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- transience
- n. Something that is of short duration.
- unguent
- n. Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
- stanchion
- n. A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
- salutatory
- n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
- voracious
- adj. Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
- visage
- n. The face, countenance, or look of a person.
- verity
- n. Truth.
- subordinate
- adj. Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
- superannuate
- v. To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
- translucence
- n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
- subterranean
- adj. Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
- stratum
- n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
- stimulus
- n. Incentive.
- scruple
- n. Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
- unison
- n. A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
- winsome
- adj. Attractive.
- submergence
- n. The act of submerging.
- subterfuge
- n. Evasion.
- scurrilous
- adj. Grossly indecent or vulgar.
- sluggard
- n. A person habitually lazy or idle.
- selective
- adj. Having the power of choice.
- tractable
- adj. Easily led or controlled.
- viceroy
- n. A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
- undulous
- adj. Resembling waves.
- syllabic
- adj. Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
- unanimous
- adj. Sharing the same views or sentiments.
- uproarious
- adj. Noisy.
- suasion
- n. The act of persuading.
- vertical
- adj. Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon.
- typify
- v. To serve as a characteristic example of.
- vignette
- n. A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
- sepulcher
- n. A burial-place.
- tenor
- n. A settled course or manner of progress.
- untimely
- adj. Unseasonable.
- sinister
- adj. Evil.
- vitalize
- v. To endow with life or energy.
- submersion
- n. The act of submerging.
- statistician
- n. One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
- superheat
- v. To heat to excess.
- superadd
- v. To add in addition to what has been added.
- success
- n. A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
- up-keep
- n. Maintenance.
- unbridled
- adj. Being without restraint.
- stagnation
- n. The condition of not flowing or not changing.
- treacherous
- adj. Perfidious.
- trite
- adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
- whereupon
- adv. After which.
- theological
- adj. Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
- satyr
- n. A very lascivious person.
- tiresome
- adj. Wearisome.
- tarnish
- v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
- zephyr
- n. Any soft, gentle wind.
- shrinkage
- n. A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
- toleration
- n. A spirit of charitable leniency.
- writhe
- v. To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
- sedentary
- adj. Involving or requiring much sitting.
- venial
- adj. That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
- verbose
- adj. Wordy.
- suppressible
- adj. Capable of being suppressed.
- sacrilegious
- adj. Impious.
- theorize
- v. To speculate.
- taut
- adj. Stretched tight.
- sanguinary
- adj. Bloody.
- statute
- n. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
- vendition
- n. The act of selling.
- version
- n. A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
- unisonant
- adj. Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
- stellar
- adj. Pertaining to the stars.
- voluptuous
- adj. having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
- upbraid
- v. To reproach as deserving blame.
- temporal
- adj. Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
- undeceive
- v. To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
- valedictorian
- n. Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
- symmetry
- n. Relative proportion and harmony.
- tyrannical
- adj. Despotic.
- tact
- n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
- tangency
- n. The state of touching.
- sequel
- n. That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
- vocable
- n. a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
- symphonic
- adj. Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
- sensual
- adj. Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
- typical
- adj. Characteristic.
- vegetation
- n. Plant-life in the aggregate.
- vortex
- n. A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
- supplicant
- n. One who asks humbly and earnestly.
- transference
- n. The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
- sophistry
- n. Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
- tranquil
- adj. Calm.
- separatist
- n. A seceder.
- technique
- n. Manner of performance.
- seethe
- v. To be violently excited or agitated.
- slothful
- adj. Lazy.
- servitude
- n. Slavery.
- unavoidable
- adj. Inevitable.
- staid
- adj. Of a steady and sober character.
- ulterior
- adj. Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
- secondary
- adj. Less important or effective than that which is primary.
- temerity
- n. Recklessness.
- sedate
- adj. Even-tempered.
- thermoelectric
- adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat.
- Unitarian
- adj. Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
- vestment
- n. Clothing or covering.
- triad
- n. A group of three persons of things.
- transition
- n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
- sympathize
- v. To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
- surmount
- v. To overcome by force of will.
- upheaval
- n. Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
- telescope
- v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
- wampum
- n. Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
- scabbard
- n. The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
- venal
- adj. Mercenary, corrupt.
- theism
- n. Belief in God.
- usage
- n. Treatment.
- wintry
- adj. Lacking warmth of manner.
- sibilance
- n. A hissing sound.
- vigilance
- n. Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
- timorous
- adj. Lacking courage.
