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probity
n. Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
counting-house
n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
qualm
n. A fit of nausea.
urchin
n. A roguish, mischievous boy.
outride
v. To ride faster than.
intrepid
adj. Fearless and bold.
legacy
n. A bequest.
auxiliary
n. One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
misanthropy
n. Hatred of mankind.
conscript
v. To force into military service.
mawkish
adj. Sickening or insipid.
extol
v. To praise in the highest terms.
eject
v. To expel.
quintet
n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
interpose
v. To come between other things or persons.
alias
n. An assumed name.
payee
n. A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
insignificant
adj. Without importance, force, or influence.
provident
adj. Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
Bowdlerize
v. To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
enkindle
v. To set on fire.
domicile
n. The place where one lives.
modulate
v. To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
imperceptible
adj. Indiscernible.
lawgiver
n. A legislator.
improvise
v. To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
desistance
n. Cessation.
arrival
n. A coming to stopping-place or destination.
collective
adj. Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
foliage
n. Any growth of leaves.
nauseate
v. To cause to loathe.
bitterness
n. Acridity, as to the taste.
indulgence
n. The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
writing
n. The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
fiasco
n. A complete or humiliating failure.
proficient
adj. Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
dutiful
adj. Obedient.
facsimile
n. An exact copy or reproduction.
disappoint
v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
placate
v. To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
autocracy
n. Absolute government.
nomination
n. The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
gratuitous
adj. Voluntarily.
fulsome
adj. Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
abstain
v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
versatile
adj. Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
pediatrics
n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
annex
v. To add or affix at the end.
fallow
n. Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
inexplicable
adj. Such as can not be made plain.
dragoon
n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
fluent
adj. Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
libel
n. Defamation.
judgment
n. The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
islet
n. A little island.
sluggard
n. A person habitually lazy or idle.
bravado
n. An aggressive display of boldness.
advisory
adj. Not mandatory.
relinquish
v. To give up using or having.
torturous
adj. Marked by extreme suffering.
confidant
n. One to whom secrets are entrusted.
divert
v. To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
caustic
adj. Sarcastic and severe.
vicarious
adj. Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
deteriorate
v. To grow worse.
antipodes
n. A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
privateer
n. A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
capillary
n. A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
predecessor
n. An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
colloquial
adj. Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
juncture
n. An articulation, joint, or seam.
feudal
adj. Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
scuttle
v. To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
aggrandize
v. To cause to appear greatly.
dialect
n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
lackadaisical
adj. Listless.
requiem
n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
timorous
adj. Lacking courage.
necessity
n. That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
electrolysis
n. The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
conjecture
n. A guess.
artless
adj. Ingenuous.
preferment
n. Preference.
haggard
adj. Worn and gaunt in appearance.
exasperate
v. To excite great anger in.
linear
adj. Of the nature of a line.
unsophisticated
adj. Showing inexperience.
consul
n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
cajolery
n. Delusive speech.
sordid
adj. Of degraded character or nature.
irresistible
adj. That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
parable
n. A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
imbrue
v. To wet or moisten.
almanac
n. A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
pestilence
n. A raging epidemic.
sapid
adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
spheroid
n. A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
conservatory
n. An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
truthful
adj. Veracious.
unavoidable
adj. Inevitable.
jugglery
n. The art or practice of sleight of hand.
photometer
n. Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
overtone
n. A harmonic.
plutocracy
n. A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
extremist
n. One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
decapod
adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
bureaucracy
n. Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
absent-minded
adj. Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
console
v. To comfort.
soliloquy
n. A monologue.
seismograph
n. An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
mundane
adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
subjection
n. The act of bringing into a state of submission.
abbot
n. The superior of a community of monks.
moratorium
n. An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
cornucopia
n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
expatriate
v. To drive from one’s own country.
proscenium
n. That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
amenable
adj. Willing and ready to submit.
decimate
v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
verbiage
n. Use of many words without necessity.
pentavalent
adj. Quinqeuvalent.
Calvary
n. The place where Christ was crucified.
landlord
n. A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
mandate
n. A command.
metropolis
n. A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.
abnegate
v. To renounce (a right or privilege).
radiate
v. To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
florist
n. A dealer in flowers.
subsequent
adj. Following in time.
frantic
adj. Frenzied.
bestial
adj. Animal.
theology
n. The branch of theological science that treats of God.
polemics
n. The art of controversy or disputation.
crusade
n. Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
originate
v. To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
biennial
n. A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
metropolitan
adj. Pertaining to a chief city.
endurance
n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
out-of-the-way
adj. Remotely situated.
compliant
adj. Yielding.
exhilarate
v. To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
perform
v. To accomplish.
nestling
adj. Recently hatched.
accurate
adj. Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
lithotype
n. In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
denomination
n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
declarative
adj. Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
employer
n. One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.
noticeable
adj. Perceptible.
bumper
n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
epoch
n. A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
defiant
adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
dyne
n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
phonology
n. The science of human vocal sounds.
repressible
adj. Able to be kept under restraint or control.
antemeridian
adj. Before noon.
inhibit
v. To hold back or in.
precarious
adj. Perilous.
usurp
v. To take possession of by force.
leaflet
n. A little leaf or a booklet.
dilemma
n. A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
buttress
n. Any support or prop.
inedible
adj. Not good for food.
dispensation
n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
moderator
n. The presiding officer of a meeting.
fealty
n. Loyalty.
species
n. A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
felicitate
v. To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
regality
n. Royalty.
sparse
adj. Thinly diffused.
execration
n. An accursed thing.
conformation
n. General structure, form, or outline.
bore
v. To weary by tediousness or dullness.
distill
v. To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
icily
adv. Frigidly.
interminable
adj. Having no limit or end.
able-bodied
adj. Competent for physical service.
intermit
v. To cause to cease temporarily.
Pan-American
adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
polygon
n. A figure having many angles.
gamester
n. A gambler.
beatify
v. To make supremely happy.
redound
n. Rebound.
hospitable
adj. Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
literature
n. The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
recant
v. To withdraw formally one’s belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
dissonant
adj. Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
sardonic
adj. Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
credulous
adj. Easily deceived.
superlative
n. That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
concussion
n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
decoy
n. Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
equilibrium
n. A state of balance.
inevitable
adj. Unavoidable.
dimly
adv. Obscurely.
out-and-out
adv. Genuinely.
rampant
adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
misrule
v. To misgovern.
masonry
n. The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
