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- 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
- regalia n
- Pl The emblems of royalty
- 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