronymic adj | Formed after one's father's name |
| patter v | To mumble something over and over |
| paucity n | Fewness |
| pauper n | One without means of support |
| pauperism n | Dependence on charity |
| pavilion n | An open structure for temporary shelter |
| payee n | A person to whom money has been or is to be paid |
| peaceable adj | Tranquil |
| peaceful adj | Tranquil |
| peccable adj | Capable of sinning |
| peccadillo n | A small breach of propriety or principle |
| peccant adj | Guilty |
| pectoral adj | Pertaining to the breast or thorax |
| pecuniary adj | Consisting of money |
| pedagogics n | The science and art of teaching |
| pedagogue n | A schoolmaster |
| pedagogy n | The science and art of teaching |
| pedal n | A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines |
| pedant n | A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning |
| peddle v | To go about with a small stock of goods to sell |
| pedestal n | A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase |
| pedestrian n | One who journeys on foot |
| pediatrics n | The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood |
| pedigree n | One's line of ancestors |
| peddler n | One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail |
| peerage n | The nobility |
| peerless adj | Of unequaled excellence or worth |
| pellucid adj | Translucent |
| penalty n | The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law |
| penance n | Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence |
| penchant n | A bias in favor of something |
| pendant n | Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use |
| pendulous adj | Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part |
| pendulum n | A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock |
| penetrable adj | That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force |
| penetrate v | To enter or force a way into the interior parts of |
| penetration n | Discernment |
| peninsular adj | Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water |
| penitence n | Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone |
| penitential adj | Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone |
| pennant n | A small flag |
| pension n | A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her |
| pentagram n | A figure having five points or lobes |
| pentavalent adj | Quinqeuvalent |
| pentad n | The number five |
| pentagon n | A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides |
| pentahedron n | A solid bounded by five plane faces |
| pentameter n | In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet |
| pentathlon n | The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants |
| penultimate adj | A syllable or member of a series that is last but one |
| penurious adj | Excessively sparing in the use of money |
| penury n | Indigence |
| perambulate v | To walk about |
| perceive v | To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses |
| perceptible adj | Cognizable |
| perception n | Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world |
| percipience n | The act of perceiving |
| percipient n | One who or that which perceives |
| percolate v | To filter |
| percolator n | A filter |
| percussion n | The sharp striking of one body against another |
| peremptory adj | Precluding question or appeal |
| perennial adj | Continuing though the year or through many years |
| perfectible adj | Capable of being made perfect |
| perfidy n | Treachery |
| perforate v | To make a hole or holes through |
| perform v | To accomplish |
| perfumery n | The preparation of perfumes |
| perfunctory adj | Half-hearted |
| perhaps adv | Possibly |
| perigee n | The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth |
| periodicity n | The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals |
| peripatetic adj | Walking about |
| perjure v | To swear falsely to |
| perjury n | A solemn assertion of a falsity |
| permanence n | A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature |
| permanent adj | Durable |
| permeate v | To pervade |
| permissible adj | That may be allowed |
| permutation n | Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items |
| pernicious adj | Tending to kill or hurt |
| perpendicular adj | Straight up and down |
| perpetrator n | The doer of a wrong or a criminal act |
| perpetuate v | To preserve from extinction or oblivion |
| perquisite n | Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages |
| persecution n | Harsh or malignant oppression |
| perseverance n | A persistence in purpose and effort |
| persevere v | To continue striving in spite of discouragements |
| persiflage n | Banter |
| persist v | To continue steadfast against opposition |
| persistence n | A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like |
| personage n | A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station |
| personal adj | Not general or public |
| personality n | The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual |
| personnel n | The force of persons collectively employed in some service |
| perspective n | The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view |
| perspicacious adj | Astute |
| perspicacity n | Acuteness or discernment |
| perspicuous adj | Lucid |
| perspiration n | Sweat |
| perspire v | To excrete through the pores of the skin |
| persuade v | To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection |
| persuadable adj | capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings |
| pertinacious adj | Persistent or unyielding |
| pertinacity n | Unyielding adherence |
| pertinent adj | Relevant |
| perturb v | To disturb greatly |
| perturbation n | Mental excitement or confusion |
| perusal n | The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully |
| pervade v | To pass or spread through every part |
| pervasion n | The state of spreading through every part |
| pervasive adj | Thoroughly penetrating or permeating |
| perverse adj | Unreasonable |
| perversion n | Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose |
| perversity n | Wickedness |
| pervert n | One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false |
| pervious adj | Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance |
| pestilence n | A raging epidemic |
| pestilent adj | Having a malign influence or effect |
| pestilential adj | having the nature of or breeding pestilence |
| peter v | To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value |
| petrify v | To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character |
| petulance n | The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant |
| petulant adj | Displaying impatience |
| pharmacopoeia n | A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists |
| pharmacy n | The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines |
| phenomenal adj | Extraordinary or marvelous |
| phenomenon n | Any unusual occurrence |
| philander v | To play at courtship with a woman |
| philanthropic adj | Benevolent |
| philanthropist n | One who endeavors to help his fellow men |
| philanthropy n | Active humanitarianism |
| philately n | The study and collection of stamps |
| philharmonic adj | Fond of music |
| philogynist n | One who is fond of women |
| philologist n | An expert in linguistics |
| philology n | The study of language in connection with history and literature |
| philosophize v | To seek ultimate causes and principles |
| philosophy n | The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything |
| phlegmatic adj | Not easily roused to feeling or action |
| phonetic adj | Representing articulate sounds or speech |
| phonic adj | Pertaining to the nature of sound |
| phonogram n | A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound |
| phonology n | The science of human vocal sounds |
| phosphorescence n | The property of emitting light |
| photoelectric adj | Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity |
| photometer n | Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights |
| photometry n | The art of measuring the intensity of light |
| physicist n | A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy |
| physics n | The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy |
| physiocracy n | The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth |
| physiognomy n | The external appearance merely |
| physiography n | Description of nature |
| physiology n | The science of organic functions |
| physique n | The physical structure or organization of a person |
| picayune adj | Of small value |
| piccolo n | A small flute |
| piece n | A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass |
| piecemeal adv | Gradually |
| pillage n | Open robbery, as in war |
| pillory n | A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn |
| pincers n | An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot |
| pinchers n | An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot |
| pinnacle n | A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak |
| pioneer n | One among the first to explore a country |
| pious adj | Religious |
| pique v | To excite a slight degree of anger in |
| piteous adj | Compassionate |
| pitiable adj | Contemptible |
| pitiful adj | Wretched |
| pitiless adj | Hard-hearted |
| pittance n | Any small portion or meager allowance |
| placate v | To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness |
| placid adj | Serene |
| plagiarism n | The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own |
| planisphere n | A polar projection of the heavens on a chart |
| plasticity n | The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed |
| platitude n | A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace |
| plaudit n | An expression of applause |
| plausible adj | Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt |
| playful adj | Frolicsome |
| playwright n | A maker of plays for the stage |
| plea n | An argument to obtain some desired action |
| pleasant adj | Agreeable |
| pleasurable adj | Affording gratification |
| plebeian adj | Common |
| pledgee n | The person to whom anything is pledged |
| pledgeor n | One who gives a pledge |
| plenary adj | Entire |
| plenipotentiary n | A person fully empowered to transact any business |
| plenitude n | Abundance |
| plenteous adj | Abundant |
| plumb n | A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something |
| plummet n | A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical |
