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

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