Data

Copy and paste the text below. It is read-only. Select All

torrid adj, hot stentorian adj, loud deleterious adj, harmful apocryphal adj, of doubtful authenticity jocose adj, jesting execrable adj, detestable gigolo n, man financially supported by a woman anathema n, a person cast out and detested; curses incursion n, sudden invasion cite v, to quote from; n, summons; v, mentioned honorably atoll n, ring-shaped coral island fell adj, cruel; deadly diva n, female opera star zephyr n, gentle breeze egregious adj, flagrantly bad emolument n, salary immanent adj, present within yaw v, to swing off course atone v, to make amends eclogue n, short pastoral poem checkered adj, marked by changes of fortune; having a pattern of squares salubrious adj, beneficial oleaginous adj, oily; smoothly bland frenetic adj, hectic; frantic intransigent adj, unwilling to compromise perfunctory adj, mechanically routine pusillanimous adj, fainthearted turbid adj, muddy cambric n, finely-woven linen gastronomy n, the art of good eating apotheosis n, elevation to a godlike state; ultimate expression gratis adj, without charge moot adj, debatable; devoid of practical significance; v, to raise tier n, row espouse v, to marry; to support genuflect v, to bend the knee in worship clarion adj, brilliantly clear risible adj, arousing laughter annular adj, circular attenuate v, to weaken; adj, thin aeon n, indefinitely long period of time abrogate v, to abolish feral adj, beastlike emollient n, soothing ointment endemic adj, restricted to a particular area splenetic adj, easily irritated retrograde adj, tending to make things worse; directed backward chiarascuro n, pictorial use of light and shade litigation n, legal action appendage n, attachment canon n, complete works; important principle; member of the clergy attached to a cathedral; body of law simian adj, apelike factious adj, caused by a group of quarrelsome dissenters factitious adj, artificial sanguine adj, cheerful; ruddy descry v, to catch sight of savant n, scholar mountebank unscrupulous faker beget v, to become the father of obloquy n, condemnatory statements; disgrace dialectical n, logical argument roseate adj, overly optimistic; pink puerile adj, childishly immature debilitated adj, enfeebled bellicose adj, warlike elixir n, medical preparation; magical prolonger ciliated adj, having minute hairs atelier n, artist's studio scintilla n, tiny particle spatial adj, relating to space singular adj, denoting only one; strange; rare; n, separateness indigent adj, poor diurnal adj, active in the daytime; daily sentient adj, having feelings insular adj, of an island; narrow-minded archipelago n, sea containing many scattered islands; cluster of islands pendent adj, hanging pendant n, hanging ornament peon n, unskilled worker tyro n, beginner fiat n, command of the ruler opalescent adj, of changing colors veracious adj, habitually truthful heinous adj, wicked brackish adj, somewhat salty sacerdotal adj, priestly quiescent adj, inactive cabal n, small group of plotters; conspiracy dotage n, feeble-minded state due to old age gyrate v, to move in a spiral path; to move irregularly overrule v, to decide against ensconced v, to conceal; to be settled in place triptych n, picture formed of three parts uxorious adj, excessively devoted to one's wife corporeal adj, physical sanguinary adj, murderous; bloody caulk v, to stop up adduce v, to present mawkish adj, sentimental