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- barrister
- counselor-at-law
- lampoon
- ridicule
- precipitate (v)
- throw headlong, hasten
- asylum
- place of refuge or shelter, protection
- graduated
- arranged by degrees
- chassis
- framework of an automobile
- florid
- ruddy, reddish, flowery
- quench
- douse or extinguish, assuage or satisfy
- dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion
- decoy
- lure, bait
- barterer
- trader
- invocation
- prayer for help, calling upon as reference or support
- nebulous
- vague, hazy, cloudy
- lament
- grieve, express sorrow
- galleon
- large sailing ship
- chasm
- abyss
- saline
- salty
- dislodge
- remove (forcibly)
- flora
- plants of a region or era
- subservient
- behaving like a slave, servile, obsequious
- redundant
- superfluous, repetitious
- tatty
- worn and shabby, bedraggled
- mitigate
- lessen in intensity, moderate, appease
- conjecture
- surmise, guess
- nautical
- pertaining to ships or navigation
- paean
- song of praise or joy
- abet
- assist, usually in doing something wrong, encourage
- hindrance
- block, obstacle
- bohemian
- unconventional (in an artistic way), not bourgeois
- pedestrian
- ordinary, unimaginative
- voracious
- ravenous
- bode
- foreshadow portend (bode plot)
- endue
- provide with some quality, endow
- paediatrician
- children's physician
- torso
- trunk of statue with head and limbs missing, human trunk
- conjugal
- pertaining to marriage
- unanimity
- complete agreement
- obtuse
- blunt, stupid
- desolate (v)
- rob of joy, lay waste to, forsake
- amity
- friendship
- venial
- forgiveable, trivial
- grandeur
- impressiveness, stateliness, majesty
- earthy
- unrefined, coarse
- lucre
- money
- incite
- goad, motivate
- capillary
- having a very fine bore
- mayhem
- injury to body
- propulsive
- driving forward
- prosaic
- dull and unimaginative, factual
- sonorous
- resonant
- desolate (adj)
- unpopulated, joyless
- phoenix
- symbol of immortality or rebirth
- philology
- study of language
- precipitous
- steep, overhasty
- maxim
- proverb, a truth pithily stated
- decomposition
- decay
- ludicrous
- laughable, trifling
- granary
- storehouse of grains
- evanescent
- fleeting, vanishing
- adversity
- poverty, misfortune
- mite
- very small object or creature, small coin
- bogus
- counterfeit, not authentic
- salient
- prominent
- quell
- extinguish, put down, quiet
- fancier
- breeder or dealer of animals
- resonant
- echoing, resounding, deep and full in sound
- fancied
- imagined, unreal
- dismember
- cut into small parts
- fanaticism
- excessive zeal
- obtrude
- push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude, butt in, stick out or extrude
- inviolable
- unassailable
- navigable
- wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through, able to be steered
- gall (v)
- annoy, chafe
- mnemonic
- pertaining to memory
- reek
- emit (odor)
- colloquium
- formal seminar or conference
- enfranchise
- admit to the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote
- colloquial
- pertaining to conversational or common speech, informal
- colloquy
- informal discussion
- inclement
- stormy, unkind
- enduring
- lasting, surviving
- resolve (v)
- decide, settle, solve
- hindmost
- furthest behind
- dismantle
- take apart
- Aberration
- abnormality, departure from the norm, mental irregularity and disorder
- immure
- imprisoned, shut up in confinement
- evasive
- not frank, eluding
- pacifist
- antimilitarist
- inimical
- unfriendly, hostile, harmful, detrimental
- resolve (n)
- determination, firmness of purpose
- serpentine
- winding, twisting
- inhibit
- restrain, retard or prevent
- appellation
- name, title
- impale
- pierce
- covetous
- avaricious, eagerly desirous of