- understate
- v. To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
- venerable
- adj. Meriting or commanding high esteem.
- travail
- n. Hard or agonizing labor.
- septennial
- adj. Recurring every seven years.
- ultimate
- adj. Beyond which there is nothing else.
- trinity
- n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
- transmit
- v. To send trough or across.
- spinster
- n. A woman who has never been married.
- suppression
- n. A forcible putting or keeping down.
- unyoke
- v. To separate.
- underman
- v. To equip with less than the full complement of men.
- testament
- n. A will.
- sanctimonious
- adj. Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
- salutary
- adj. Beneficial.
- witling
- n. A person who has little understanding.
- ungainly
- adj. Clumsy.
- sequester
- v. To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
- stolid
- adj. Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
- usurp
- v. To take possession of by force.
- sanguine
- adj. Having the color of blood.
- transfusible
- adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
- verify
- v. To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
- tremor
- n. An involuntary trembling or shivering.
- susceptibility
- n. A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
- vociferous
- adj. Making a loud outcry.
- theocracy
- n. A government administered by ecclesiastics.
- virulence
- n. Extreme poisonousness.
- supplicate
- v. To beg.
- vaccinate
- v. To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
- souvenir
- n. A token of remembrance.
- unlawful
- adj. Illegal.
- spurious
- adj. Not genuine.
- urgency
- n. The pressure of necessity.
- viola
- n. A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
- signification
- n. The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
- tyranny
- n. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
- wittingly
- adv. With knowledge and by design.
- soldier
- n. A person engaged in military service.
- suspense
- n. Uncertainty.
- vaporizer
- n. An atomizer.
- supramundane
- adj. Supernatural.
- thermoelectricity
- n. Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
- surety
- n. Security for payment or performance.
- univalence
- n. Monovalency.
- venom
- n. The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
- sinus
- n. An opening or cavity.
- toilsome
- adj. Laborious.
- vacuum
- n. A space entirely devoid of matter.
- verbiage
- n. Use of many words without necessity.
- voluble
- adj. Having great fluency in speaking.
- undermine
- v. To subvert in an underhand way.
- uppermost
- adj. First in order of precedence.
- simplify
- v. To make less complex or difficult.
- seclusion
- n. Solitude.
- tentative
- adj. Done as an experiment.
- trait
- n. A distinguishing feature or quality.
- solicitor
- n. One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
- tempter
- n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
- vociferate
- v. To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
- verification
- n. The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
- subacid
- adj. Somewhat sharp or biting.
- unlimited
- adj. Unconstrained.
- wavelet
- n. A ripple.
- thoroughbred
- adj. Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
- separate
- v. To take apart.
- unctuous
- adj. Oily.
- stigma
- n. A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
- senile
- adj. Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
- vernal
- adj. Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
- wield
- v. To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
- unbelief
- n. Doubt.
- transmission
- n. The act of sending through or across.
- treble
- adj. Multiplied by three.
- syneresis
- n. The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
- spinous
- adj. Having spines.
- theologian
- n. A professor of divinity.
- scholastic
- adj. Pertaining to education or schools.
- sheer
- adj. Absolute.
- suspension
- n. A hanging from a support.
- superfluous
- adj. Being more than is needed.
- sediment
- n. Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
- wiry
- adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
- salvage
- n. Any act of saving property.
- symphony
- n. A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
- transcendent
- adj. Surpassing.
- vie
- v. To contend.
- vivify
- v. To endue with life.
- superintend
- v. To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
- solstice
- n. The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
- unction
- n. The art of anointing as with oil.
- unique
- adj. Being the only one of its kind.
- successor
- n. One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
- shriek
- n. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
- terminal
- adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
- specter
- n. Apparition.
- specimen
- n. One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
- vermin
- n. A noxious or troublesome animal.
- sequacious
- adj. Ready to be led.
- superintendent
- n. One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
- subsistence
- n. Sustenance.
- sinuosity
- n. The quality of curving in and out.
- tyro
- n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
- workmanlike
- adj. Like or befitting a skilled workman.
- topography
- n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
- secede
- v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
- systematic
- adj. Methodical.
- utmost
- n. The greatest possible extent.
- suave
- adj. Smooth and pleasant in manner.
- unaccountable
- adj. Inexplicable.
- siren
- n. A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
- sensibility
- n. Power to perceive or feel.
- urbanity
- n. Refined or elegant courtesy.