| pluperfect adj | Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action |
| plural adj | Containing or consisting of more than one |
| plurality n | A majority |
| plutocracy n | A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money |
| pneumatic adj | Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas |
| poesy n | Poetry |
| poetaster n | An inferior poet |
| poetic adj | Pertaining to poetry |
| poetics n | The rules and principles of poetry |
| poignancy n | Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief |
| poignant adj | Severely painful or acute to the spirit |
| poise n | Equilibrium |
| polar adj | Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth |
| polemics n | The art of controversy or disputation |
| pollen n | The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant |
| pollute v | To contaminate |
| polyarchy n | Government by several or many persons of what- ever class |
| polycracy n | The rule of many |
| polygamy n | the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once |
| polyglot adj | Speaking several tongues |
| polygon n | A figure having many angles |
| polyhedron n | A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four |
| polysyllable adj | Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables |
| polytechnic adj | Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts |
| polytheism n | The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one |
| pommel v | To beat with something thick or bulky |
| pomposity n | The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner |
| pompous adj | Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner |
| ponder v | To meditate or reflect upon |
| ponderous adj | Unusually weighty or forcible |
| pontiff n | The Pope |
| populace n | The common people |
| populous adj | Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory |
| portend v | To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs |
| portent n | Anything that indicates what is to happen |
| portfolio n | A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc |
| posit v | To present in an orderly manner |
| position n | The manner in which a thing is placed |
| positive adj | Free from doubt or hesitation |
| posse n | A force of men |
| possess v | To own |
| possession n | The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command |
| possessive adj | Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command |
| possessor n | One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property |
| possible adj | Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural |
| postdate v | To make the date of any writing later than the real date |
| posterior n | The hinder part |
| postgraduate adj | Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree |
| postscript n | Something added to a letter after the writer's signature |
| potency n | Power |
| potent adj | Physically powerful |
| potentate n | One possessed of great power or sway |
| potential n | Anything that may be possible |
| potion n | A dose of liquid medicine |
| powerless adj | Impotent |
| practicable adj | Feasible |
| prate v | To talk about vainly or foolishly |
| prattle v | To utter in simple or childish talk |
| preamble n | A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows |
| precarious adj | Perilous |
| precaution n | A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger |
| precede v | To happen first |
| precedence n | Priority in place, time, or rank |
| precedent n | An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule |
| precedential adj | Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule |
| precession n | The act of going forward |
| precipice n | A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff |
| precipitant adj | Moving onward quickly and heedlessly |
| precipitate v | To force forward prematurely |
| precise adj | Exact |
| precision n | Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment |
| preclude v | To prevent |
| precocious adj | Having the mental faculties prematurely developed |
| precursor n | A forerunner or herald |
| predatory adj | Prone to pillaging |
| predecessor n | An incumbent of a given office previous to another |
| predicament n | A difficult, trying situation or plight |
| predicate v | To state as belonging to something |
| predict v | To foretell |
| prediction n | A prophecy |
| predominance n | Ascendancy or preponderance |
| predominant adj | Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree |
| predominate v | To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree |
| preeminence n | Special eminence |
| preempt v | To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land |
| preemption n | The right or act of purchasing before others |
| preengage v | To preoccupy |
| preestablish v | To settle or arrange beforehand |
| preexist v | To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else |
| preexistence n | Existence antecedent to something |
| preface n | A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book |
| prefatory adj | Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book |
| prefer v | To hold in higher estimation |
| preferable adj | More desirable than others |
| preference n | An object of favor or choice |
| preferential adj | Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority |
| preferment n | Preference |
| prefix v | To attach at the beginning |
| prehensible adj | Capable of being grasped |
| prehensile adj | Adapted for grasping or holding |
| prehension n | The act of laying hold of or grasping |
| prejudice n | A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts |
| prelacy n | A system of church government |
| prelate n | One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy |
| prelude n | An introductory or opening performance |
| premature adj | Coming too soon |
| premier adj | First in rank or position |
| premise n | A judgment as a conclusion |
| premonition n | Foreboding |
| preoccupation n | The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied |
| preoccupy v | To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects |
| preordain v | To foreordain |
| preparation n | An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event |
| preparatory adj | Having to do with what is preliminary |
| preponderant adj | Prevalent |
| preponderate v | To exceed in influence or power |
| prepossession n | A preconceived liking |
| preposterous adj | Utterly ridiculous or absurd |
| prerogative adj | Having superior rank or precedence |
| presage v | To foretell |
| prescience n | Knowledge of events before they take place |
| prescient adj | Foreknowing |
| prescript adj | Prescribed as a rule or model |
| prescriptible adj | Derived from authoritative direction |
| prescription n | An authoritative direction |
| presentient adj | Perceiving or feeling beforehand |
| presentiment n | Foreboding |
| presentment n | Semblance |
| preservation n | Conservation |
| presumption n | That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved |
| presumptuous adj | Assuming too much |
| pretension n | A bold or presumptuous assertion |
| pretentious adj | Marked by pretense, conceit, or display |
| preternatural adj | Extraordinary |
| pretext n | A fictitious reason or motive |
| prevalence n | Frequency |
| prevalent adj | Of wide extent or frequent occurrence |
| prevaricate v | To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention |
| prevention n | Thwarting |
| prickle v | To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points |
| priggish adj | Conceited |
| prim adj | Stiffly proper |
| prima adj | First |
| primer n | An elementary reading-book for children |
| primeval adj | Belonging to the first ages |
| primitive adj | Pertaining to the beginning or early times |
| principal adj | Most important |
| principality n | The territory of a reigning prince |
| principle n | A general truth or proposition |
| priory n | A monastic house |
| pristine adj | Primitive |
| privateer n | A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war |
| privilege n | A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions |
| privity n | Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter |
| privy adj | Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction |
| probate adj | Relating to making proof, as of a will |
| probation n | Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like |
| probe v | To search through and through |
| probity n | Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed |
| procedure n | A manner or method of acting |
| proceed v | To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption |
| proclamation n | Any announcement made in a public manner |
| procrastinate v | To put off till tomorrow or till a future time |
| procrastination n | Delay |
| proctor n | An agent acting for another |
| prodigal n | One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property |
| prodigious adj | Immense |
| prodigy n | A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities |
| productive adj | Yielding in abundance |
| profession n | Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines |
| professor n | A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college |
| proffer v | To offer to another for acceptance |
| proficiency n | An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science |
| proficient adj | Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry |
| profile n | An outline or contour |
| profiteer n | One who profits |
| profligacy n | Shameless viciousness |
| profligate adj | Abandoned to vice |
| profuse adj | Produced or displayed in overabundance |
| progeny n | Offspring |
| progression n | A moving forward or proceeding in course |
| prohibition n | A decree or an order forbidding something |
| prohibitionist n | One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| prohibitory adj | Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| projection n | A prominence |
| proletarian n | A person of the lowest or poorest class |
| prolific adj | Producing offspring or fruit |
| prolix adj | Verbose |
| prologue n | A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance |
| prolong v | To extend in time or duration |
| promenade v | To walk for amusement or exercise |
| prominence n | The quality of being noticeable or distinguished |
| prominent adj | Conspicuous in position, character, or importance |
| promiscuous adj | Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex) |
