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tremendous
adj. Awe-inspiring.
voluptuous
adj. having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
conjunction
n. The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
telescope
v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
conformity
n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
prohibition
n. A decree or an order forbidding something.
erratic
adj. Irregular.
clement
adj. Compassionate.
indomitable
adj. Unconquerable.
ecstatic
adj. Enraptured.
copious
adj. Plenteous.
quarterly
adj. Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
medieval
adj. Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
deprecate
v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
disparity
n. Inequality.
tolerance
n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
wampum
n. Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
infusion
n. The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
aforesaid
adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
vassal
n. A slave or bondman.
zeitgeist
n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
sepulcher
n. A burial-place.
automaton
n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
somnolent
adj. Sleepy.
derive
v. To deduce, as from a premise.
imperative
adj. Obligatory.
parlance
n. Mode of speech.
propitious
adj. Kindly disposed.
avalanche
n. The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
verdant
adj. Green with vegetation.
impregnate
v. To make pregnant.
ceremonious
adj. Observant of ritual.
encompass
v. To encircle.
ultimate
adj. Beyond which there is nothing else.
bigamy
n. The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
recapture
v. To capture again.
meddlesome
adj. Interfering.
obituary
adj. A published notice of a death.
Anglophobia
n. Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
promulgate
v. To proclaim.
anagram
n. The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
decapod
adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
prominence
n. The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
foolery
n. Folly.
parliament
n. A legislative body.
lying
n. Untruthfulness.
unify
v. To cause to be one.
dialect
n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
hosiery
n. A stocking.
participant
n. One having a share or part.
bombast
n. Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
duration
n. The period of time during which anything lasts.
depositor
n. One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
later
adv. At a subsequent time.
sophisticate
v. To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
insurrection
n. The state of being in active resistance to authority.
mealy-mouthed
adj. Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
anticyclone
n. An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
truthful
adj. Veracious.
laud
v. To praise in words or song.
impolitic
adj. Inexpedient.
interposition
n. A coming between.
distort
v. To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
captious
adj. Hypercritical.
apathy
n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
accusatory
adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
intestacy
n. The condition resulting from one’s dying not having made a valid will.
wield
v. To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
pretension
n. A bold or presumptuous assertion.
oscillate
v. To swing back and forth.
referrer
n. One who refers.
repulse
n. The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
extenuate
v. To diminish the gravity or importance of.
guileless
adj. Frank.
infest
v. To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger.
continuance
n. Permanence.
anthology
n. A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
morphology
n. the science of organic forms.
egoism
n. The theory that places man’s chief good in the completeness of self.
faulty
adj. Imperfect.
aggrandize
v. To cause to appear greatly.
plagiarism
n. The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one’s own.
bray
n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
fulsome
adj. Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
symmetry
n. Relative proportion and harmony.
dismissal
n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
intracellular
adj. Occurring or situated within a cell.
fungous
adj. Spongy.
singe
v. To burn slightly or superficially.
philosophy
n. The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
overthrow
v. To vanquish an established ruler or government.
plenitude
n. Abundance.
finite
adj. Limited.
overeat
v. To eat to excess.
uppermost
adj. First in order of precedence.
clairvoyance
n. Intuitive sagacity or perception.
deceit
n. Falsehood.
profligate
adj. Abandoned to vice.
coronation
n. The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
anthropomorphous
adj. Having or resembling human form.
transfuse
v. To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
amusement
n. Diversion.
beau
n. An escort or lover.
antenatal
adj. Occurring or existing before birth.
dictum
n. A positive utterance.
variable
adj. Having a tendency to change.
cat-o-nine-tails
n. An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
repulsive
adj. Grossly offensive.
compression
n. Constraint, as by force or authority.
contiguous
adj. Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
insignificant
adj. Without importance, force, or influence.
velvety
adj. Marked by lightness and softness.
actuality
n. Any reality.
whereabouts
n. The place in or near which a person or thing is.
antecedent
n. One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
respite
n. Interval of rest.
conjugal
adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
denude
v. To strip the covering from.
bureau
n. A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
analogy
n. Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
extol
v. To praise in the highest terms.
rightful
adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
choleric
adj. Easily provoked to anger.
loch
n. A lake.
cynicism
n. Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
insular
adj. Pertaining to an island.
palpable
n. perceptible by feeling or touch.
palette
n. A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
frowzy
adj. Slovenly in appearance.
beneficent
adj. Characterized by charity and kindness.
prophecy
n. Any prediction or foretelling.
trinity
n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
regime
n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
quartet
n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
inadmissible
adj. Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
fissure
n. A crack or crack-like depression.
impersuadable
adj. Unyielding.
exorbitance
n. Extravagance or enormity.
superintend
v. To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
arrear
n. Something overdue and unpaid.
exhale
v. To breathe forth.
latency
n. The state of being dormant.
accost
v. To speak to.
prudery
n. An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
distemper
n. A disease or malady.
incomparable
adj. Matchless.
demagnetize
v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
inconsistent
adj. Contradictory.
adjacency
n. The state of being adjacent.
protocol
n. A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
decapitate
v. To behead.
assonance
n. Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
pompous
adj. Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
unguent
n. Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
loath
adj. Averse.
debatable
adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
lunar
adj. Pertaining to the moon.
veracious
adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
writhe
v. To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
commissariat
n. The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
impliable
adj. Capable of being inferred.
dissimilar
adj. Different.
erudite
adj. Very-learned.
principality
n. The territory of a reigning prince.
assonant
adj. Having resemblance of sound.
treachery
n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
probe
v. To search through and through.
impregnable
adj. That can not be taken by assault.
contumacy
n. Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
propagate
v. To spread abroad or from person to person.
ravage
v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
inapt
adj. Awkward or slow.
bale
n. A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
doubly
adv. In twofold degree or extent.
pledgee
n. The person to whom anything is pledged.
fez
n. A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
aspire
v. To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
picayune
adj. Of small value.
enthuse
v. To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
indefinitely
adv. In a vague or uncertain way.
biography
n. A written account of one’s life, actions, and character.
philanthropic
adj. Benevolent.
qualification
n. A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
exorcise
v. To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
pharmacy
n. The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
consignor
n. One who entrusts.
ante
v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
curio
n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
incisor
n. A front or cutting tooth.
boatswain
n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
outrigger
n. A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
immaculate
adj. Without spot or blemish.
superlative
n. That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
constrict
v. To bind.
transfusible
adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
preponderate
v. To exceed in influence or power.
sonnet
n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
precedential
adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
fluent
adj. Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
burgher
n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