- subjection
- n. The act of bringing into a state of submission.
- vociferance
- n. The quality of making a clamor.
- tutorship
- n. The office of a guardian.
- theocrasy
- n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
- tincture
- n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
- truism
- n. A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
- surcharge
- n. An additional amount charged.
- valedictory
- n. A parting address.
- sedulous
- adj. Persevering in effort or endeavor.
- tolerable
- adj. Moderately good.
- tenure
- n. The term during which a thing is held.
- testimonial
- n. A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
- wherewith
- n. The necessary means or resources.
- tack
- n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
- variant
- n. A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
- synod
- n. An ecclesiastical council.
- tempt
- v. To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
- statecraft
- n. The art of conducting state affairs.
- utility
- n. Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
- tinge
- n. A faint trace of color.
- unwise
- adj. Foolish.
- sentence
- n. A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
- votive
- adj. Dedicated by a vow.
- suspicious
- adj. Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
- subservience
- n. The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
- wry
- adj. Deviating from that which is proper or right.
- subsist
- v. To be maintained or sustained.
- skeptic
- n. One who doubts any statements.
- transfer
- v. To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
- underworld
- n. Hades.
- vindicative
- adj. Revengeful.
- seize
- v. To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
- surrogate
- n. One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
- Sybarite
- n. A luxurious person.
- sensitive
- adj. Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
- subliminal
- adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
- ultimatum
- n. A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
- static
- adj. Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
- symmetrical
- adj. Well-balanced.
- supple
- adj. Easily bent.
- vicissitude
- n. A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
- significant
- adj. Important, especially as pointing something out.
- workmanship
- n. The art or skill of a workman.
- vulnerable
- adj. Capable of receiving injuries.
- shuffle
- n. A mixing or changing the order of things.
- suggestive
- adj. Stimulating to thought or reflection.
- slight
- adj. Of a small importance or significance.
- violation
- n. Infringement.
- sanctity
- n. Holiness.
- well-bred
- adj. Of good ancestry.
- trio
- n. Three things grouped or associated together.
- speculator
- n. One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
- seminary
- n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
- tricolor
- adj. Of three colors.
- upcast
- n. A throwing upward.
- transferrer
- n. One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
- sentience
- n. Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
- wane
- v. To diminish in size and brilliancy.
- successful
- adj. Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
- thesis
- n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
- velvety
- adj. Marked by lightness and softness.
- superlative
- n. That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
- sphericity
- n. The state or condition of being a sphere.
- subtend
- v. To extend opposite to.
- sardonic
- adj. Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
- whereabouts
- n. The place in or near which a person or thing is.
- turpitude
- n. Depravity.
- vainglory
- n. Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
- supplant
- v. To take the place of.
- yearling
- n. A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
- semiconscious
- adj. Partially conscious.
- usurious
- adj. Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
- vertex
- n. Apex.
- specie
- n. A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
- unsettle
- v. To put into confusion.
- speculate
- v. To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
- vigilant
- adj. Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
- vivacity
- n. Liveliness.
- tilth
- n. Cultivation.
- tremendous
- adj. Awe-inspiring.
- virulent
- adj. Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
- tacit
- adj. Understood.
- venerate
- v. To cherish reverentially.
- transcend
- v. To surpass.
- vendor
- n. A seller.
- transalpine
- adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
- tranquilize
- v. To soothe.
- supplementary
- adj. Being an addition to.
- valorous
- adj. Courageous.
- unnatural
- adj. Artificial.
- sense
- n. The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
- travesty
- n. A grotesque imitation.
- undue
- adj. More than sufficient.
- telephony
- n. The art or process of communicating by telephone.
- scribe
- n. One who writes or is skilled in writing.
- sociology
- n. The philosophical study of society.
- salient
- adj. Standing out prominently.
- semicivilized
- adj. Half-civilized.
- witchcraft
- n. Sorcery.
- transferable
- adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
- subconscious
- adj. Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
- vinery
- n. A greenhouse for grapes.
- self-respect
- n. Rational self-esteem.
- simultaneous
- adj. Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
- secession
- n. Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
- veracity
- n. Truthfulness.
- sarcophagus
- n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
- susceptible
- adj. Easily under a specified power or influence.
- zealot
- n. One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
- submersible
- adj. Capable of being put underwater.
- vacuous
- adj. Empty.
- technology
- n. The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
- trajectory
- n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
- testator
- n. The maker of a will.
- studious
- adj. Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
- stringency
- n. Strictness.
- triple
- adj. Threefold.
- superintendence
- n. Direction and management.
- supernumerary
- adj. Superfluous.
- trisect
- v. To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- taciturn
- adj. Disinclined to conversation.
- veracious
- adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
- timbre
- n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
- transatlantic
- adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
- ultramontane
- adj. Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
- trebly
- adv. Triply.
- scrupulous
- adj. Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
- twinge
- n. A darting momentary local pain.
- votary
- adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise.
- temporize
- v. To pursue a policy of delay.
- safeguard
- v. To protect.
- witticism
- n. A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
- uncommon
- adj. Rare.
- superficial
- adj. Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
- specialty
- n. An employment limited to one particular line of work.
- tripod
- n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
- secondly
- adv. In the second place in order or succession.
- transfuse
- v. To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
- surround
- v. To encircle.
- vaudeville
- n. A variety show.
- stratagem
- n. Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
- Stoicism
- n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
- sacrilege
- n. The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
- stimulate
- v. To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
- variable
- adj. Having a tendency to change.
- torrid
- adj. Excessively hot.
- sufferance
- n. Toleration.
- somnolence
- n. Oppressive drowsiness.
- supposition
- n. Conjecture.
- treatise
- n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
- wherever
- adv. In or at whatever place.
- troublesome
- adj. Burdensome.
- stagy
- adj. Having a theatrical manner.
- waif
- n. A homeless, neglected wanderer.
- upheave
- v. To raise or lift with effort.
- waive
- v. To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
- undersized
- adj. Of less than the customary size.
- vegetarian
- n. One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
- trivial
- adj. Of little importance or value.
- subjacent
- adj. Situated directly underneath.
- tactics
- n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
- strait
- n. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- salvo
- n. A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
- satirize
- v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
- seignior
- n. A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
- velocity
- n. Rapid motion.
- soliloquy
- n. A monologue.
- transgress
- v. To break a law.
- tenacious
- adj. Unyielding.
- triumvir
- n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
- unutterable
- adj. Inexpressible.
- wrest
- v. To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
- summary
- n. An abstract.
- volitive
- adj. Exercising the will.
- sanction
- v. To approve authoritatively.
- upturn
- v. To throw into confusion.
- zeitgeist
- n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
- saline
- adj. Constituting or consisting of salt.
- sagacious
- adj. Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
- tortious
- adj. Wrongful.
- stallion
- n. An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
- synopsis
- n. A syllabus or summary.
- sequestrate
- v. To confiscate.
- zodiac
- n. An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
- wizen
- v. To become or cause to become withered or dry.
- transmissible
- adj. That may e sent through or across.
- statuesque
- adj. Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
- tranquility
- n. Calmness.
- solicitude
- n. Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
- tipsy
- adj. Befuddled with drinks.
- typography
- n. The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
- undersell
- v. To sell at a lower price than.
- volition
- n. An act or exercise of will.
- sapiential
- adj. Possessing wisdom.
- subjugate
- v. To conquer.
- Scriptural
- adj. Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
- seminar
- n. Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
- swarthy
- adj. Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
- volant
- adj. Flying or able to fly.
- volatile
- adj. Changeable.
- sentinel
- n. Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
- sarcasm
- n. Cutting and reproachful language.
- vehement
- adj. Very eager or urgent.
- vogue
- n. The prevalent way or fashion.
- succinct
- adj. Concise.
- utilitarianism
- n. The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
- unify
- v. To cause to be one.
- spherometer
- n. An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
- vituperable
- adj. Deserving of censure.
- transfigure
- v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
- underhanded
- adj. Clandestinely carried on.
- shiftless
- adj. Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
- stifle
- v. To smother.
- suggestible
- adj. That can be suggested.
- sensation
- n. A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
- tangent
- adj. Touching.
- variation
- n. Modification.
- vendible
- adj. Marketable.
- well-to-do
- adj. In prosperous circumstances.
- succeed
- v. To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
- tannery
- n. A place where leather is tanned.
- sensuous
- adj. Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
- sterling
- adj. Genuine.
- soprano
- n. A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
- service
- n. Any work done for the benefit of another.
- sumptuous
- adj. Rich and costly.
- stagnant
- adj. Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
- tangible
- adj. Perceptible by touch.
- subservient
- adj. Servilely following another's behests.
- vocative
- adj. Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
- specious
- adj. Plausible.