| promissory adj | Expressing an engagement to pay |
| promontory n | A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea |
| promoter n | A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager |
| promulgate v | To proclaim |
| propaganda n | Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system |
| propagate v | To spread abroad or from person to person |
| propel v | To drive or urge forward |
| propellant adj | Propelling |
| propeller n | One who or that which propels |
| prophecy n | Any prediction or foretelling |
| prophesy v | To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance |
| propitious adj | Kindly disposed |
| proportionate adj | Being in proportion |
| propriety n | Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles |
| propulsion n | A driving onward or forward |
| prosaic adj | Unimaginative |
| proscenium n | That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra |
| proscribe v | To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation |
| proscription n | Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege |
| proselyte n | One who has been won over from one religious belief to another |
| prosody n | The science of poetical forms |
| prospector n | One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals |
| prospectus n | A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking |
| prostrate adj | Lying prone, or with the head to the ground |
| protagonist n | A leader in any enterprise or contest |
| protection n | Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil |
| protective adj | Sheltering |
| protector n | A defender |
| protege n | One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person |
| Protestant n | A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment |
| protomartyr n | The earliest victim in any cause |
| protocol n | A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty |
| protoplasm n | The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell |
| prototype n | A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit |
| protract v | To prolong |
| protrude v | To push out or thrust forth |
| protrusion n | The act of protruding |
| protuberance n | Something that swells out from a surrounding surface |
| protuberant adj | Bulging |
| protuberate v | To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface |
| proverb n | A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience |
| provident adj | Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies |
| providential adj | Effected by divine guidance |
| provincial adj | Uncultured in thought and manner |
| proviso n | A clause in a contract, will, etc, by which its operation is rendered conditional |
| provocation n | An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment |
| prowess n | Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle |
| proximately adv | Immediately |
| proxy n | A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter |
| prudence n | Caution |
| prudential adj | Proceeding or marked by caution |
| prudery n | An undue display of modesty or delicacy |
| prurient adj | Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires |
| pseudapostle n | A pretended or false apostle |
| pseudonym n | A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer |
| pseudonymity n | The state or character of using a fictitious name |
| psychiatry n | The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease |
| psychic adj | Pertaining to the mind or soul |
| psychopathic adj | Morally irresponsible |
| psychotherapy n | The treatment of mental disease |
| pudgy adj | Small and fat |
| puerile adj | Childish |
| pugnacious adj | Quarrelsome |
| puissant adj | Possessing strength |
| pulmonary adj | Pertaining to the lungs |
| punctilious adj | Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom |
| punctual adj | Observant and exact in points of time |
| pungent adj | Affecting the sense of smell |
| pungency n | The quality of affecting the sense of smell |
| punitive adj | Pertaining to punishment |
| pupilage n | The state or period of being a student |
| purgatory n | An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering |
| purl v | To cause to whirl, as in an eddy |
| purloin v | To steal |
| purport n | Intent |
| purveyor n | one who supplies |
| pusillanimous adj | Without spirit or bravery |
| putrescent adj | Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors |
| pyre n | A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body |
| pyromania n | An insane propensity to set things on fire |
| pyrotechnic adj | Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture |
| pyx n | A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved |
| quackery n | Charlatanry |
| quadrate v | To divide into quarters |
| quadruple v | To multiply by four |
| qualification n | A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege |
| qualify v | To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions |
| qualm n | A fit of nausea |
| quandary n | A puzzling predicament |
| quantity n | Magnitude |
| quarantine n | The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease |
| quarrelsome adj | Irascible |
| quarter n | One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided |
| quarterly adj | Occurring or made at intervals of three months |
| quartet n | A composition for four voices or four instruments |
| quarto n | An eight-page newspaper of any size |
| quay n | A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it |
| querulous adj | Habitually complaining |
| query v | To make inquiry |
| queue n | A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance |
| quibble n | An utterly trivial distinction or objection |
| quiescence n | Quiet |
| quiescent adj | Being in a state of repose or inaction |
| quiet adj | Making no noise |
| quietus n | A silencing, suppressing, or ending |
| quintessence n | The most essential part of anything |
| quintet n | Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments |
| quite adv | Fully |
| Quixotic adj | Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree |
| rabid adj | Affected with rabies or hydrophobia |
| racy adj | Exciting or exhilarating to the mind |
| radiance n | Brilliant or sparkling luster |
| radiate v | To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus |
| radical n | One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures |
| radix n | That from or on which something is developed |
| raillery n | Good-humored satire |
| ramify v | To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions |
| ramose adj | Branch-like |
| rampant adj | Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint |
| rampart n | A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry |
| rancor n | Malice |
| rankle v | To produce irritation or festering |
| rapacious adj | Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods |
| rapid adj | Having great speed |
| rapine n | The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war |
| rapt adj | Enraptured |
| raptorial adj | Seizing and devouring living prey |
| ration v | To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food |
| rationalism n | The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority |
| raucous adj | Harsh |
| ravage v | To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods |
| ravenous adj | Furiously voracious or hungry |
| ravine n | A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water |
| reaction n | Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation |
| reactionary adj | Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction |
| readily adv | Without objection or reluctance |
| readjust v | To put in order after disarrangement |
| ready adj | In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion |
| realism n | The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist |
| rearrange v | To arrange again or in a different order |
| reassure v | To give new confidence |
| rebellious adj | Insubordinate |
| rebuff n | A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches |
| rebuild v | To build again or anew |
| rebut v | To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer |
| recant v | To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained) |
| recapitulate v | To repeat again the principal points of |
| recapture v | To capture again |
| recede v | To move back or away |
| receivable adj | Capable of being or fit to be received - often money |
| receptive adj | Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions |
| recessive adj | Having a tendency to go back |
| recidivist n | A confirmed criminal |
| reciprocal adj | Mutually interchangeable or convertible |
| reciprocate v | To give and take mutually |
| reciprocity n | Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed |
| recitation n | The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory |
| reck v | To have a care or thought for |
| reckless adj | Foolishly headless of danger |
| reclaim v | To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of |
| recline v | To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position |
| recluse n | One who lives in retirement or seclusion |
| reclusory n | A hermitage |
| recognizance n | An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act |
| recognize v | To recall the identity of (a person or thing) |
| recoil v | To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread |
| recollect v | To recall the knowledge of |
| reconcilable adj | Capable of being adjusted or harmonized |
| reconnoiter v | To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes |
| reconsider v | To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action |
| reconstruct v | To rebuild |
| recourse n | Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble |
| recover v | To regain |
| recreant n | A cowardly or faithless person |
| recreate v | To refresh after labor |
| recrudescence n | The state of becoming raw or sore again |
| recrudescent adj | Becoming raw or sore again |
| recruit v | To enlist men for military or naval service |
| rectify v | To correct |
| rectitude n | The quality of being upright in principles and conduct |
| recuperate v | To recover |
| recur v | To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals |
| recure v | To cure again |
| recurrent adj | Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals |
| redemption n | The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt |
| redolent adj | Smelling sweet and agreeable |
