| Term | Definition |
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| lekker | nice, tasty, pleasant |
| tucket | (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments |
| gride | harsh scraping adj. |
| argle | to argue |
| bemegride | n. antidote, barbituate |
| asynchronism | adj. not at the same time |
| conation | mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose |
| slummock | n. a messy person |
| semibreve | n. a whole note, half the length of breve |
| spiccato | bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings |
| flay | strip the skin off and to frighten |
| catenate | v. to link together like the links in a chain |
| calx | V. heel |
| potiche | n. a tall vase or jar of porcelain, etc., with a rounded or polygonal body narrowing toward the top |
| spall | n. a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge |
| schnecken | n. rich yeast rolls consisting of dough rolled around a filling as of nuts and cinnamon, sliced crosswise, and baked flat to produce a spiral shape |
| catalpan | n. a big tree |
| chouse | V. defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit |
| lacuna | n. blank gap, missing part |
| astilbe | n. a type of flower |
| goliard | n. a wandering scholar in medieval Europe |
| escharotic | caustic |
| palter | to act insincerely or deceitfully, to equivocate |
| agrestic | n. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth |
| frowsty | stale and unclean smelling adj. |
| muckle | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent |
| contagious | N. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection |
| seneschal | the chief steward or butler of a great household |
| caliginous | dark and misty and gloomy adj. |
| teleost | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei N. |
| cadenza | a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music |
| seborrhea | a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily |
| camlet | strong waterproof silk or wool fabric |
| bobotie | n. south african meat dish |
| hele | n. head cover v. to hide |
| fleat | n. lancet |
| garboil | adj. confusion, a state of commotion and noise and confusion |
| abatic | adj. of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) |
| assoil | v. to find not guilty |
| carpel | n. female flower organ |
| paroquet | n. long tailed parrot |
| trenchant | clearly or sharply defined to the mind, incisive, keen; forceful, effective; cutting, caustic; distinct, clear-cut |
| plenum | n. meeting attendance, a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present |
| polysemy | n. many meanings |
| aleconner | n. beer tester |
| sowbread | common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers type of plant |
| pignus | n. collateral |
| rete | n. a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels |
| cultrate | adj. pointed knife-like |
| reliction | n. Land that forms after water recedes |
| abranchiate | adj. having no gills |
| apodosis | n. the main clause of a conditional sentence i.e. the game will be canceled (apodosis) if it rains |
| solfatara | n. a volcanic area that gives off sulfurous gas |
| skelf | n. wood splinter |
| surcingle | a beltlike fastening for a garment (n) or straps the saddle to the horse |
| subulate | n, pointed |
| skite | v. to boast to brabble squabble |
| attermine | v. fix a time |
| quarrain | n. a cockatiel |
| teleran | air-control system |
| roturrier | adj. commoner |
| commove | cause to be agitated, excited, or roused |
| langlouf | n. cross country skiing |
| storax | fragrant balsam |
| janglear | folk singer |
| sendal | light silk |
| trover | legal recovery act |
| killick | small anchor |
| lapstrake | overlapping planks |
| spital | hospital for contagious |
| anome | socially unstable |
| pestiferous | causing irritation or annoyance, tending to corrupt or pervert likely to spread or cause a pandemic adj. |
| amygduloid | adj. like a small glass bubble |
| varlet | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel |
| panada | n. A paste or gruel of bread crumbs, toast, or flour combined with milk, stock, or water and used for making soups, binding forcemeats, or thickening sauces. |
| dipsomaniac | a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually |
| nimiety | a quantity much larger than is needed |
| basilisk | (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance, spellbinding;fatal |
| rhizoid | threadlike structures that anchor nonvascular plants to the ground |
| erythrism | unusual red pigmentation as of hair or plumage |
| tabby | having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring |
| venesection | surgical incision into a vein |
| swale | low lying stretch of land |
| pettifog | argue over petty things |
| waspish | very irritable easily irritated |
| bairn | a child: son or daughter |
| boabab | n. type of tree |
| ursine | adj. bear-like |
| porcine | pig-like |
| lupine | wolf-like |
| vulpine | fox-like |
| dirigible | a steerable self-propelled airship |
| chelonion | n. reptiles of a specific order |
