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sensation
n. A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
scabbard
n. The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
consonant
adj. Being in agreement or harmony with.
pollen
n. The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
cede
v. To pass title to.
opinion
n. A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge.
quintessence
n. The most essential part of anything.
pentagon
n. A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
philology
n. The study of language in connection with history and literature.
recollect
v. To recall the knowledge of.
demulcent
n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
baffle
v. To foil or frustrate.
frizzle
v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
acute
adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment.
photoelectric
adj. Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
transference
n. The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
trio
n. Three things grouped or associated together.
requisite
adj. Necessary.
prodigal
n. One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
conveyance
n. That by which anything is transported.
mobocracy
n. Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
transparent
adj. Easy to see through or understand.
mnemonics
n. A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
insolence
n. Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
cat-o-nine-tails
n. An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
elegy
n. A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
assonate
v. To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
supplicant
n. One who asks humbly and earnestly.
forgery
n. Counterfeiting.
festal
adj. Joyous.
desiccant
n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
malcontent
n. One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
gamble
v. To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency.
apology
n. A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
broadcast
adj. Disseminated far and wide.
excitation
n. Intensified emotion or action.
negotiable
v. To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
altitude
n. Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
corollary
n. A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
intrigue
n. A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
mishap
n. Misfortune.
syllabus
n. Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
vociferous
adj. Making a loud outcry.
culprit
n. A guilty person.
unconscionable
adj. Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
pernicious
adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
involuntary
adj. Unwilling.
midwife
n. A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
joggle
n. A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
vivisection
n. The dissection of a living animal.
ogre
n. A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
radical
n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
expectorate
v. To cough up and spit forth.
magician
n. A sorcerer.
diplomacy
n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
metonymy
n. A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
fulcrum
n. The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
adoration
n. Profound devotion.
antiphon
n. A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
well-doer
n. A performer of moral and social duties.
bereave
v. To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
quackery
n. Charlatanry
irreparable
adj. That can not be rectified or made amends for.
exacerbate
v. To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
reconstruct
v. To rebuild.
accuracy
n. Exactness.
transition
n. Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
wile
n. An act or a means of cunning deception.
forgo
v. To deny oneself.
cursive
adj. Writing in which the letters are joined together.
derivation
n. That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
possible
adj. Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
urban
adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
contemplate
v. To consider thoughtfully.
nonchalance
n. A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
generate
v. To produce or cause to be.
creamy
adj. Resembling or containing cream.
luminescence
n. Showing increase.
coddle
v. To treat as a baby or an invalid.
objective
adj. Grasping and representing facts as they are.
magnate
n. A person of rank or importance.
consecrate
v. To set apart as sacred.
recruit
v. To enlist men for military or naval service.
paternal
adj. Fatherly.
evert
v. To turn inside out.
patronize
v. To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
desist
v. To cease from action.
henpeck
v. To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
bridle
n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
cessation
n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
clairvoyance
n. Intuitive sagacity or perception.
juridical
adj. Assumed by law to exist.
well-bred
adj. Of good ancestry.
reprieve
v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
dissentient
n. One who disagrees.
constrict
v. To bind.
scarcity
n. Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
adjutant
adj. Auxiliary.
patriarch
n. The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
principality
n. The territory of a reigning prince.
convalescence
n. The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
severely
adv. Extremely.
bodily
adj. Corporeal.
requital
n. Adequate return for good or ill.
implicate
v. To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
nameless
adj. Having no fame or reputation.
tremulous
adj. Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
lustrous
adj. Shining.
marine
adj. Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
posterior
n. The hinder part.
referee
n. An umpire.
pitiful
adj. Wretched.
legislator
n. A lawgiver.
harangue
n. A tirade.
prelate
n. One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
hypodermic
adj. Pertaining to the area under the skin.
rejuvenescence
n. A renewal of youth.
impetuous
adj. Impulsive.
salacious
adj. Having strong sexual desires.
confer
v. To bestow.
extraordinary
adj. Unusual.
transcript
n. A copy made directly from an original.
skeptic
n. One who doubts any statements.
pupilage
n. The state or period of being a student.
projection
n. A prominence.
instigate
v. To provoke.
contrive
v. To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
plummet
n. A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
dogmatize
v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
ineffable
adj. Unutterable.
specimen
n. One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
intoxicate
v. To make drunk.
famish
v. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
annals
n. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
insufficient
adj. Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
itinerate
v. To wander from place to place.
elucidate
v. To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
convulse
v. To cause spasms in.
transmute
v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
triplicity
n. The state of being triple or threefold.
culpable
adj. Guilty.
exonerate
v. To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
picayune
adj. Of small value.
aeronaut
n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
tipsy
adj. Befuddled with drinks.
craving
n. A vehement desire.
ungainly
adj. Clumsy.
vindicate
v. To prove true, right, or real.
recover
v. To regain.
forcible
adj. Violent.
entail
v. To involve; necessitate.
votary
adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise.
deplorable
adj. Contemptible.
defer
v. To delay or put off to some other time.
refringent
adj. Having the power to refract.
admonition
n. Gentle reproof.
fawn
n. A young deer.
prim
adj. Stiffly proper.
impersonate
v. To appear or act in the character of.
cardiac
adj. Pertaining to the heart.
left-handed
adj. Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
illuminate
v. To supply with light.
irresponsible
adj. Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
pretext
n. A fictitious reason or motive.
querulous
adj. Habitually complaining.
recitation
n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
paly
adj. Lacking color or brilliancy.
cantata
n. A choral composition.
hindmost
adj. Farthest from the front.
respite
n. Interval of rest.
engross
v. To occupy completely.
deviltry
n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
apparent
adj. Easily understood.
seditious
adj. Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
volatile
adj. Changeable.
terminate
v. To put an end or stop to.
conclusive
adj. Sufficient to convince or decide.
vernal
adj. Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
gait
n. Carriage of the body in going.
spectator
n. One who beholds or looks on.
sequence
n. The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
preference
n. An object of favor or choice.
obtrude
v. To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
breach
n. The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
influential
adj. Having the power to sway the will of another.
coagulate
v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
buoyant
adj. Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
condense
v. To abridge.
preternatural
adj. Extraordinary.
impoverish
v. To make indigent or poor.
nocturnal
adj. Of or pertaining to the night.
vituperable
adj. Deserving of censure.
emerge
v. To come into view or into existence.
sextuple
adj. Multiplied by six.
success
n. A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
propeller
n. One who or that which propels.
knead
v. To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
neo-Darwinsim
n. Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
irk
v. To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
involve
v. To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