| redolence n | Smelling sweet and agreeable |
| redoubtable adj | Formidable |
| redound n | Rebound |
| redress v | To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer |
| reducible adj | That may be reduced |
| redundance n | Excess |
| redundant adj | Constituting an excess |
| reestablish v | To restore |
| refer v | To direct or send for information or other purpose |
| referrer n | One who refers |
| referable adj | Ascribable |
| referee n | An umpire |
| refinery n | A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified |
| reflectible adj | Capable of being turned back |
| reflection n | The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves |
| reflector n | A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction |
| reflexible adj | Capable of being reflected |
| reform n | Change for the better |
| reformer n | One who carries out a reform |
| refract v | To bend or turn from a direct course |
| refractory adj | Not amenable to control |
| refragable adj | Capable of being refuted |
| refringency n | Power to refract |
| refringent adj | Having the power to refract |
| refusal n | Denial of what is asked |
| refute v | To prove to be wrong |
| regale v | To give unusual pleasure |
| regality n | Royalty |
| regenerate v | To reproduce |
| regent n | One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler |
| regicide n | The killing of a king or sovereign |
| regime n | Particular conduct or administration of affairs |
| regimen n | A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits |
| regiment n | A body of soldiers |
| regnant adj | Exercising royal authority in one's own right |
| regress v | To return to a former place or condition |
| regretful adj | Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret |
| rehabilitate v | To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege |
| reign v | To hold and exercise sovereign power |
| reimburse v | To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended |
| rein n | A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal |
| reinstate v | To restore to a former state, station, or authority |
| reiterate v | To say or do again and again |
| rejoin v | To reunite after separation |
| rejuvenate v | To restore to youth |
| rejuvenescence n | A renewal of youth |
| relapse v | To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery |
| relegate v | To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination |
| relent v | To yield |
| relevant adj | Bearing upon the matter in hand |
| reliance n | Dependence |
| reliant adj | Having confidence |
| relinquish v | To give up using or having |
| reliquary n | A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept |
| relish v | To like the taste or savor of |
| reluctance n | Unwillingness |
| reluctant adj | Unwilling |
| remembrance n | Recollection |
| reminiscence n | The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience |
| reminiscent adj | Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest |
| remiss adj | Negligent |
| remission n | Temporary diminution of a disease |
| remodel v | Reconstruct |
| remonstrance n | Reproof |
| remonstrant adj | Having the character of a reproof |
| remonstrate v | To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong |
| remunerate v | To pay or pay for |
| remuneration n | Compensation |
| Renaissance n | The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time |
| rendezvous n | A prearranged place of meeting |
| rendition n | Interpretation |
| renovate v | To restore after deterioration, as a building |
| renunciation n | An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege |
| reorganize v | To change to a more satisfactory form of organization |
| reparable adj | Capable of repair |
| reparation n | The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong |
| repartee n | A ready, witty, or apt reply |
| repeal v | To render of no further effect |
| repel v | To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally |
| repellent adj | Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally |
| repentance n | Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong |
| repertory n | A place where things are stored or gathered together |
| repetition n | The act of repeating |
| repine v | To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding |
| replenish v | To fill again, as something that has been emptied |
| replete adj | Full to the uttermost |
| replica n | A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original |
| repository n | A place in which goods are stored |
| reprehend v | To find fault with |
| reprehensible adj | Censurable |
| reprehension n | Expression of blame |
| repress v | To keep under restraint or control |
| repressible adj | Able to be kept under restraint or control |
| reprieve v | To grant a respite from punishment to |
| reprimand v | To chide or rebuke for a fault |
| reprisal n | Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy |
| reprobate n | One abandoned to depravity and sin |
| reproduce v | To make a copy of |
| reproduction n | The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind |
| reproof n | An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured |
| repudiate v | To refuse to have anything to do with |
| repugnance n | Thorough dislike |
| repugnant adj | Offensive to taste and feeling |
| repulse n | The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy |
| repulsive adj | Grossly offensive |
| repute v | To hold in general opinion |
| requiem n | A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead |
| requisite adj | Necessary |
| requital n | Adequate return for good or ill |
| requite v | To repay either good or evil to, as to a person |
| rescind v | To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority |
| reseat v | To place in position of office again |
| resemblance n | Similarity in quality or form |
| resent v | To be indignant at, as an injury or insult |
| reservoir n | A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept |
| residue n | A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated |
| resilience n | The power of springing back to a former position |
| resilient adj | Having the quality of springing back to a former position |
| resistance n | The exertion of opposite effort or effect |
| resistant adj | Offering or tending to produce resistance |
| resistive adj | Having or exercising the power of resistance |
| resistless adj | Powerless |
| resonance n | The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations |
| resonance adj | Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations |
| resonate v | To have or produce resonance |
| resource n | That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support |
| respite n | Interval of rest |
| resplendent adj | Very bright |
| respondent adj | Answering |
| restitution n | Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs |
| resumption n | The act of taking back, or taking again |
| resurgent adj | Surging back or again |
| resurrection n | A return from death to life |
| resuscitate v | To restore from apparent death |
| retaliate v | To repay evil with a similar evil |
| retch v | To make an effort to vomit |
| retention n | The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession |
| reticence n | The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance |
| reticent adj | Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance |
| retinue n | The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance |
| retort n | A retaliatory speech |
| retouch v | To modify the details of |
| retrace v | To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking |
| retract v | To recall or take back (something that one has said) |
| retrench v | To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity |
| retrieve v | To recover something by searching |
| retroactive adj | Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities |
| retrograde v | To cause to deteriorate or to move backward |
| retrogression n | A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction |
| retrospect n | A view or contemplation of something past |
| retrospective adj | Looking back on the past |
| reunite v | To unite or join again, as after separation |
| revelation n | A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown |
| revere v | To regard with worshipful veneration |
| reverent adj | Humble |
| reversion n | A return to or toward some former state or condition |
| revert v | To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like |
| revile v | To heap approach or abuse upon |
| revisal n | Revision |
| revise v | To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes |
| revocation n | Repeal |
| revoke v | To rescind |
| rhapsody n | Rapt or rapturous utterance |
| rhetoric n | The art of discourse |
| rhetorician n | A showy writer or speaker |
| ribald adj | Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity |
| riddance n | The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable |
| ridicule n | Looks or acts expressing amused contempt |
| ridiculous adj | Laughable and contemptible |
| rife adj | Abundant |
| righteousness n | Rectitude |
| rightful adj | Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage |
| rigmarole n | Nonsense |
| rigor n | Inflexibility |
| rigorous adj | Uncompromising |
| ripplet n | A small ripple, as of water |
| risible adj | capable of exciting laughter |
| rivulet n | A small stream or brook |
| robust adj | Characterized by great strength or power of endurance |
| rondo n | A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times |
| rookery n | A place where crows congregate to breed |
| rotary adj | Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus |
| rotate v | To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel |
| rote n | Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention |
| rotund adj | Round from fullness or plumpness |
| rudimentary adj | Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development |
| rue v | To regret extremely |
| ruffian adj | A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow |
| ruminant adj | Chewing the cud |
| ruminate v | To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated |
| rupture v | To separate the parts of by violence |
| rustic adj | Characteristic of dwelling in the country |
| ruth n | Sorrow for another's misery |
| sacrifice v | To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar |
| sacrificial adj | Offering or offered as an atonement for sin |