| koumiss | an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk |
| diaphoresis | profuse sweating |
| saponify | convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali |
| fellah | A peasant or agricultural laborer in an Arab country, such as Syria or Egypt |
| glissade | to glide |
| radix | n. That from or on which something is developed. |
| cervine | of, pertaining to or resembling deer, elk or moose adj. |
| zebu | domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap |
| stanchion | any vertical post or rod used as a support v. to confine |
| paradisiacal | relating to or befitting paradise |
| cembalo | harpsichord n. |
| nacre | also called mother of pearl; material that makes a pearl oyster's shell as well as forms the pearl |
| macadamize | v. To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone. |
| nudibranch | any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body |
| sirocco | a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand n. |
| bifid | divided in two by a deep split |
| periphrasis | Adding in superfluous words to extend the message you are trying to give - "beating around the bush", so to speak., a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| fletch | n. arrow |
| staddle | a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked |
| gomuti | n. palm fiber |
| asyndelton | n. solecism an omission of conjunction |
| caliphate | n. an area of caliph rule |
| lagen | n. sea wreckage |
| scurrile | adj. scurrilous |
| flagitious | adj. wicked |
| pawky | shrewd and cunning adj. |
| stele | an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings |
| libra | n. roman weight measure |
| raki | turkish brandy |
| bandog | n. an aggressive dog |
| spirogran | n. breathe recording |
| spikanard | n. an aromatic plant |
| calomel | n. a laxative; often used as a cure for intestinal worms |
| palfrey | . especially a light saddle horse for a woman |
| actuate | to move to action; to impel |
| springe | to jump, run, or to snare and trap |
| varicella | chicken pox |
| menhir | A single upright stone. |
| mouflon | n. wild sheep |
| pettifogger | a petty, unscrupulous lawyer; also, who quibbles over trivia., a disputant who quibbles |
| ruction | n. the act of making a noisy disturbance |
| sororal | (adj) of, relating to, or resembling a sister; sisterly. Root: soror - sister |
| trine | The third harmonic, 120°; the most influential major easy aspect. The trine blends planetary energies, harmoniously indicating ease of expression., 120-degree angle |
| camelopard | giraffe |
| stevedore | person who loads and unloads ships n. a dockworker |
| dulcinea | sweetheart |
| ametropia | Any error of refraction in which images do not focus properly on the retina. Astigmatism, hyperopia, and myopia are forms of this. |
| asepsis | the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms, Being free of disease-producing microbes |
| dysphagia | difficulty in swallowing |
| dicker | to bargain; to argue over prices |
| globose | having the shape of a sphere or ball |
| dugong | a large plant-eating mammal, related to the manatee, that lives in shallow tropical coastal waters |
| kraken | legendary sea monster |
| vermicular | pertaining to a worm, decorated with wormlike tracery or markings adj. |
| shaitan | n. (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray |
| fistulous | like a reed or tube adj. |
| diaphoretic | used to produce perspiration adj. , inducing perspiration |
| aslant | adj. at a slant; slantingly; obliquely. |
| gewgaw | cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing |
| moorage | the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes |
| anthracite | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
| smithy | a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering a forge |
| haft | the handle of a weapon or tool |
| kibosh | (n) The act of halting or squelching. To put the blank on something is to stop it. Literally, it is a spell that brings about the doom of something. |
| magus | n. a magician thaumaturgist |
| muscat | sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine |
| sibilant | a hissing sound , of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as 'f', 's', 'z', or 'th' in both 'thin' and 'then') |
| proem | introduction to epic |
| edentate | toothless; without teeth; pertaining to aardvarks and sloths |
| hermetic | adj. airtight |
| monition | n. a warning |
| raillery | n. banter, light teasing repartee |
| larboard | port; the left handed side of a ship |
| rime | ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) |
| hoarfrost | rime, feathery ice crystals from dew |
| lyophilization | v. freezedrying |
| cuirass | medieval body armor that covers the chest and back |
| eccymosis | skin discoloration (bruise) of large, irregular hemorragic area, colors changing from blue-black to greenish brown or yellow |
| danseuse | A woman who is a ballet dancer. n. a ballerina |
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