- squalid
- adj. Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
- wean
- v. To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
- superabundance
- n. An excessive amount.
- unnecessary
- adj. Not essential under the circumstances.
- weal
- n. Well-being.
- sorcery
- n. Witchcraft.
- socialism
- n. A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
- salience
- n. The condition of standing out distinctly.
- separable
- adj. Capable of being disjoined or divided.
- sapient
- adj. Possessing wisdom.
- vegetal
- adj. Of or pertaining to plants.
- trimness
- n. Neatness.
- vulgarity
- n. Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
- venison
- n. The flesh of deer.
- waistcoat
- n. A vest.
- visualize
- v. To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.
- solvent
- adj. Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
- trident
- n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
- tireless
- adj. Untiring.
- turgid
- adj. Swollen.
- virago
- n. A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
- telepathy
- n. Thought-transference.
- statuette
- n. A figurine.
- spectrum
- n. An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
- seclude
- v. To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
- visual
- adj. Perceptible by sight.
- valediction
- n. A bidding farewell.
- territorial
- adj. Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
- subtrahend
- n. That which is to be subtracted.
- therefor
- adv. For that or this.
- sapid
- adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
- underlie
- v. To be the ground or support of.
- thereabout
- adv. Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
- soluble
- adj. Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
- scythe
- n. A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
- unanimity
- n. The state or quality of being of one mind.
- satiric
- adj. Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
- transcript
- n. A copy made directly from an original.
- secretive
- adj. Having a tendency to conceal.
- tutelage
- n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
- subtle
- adj. Discriminating.
- trickery
- n. Artifice.
- sparse
- adj. Thinly diffused.
- tense
- adj. Strained to stiffness.
- sufficiency
- n. An ample or adequate supply.
- variegate
- v. To mark with different shades or colors.
- salacious
- adj. Having strong sexual desires.
- vicarious
- adj. Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
- unsophisticated
- adj. Showing inexperience.
- tirade
- n. Harangue.
- supernatural
- adj. Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
- severance
- n. Separation.
- tolerant
- adj. Indulgent.
- spectator
- n. One who beholds or looks on.
- sergeant-major
- n. The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
- transferee
- n. The person to whom a transfer is made.
- transfusion
- n. The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
- treasonable
- adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
- scholarly
- adj. Characteristic of an erudite person.
- similar
- adj. Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
- vale
- n. Level or low land between hills.
- semblance
- n. Outward appearance.
- telltale
- adj. That gives warning or information.
- wrangle
- v. To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
- urban
- adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
- Sol
- n. The sun.
- skepticism
- n. The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
- synonym
- n. A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
- stimulant
- n. Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
- vitality
- n. The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
- skiff
- n. Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
- triplicate
- adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
- sequent
- adj. Following in the order of time.
- thoroughfare
- n. A public street or road.
- underexposed
- adj. Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
- umbrage
- n. A sense of injury.
- vagabond
- n. A wanderer.
- sordid
- adj. Of degraded character or nature.
- sublingual
- adj. Situated beneath the tongue.
- trenchant
- adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
- venereal
- adj. Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
- unconscionable
- adj. Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
- sprightly
- adj. Vivacious.
- undercharge
- v. To make an inadequate charge for.
- siege
- n. A beleaguerment.
- sonorous
- adj. Resonant.
- solecism
- n. Any violation of established rules or customs.
- weak-kneed
- adj. Without resolute purpose or energy.
- secrecy
- n. Concealment.
- viscount
- n. In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
- unbearable
- adj. Unendurable.
- witless
- adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
- stanza
- n. A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
- skirmish
- n. Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
- singe
- v. To burn slightly or superficially.
- transmute
- v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
- stealth
- n. A concealed manner of acting.
- tenet
- n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
- vassal
- n. A slave or bondman.
- syllable
- n. That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
- superb
- adj. Sumptuously elegant.
- saponaceous
- adj. Having the nature or quality of soap.
- stringent
- adj. Rigid.
- Titanic
- adj. Of vast size or strength.
- supersede
- v. To displace.
- unbiased
- adj. Impartial, as judgment.
- submittal
- n. The act of submitting.
- subside
- v. To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
- sonnet
- n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
- wretchedness
- n. Extreme misery or unhappiness.
- squatter
- n. One who settles on land without permission or right.
- submission
- n. A yielding to the power or authority of another.
- second-rate
- adj. Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
- scoundrel
- n. A man without principle.