| sacrilege n | The act of violating or profaning anything sacred |
| sacrilegious adj | Impious |
| safeguard v | To protect |
| sagacious adj | Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception |
| salacious adj | Having strong sexual desires |
| salience n | The condition of standing out distinctly |
| salient adj | Standing out prominently |
| saline adj | Constituting or consisting of salt |
| salutary adj | Beneficial |
| salutation n | Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act |
| salutatory n | The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges |
| salvage n | Any act of saving property |
| salvo n | A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer |
| sanctimonious adj | Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety |
| sanction v | To approve authoritatively |
| sanctity n | Holiness |
| sanguinary adj | Bloody |
| sanguine adj | Having the color of blood |
| sanguineous adj | Consisting of blood |
| sapid adj | Affecting the sense of taste |
| sapience n | Deep wisdom or knowledge |
| sapient adj | Possessing wisdom |
| sapiential adj | Possessing wisdom |
| saponaceous adj | Having the nature or quality of soap |
| sarcasm n | Cutting and reproachful language |
| sarcophagus n | A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb |
| sardonic adj | Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic |
| satiate v | To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of |
| satire n | The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices |
| satiric adj | Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule |
| satirize v | To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit |
| satyr n | A very lascivious person |
| savage n | A wild and uncivilized human being |
| savor v | To perceive by taste or smell |
| scabbard n | The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon |
| scarcity n | Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands |
| scholarly adj | Characteristic of an erudite person |
| scholastic adj | Pertaining to education or schools |
| scintilla n | The faintest ray |
| scintillate v | To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light |
| scope n | A range of action or view |
| scoundrel n | A man without principle |
| scribble n | Hasty, careless writing |
| scribe n | One who writes or is skilled in writing |
| script n | Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form |
| Scriptural adj | Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures |
| scruple n | Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty |
| scrupulous adj | Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong |
| scurrilous adj | Grossly indecent or vulgar |
| scuttle v | To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom |
| scythe n | A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc |
| seance n | A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits |
| sear v | To burn on the surface |
| sebaceous adj | Pertaining to or appearing like fat |
| secant adj | Cutting, especially into two parts |
| secede v | To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body |
| secession n | Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies |
| seclude v | To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others |
| seclusion n | Solitude |
| secondary adj | Less important or effective than that which is primary |
| secondly adv | In the second place in order or succession |
| second-rate adj | Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc |
| secrecy n | Concealment |
| secretive adj | Having a tendency to conceal |
| sedate adj | Even-tempered |
| sedentary adj | Involving or requiring much sitting |
| sediment n | Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid |
| sedition n | Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state |
| seditious adj | Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state |
| seduce v | To entice to surrender chastity |
| sedulous adj | Persevering in effort or endeavor |
| seer n | A prophet |
| seethe v | To be violently excited or agitated |
| seignior n | A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir |
| seismograph n | An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes |
| seize v | To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly |
| selective adj | Having the power of choice |
| self-respect n | Rational self-esteem |
| semblance n | Outward appearance |
| semicivilized adj | Half-civilized |
| semiconscious adj | Partially conscious |
| semiannual adj | Recurring at intervals of six months |
| semicircle n | A half-circle |
| seminar n | Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher |
| seminary n | A special school, as of theology or pedagogics |
| senile adj | Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age |
| sensation n | A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling |
| sense n | The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action |
| sensibility n | Power to perceive or feel |
| sensitive adj | Easily affected by outside operations or influences |
| sensorium n | The sensory apparatus |
| sensual adj | Pertaining to the body or the physical senses |
| sensuous adj | Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury |
| sentence n | A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought |
| sentience n | Capacity for sensation or sense-perception |
| sentient adj | Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception |
| sentinel n | Any guard or watch stationed for protection |
| separable adj | Capable of being disjoined or divided |
| separate v | To take apart |
| separatist n | A seceder |
| septennial adj | Recurring every seven years |
| sepulcher n | A burial-place |
| sequacious adj | Ready to be led |
| sequel n | That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened |
| sequence n | The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time |
| sequent adj | Following in the order of time |
| sequester v | To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life |
| sequestrate v | To confiscate |
| sergeant n | A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal |
| sergeant-at-arms n | An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer |
| sergeant-major n | The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment |
| service n | Any work done for the benefit of another |
| serviceable adj | Durable |
| servitude n | Slavery |
| severance n | Separation |
| severely adv | Extremely |
| sextet n | A band of six singers or players |
| sextuple adj | Multiplied by six |
| sheer adj | Absolute |
| shiftless adj | Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability |
| shrewd adj | Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances |
| shriek n | A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror |
| shrinkage n | A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension |
| shrivel v | To draw or be drawn into wrinkles |
| shuffle n | A mixing or changing the order of things |
| sibilance n | A hissing sound |
| sibilant adj | Made with a hissing sound |
| sibilate v | To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s |
| sidelong adj | Inclining or tending to one side |
| sidereal adj | Pertaining to stars or constellations |
| siege n | A beleaguerment |
| significance n | Importance |
| significant adj | Important, especially as pointing something out |
| signification n | The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs |
| similar adj | Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else |
| simile n | A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself |
| similitude n | Similarity |
| simplify v | To make less complex or difficult |
| simulate v | Imitate |
| simultaneous adj | Occurring, done, or existing at the same time |
| sinecure n | Any position having emoluments with few or no duties |
| singe v | To burn slightly or superficially |
| sinister adj | Evil |
| sinuosity n | The quality of curving in and out |
| sinuous adj | Curving in and out |
| sinus n | An opening or cavity |
| siren n | A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla |
| sirocco n | hot winds from Africa |
| sisterhood n | A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow |
| skeptic n | One who doubts any statements |
| skepticism n | The entertainment of doubt concerning something |
| skiff n | Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars |
| skirmish n | Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies |
| sleight n | A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation |
| slight adj | Of a small importance or significance |
| slothful adj | Lazy |
| sluggard n | A person habitually lazy or idle |
| sociable adj | Inclined to seek company |
| socialism n | A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society |
| socialist adj | One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital |
| sociology n | The philosophical study of society |
| Sol n | The sun |
| solace n | Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity |
| solar adj | Pertaining to the sun |
| solder n | A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins |
| soldier n | A person engaged in military service |
| solecism n | Any violation of established rules or customs |
| solicitor n | One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney |
| solicitude n | Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear |
| soliloquy n | A monologue |
| solstice n | The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination |
| soluble adj | Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid |
| solvent adj | Having sufficient funds to pay all debts |
| somber adj | Gloomy |
| somniferous adj | Tending to produce sleep |
| somnolence n | Oppressive drowsiness |
| somnolent adj | Sleepy |
| sonata n | An instrumental composition |
| sonnet n | A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases |
| sonorous adj | Resonant |
| soothsayer n | One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight |
| sophism n | A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive |
| sophistical adj | Fallacious |
| sophisticate v | To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner |
| sophistry n | Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive |
| soprano n | A woman's or boy's voice of high range |
| sorcery n | Witchcraft |
| sordid adj | Of degraded character or nature |
| souvenir n | A token of remembrance |
| sparse adj | Thinly diffused |
| Spartan adj | Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe |
| spasmodic adj | Convulsive |
| specialize v | To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course |
| specialty n | An employment limited to one particular line of work |
| specie n | A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal |
| species n | A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus |
| specimen n | One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class |
| specious adj | Plausible |
| spectator n | One who beholds or looks on |
| specter n | Apparition |
| spectrum n | An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy |
| speculate v | To pursue inquiries and form conjectures |
| speculator n | One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit |
| sphericity n | The state or condition of being a sphere |
| spheroid n | A body having nearly the form of a sphere |
| spherometer n | An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces |
| spinous adj | Having spines |
| spinster n | A woman who has never been married |
| spontaneous adj | Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause |
| sprightly adj | Vivacious |
| spurious adj | Not genuine |
| squabble v | To quarrel |
| squalid adj | Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance |
| squatter n | One who settles on land without permission or right |
| stagnant adj | Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool |
| stagnate v | To become dull or inert |
| stagnation n | The condition of not flowing or not changing |
| stagy adj | Having a theatrical manner |
| staid adj | Of a steady and sober character |
| stallion n | An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding |
| stanchion n | A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall |
| stanza n | A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem |
| statecraft n | The art of conducting state affairs |
| static adj | Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium |
| statics n | The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order |
| stationary adj | Not moving |
| statistician n | One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts |
| statuesque adj | Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue |
| statuette n | A figurine |
| stature n | The natural height of an animal body |
| statute n | Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law |
| stealth n | A concealed manner of acting |
| stellar adj | Pertaining to the stars |
| steppe n | One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia |
| sterling adj | Genuine |
| stifle v | To smother |
| stigma n | A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing |
| stiletto n | A small dagger |
| stimulant n | Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action |
| stimulate v | To rouse to activity or to quickened action |
| stimulus n | Incentive |
| stingy adj | Cheap, unwilling to spend money |
| stipend n | A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance |
| Stoicism n | The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure |
| stolid adj | Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving |
| strait n | A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water |
| stratagem n | Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage |
| stratum n | A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material |
| streamlet n | Rivulet |
| stringency n | Strictness |
| stringent adj | Rigid |
| stripling n | A mere youth |
| studious adj | Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge |
| stultify v | To give an appearance of foolishness to |
| stupendous adj | Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree |
| stupor n | Profound lethargy |
| suasion n | The act of persuading |
| suave adj | Smooth and pleasant in manner |
| subacid adj | Somewhat sharp or biting |
| subaquatic adj | Being, formed, or operating under water |
| subconscious adj | Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception |
| subjacent adj | Situated directly underneath |
| subjection n | The act of bringing into a state of submission |
| subjugate v | To conquer |
| subliminal adj | Being beneath the threshold of consciousness |
| sublingual adj | Situated beneath the tongue |
| submarine adj | Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea |
| submerge v | To place or plunge under water |
| submergence n | The act of submerging |
| submersible adj | Capable of being put underwater |
| submersion n | The act of submerging |
| submission n | A yielding to the power or authority of another |
| submittal n | The act of submitting |
| subordinate adj | Belonging to an inferior order in a classification |
| subsequent adj | Following in time |
| subservience n | The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests |
| subservient adj | Servilely following another's behests |
| subside v | To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity |
| subsist v | To be maintained or sustained |
| subsistence n | Sustenance |
| substantive adj | Solid |
| subtend v | To extend opposite to |
| subterfuge n | Evasion |
| subterranean adj | Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth |
| subtle adj | Discriminating |
| subtrahend n | That which is to be subtracted |
| subversion n | An overthrow, as from the foundation |
| subvert v | To bring to ruin |
| succeed v | To accomplish what is attempted or intended |
| success n | A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted |
| successful adj | Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity |
| successor n | One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing |
| succinct adj | Concise |
| succulent adj | Juicy |
| succumb v | To cease to resist |
| sufferance n | Toleration |
| sufficiency n | An ample or adequate supply |
| suffrage n | The right or privilege of voting |
| suffuse v | To cover or fill the surface of |
| suggestible adj | That can be suggested |
| suggestive adj | Stimulating to thought or reflection |
| summary n | An abstract |
| sumptuous adj | Rich and costly |
| superabundance n | An excessive amount |
| superadd v | To add in addition to what has been added |
| superannuate v | To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service |
| superb adj | Sumptuously elegant |
| supercilious adj | Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt |
| superficial adj | Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious |
| superfluity n | That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed |
| superfluous adj | Being more than is needed |
| superheat v | To heat to excess |
| superintend v | To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement |
| superintendence n | Direction and management |
| superintendent n | One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement |
| superlative n | That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence |
| supernatural adj | Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power |
| supernumerary adj | Superfluous |
| supersede v | To displace |
| supine adj | Lying on the back |
| supplant v | To take the place of |
| supple adj | Easily bent |
| supplementary adj | Being an addition to |
| supplicant n | One who asks humbly and earnestly |
| supplicate v | To beg |
| supposition n | Conjecture |
| suppress v | To prevent from being disclosed or punished |
| suppressible adj | Capable of being suppressed |
| suppression n | A forcible putting or keeping down |
| supramundane adj | Supernatural |
| surcharge n | An additional amount charged |
| surety n | Security for payment or performance |
| surfeit v | To feed to fullness or to satiety |
| surmise v | To conjecture |
| surmount v | To overcome by force of will |
| surreptitious adj | Clandestine |
| surrogate n | One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another |
| surround v | To encircle |
| surveyor n | A land-measurer |
| susceptibility n | A specific capability of feeling or emotion |
| susceptible adj | Easily under a specified power or influence |
| suspense n | Uncertainty |
| suspension n | A hanging from a support |
| suspicious adj | Inclined to doubt or mistrust |
| sustenance n | Food |
| swarthy adj | Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion |
| Sybarite n | A luxurious person |
| sycophant n | A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence |
| syllabic adj | Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse |
| syllabication n | Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse |
| syllable n | That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse |
| syllabus n | Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise |
| sylph n | A slender, graceful young woman or girl |
| symmetrical adj | Well-balanced |
| symmetry n | Relative proportion and harmony |
| sympathetic adj | Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others |
| sympathize v | To share the sentiments or mental states of another |
| symphonic adj | Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds |
| symphonious adj | Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds |
| symphony n | A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds |
| synchronism n | Simultaneousness |
| syndicate n | An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise |
| syneresis n | The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever |
| synod n | An ecclesiastical council |
| synonym n | A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other |
| synopsis n | A syllabus or summary |
| systematic adj | Methodical |
| tableau n | An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life |
| tacit adj | Understood |
| taciturn adj | Disinclined to conversation |
| tack n | A small sharp-pointed nail |
| tact n | Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing |
| tactician n | One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness |
| tactics n | Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object |
| tangency n | The state of touching |
| tangent adj | Touching |
| tangible adj | Perceptible by touch |
| tannery n | A place where leather is tanned |
| tantalize v | To tease |
| tantamount adj | Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import |
| tapestry n | A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings |
| tarnish v | To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way |
| taut adj | Stretched tight |
| taxation n | A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution |
