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- Francophile
- a person who admires France, its people, or its culture
- Armageddon
- The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world; a decisive or catastrophic conflict
- Paroles
- conditionally released from jail; pledge or promise made by a prisoner that he will obey the terms of his release
- Grovel
- To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior; to behave in a servile or demeaning manner
- Preposterous
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; ridiculous, bizarre; completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; senseless as to be laughable
- Surly
- gruff; bad : tempered and unfriendly
- Instate
- to set or establish in a rank or office:INSTALL
- Mortar
- A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle; a machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed; an ancient field weapon that fires a projectile in a high arch to reach an impact point; plastic material to bond stones and bricks together
- Sagittal
- Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull;
- Fustian
- A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and flax; pretentious speech or writing; pompous language; pompous, bombastic, and ranting
- Pelf
- Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired
- Rambunctious
- Boisterous and disorderly
- Vulgaris
- Being of the usual type; common
- Arboretum
- A facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition; botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study
- Bunion
- A bunion is an abnormal enlargement of the joint; a painful, inflamed swelling of the bursa at the first joint of the big toe, characterized by enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe
- Rhapsodize
- to express oneself in an immoderately enthusiastic manner.
- Ream
- 500 sheets of paper
- Aplomb
- Self : confident assurance; poise; assurance of manner or of action; a firm belief in one's own powers; stable, calm state of the emotions
- Orison
- Prayer
- Dolorous
- marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain
- Rickety
- Not physically steady or firm; unsound, broken : down; shaky; likely to fall apart
- Jejune
- Not interesting; dull; lacking maturity; childish; lacking in nutrition
- Grouch
- A habitually complaining or irritable person; a grumbling or sulky mood; complaint; a grudge
- Moxie
- courage or nerve . the ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage; aggressive energy
- Conch
- Large seashell
- Stultify
- To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible; cause to appear foolish; deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; cripple
- Tintinnabulation
- the ringing or sounding of bells
- Tirade
- A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe
- Preeminence
- importance, significance; superiority, supremacy; distinctiveness, state of being distinguished; advantage
- Agog
- highly excited
- Malfeasance
- misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
- Abandon
- To give up completely; to desert; careless disregard for consequences; leave behind, relinquish; leave in troubled state; careless, often reckless disregard for consequences
- Tandem
- coming one after another
- Compunction
- A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt; a feeling of regret for one's sins or misdeeds; a feeling of uncertainty about the fitness or correctness of an action; regret, sorrow
- Leviathan
- One that is extraordinarily large and powerful; any large animal, as a whale; a monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible; something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship
- Quartet
- A group of four musicians or singers; also, a piece of music for four instruments or voices; composition for four voices or four instruments or four parts; four performers or singers who perform together
- Shoal
- A shallow part of a body of water : shallow; measuring little from bottom to top or surface, a large number of fish swimming together.
- Immure
- To confine within or as if within walls; imprison; lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- Mulish
- unreasonably and inflexibly obstinate like a mule
- Ineluctable
- impossible to avoid or evade
- Hospice
- 1) a home providing care for the sick or terminally ill. 2) a lodging for travellers, especially one run by a religious order
- Stupor
- A state of reduced or suspended sensibility; state of mental numbness, as that resulting from shock; a daze; condition of dullness, often resulting from stress; unconsciousness
- Fealty
- The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. The oath of such fidelity
- Foursquare
- characterized by firm and unwavering conviction; a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four : sided regular polygon
- Augury
- sign of what will happen, omen
- Termagant
- A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes
- Animadversion
- Strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark; harsh criticism or disapproval
- Provenance
- Place of origin; derivation; the history of the ownership of an object, especially when documented or authenticated
- Ladle
- a long handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving soup, stew etc
- Fabric
- a structure or framework
- Purism
- strict observance of or insistence on traditional correctness, especially of language
- Mordant
- bitingly sarcastic
- Piquancy
- pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind.
- Enfeoff
- to invest with a feudal estate or fee
- Batten
- Grow fat,thrive upon others
- Carpophagous
- Feeding on fruit; fruit : eating
- Ingenue
- An artless girl;an actress who plays such parts
- Incontrovertible
- impossible to dispute; unquestionable
- Lop
- To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising; to hang limply, loosely, and carelessly; cut off from a whole
- Skein
- a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil; a flock of geese or similar birds in flight
- blandishment
- something that tends to coax or cajole : ALLUREMENT
- Delusion
- An erroneous perception of reality; misconception, misbelief
- Ennui
- feeling of listlessness, boredom, and dissatifaction
- Cruet
- A small glass bottle for holding a condiment, such as vinegar or oil; a small vessel for holy water or for water or wine used in the consecration of the Eucharist
- Rancour
- A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill : will
- Glean
- To gather grain left behind by reapers; to collect (something) bit by bit; gather facts in small quantities
- Ensconce
- To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably; to place or conceal in a secure place; hide; tuck away; fix firmly
- Bolt
- 1) a roll of fabric, originally as a measure 2) run away suddenly3 ) BAR, LOCK, catch, latch, fastener
- Muckrake
- to search for and expose misconduct in public life.
- Stentorian
- extremely loud
- Cord
- a unit of wood cut for fuel equal to a stack 4 x 4 x 8 feet or 128 cubic feet . To pile (wood) in cords; a line made of twisted fibers or threads
- Demurral
- The act of demurring, especially a mild, polite, or considered expression of opposition; a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
- Vicissitude
- a change or variation. The quality of being changeable; mutability
- Votary
- A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service; a faithful follower; an enthusiast
- Quart
- A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to / 4 gallon or 32 ounces
- Jarring
- Disagreeable to the sense of hearing; making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; characterized by rough motion
- Fallow
- Land left unseeded during a growing season; inactive; plowed but left unseeded during a growing season : fallow farmland
- Fustian
- Pretentious, pompous speech or writing; a coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and flax; pompous or pretentious talking or writing
- Desecrate
- To violate the sacredness of; profane; spoil or mar the sanctity of; abuse, violate
- Maroon
- To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon; to abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape; a fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries; a dark reddish brown to dark purplish red
- Elf
- below 3 kilohertz; Synonym : extremely low frequency. Extremely Low Frequency)
- Xerophagy
- fast which includes the eating of dry foods only
- Sagitta
- A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Aquila and Vulpecula
- Shrivel
- To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle; to become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying; to lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity; dehydrate, dry up
- Gaily
- In a joyful, cheerful, or happy manner; merrily; with bright colors or trimmings; showily
- Manna
- hardened sugary exudation of various trees; food that God gave the Israelites during the exodus
- Tenacity
- firmness or persistence
- Faradic
- Of, relating to, or using an intermittent asymmetrical alternating electric current produced by an induction coil
- Slatternly
- slovenly; untidy
- Ensue
- to follow as a consequence or result
- Coterie
- A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently
- Knoll
- a small rounded hill or mound; a hillock
- Repletion
- The condition of being fully supplied or completely filled; a state of excessive fullness
- Marrow
- The most central and material part; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- Jerry
- A German, especially a German soldier; offensive terms for a person of German descent
- Glut
- To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate
- Afferent
- Carrying inward to a central organ or section, as nerves that conduct impulses from the periphery of the body to the brain or spinal cord; transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers
- Inveigh
- to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : RAIL
- Entrench
- establish so firmly that change is difficult :
- Reagent
- A substance used in a chemical reaction to detect, measure, examine, or produce other substances
- Quisling
- A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country
- Croon
- To sing softly or in a humming way
- Preclude
- To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; to exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity
- Imbue
- fill with a feeling or quality
- Humdrum
- Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring , dull; monotonous talk or routine.
- Obtain
- PREVAIL, be in force. for e.g. rules obtaining in other jurisdictions
- Caucus
- meeting where party leaders are elected and strategy is determined
- Pastiche
- A mixture of materials, forms, motifs, and/or styles; often incongruous; dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent; an artistic effort that imitates or caricatures the work of another artist
- Shuck
- A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn. The shell of an oyster or clam
- Bibulous
- Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink; very absorbent, as paper or soil; inclined to drink; of or relating to drink or drinking
- Swath
- A path or strip; the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
- Speculative
- risky; based on guesswork rather than knowledge
- Balky
- refusing or likely to refuse to proceed, act, or function as directed or expected
- Stultify
- cause to feel bored or enervated. 2)cause to appear foolish or absurd
- Glean
- To gather grain left behind by reapers; to collect (something) bit by bit
- Ensnare
- keep someone in a situation from which they canot escape
- Caginess
- Having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters; secretive; wary; careful; shrewd
- Orc
- A mythical monster of varying descriptions; any of several cetaceans especialy the grampus of the dolphin family
- Uncouth
- Crude; unrefined; awkward or clumsy; ungraceful; archaic; foreign; unfamiliar; clumsy, uncultivated; lacking in delicacy or refinement
- Seraph
- A celestial being having three pairs of wings; the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
- Evacuant
- Of, relating to, or tending to eliminate; tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels
- Fiesta
- A festival or religious holiday, especially a saint's day celebrated in Spanish : speaking countries
- Gruffness
- A throaty harshness; an abrupt discourteous manner
- Suppliant
- Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching; one praying humbly for something
- Happenstance
- An unexpected random event
- Vouchsafe
- To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign; to let have as a favor, prerogative, or privilege; to descend to a level considered inappropriate to one's dignity; ose; grant
- Discommode
- to cause inconvenience to : TROUBLE
- Pettifogger
- a petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer. One who quibbles over trivia
- Votary
- One zealously devoted to a religion
- Quatrain
- A stanza or poem of four lines
- Puckish
- Mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful
- Cow
- To frighten with threats or a show of force; browbeat, intimidate;
- Tort
- damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach.
- Diazepam
- A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles;
- Nave
- central part of the church
- Cadge
- To beg or get by begging, BEGGAR, bummer, moocher, panhandler
- Malcontent
- a chronically dissatisfied person; one who rebels against the established system; discontented as toward authority
- Hull
- the dry outer covering of a fruit, seed, or nut; body of a ship
- Forage
- Food for domestic animals; fodder. The act of looking or searching for food or provisions
- Palter
- to act insincerely or deceitfully
- Frill
- Something costly and unnecessary
- Cron
- A time unit equal to 1000000 years; used in reference to evolutionary processes
- Japery
- acting like a clown or buffoon; a trick or practical joke
- Triad
- A group of three; a chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth; set of three similar things considered as a unit
- Benedict
- A newly married man who was previously considered a confirmed bachelor
- Pallid
- Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion; lacking intensity of color or luminousness
- Frisky
- Playful