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- herpetologist
- one who studies reptiles
- hoary
- white with age
- holster
- pistol case
- horatory
- encouraging; exhortive
- hue and cry
- outcry
- humdrum
- dull; monotonous
- hummock
- a small hill
- humus
- substance formed by decaying vegetable matter
- husbandry
- frugality; thrift; agriculture
- ichthyology
- the study of fish
- igneous
- produced by fire; volcanic
- hibernal
- wintry
- immure
- imprison; shut up in confinement
- imperious
- domineering; haughty
- impertinent
- insolent; rude
- impetuous
- violent; hasty; rash
- implacable
- incapable of being pacified
- imponderable
- weightless
- imposture
- assuming a false identity; masquerade
- improvident
- thriftless
- impugn
- dispute or contradict; challenge; gainsay
- impunity
- freedom from punishment or harm
- incendiary (n)
- arsonist
- immolate
- to offer as a sacrifice
- incipient
- beginning; in an early stage
- inclement
- stormy; unkind
- increment
- increase
- incrustation
- hard coating or crust
- incubus
- burden; mental care; nightmare
- indemnify
- make secure against loss; compensate for loss
- indite
- write; compose
- indolent
- lazy
- ineffable
- unutterable; cannot be expressed
- inductive
- pertaining to induction; proceeding from the specific to the general
- ineluctable
- irresistible; not to be escaped
- infidel
- unbeliever
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- ingratiate
- become popular with
- insensate
- without feeling
- insolvent
- bankrupt; lacking money to pay
- insuperable
- insurmountable; unbeatable
- internecine
- mutually destructive
- interregnum
- period between two reigns
- inveterate
- deep-rooted; habitual
- invidious
- designed to create ill will or envy
- iridescent
- exhibiting rainbowlike colors
- isthmus
- narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
- jaundiced
- prejudiced (envious, hostile, or resentful); yellowed
- jaunt
- trip; short journey
- jaunty
- lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree
- jibe
- agree; be in harmony with
- jingoist
- extremely agressive and militant patriot; warlike chauvinist
- jocose
- given to joking
- jocund
- merry
- junket
- trip, especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public offense
- junta
- group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal
- ken
- range of knowledge
- kernel
- central or vital part; whole seed
- killjoy
- grouch; spoilsport
- kismet
- fate
- knell
- tlling of a bell, especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.
- knit
- contract into wrinkles; grow together
- knoll
- little, round hill
- lancet
- small surgical tool for making incisions
- larder
- pantry; place where food is kept
- lateral
- coming from the sides
- latitude
- freedom from narrow limitations
- leaven
- cause to grow lighter; enliven
- leery
- suspicious; cautious
- legacy
- a gift made by a will
- legerdemain
- sleight of hand
- levy
- impose (a fine); collect (a payment)
- libretto
- text of an opera
- ligneous
- like wood
- limpid
- clear
- lineaments
- features, especially of the face
- liquidate
- settle accounts; clear up
- litany
- supplicatory prayer
- litigation
- lawsuit
- lilotes
- understatement for emphasis
- lode
- metal-bearing vein
- loll
- lounge about
- lope
- gallop slowly
- lout
- clumsy person
- lucre
- money
- lumen
- a unity of light energy (one candle's worth)
- lumiary
- celebrity; dignitary
- macerate
- soften by soaking in liquid; waste away
- maculated
- spotted; stained
- magnamity
- generosity
- magniloquent
- boastful; pompus
- malfeasance
- wrongdoing
- maritime
- bordering on the sea; nautical
- mayhem
- injury to body
- mealymouthed
- indirect in speech; hypocritical; evasive
- metallurgical
- pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores
- miasma
- swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence
- militate
- work against
- mincing
- affectedly dainty
- mysogamy
- hatred of marriage (mysogynist: hater of women)
- missive
- letter
- mogul
- powerful person
- mollycoddle
- pamer; indulge excessively
- mordant
- biting; sarcastic; stinging
- moribund
- dying
- motley
- multicolored; mixed
- mountebank
- charlatan; boastful pretender
- mulct
- defraud a person of something
- natty
- neatly or smartly dressed
- neologism
- newly coined phrase
- nib
- beak; pen point
- nicety
- precision; minute distinction
- niggle
- spend too much time on minor points; carp
- nubile
- marriageable
- nugatory
- futile; worthless
- numismatist
- person who collects coins
- obstetrician
- physician specializing in delivery of babies
- opalescent
- iridescent; lustrous
- ornithologist
- scientific student of birds
- opiate
- medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain
- ovoid
- egg-shaped
- pachyderm
- thick-skinned animal
- palimpsest
- parchment used for the second time after original writing has been erased
- pall
- grow tiresome
- pallet
- small, poor bed
- pan
- criticize harshly
- panache
- flair; flamboyance
- pandemic
- widespread; affecting the majority of people.