| taxidermy n | The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them |
| technic adj | Technical |
| technicality n | Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like |
| technique n | Manner of performance |
| technography n | The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development |
| technology n | The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures |
| teem v | To be full to overflowing |
| telepathy n | Thought-transference |
| telephony n | The art or process of communicating by telephone |
| telescope v | To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass |
| telltale adj | That gives warning or information |
| temerity n | Recklessness |
| temporal adj | Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life |
| temporary adj | Lasting for a short time only |
| temporize v | To pursue a policy of delay |
| tempt v | To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong |
| tempter n | An allurer or enticer to evil |
| tenacious adj | Unyielding |
| tenant n | An occupant |
| tendency n | Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end |
| tenet n | Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true |
| tenor n | A settled course or manner of progress |
| tense adj | Strained to stiffness |
| tentative adj | Done as an experiment |
| tenure n | The term during which a thing is held |
| tercentenary adj | Pertaining to a period of 300 years |
| termagant adj | Violently abusive and quarrelsome |
| terminal adj | Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit |
| terminate v | To put an end or stop to |
| termination n | The act of ending or concluding |
| terminus n | The final point or goal |
| terrify v | To fill with extreme fear |
| territorial adj | Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction |
| terse adj | Pithy |
| testament n | A will |
| testator n | The maker of a will |
| testimonial n | A formal token of regard, often presented in public |
| thearchy n | Government by a supreme deity |
| theism n | Belief in God |
| theocracy n | A government administered by ecclesiastics |
| theocrasy n | The mixed worship of polytheism |
| theologian n | A professor of divinity |
| theological adj | Based on or growing out of divine revelation |
| theology n | The branch of theological science that treats of God |
| theoretical adj | Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications |
| theorist n | One given to speculating |
| theorize v | To speculate |
| thereabout adv | Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately |
| therefor adv | For that or this |
| thermal adj | Of or pertaining to heat |
| thermoelectric adj | Denoting electricity produced by heat |
| thermoelectricity n | Electricity generated by differences of temperature, |
| thesis n | An essay or treatise on a particular subject |
| thoroughbred adj | Bred from the best or purest blood or stock |
| thoroughfare n | A public street or road |
| thrall n | One controlled by an appetite or a passion |
| tilth n | Cultivation |
| timbre n | The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch |
| timorous adj | Lacking courage |
| tincture n | A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine |
| tinge n | A faint trace of color |
| tipsy adj | Befuddled with drinks |
| tirade n | Harangue |
| tireless adj | Untiring |
| tiresome adj | Wearisome |
| Titanic adj | Of vast size or strength |
| toilsome adj | Laborious |
| tolerable adj | Moderately good |
| tolerance n | Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others |
| tolerant adj | Indulgent |
| tolerate v | To passively permit or put up with |
| toleration n | A spirit of charitable leniency |
| topography n | The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy |
| torpor n | Apathy |
| torrid adj | Excessively hot |
| tortious adj | Wrongful |
| tortuous adj | Abounding in irregular bends or turns |
| torturous adj | Marked by extreme suffering |
| tractable adj | Easily led or controlled |
| trait n | A distinguishing feature or quality |
| trajectory n | The path described by a projectile moving under given forces |
| trammel n | An impediment |
| tranquil adj | Calm |
| tranquilize v | To soothe |
| tranquility n | Calmness |
| transalpine adj | Situated on the other side of the Alps |
| transact v | To do business |
| transatlantic adj | Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic |
| transcend v | To surpass |
| transcendent adj | Surpassing |
| transcontinental adj | Extending or passing across a continent |
| transcribe v | To write over again (something already written) |
| transcript n | A copy made directly from an original |
| transfer v | To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another |
| transferable adj | Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another |
| transferee n | The person to whom a transfer is made |
| transference n | The act of conveying from one person or place to another |
| transferrer n | One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another |
| transfigure v | To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to |
| transfuse v | To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another |
| transfusible adj | Capable of being poured from one vessel to another |
| transfusion n | The act of pouring from one vessel to another |
| transgress v | To break a law |
| transience n | Something that is of short duration |
| transient n | One who or that which is only of temporary existence |
| transition n | Passage from one place, condition, or action to another |
| transitory adj | Existing for a short time only |
| translate v | To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect |
| translator n | An interpreter |
| translucence n | The property or state of allowing the passage of light |
| translucent adj | Allowing the passage of light |
| transmissible adj | That may e sent through or across |
| transmission n | The act of sending through or across |
| transmit v | To send trough or across |
| transmute v | To change in nature, substance, or form |
| transparent adj | Easy to see through or understand |
| transpire v | To come to pass |
| transplant v | To remove and plant in another place |
| transposition n | The act of reversing the order or changing the place of |
| transverse adj | Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction |
| travail n | Hard or agonizing labor |
| travesty n | A grotesque imitation |
| treacherous adj | Perfidious |
| treachery n | Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith |
| treasonable adj | Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance |
| treatise n | An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts |
| treble adj | Multiplied by three |
| trebly adv | Triply |
| tremendous adj | Awe-inspiring |
| tremor n | An involuntary trembling or shivering |
| tremulous adj | Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness |
| trenchant adj | Cutting deeply and quickly |
| trepidation n | Nervous uncertainty of feeling |
| trestle n | An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge |
| triad n | A group of three persons of things |
| tribune n | Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper |
| trickery n | Artifice |
| tricolor adj | Of three colors |
| tricycle n | A three-wheeled vehicle |
| trident n | The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune |
| triennial adj | Taking place every third year |
| trimness n | Neatness |
| trinity n | A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance |
| trio n | Three things grouped or associated together |
| triple adj | Threefold |
| triplicate adj | Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts |
| triplicity n | The state of being triple or threefold |
| tripod n | A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument |
| trisect v | To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts |
| trite adj | Made commonplace by frequent repetition |
| triumvir n | One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority |
| trivial adj | Of little importance or value |
| troublesome adj | Burdensome |
| truculence n | Ferocity |
| truculent adj | Having the character or the spirit of a savage |
| truism n | A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof |
| truthful adj | Veracious |
| turgid adj | Swollen |
| turpitude n | Depravity |
| tutelage n | The act of training or the state of being under instruction |
| tutelar adj | Protective |
| tutorship n | The office of a guardian |
| twinge n | A darting momentary local pain |
| typical adj | Characteristic |
| typify v | To serve as a characteristic example of |
| typographical adj | Pertaining to typography or printing |
| typography n | The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter |
| tyrannical adj | Despotic |
| tyranny n | Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated |
| tyro n | One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession |
| ubiquitous adj | Being present everywhere |
| ulterior adj | Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of |
| ultimate adj | Beyond which there is nothing else |
| ultimatum n | A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions |
| ultramundane adj | Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life |
| ultramontane adj | Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side) |
| umbrage n | A sense of injury |
| unaccountable adj | Inexplicable |
| unaffected adj | Sincere |
| unanimous adj | Sharing the same views or sentiments |
| unanimity n | The state or quality of being of one mind |
| unavoidable adj | Inevitable |
| unbearable adj | Unendurable |
| unbecoming adj | Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings |
| unbelief n | Doubt |
| unbiased adj | Impartial, as judgment |
| unbridled adj | Being without restraint |
| uncommon adj | Rare |
| unconscionable adj | Ridiculously or unjustly excessive |
| unconscious adj | Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc |
| unction n | The art of anointing as with oil |
| unctuous adj | Oily |
| undeceive v | To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs |
| undercharge v | To make an inadequate charge for |
| underexposed adj | Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography |
| undergarment n | A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments |
| underman v | To equip with less than the full complement of men |
| undersell v | To sell at a lower price than |
