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hospitality
n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
corporal
adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
unnatural
adj. Artificial.
athwart
adv. From side to side.
gourmand
n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
append
v. To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
perpendicular
adj. Straight up and down.
concur
v. To agree.
indiscernible
adj. Not perceptible.
armory
n. An arsenal.
irrelevant
adj. Inapplicable.
erudite
adj. Very-learned.
cameo
n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
consign
v. To entrust.
vindicatory
adj. Punitive.
abrade
v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
contribution
n. The act of giving for a common purpose.
reprehensible
adj. Censurable.
intermission
n. A recess.
prescient
adj. Foreknowing.
harass
v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
risible
adj. capable of exciting laughter.
fragile
adj. Easily broken.
benevolence
n. Any act of kindness or well-doing.
adumbrate
v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
capitulate
v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
engrave
v. To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
stratum
n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
hesitation
n. Vacillation.
imminence
n. Impending evil or danger.
undulate
v. To move like a wave or in waves.
airy
adj. Delicate, ethereal.
peddle
v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
nomic
adj. Usual or customary.
incompressible
adj. Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
bumptious
adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
Stoicism
n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
uproarious
adj. Noisy.
poise
n. Equilibrium.
agitate
v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
constellation
n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
overseer
n. A supervisor.
foible
n. A personal weakness or failing.
metallurgy
n. The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
precursor
n. A forerunner or herald.
triumvir
n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
monition
n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
amalgamate
v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
affirmative
adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue.
disputation
n. Verbal controversy.
immutable
adj. Unchangeable.
morose
adj. Gloomy.
precedential
adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
puerile
adj. Childish.
belay
v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
violator
n. One who transgresses.
apathy
n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
inchoative
n. That which begins, or expresses beginning.
peerless
adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
acoustic
adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
curt
adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
obituary
adj. A published notice of a death.
precision
n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
dispossess
v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
ravage
v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
automaton
n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
peremptory
adj. Precluding question or appeal.
expend
v. To spend.
doubly
adv. In twofold degree or extent.
liniment
n. A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
omission
n. Exclusion.
neurology
n. The science of the nervous system.
analyze
v. To examine minutely or critically.
dolesome
adj. Melancholy.
neology
n. The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
ambush
n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
infidel
n. One who denies the existence of God.
renunciation
n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
violation
n. Infringement.
repress
v. To keep under restraint or control.
deprave
v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
repellent
adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
hussar
n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
tact
n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
insurgent
n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
infrequent
adj. Uncommon.
demonstrable
adj. Capable of positive proof.
shuffle
n. A mixing or changing the order of things.
minute
adj. Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
refute
v. To prove to be wrong.
genital
adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
aristocracy
n. A hereditary nobility
conquer
v. To overcome by force.
ingredient
n. Component.
pervious
adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
laddie
n. A lad.
norm
n. A model.
exigency
n. A critical period or condition.
discontinuance
n. Interruption or intermission.
abduction
n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
nestle
v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
corrode
v. To ruin or destroy little by little.
refractory
adj. Not amenable to control.
noisome
adj. Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
isochronous
adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
undersized
adj. Of less than the customary size.
succulent
adj. Juicy.
militate
v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
inflammation
n. A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
satirize
v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
mordant
adj. Biting.
prohibition
n. A decree or an order forbidding something.
conflagration
n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
armful
n. As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
hesitancy
n. A pausing to consider.
pauper
n. One without means of support.
garnish
v. In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
pervade
v. To pass or spread through every part.
indiscriminate
adj. Promiscuous.
jeopardize
v. To imperil.
magnificent
adj. Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
exclamation
n. An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
collegian
n. A college student.
service
n. Any work done for the benefit of another.
avarice
n. Passion for getting and keeping riches.
incite
v. To rouse to a particular action.
referable
adj. Ascribable.
sophism
n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
sonnet
n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
gradation
n. A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
untimely
adj. Unseasonable.
decency
n. Moral fitness.
thesis
n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
fundamental
adj. Basal.
loath
adj. Averse.
census
n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
brooch
n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
intromit
v. To insert.
prickle
v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
undercharge
v. To make an inadequate charge for.
linguist
n. One who is acquainted with several languages.
adhere
v. To stick fast or together.
animadversion
n. The utterance of criticism or censure.
retrospective
adj. Looking back on the past.
defensible
adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
definite
adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
element
n. A component or essential part.
ire
n. Wrath.
negation
n. The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
cursory
adj. Rapid and superficial.
translate
v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
instant
n. A very brief portion of time.
drought
n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
bowler
n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
poetaster
n. An inferior poet.
quarter
n. One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
ordinal
n. That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
declension
n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
presage
v. To foretell.
flatulence
n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
populous
adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
immovable
adj. Steadfast.
probate
adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
inoffensive
adj. Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
irony
n. Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
dissonance
n. Discord.
lethargy
n. Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
functionary
n. An official.
geniality
n. Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
opaque
adj. Impervious to light.
occurrence
n. A happening.
bethink
v. To remind oneself.
variation
n. Modification.
rearrange
v. To arrange again or in a different order.
reluctance
n. Unwillingness.
glimpse
n. A momentary look.
moralist
n. A writer on ethics.
relapse
v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
encumber
v. To impede with obstacles.
mania
n. Insanity.
conscientious
adj. Governed by moral standard.
convergent
adj. Tending to one point.
frequency
n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
accessory
n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
allotment
n. Portion.
concordance
n. Harmony.
harmonious
adj. Concordant in sound.
inactive
adj. Inert.
forfeit
v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
maritime
adj. Situated on or near the sea.
necessitate
v. To render indispensable.
exhale
v. To breathe forth.
tiresome
adj. Wearisome.
submission
n. A yielding to the power or authority of another.
forejudge
v. To judge of before hearing evidence.
parallelism
n. Essential likeness.
hypotenuse
n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
intrude
v. To come in without leave or license.
displace
v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
dissent
n. Disagreement.