- pandemonium
- wild tumult
- panoramic
- denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view
- paroxysm
- fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage
- parquet
- floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic-like pattern
- pastiche
- immitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing
- patina
- green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
- parity
- equality; close resemblance
- pendant
- hanging down from something
- penumbra
- partial shadow (in an eclipse)
- perennial
- something long-lasting
- perigree
- point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth.
- peroration
- conclusion of an oration.
- pertinacious
- stubborn; persistant
- pharisaical
- pertaining to the Pharisees, wo paid scrupulous attention to tradition; self-rightious; hypocritical
- perspicuity
- clearness of expression; freedom from ambiguity
- philatelist
- stamp-collector
- physiognomy
- face
- piebald
- of different colors; mottled; spotted
- pied
- variegated; multicolored
- pillory
- punish by placing in a wooden frame; subject to criticism and ridicule
- pinion
- restrain
- pique
-
irritation; resentment
provoke or arouse - plaintive
- mournful
- plait
- braid; intertwine
- plaudit
- enthusiastic approval; round of applause
- plenary
- complete, full
- pluck
- courage
- plumb
- examine critically in order to understand; measure depth (by sounding)
- plumb (adj)
- vertical
- plutocracy
- society ruled by the wealthy
- pontifical
- pertaining to a bishop or pope; pompous or pretentious
- prate
- speak foolishly; boast idly
- precipitate (adj)
- rash; premature; hasty; sudden
- precis
- concise summing up of the main points
- prelate
- church dignitary
- prevaricate
- lie
- primogeniture
- seniority by birth
- privation
- hardship; want
- prodigious
- marvelous; enormous
- profligate
- dissipated; wasteful; wildly imoral
- prolixity
- tedious wordiness; verbosity
- promontory
- headland
- prophylactic
- used to prevent disease
- propitious
- favorable; fortunate; advantageous
- proscenium
- part of stage in front of curtain
- prosody
- the art of versification
- provenance
- origin or source of something
- provender
- dry food; fodder
- provident
- displaying foresight; thrifty; preparing for emergencies
- proviso
- stipulation
- proxy
- authorized agent
- pugilist
- boxer
- pulchritude
- beauty; comeliness
- pulmonary
- pertaining to the lungs
- punctilious
- stressing niceties of conduct or form; minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points.
- punitive
- punishing
- purchase
- firm grasp or footing
- pylon
- marking post to guide aviators; steel tower supporting cables or telephone lines
- quisling
- traitor who aids invaders
- quorum
- number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
- rakish
- stylish; sporty
- ramshackle
- rickety; falling apart
- rarified
- made less dense (a gas)
- ratiocination
- reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises
- ravel
- fall apart into tangles; unravel or untwist; entangle
- reactionary
- opposing progress; politically ultraconservative
- rebus
- a puzzle in which pictures stand for words
- recrimination
- countercharges
- regatta
- boat or yacht race
- regeneration
- spiritual rebirth
- remonstrance
- protest; objection
- remunerative
- compensating; rewarding
- repartee
- clever reply
- reprobation
- severe disapproval (reprobate: person hardened in sin)
- reprove
- censure; rebuke
- restive
- restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control
- retrench
- cut down; economize
- ribald
- wanton; profane
- riddle
- pierce with holes; permeate or spread throughout
- rider
- amendment or clause added to a legistlative bill
- rife
- abundant; current
- rile
- vex; irritate; muddy
- roil
- to mae liquids murky by stirring up sediment; to disturb
- roseate
- rosy; optimistic
- rostrum
- platform for speech-making; pulpit
- rue
- regret; lament; morn
- runic
- mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet
- rusticate
- banish to the country; dwell in the country
- sanguinary
- bloody
- sanguine
- cheerful; hopeful
- saturnine
- gloomy
- scad
- a great quantity
- scintilla
- shred; least bit
- scott
- stamp out; thwart; hinder
- scurrilous
- obscene; indecent
- scurvy
- despicable; contemptible
- scuttle
- sink (a ship)
- seamy
- sordid; unwholesome
- secrete
- hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
- sedulous
- diligent
- septic
- putrid; producing putrefaction
- shyster
- lawyer using questionable methods
- sibylline
- prophetic; oracular
- simper
- smirk; smile affectedly
- sinewy
- tough, strong, firm
- skinflint
- stingy person; miser
- skulduggery
- dishonest behavior
- slag
- residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter
- sleeper
- something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable
- sleight
- dexterity (also deceitful skill)
- slipshod
- untidy or slovenly; shabby
- sluice
- artificial chanel for directing or controlling the flow of water
- smelt
- melt or blend ores, changing their chemical composition
- solder
- repair or make whole by using a metal alloy
- solecism
- construction that is flagrantly incorrect gramatically
- solvent
- able to pay all debts
- spangle
- small metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation
- spate
- sudden flood
- sphinx-like
- enigmatic, mysterious
- spoonerism
- accidental transposition of sounds in successive words.