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- abjure
- renounce upon oath
- ablution
- washing
- abnegation
- renunciation; self-sacrifice
- abortive
- unsuccessful; fruitless
- accolade
- award of merit
- accoutre
- equip
- accost
- approach and speak first to a person
- acme
- peak; pinnacle; highest point
- actuarial
- calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics
- acutate
- motivate
- adjuration
- solemn urging
- adjutant
- staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
- abase
- lower, degrade, humiliate
- advert
- refer to
- aegis
- shield, defense
- affidavit
- written statement made under oath
- agape
- open-mouthed
- agog
- highly excited; intensely curious
- alimony
- payment made to an ex-spouse after divorce
- alluvial
- pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
- amok/amuck
- in a a state of rage
- analgesic
- causing insensitivity to pain
- animadversion
- critical remark
- animus
- hostile feeling or intent
- anneal
- reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling
- annuity
- yearly allowance
- anodyne
- a drug that relieves pain, opiate
- ape
- immitate, mimic
- aphasia
- loss of speech due to injury or illness
- apiary
- a place where bees are kept
- apogee
- highest point
- apposite
- appropriate, fitting
- apropos
- with reference to; regarding
- arcade
- a covered passageway, usually lined with shops
- aria
- operatic solo
- array
-
marshall; draw up in order;
clothe; adorn - arrears
- being in debt
- arroyo
- gully
- ascendancy
- controlling influence
- ashen
- ash-colored, deadly pale
- askance
- with a sideways or indirect look
- assay
- analyze, evaluate
- astigmatism
- eye defect that prevents proper focus
- astronomical
- enormously large or extensive
- audit
- examination of accounts
- aureole
- sun's corona; halo
- auroral
- pertaining to the aurora borealis
- awl
- pointed tool used for piercing
- awry
- distorted; crooked
- bacchanalian
- drunken
- badinage
- teasing conversation
- bait
- harass; tease
- balk
- stop short, as if faced with an obstacle; foil
- ballast
- heavy substance used to add stability or weight
- balmy
- mild, fragrant
- bandy
- discuss lightly or glibly, exchange words heatedly
- bantering
- good-naturedly ridiculing
- barb
- sharp projection from fishook or other object; openly cutting remark
- barefaced
- shameless; bold; unconcealed
- barrister
- counselor-at-law
- beatific
- giving bliss; blissful
- behemouth
- huge creature; something of monstrous size or power
- beholden
- obligated; indebted
- beleaguer
- besiege or attack; harass
- betoken
- signify; indicate
- bicameral
- two-chambered, as a legislative body
- bilious
- suffering from indigestion; irritable
- bivouac
- temporary encampment
- blandishment
- flattery
- blowhard
- talkative boaster
- bluff
- rough but good natured; pretense, deception
- bouillion
- clear beef soup
- bowdlerize
- expurgate
- braggadocio
- boasting
- brindled
- tawny or grayish with streaks or spots
- buffet
- slap; batter; knock about
- bugaboo
- bugbear; object of baseless terror
- bulwark
- earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends
- calorific
- heat-producing
- canker
- an ulcerous sore; any evil
- cant
- insincere expressions of piety; jargon of thieves
- cantankerous
- ill-humored; irritable
- cantata
- story set to music, to be sung by the chorus
- canto
- division of a long poem
- capillary
- having a very fine bore
- carafe
- glass water bottle; decanter
- cataract
- great waterfall; eye abnormality
- caucus
- private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy
- caulk
- to make watertight (by plugging seams)
- cavalier
- casual, offhand; arrogant
- cavil
- make frivolous objections
- celerity
- speed; rapidity
- centrifuge
- machine that separates substances by whirling them
- chaffing
- bantering, joking
- chase
- to ornament a metal surface by indenting
- chassis
- framework and working parts of an automobile
- chisel
- swindle or cheat; cut with a chisel
- ciliated
- having minute hairs
- cipher
- nonentity, worthless person or thing; secret code
- clangor
- loud, resounding noise
- clapper
- striker(tongue) of a bell
- clarion
- shrill, trumpetlike sound
- clavicle
- collarbone
- clime
- region, climate
- codicil
- supplement to the body of a will
- cog
- tooth projecting from a wheel
- collate
- examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order
- colateral
- security given for loan
- colloquy
- informal discussion
- comestible
- something fit to be eaten
- comeuppance
- rebuke; deserts
- comity
- courtesy, civility
- compound
- combine; constitute; pay interest; increase
- concatenate
- link as in a chain
- concerted
- mutually agreed on; done together
- conclave
- private meeting
- concort
- prepare by combining; make up in concert
- condign
- adequate; deservedly severe
- congenital
- existing at birth
- collation
- a light meal
- connubial
- pertaining to marriage of the matrimonial state
- consanguinity
- kinship
- consign
- deliver officially; entrust, set apart
- constituent
- supporter
- consummate
- (adj) complete
- contravene
- contradict, oppose
- convivial
- festive, gay; characterized by joviality
- cordial
- gracious; heartfelt
- cornice
- projecting molding on building (usually above columns)
- corrugated
- wrinkled; ridged
- contraband (n)
- illegal trade; smuggling
- courier
- messenger
- cow
- terrorize; intimidate
- cull
- pick out; reject
- culvert
- artificial channel for water
- cupidity
- greed
- cursive
- flowing, running
- cynosure
- object of general attention
- dapper
- neat and trim
- daub
- smear (as with paint)
- debonair
- friendly; aiming to please
- de'collete'
- having a low-cut neckline
- derelict
- abandoned; negligent
- default
- failure to act
- desperado
- reckless outlaw
- devolve
- deputize; pass to others
- dialectical
- relating to the art of debate; mutual or reciprocal
- dictum
- authoritative and weighty statement; saying, maxim
- diffuse
- wordy, rambling; spread out
- dinghy
- a small boat
- disaffected
- disloyal
- disconsolate
- sad
- discursive
- disgressing; rambling
- disembark
- go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
- disgorge
- surrender something; eject; vomit
- disport
- amuse
- disquisition
- formal systematic inquiry; an explanation of the results of a formal inquiry
- distend
- expand, swell
- distrait
- absentminded
- divest
- strip, deprive
- docket
- program as for a trial; book where such entries are made
- doff
- take off (as in a hat)
- dogged
- determined, stubborn
- dormer
- window projecting from roof
- dowdy
- slovenly, untidy
- ductile
- malleable; flexible; pliable
- dissipate
- squander, waste; scatter
- dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion
- earthy
- unrefined, coarse
- ebb
- recede; lessen
- ejaculation
- exclamation
- elysian
- relating to paradise; blissful
- embargo
- ban on commerce or other activity
- embryonic
- underdeveloped; rudimentary
- emetic
- substance causing vomiting
- emollient
- soothing or softening remedy
- emolument
- salary; compensation
- encomiastic
- praising; eulogizing
- errant
- wandering
- eschew
- avoid
- ethos
- underlying character of a culture, group, etc
- endue
- provide with some quality; endow
- engage
- attract; hire; pledge oneself; confront
- engaging
- charming, attractive
- entomology
- the study of insects
- epaulet
- ornament worn on the shoulder
- euphemism
- mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
- exchequer
- treasury
- execrable
- very bad
- exiguous
- small, minute
- expansive
- outgoing and sociable; broad and extensive; able to increase in size
- expedite
- hasten
- expostulate
- to reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion or remonstrance
- extradition
- surrender of a prisoner by one state to another
- factitious
- artificial; sham
- factotum
- handyman; person who does all kinds of work
- ectomorphic
- characterized by a light body build with slight muscular development
- fancier
- breeder or dealer of animals
- febrile
- feverish
- fell
- cruel, deadly; to cut down
- ferment
- agitation, commotion
- fiat
- command
- filch
- steal
- fillibuster
- block legislation by making long speeches
- firebrand
- hothead, troublemaker
- flaccid
- flabby
- fleece
- rob; plunder; wool coat of a sheep
- flail
- thresh grain by hand; strike or slap; toss about
- flippant
- lacking proper seriousness
- floe
- mass of floating ice
- flotsam
- drifting wreckage
- fluted
- having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar)
- foil (n)
- contrast
- foist
- insert improperly; palm off
- forensic
- suitable to debate or courts of law
- fractious
- unruly
- fraught
- filled
- frieze
- an ornamental band on a wall
- fritter
- waste
- frond
- fern leaf; palm or banana leaf
- funeral
- sad, solemn
- furor
- frenzy, great excitement
- fusillade
- simultaneous firing or outburst
- florid
- ruddy; reddish; flowery
- gall
- annoy; chafe
- gamely
- in a spirited manner, with courage
- gamut
- entire range
- gastronomy
- the science of preparing and serving good food
- gaunt
- lean and angular; barren
- gentility
- those of gentle birth; refinement
- gerontocracy
- government ruled by old people
- gerrymander
- change voting district lines in order to favor a political party
- gestate
- evolve, as in prenatal growth
- girth
- distance around something
- glower
- scowl
- granulate
- form into grains
- gratuity
- tip (as opposed to gratuitous)
- grotto
- small cavern
- grouse
- complain, fuss
- guffaw
- boisterous laughter
- guy
- cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied
- gyroscope
- apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction, etc.
- hackles
- hairs on the back and neck, especially of a dog
- haggard
- wasted away; gaunt
- halcyon
- peaceful, calm
- hale
- healthy
- hap
- chance, luck
- harbinger
- forerunner
- harry
- harass, annoy, torment; raid
- heckler
- person who verbally harasses others