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- congratulate
- express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success
- gracious
- pleasant; courteous; kindly
- grateful
- feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
- gratify
- give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
- gratis
- without charge or payment; free
- gratitude
- thankfulness
- gratuitous
- given freely; unwarranted
- gratuity
- present of money in return for a favor or service; tip
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- ingratiate
- establish in the favor or good graces of another
- immortal
- not subject to death
- immortality
- eternal life or everlasting fame
- moribund
- dying; near death
- mortal
- destined to die; human; causing death, fatal
- mortality
- death rate, mortal nature
- mortician
- undertaker
- mortification
- shame; humiliation; embarrassment
- mortify
- embarrass; shame; humiliate
- mortuary
- funeral home
- rigor mortis
- stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
- corporal
- bodily
- corporation
- body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties
- corps
- organized body of persons; branch of the military
- corpse
- dead body
- corpulent
- bulky; obese
- corpus
- general collection or body of writings, laws, etc.
- corpuscle
- blood cell, minute particle
- corpus delicti
- facts proving that a crime has been committed; body of victim in a murder case
- esprit de corps
- spirit of a body of persons; group spirit
- habeas corpus
- writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that persons's detention, right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment
- incorporate
- combine so as to form one body
- aqueduct
- artifical channel for conducting water over a distance
- conducive
- tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
- conduct
- lead; guide; escort
- deduction
- taking away; subtraction; resoning from the general to the particular
- duct
- tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
- ductile
- able to be drawn out or hammered thin; easily led; docile
- induce
- lead on; move by persuasion
- induct
- admit as a member; initiate
- induction
- ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation; reasoning from the particular to the general
- seduction
- enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
- traduce
- malign; slander; vilify; calumniate
- viadcut
- bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.
- consecutive
- following in regular order; successive
- consequence
- that which follows logically; result; importance
- execute
- follow through to completion; carry out; put to death
- inconsequential
- of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
- non sequitur
- statement that does not follow from previous statements
- persecute
- oppress; harass; annoy
- prosecute
- follow to the end or until finished; conduct legal proceedings against; sue
- sequel
- something that follows; continuation; cons3equence; outcome
- sequence
- following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series
- sequential
- arranged in a sequence; serial
- concur
- agree; be of the same opinion; happen together; coincide
- concurrent
- running together; occuring at the same time; simultaneous
- currrent
- now in progress; prevailing; flow
- curriculum
- course of study in school or college
- cursive
- running or flowing
- cursory
- running over hastily; superficially done
- discursive
- wandering from one topic to another; rambling; digeressive
- excursion
- going out or forth; expedition
- incur
- meet with something undesirable; bring upon oneself
- incursion
- rushing into; hostile invasion; raid
- precursor
- forerunner; predecessor
- recur
- happen again
- aggressive
- disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing
- egress
- means of going out; exit
- gradation
- change by steps or stages; act of grading
- grade
- step; stage; degree; rating
- gradient
- rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, voltage, etc. rises or falls; slope; inclination
- gradual
- step-by-step; proceeding by small stages or degrees
- graduate
- complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree
- graduated
- arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees
- progressive
- going forward to something considered better
- regressive
- disposed to move backward; retrogressive
- retrograde
- going backward; becoming worse
- retrogression
- act of going from a better to a worse state; deterioration
- transgress
- step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break a law; violate
- biped
- two-footed animal
- centipede
- wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments
- expedite
- facilitate; accelerate or speed up
- impede
- hinder; obstruct; block
- impediment
- hindrance; obstacle; defect
- millipede
- wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments
- pedal
- lever acted on by the foot
- pedestal
- support or foot of a column or statue; foundation
- pedestrian
- commonplace; unimaginative; dull
- velocipede
- tricycle; early form of bicycle
- contact
- touching or meeting; association; connection
- contiguous
- touching; in physcial contact; adjoining
- contigent
- dependent on something else; accidental
- intact
- untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
- intagible
- not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; hard to grasp or define exactly
- tact
- sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a give occasion
- tactful
- having or showing tact; diplomatic
- tactile
- pertaining to the sense of touch; tangible
- tangent
- touching at only one point; line or surface meeting a curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it
- tangential
- merely touching; slightly connected; digressive
- apprehend
- seize or take into custody; understand
- apprehensive
- quick to understand or grasp; fearful of what may come; anxious
- comprehensible
- able to be grasped mentally; understandable
- comprehensive
- including very much; extensive
- prehensile
- adapted for seizing
- reprehend
- find fault with; rebuke; reprimand; censure
- reprehensible
- deserving of censure; culpable
- abject
- sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt
- conjecture
- guess; supposition; inference
- dejected
- downcast; discouraged; depressed
- eject
- throw out; expel; evict
- inject
- force; introduce
- interject
- throw in between; insert; interpose
- object
- protest; disapprove
- project
- thrust; plan
- projectile
- body to be shot or otherwise "thrown forward"
- reject
- discard; refuse to take
- subject
- force to undergo something un pleasant or inconvenient
- advert
- turn attention; refer
- aversion
- feeling of repugnance toward something; strong dislike
- avert
- prevent; avoid
- controversy
- dispute; debate; quarrel
- convert
- transform
- diversion
- entertainment; amusment
- divert
- turn aside; amuse; entertain
- extrovert
- someone "turned outward"
- inadvertently
- without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; unintentionally
- incontrovertible
- not able to be "turned opposite" or disputed; not open to question
- introvert
- someone "turned inward", turn inward
- invert
- turn upside down
- obverse
- side turned toward the observer;
- perverse
- turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded
- pervert
- to turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to
- revert
- return; go back
- versatile
- able to turn with ease from one thing to another; adaptable
- verse
- line of poetry
- vertigo
- condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness
- commitment
- consignment to prison or a mental institution
- demise
- death
- emissary
- person sent out on a mission
- emit
- send out; give off
- intermittent
- coming and going at intervals
- missile
- weapon capable of being propelled to hit a distant object; written message sent; letter
- remiss
- negligen; careless; lax
- remission
- lessening, relieving or disappearance
- remit
- send money due; forgive
- transmit
- coney; cause something to go from one person or place to another
- circumlocution
- roundabout way of speaking
- colloquial
- conversational; informal
- colloquy
- talking together; conference; conversation
- elocution
- art of speaking out or reading effectively in public
- eloquent
- speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive
- grandiloquent
- using lofty or pompous words; bombastic
- interlocutor
- questioner; one who participates in a conversation
- loquacious
- talkative; garrulous
- obloquy
- speaking against; censure; reproach; bad repute
- auriferous
- bearing or yielding gold
- coniferous
- bearing cones, as the pine tree
- odoriferous
- yielding an odor, usually fragrant
- pestiferous
- infected with or bearing disease; pestilential; evil
- proliferous
- producing new growth rapidly and extensively
- somniferous
- bearing or inducing sleep
- vociferous
- producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy