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- apiary
- noun
places where bees are kept
- aviary
- noun
place where birds are kept
- badger
- verb
tease; annoy; nag
- halcyon
- adj
calm; peaceful
- lionize
- verb
treat as highly important
- menagerie
- noun
place where animals are kept and trained; collection of wild animals
- molt
- verb
shed feathers, skin, hair
- ornithology
- noun
study of birds
- parasite
- noun
animal, plant, or person living off others; freeloader
- parasitic
- adjective
living at the expense of another; sponging
- parrot
- verb
repeat mechanically
- scavenger
- noun
animal or person removing refuse, decay
- antidote
- noun
remedy for a poison or evil
- astringent
- adj
1. severe; stern
2. causing contraction
- benign
- adj
1. not dangerous
2. gentle; kindly
- convalesce
- verb
recover health after illness; recuperate
- convalescent
- noun
person recovering from sickness
- fester
- verb
form pus; rankle; rot; putreyfy
- hypochondriac
- noun
person who is morbidly anxious about perosnal health, or suffering from imagined illness
- immunity
- noun
1. resistance to a disease
2. freedom from an obligation
- immunize
- verb
make immune, resistant from a disease
- malignant
- adj
1. threatening to cause death
2. very evil
- morbid
- adj
1. gruesome
2. having to do with disease
- pestilential
- adj.
1. morally harmful
2. pertaining to a pestillence (plague)
- regimen
- noun
set of rules, especially to improve health
- sebaceous
- adj
greasy; secreting fatty matter
- unguent
- noun
salve; ointment
- viral
- adj
caused by a virus
- virulent
- adj
1. extreemly poisonous
2. very bitter
- virus
- noun
1. disease causing substance too small to be seen through a microscope
2. corruptive force
- acclaim
- verb
welcome with approval; applad loudly
- encomium
- noun
speech or writing of high praise; tribute; eulogy; panegyric
- eulogize
- verb
praise; extol; laud; glorify
- kudos
- noun
fame or praise due to achievement
- laudable
- adj
praiseworthy; commendable
- laudatory
- adj
expressing praise; elogistic
- plaudit
- noun
applause, enthusiastic praise, acclaim
- calumnious
- adjective
falsely and maliciously accusing; defamatory; sladerous
- derogatory
- adj
expressing low esteem; belittling
- imputation
- noun
charge, especially an unjust or false charge; insinuation; accusation
- libel
- noun
false and defamatory printed statement
- libelous
- adj
injurious to reputation; defamatory; calumnious
- malign
- verb
speak evil of; vilify; traduce
- slander
- noun
false and defamatory spoken statement
- stigma
- noun
mark of disgrace
- stigmatize
- verb
brand with a mark of disgrace
- banter
- noun
playful teasing; joking; raillery
- caricature
- noun
drawingm imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects
- droll
- adj
odd and laughter-provoking
- facetious
- adj
1. in the habit of joking
2. said in jest without serious intent
- flippant
- adj
treating serious matters lightly
- harlequin
- noun
buffoon; clown
- hilarious
- adj
boisterously merry; very funny
- hilarity
- noun
noisy gaiety; mirth; jollity; glee
- ironic
- adj
containing or expressing irony
- irony
- noun
1. species of humor whos intended meaning is the opposite of the words used
2. state of affairs contrary to what would normally be expected
- jacose
- adj
given to jesting; playfully humorous; jocular
- levity
- noun
lack of proper seriousness; trifling gaiety; frivolity
- ludicrous
- adj
exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd
- parody
- noun
humorous imitation
- sarcasm
- noun
sneering and often ironic language intended to hurt a person's feelings
- sarcastic
- adj
given to or expressing sarcasm
- sardonic
- adj
bitterly sarcastic; mocking; sneering
- satire
- noun
language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule
- satiric
- adj
given to or expressing satire
- travesty
- noun
imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery
- alacrity
- noun
cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness
- aversion
- noun
strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy
- involuntary
- adj
not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentional; spontaneous
- loath
- adj
unwilling; adverse; disinclined; reluctant
- loathe
- verb
have intense aversion to; detest
- accllivity
- noun
upward slope
- acme
- noun
highest point; pinnacle; summit
- apogee
- noun
1. farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body
2. highest point; culmination
- climatic
- adj
arranged in order of increasing force and interest
- consummate
- adj
perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree
- eminent
- adj
standing out; notable; famous
- etheral
- adj
of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate intangible
- exalt
- verb
1. lift up with joy, pride, etc.
2. raise in rank, dignity
- precipice
- very steep or overhanging place; cliff
- precipitous
- adj
1. steep as a precipice
2. hasty, rash
- preeminent
- adj
standing out or above others; superior
- sublimate
- 1. redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels
2. purify; refine
- sublime
- adj
elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting
- vertex
- noun
farthest point opposite the base as in a triangle or pyramid
- zenith
- noun
1. highest point; culmination peak
2. point in the heavens directly overhead
- abject
- adj
deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched
- abysmal
- adj.
deep, profound; immeasurably great
- abyss
- noun
botomless depth; immesurably great space
- anticlimax
- noun
abrupt decline from the dignified or important to teh trivial or ludicrous comedown; bathos
- chasm
- noun
deep breach; wide gap or rift
- declivity
- noun
downward slope
- dregs
- noun
most worthless part; sediment of the bottom of the liquid
- earthy
- adj
down-to-earth; realistic; coarse; low
- humble
- adj
1. of low position or condition
2. not proud; unpretentious; modest
- humiliate
- verb
lower the pride, position, or dignity of, abase, degrade, mortify
- humility
- noun
freedom from pride; humblenes; lowliness; modesty
- menial
- adj
low; mean; subservient; servile
- plumb
- verb
get to the bottom of; ascertain the depth of
- profound
- adj
very deep; deeply felt; intellectually deep
- ravine
- noun
deep narrow gorge worn by running water
- consanguinuity
- noun
blood relationship
- filial
- adj
of or like a son or daughter
- fraternal
- adj
of or like a brother
- genealogy
- noun
a person's of family's descent; lineage; pedigree
- gentility
- noun
1. good manners
2.gentry; upper class
- kith and kin
- noun
friends and relatives; kindred
- maternal
- adj
of or like a mother
- nepotism
- noun
favoritism to relatives by those in power
- paternal
- adj
of or like a father
- progenitor
- noun
forefather
- progeny
- noun
offspring; children; descendants
- sibling
- noun
one of two or more children of a family
- aroma
- noun
pleasant odor; bouquet
- aromatic
- adj
sweet-schented fragrant
- fragrant
- adj
1. stale smelling; musty; moldy
2. old-fashioned
- incense
- noun
substance yielding a pleasent odor when burned
- malodorous
- adj
ill smelling stinking unpleasently odorous
- noisome
- adj
1. offensive to smell; disgusting
2. harmful; noxious
- olfactory
- adj
pertaining to the sense of smell
- pungent
- adj
sharp in smell or taste; biting stimulating
- putrid
- adj
1. stinking from decay
2.extremely bad; corrupt
- rancid
- adj
unpleasent to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
- rank
- adj
1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensively gross or course
2. extreme
- reek
- verb
emit a strong disagreeable smell; be permeated with
- scent
- verb
get a suspicion of
- unsavory
- adj
1. unpleasent to taste or smell
2.morally offensive
- unsavory
- adj
1. unpleasent to taste or smell
2.morally offensive
