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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 |
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