- submarine
- adj. Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
- sympathetic
- adj. Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
- translucent
- adj. Allowing the passage of light.
- streamlet
- n. Rivulet.
- sentient
- adj. Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
- syndicate
- n. An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
- specialize
- v. To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
- unspeakable
- adj. Abominable.
- vincible
- adj. Conquerable.
- violator
- n. One who transgresses.
- well-doer
- n. A performer of moral and social duties.
- sophistical
- adj. Fallacious.
- scintilla
- n. The faintest ray.
- superfluity
- n. That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
- ubiquitous
- adj. Being present everywhere.
- tantamount
- adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
- thearchy
- n. Government by a supreme deity.
- tenant
- n. An occupant.
- violoncello
- n. A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
- solace
- n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
- salutation
- n. Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
- wholly
- adv. Completely.
- usury
- n. The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
- satiate
- v. To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
- sociable
- adj. Inclined to seek company.
- teem
- v. To be full to overflowing.
- vernacular
- n. The language of one's country.
- satire
- n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
- typographical
- adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
- seer
- n. A prophet.
- subversion
- n. An overthrow, as from the foundation.
- sedition
- n. Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
- squabble
- v. To quarrel.
- significance
- n. Importance.
- virtuoso
- n. A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
- taxidermy
- n. The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
- sinuous
- adj. Curving in and out.
- unfavorable
- adj. Adverse.
- vapid
- adj. Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
- sirocco
- n. hot winds from Africa.
- sidereal
- adj. Pertaining to stars or constellations.
- steppe
- n. One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
- wile
- n. An act or a means of cunning deception.
- sinecure
- n. Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
- succulent
- adj. Juicy.
- vertigo
- n. Dizziness.
- shrivel
- v. To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
- transact
- v. To do business.
- surfeit
- v. To feed to fullness or to satiety.
- stiletto
- n. A small dagger.
- sapience
- n. Deep wisdom or knowledge.
- sequence
- n. The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
- truculent
- adj. Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
- sanguineous
- adj. Consisting of blood.
- tercentenary
- adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
- unaffected
- adj. Sincere.
- transplant
- v. To remove and plant in another place.
- scope
- n. A range of action or view.
- subsequent
- adj. Following in time.
- sergeant
- n. A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
- terminus
- n. The final point or goal.
- somniferous
- adj. Tending to produce sleep.
- viol
- n. A stringed instrument of the violin class.
- tolerate
- v. To passively permit or put up with.
- scarcity
- n. Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
- subvert
- v. To bring to ruin.
- vivisection
- n. The dissection of a living animal.
- sleight
- n. A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
- termagant
- adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
- savor
- v. To perceive by taste or smell.
- surmise
- v. To conjecture.
- verbatim
- adv. Word for word.
- seismograph
- n. An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
- virile
- adj. Masculine.
- semicircle
- n. A half-circle.
- serviceable
- adj. Durable.
- tableau
- n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
- transverse
- adj. Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
- theoretical
- adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
- trammel
- n. An impediment.
- venous
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
- supercilious
- adj. Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
- stultify
- v. To give an appearance of foolishness to.
- torturous
- adj. Marked by extreme suffering.
- tendency
- n. Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
- sear
- v. To burn on the surface.
- secretary
- n. One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
- stagnate
- v. To become dull or inert.
- ultramundane
- adj. Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
- savage
- n. A wild and uncivilized human being.
- vagrant
- n. An idle wanderer.
- underwrite
- v. To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
- whine
- v. To utter with complaining tone.
- wreak
- v. To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
- stupendous
- adj. Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
- sylph
- n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
- torpor
- n. Apathy.
- sextuple
- adj. Multiplied by six.
- sycophant
- n. A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
- variance
- n. Change.
- secant
- adj. Cutting, especially into two parts.
- scribble
- n. Hasty, careless writing.
- solar
- adj. Pertaining to the sun.
- undervalue
- v. To underestimate.
- sustenance
- n. Food.
- sextet
- n. A band of six singers or players.
- stripling
- n. A mere youth.
- undulate
- v. To move like a wave or in waves.
- sophism
- n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
- translate
- v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
- spontaneous
- adj. Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
- tortuous
- adj. Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
- somber
- adj. Gloomy.
- underling
- n. A subordinate.
- vegetative
- adj. Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
- trestle
- n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
- tremulous
- adj. Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
- semiannual
- adj. Recurring at intervals of six months.
