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malignant
adj. Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.
rejoin
v. To reunite after separation.
potion
n. A dose of liquid medicine.
determinate
adj. Definitely limited or fixed.
reliance
n. Dependence.
lordling
n. A little lord.
conjugal
adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
punctilious
adj. Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
progeny
n. Offspring.
instantaneous
adj. Done without perceptible lapse of time.
curio
n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
scholastic
adj. Pertaining to education or schools.
superintend
v. To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
purveyor
n. one who supplies
forfend
v. To ward off.
vocable
n. a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
percussion
n. The sharp striking of one body against another.
lateral
adj. Directed toward the side.
forebode
v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
accelerate
v. To move faster.
brusque
adj. Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
jargon
n. Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
spasmodic
adj. Convulsive.
Newtonian
adj. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
effulgence
n. Splendor.
naturally
adv. According to the usual order of things.
cant
v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
divulge
v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
clandestine
adj. Surreptitious.
inject
v. To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
annunciation
n. Proclamation.
teem
v. To be full to overflowing.
heifer
n. A young cow.
debut
n. A first appearance in society or on the stage.
dogma
n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
pact
n. A covenant.
meretricious
adj. Alluring by false or gaudy show.
extensor
n. A muscle that causes extension.
patronymic
adj. Formed after one’s father’s name.
Briticism
n. A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
ligneous
adj. Having the texture of appearance of wood.
distensible
adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
abbess
n. The lady superior of a nunnery.
flux
n. A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
disunion
n. Separation of relations or interests.
transfigure
v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
sympathize
v. To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
valediction
n. A bidding farewell.
destitute
adj. Poverty-stricken.
separable
adj. Capable of being disjoined or divided.
analogy
n. Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
pecuniary
adj. Consisting of money.
plenary
adj. Entire.
imprudent
adj. Heedless.
irreversible
adj. Irrevocable.
intersect
v. To cut through or into so as to divide.
safeguard
v. To protect.
generic
adj. Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific.
peerage
n. The nobility.
Madonna
n. A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
incentive
n. That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
temporary
adj. Lasting for a short time only.
satiric
adj. Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
momentum
n. An impetus.
inarticulate
adj. Speechless.
aggress
v. To make the first attack.
notorious
adj. Unfavorably known to the general public.
petulance
n. The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
pentagram
n. A figure having five points or lobes.
wizen
v. To become or cause to become withered or dry.
luminosity
n. The quality of giving or radiating light.
compulsory
adj. Forced.
reformer
n. One who carries out a reform.
ardent
adj. Burning with passion.
fragile
adj. Capable of being broken.
becalm
v. To make quiet.
enthrone
v. To invest with sovereign power.
quay
n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
relevant
adj. Bearing upon the matter in hand.
vaporizer
n. An atomizer.
prophecy
n. Any prediction or foretelling.
asexual
adj. Having no distinct sexual organs.
benevolent
adj. Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
deponent
adj. Laying down.
venal
adj. Mercenary, corrupt.
canon
n. Any rule or law.
nowhere
adv. In no place or state.
fluctuate
v. To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
ichthyosaurs
n. A fossil reptile.
importation
n. The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
suffrage
n. The right or privilege of voting.
clothier
n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
minority
n. The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
insignificance
n. Lack of import or of importance.
donor
n. One who makes a donation or present.
ligament
n. That which binds objects together.
antediluvian
adj. Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
prevalent
adj. Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
missal
n. The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
rondo
n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
rhetorician
n. A showy writer or speaker.
pungency
n. The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
codicil
n. A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
lucid
adj. Mentally sound.
extempore
adv. Without studied or special preparation.
optometry
n. Measurement of the powers of vision.
ointment
n. A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
implausible
adj. Not plausible.
puissant
adj. Possessing strength.
latish
adj. Rather late.
distillation
n. Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
blockade
n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
underexposed
adj. Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
accompaniment
n. A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
arboretum
n. A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
hexagon
n. A figure with six angles.
convertible
adj. Interchangeable.
negligence
n. Omission of that which ought to be done.
attache
n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
meager
adj. scanty.
detest
v. To dislike or hate with intensity.
inkling
n. A hint.
relish
v. To like the taste or savor of.
sinuosity
n. The quality of curving in and out.
reflectible
adj. Capable of being turned back.
deficient
adj. Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
inquisition
n. A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
florid
adj. Flushed with red.
annalist
n. Historian.
imply
v. To signify.
irreverent
adj. Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
actuality
n. Any reality.
later
adv. At a subsequent time.
cygnet
n. A young swan.
coquette
n. A flirt.
perturb
v. To disturb greatly.
corrosive
n. That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
enjoin
v. To command.
sirocco
n. hot winds from Africa.
steppe
n. One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
souvenir
n. A token of remembrance.
inception
n. The beginning.
vignette
n. A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
conductible
adj. Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
unison
n. A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
proscribe
v. To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
underwrite
v. To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
effrontery
n. Unblushing impudence.
accredit
v. To give credit or authority to.
skirmish
n. Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
emphatic
adj. Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
seer
n. A prophet.
azalea
n. A flowering shrub.
technography
n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
inventive
adj. Quick at contrivance.
heterogeneous
adj. Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
alien
n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
oversee
v. To superintend.
archangel
n. An angel of high rank.
gesticulate
v. To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
bolero
n. A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
extinguish
v. To render extinct.
thermoelectric
adj. Denoting electricity produced by heat.
ostracize
v. To exclude from public or private favor.
remonstrant
adj. Having the character of a reproof.
fallacy
n. Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
prudence
n. Caution.
pedagogue
n. A schoolmaster.
contemporaneous
adj. Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
superfluity
n. That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
misty
adj. Lacking clearness
emphasize
v. To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words.
neural
adj. Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
spectrum
n. An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
collector
n. One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
meliorate
v. To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
vestige
n. A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
viola
n. A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
reciprocate
v. To give and take mutually.
gaseous
adj. Light and unsubstantial.
legging
n. A covering for the leg.
declamatory
adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
hypnotism
n. An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
savage
n. A wild and uncivilized human being.
dutiable
adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
statuette
n. A figurine.
deface
v. To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
brandish
v. To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
subliminal
adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
commemorate
v. To serve as a remembrance of.
differentiate
v. To acquire a distinct and separate character.
trepidation
n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
ablution
n. A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
check
v. To hold back.
matrimony
n. The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
fresco
n. The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
aura
n. Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
culinary
adj. Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
judiciary
n. That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice.
stanza
n. A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