| undersized adj | Of less than the customary size |
| underhanded adj | Clandestinely carried on |
| underlie v | To be the ground or support of |
| underling n | A subordinate |
| undermine v | To subvert in an underhand way |
| underrate v | To undervalue |
| understate v | To fail to put strongly enough, as a case |
| undervalue v | To underestimate |
| underworld n | Hades |
| underwrite v | To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance |
| undue adj | More than sufficient |
| undulate v | To move like a wave or in waves |
| undulous adj | Resembling waves |
| unfavorable adj | Adverse |
| ungainly adj | Clumsy |
| unguent n | Any ointment or lubricant for local application |
| unicellular adj | Consisting of a single cell |
| univalence n | Monovalency |
| unify v | To cause to be one |
| unique adj | Being the only one of its kind |
| unison n | A condition of perfect agreement and accord |
| unisonant adj | Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord |
| Unitarian adj | Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity |
| unlawful adj | Illegal |
| unlimited adj | Unconstrained |
| unnatural adj | Artificial |
| unnecessary adj | Not essential under the circumstances |
| unsettle v | To put into confusion |
| unsophisticated adj | Showing inexperience |
| unspeakable adj | Abominable |
| untimely adj | Unseasonable |
| untoward adj | Causing annoyance or hindrance |
| unutterable adj | Inexpressible |
| unwieldy adj | Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape |
| unwise adj | Foolish |
| unyoke v | To separate |
| up-keep n | Maintenance |
| upbraid v | To reproach as deserving blame |
| upcast n | A throwing upward |
| upheaval n | Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition |
| upheave v | To raise or lift with effort |
| uppermost adj | First in order of precedence |
| uproarious adj | Noisy |
| uproot v | To eradicate |
| upturn v | To throw into confusion |
| urban adj | Of, or pertaining to, or like a city |
| urbanity n | Refined or elegant courtesy |
| urchin n | A roguish, mischievous boy |
| urgency n | The pressure of necessity |
| usage n | Treatment |
| usurious adj | Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned |
| usurp v | To take possession of by force |
| usury n | The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law |
| utilitarianism n | The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency |
| utility n | Fitness for some desirable practical purpose |
| utmost n | The greatest possible extent |
| vacate v | To leave |
| vaccinate v | To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox |
| vacillate v | To waver |
| vacuous adj | Empty |
| vacuum n | A space entirely devoid of matter |
| vagabond n | A wanderer |
| vagrant n | An idle wanderer |
| vainglory n | Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity |
| vale n | Level or low land between hills |
| valediction n | A bidding farewell |
| valedictorian n | Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution |
| valedictory n | A parting address |
| valid adj | Founded on truth |
| valorous adj | Courageous |
| vapid adj | Having lost sparkling quality and flavor |
| vaporizer n | An atomizer |
| variable adj | Having a tendency to change |
| variance n | Change |
| variant n | A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance |
| variation n | Modification |
| variegate v | To mark with different shades or colors |
| vassal n | A slave or bondman |
| vaudeville n | A variety show |
| vegetal adj | Of or pertaining to plants |
| vegetarian n | One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable |
| vegetate v | To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties |
| vegetation n | Plant-life in the aggregate |
| vegetative adj | Pertaining to the process of plant-life |
| vehement adj | Very eager or urgent |
| velocity n | Rapid motion |
| velvety adj | Marked by lightness and softness |
| venal adj | Mercenary, corrupt |
| vendible adj | Marketable |
| vendition n | The act of selling |
| vendor n | A seller |
| veneer n | Outside show or elegance |
| venerable adj | Meriting or commanding high esteem |
| venerate v | To cherish reverentially |
| venereal adj | Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse |
| venial adj | That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin |
| venison n | The flesh of deer |
| venom n | The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete |
| venous adj | Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins |
| veracious adj | Habitually disposed to speak the truth |
| veracity n | Truthfulness |
| verbatim adv | Word for word |
| verbiage n | Use of many words without necessity |
| verbose adj | Wordy |
| verdant adj | Green with vegetation |
| verification n | The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate |
| verify v | To prove to be true, exact, or accurate |
| verily adv | In truth |
| verity n | Truth |
| vermin n | A noxious or troublesome animal |
| vernacular n | The language of one's country |
| vernal adj | Belonging to or suggestive of the spring |
| versatile adj | Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects |
| version n | A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion |
| vertex n | Apex |
| vertical adj | Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon |
| vertigo n | Dizziness |
| vestige n | A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone |
| vestment n | Clothing or covering |
| veto n | The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment |
| vicarious adj | Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another |
| viceroy n | A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province |
| vicissitude n | A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune |
| vie v | To contend |
| vigilance n | Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger |
| vigilant adj | Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety |
| vignette n | A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually |
| vincible adj | Conquerable |
| vindicate v | To prove true, right, or real |
| vindicatory adj | Punitive |
| vindicative adj | Revengeful |
| vinery n | A greenhouse for grapes |
| viol n | A stringed instrument of the violin class |
| viola n | A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin |
| violator n | One who transgresses |
| violation n | Infringement |
| violoncello n | A stringed instrument held between the player's knees |
| virago n | A bold, impudent, turbulent woman |
| virile adj | Masculine |
| virtu n | Rare, curious, or beautiful quality |
| virtual adj | Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance |
| virtuoso n | A master in the technique of some particular fine art |
| virulence n | Extreme poisonousness |
| virulent adj | Exceedingly noxious or deleterious |
| visage n | The face, countenance, or look of a person |
| viscount n | In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage |
| vista n | A view or prospect |
| visual adj | Perceptible by sight |
| visualize v | To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation |
| vitality n | The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance |
| vitalize v | To endow with life or energy |
| vitiate v | To contaminate |
| vituperable adj | Deserving of censure |
| vivacity n | Liveliness |
| vivify v | To endue with life |
| vivisection n | The dissection of a living animal |
| vocable n | a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound |
| vocative adj | Of or pertaining to the act of calling |
| vociferance n | The quality of making a clamor |
| vociferate v | To utter with a loud and vehement voice |
| vociferous adj | Making a loud outcry |
| vogue n | The prevalent way or fashion |
| volant adj | Flying or able to fly |
| volatile adj | Changeable |
| volition n | An act or exercise of will |
| volitive adj | Exercising the will |
| voluble adj | Having great fluency in speaking |
| voluptuous adj | having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality |
| voracious adj | Eating with greediness or in very large quantities |
| vortex n | A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center |
| votary adj | Consecrated by a vow or promise |
| votive adj | Dedicated by a vow |
| vulgarity n | Lack of refinement in conduct or speech |
| vulnerable adj | Capable of receiving injuries |
| waif n | A homeless, neglected wanderer |
| waistcoat n | A vest |
| waive v | To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim |
| wampum n | Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency |
| wane v | To diminish in size and brilliancy |
| wantonness n | Recklessness |
| warlike adj | Belligerent |
| wavelet n | A ripple |
| weak-kneed adj | Without resolute purpose or energy |
| weal n | Well-being |
| wean v | To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment |
| wearisome adj | Fatiguing |
| wee adj | Very small |
| well-bred adj | Of good ancestry |
| well-doer n | A performer of moral and social duties |
| well-to-do adj | In prosperous circumstances |
| whereabouts n | The place in or near 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 |
| witless adj | Foolish, indiscreet, or silly |
| witling n | A person who has little understanding |
| witticism n | A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment |
| wittingly adv | With knowledge and by design |
| wizen v | To become or cause to become withered or dry |
| wizen-faced adj | Having a shriveled face |
| working-man n | One who earns his bread by manual labor |
| workmanlike adj | Like or befitting a skilled workman |
| workmanship n | The art or skill of a workman |
| wrangle v | To maintain by noisy argument or dispute |
| wreak v | To inflict, as a revenge or punishment |
| wrest v | To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing |
| wretchedness n | Extreme misery or unhappiness |
| writhe v | To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress |
| writing n | The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs |
| wry adj | Deviating from that which is proper or right |
| yearling n | A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old |
| zealot n | One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner |
| zeitgeist n | The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch |
| zenith n | The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness |
| zephyr n | Any soft, gentle wind |
| zodiac n | An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets |