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- menial
- low, servile, demeaning
- idyll
- a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life
- tendinous
- consisting of tendons; sinewy
- hallow
- to make holy; consecrate
- vaquero
- Spanish or mexican working cowboy
- perpetrate
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- souse
- the act of making something completely wet
- scullion
- a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)
- heliolatry
- worship of the sun
- distend
- swell from or as if from internal pressure
- covey
- noun. a small flock or group.
- barrister
- a British lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law
- foretoken
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- Pax
- peace
- Stoke
- add fuel to; strengthen
- bulwark
- a protective structure of stone or concrete
- rhapsodic
- feeling great rapture or delight
- conniption
- a display of bad temper
- prescience
- the power to foresee the future
- haft
- the handle of a weapon or tool
- browbeat
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner
- lummox
- an awkward stupid person
- denizen
- a plant or animal naturalized in a region
- aery
- the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
- anathema
- a detested person
- felicitation
- the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration
- entreat
- ask for or request earnestly
- asceticism
- rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
- sordid
- morally degraded
- malign
- to speak poorly of another person; to slander or defame
- depilatory
- a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair
- stabile
- a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support
- subjugate
- put down by force or intimidation
- lenity
- mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
- mellifluous
- sweetly or smoothly flowing, melodious
- aery
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
- Teetotalism
- total abstinence from alcohol
- plucky
- showing courage in the face of danger
- Infra
- below,beneath
- hansom
- a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers
- bemuse
- cause to be confused emotionally
- inhumation
- the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
- apiary
- a shed containing a number of beehives
- Teetotalism
- total abstinence from alcohol
- inundation
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- Perforce
- By necessity; by force of circumstance.
- debar
- bar; forbid; exclude; Ex. debarred from jury services
- browbeat
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner
- quaggy
- (of soil) soft and watery
- incumbency
- the term during which some position is held
- derisive
- abusing vocally
- duplicity
- a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
- tine
- prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
- calcimine
- a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring
- prescience
- the power to foresee the future
- efflux
- the process of flowing out
- tureen
- deep dish for serving soup
- aery
- any habitation at a high altitude
- burl
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
- reticence
- the trait of being uncommunicative
- eiderdown
- The down of the eider duck, used as stuffing for quilts and pillows
- patina
- a superficial layer or exterior
- nosegay
- a bunch of flowers; a bouquet
- blight
- a disease that causes plants to wither and die
- bouffant
- a woman's hair style in which the hair is teased to give an overall puffed-out appearance and often combed to frame the face
- larder
- n. structure or space where food is stored, pantry
- indiscriminate
- choosing at random; confused; not based on careful distinctions