- theology
- n. The branch of theological science that treats of God.
- wantonness
- n. Recklessness.
- terse
- adj. Pithy.
- stingy
- adj. Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
- sonata
- n. An instrumental composition.
- verily
- adv. In truth.
- tolerance
- n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
- truculence
- n. Ferocity.
- veneer
- n. Outside show or elegance.
- tantalize
- v. To tease.
- supine
- adj. Lying on the back.
- unwieldy
- adj. Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
- translator
- n. An interpreter.
- sibilant
- adj. Made with a hissing sound.
- working-man
- n. One who earns his bread by manual labor.
- surreptitious
- adj. Clandestine.
- scuttle
- v. To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
- uproot
- v. To eradicate.
- sophisticate
- v. To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
- sergeant-at-arms
- n. An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
- thermal
- adj. Of or pertaining to heat.
- Spartan
- adj. Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
- seditious
- adj. Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
- veto
- n. The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
- wizen-faced
- adj. Having a shriveled face.
- transitory
- adj. Existing for a short time only.
- syllabication
- n. Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
- temporary
- adj. Lasting for a short time only.
- transpire
- v. To come to pass.
- triplicity
- n. The state of being triple or threefold.
- transparent
- adj. Easy to see through or understand.
- somnolent
- adj. Sleepy.
- unbecoming
- adj. Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
- wee
- adj. Very small.
- simile
- n. A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
- technicality
- n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
- truthful
- adj. Veracious.
- stationary
- adj. Not moving.
- trepidation
- n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
- stature
- n. The natural height of an animal body.
- virtu
- n. Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
- solder
- n. A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
- verdant
- adj. Green with vegetation.
- stupor
- n. Profound lethargy.
- seduce
- v. To entice to surrender chastity.
- warlike
- adj. Belligerent.
- theorist
- n. One given to speculating.
- vindicate
- v. To prove true, right, or real.
- subaquatic
- adj. Being, formed, or operating under water.
- technic
- adj. Technical.
- whet
- v. To make more keen or eager.
- urchin
- n. A roguish, mischievous boy.
- sidelong
- adj. Inclining or tending to one side.
- transposition
- n. The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
- tapestry
- n. A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
- vestige
- n. A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
- undergarment
- n. A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
- valid
- adj. Founded on truth.
- socialist
- adj. One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
- shrewd
- adj. Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
- sacrifice
- v. To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
- scintillate
- v. To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
- symphonious
- adj. Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
- spasmodic
- adj. Convulsive.
- tricycle
- n. A three-wheeled vehicle.
- vitiate
- v. To contaminate.
- similitude
- n. Similarity.
- thrall
- n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
- sibilate
- v. To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
- terminate
- v. To put an end or stop to.
- sebaceous
- adj. Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
- zenith
- n. The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
- sacrificial
- adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
- tribune
- n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
- suffrage
- n. The right or privilege of voting.
- unconscious
- adj. Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
- tutelar
- adj. Protective.
- writing
- n. The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
- technography
- n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
- versatile
- adj. Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
- vista
- n. A view or prospect.
- vacate
- v. To leave.
- untoward
- adj. Causing annoyance or hindrance.
- virtual
- adj. Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
- unicellular
- adj. Consisting of a single cell.
- tactician
- n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
- treachery
- n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
- spheroid
- n. A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
- whimsical
- adj. Capricious.
- taxation
- n. A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
- synchronism
- n. Simultaneousness.
- statics
- n. The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
- terrify
- v. To fill with extreme fear.
- script
- n. Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
- substantive
- adj. Solid.
- suppress
- v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
- wearisome
- adj. Fatiguing.
- transcribe
- v. To write over again (something already written)
- syllabus
- n. Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
- suffuse
- v. To cover or fill the surface of.
- termination
- n. The act of ending or concluding.
- severely
- adv. Extremely.
- transcontinental
- adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
- triennial
- adj. Taking place every third year.
- vacillate
- v. To waver.
- submerge
- v. To place or plunge under water.
- stipend
- n. A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
- vindicatory
- adj. Punitive.
- sisterhood
- n. A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
- vegetate
- v. To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
- succumb
- v. To cease to resist.
- underrate
- v. To undervalue.
- transient
- n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
- simulate
- v. Imitate.
- sensorium
- n. The sensory apparatus.
- species
- n. A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
- surveyor
- n. A land-measurer.
- soothsayer
- n. One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
- seance
- n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.