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Terms | Definitions |
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abase | To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. |
abbess | The lady superior of a nunnery. |
abbey | The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns. |
abbot | The superior of a community of monks. |
abdicate | To give up (royal power or the like). |
abdomen | In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly. |
abdominal | Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen. |
abduction | A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally. |
abed | In bed; on a bed. |
aberration | Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course. |
abet | To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense). |
abeyance | A state of suspension or temporary inaction. |
abhorrence | The act of detesting extremely. |
abhorrent | Very repugnant; hateful. |
abidance | An abiding. |
abject | Sunk to a low condition. |
abjure | To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath. |
able-bodied | Competent for physical service. |
ablution | A washing or cleansing, especially of the body. |
abnegate | To renounce (a right or privilege). |
abnormal | Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard. |
abominable | Very hateful. |
abominate | To hate violently. |
abomination | A very detestable act or practice. |
aboriginal | Primitive; unsophisticated. |
aborigines | The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country. |
aboveboard | & - Without concealment, fraud, or trickery. |
abrade | To wear away the surface or some part of by friction. |
abrasion | That which is rubbed off. |
abridge | To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles. |
abridgment | A condensed form as of a book or play. |
abrogate | To abolish, repeal. |
abrupt | Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break. |
abscess | A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body. |
abscission | The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation. |
abscond | To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest. |
absence | The fact of not being present or available. |
absent-minded | Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business. |
absolution | Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses. |
absolve | To free from sin or its penalties. |
absorb | To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water. |
absorption | The act or process of absorbing. |
abstain | To keep oneself back (from doing or using something). |
abstemious | Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food. |
abstinence | Self denial. |
abstruse | Dealing with matters difficult to be understood. |
absurd | Inconsistent with reason or common sense. |
abundant | Plentiful. |
abusive | Employing harsh words or ill treatment. |
abut | To touch at the end or boundary line. |
abyss | Bottomless gulf. |
academic | Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university. |
academician | A member of an academy of literature, art, or science. |
academy | Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught. |
accede | To agree. |
accelerate | To move faster. |
accept | To take when offered. |
access | A way of approach or entrance; passage. |
accessible | Approachable. |
accession | Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government. |
accessory | A person or thing that aids the principal agent. |
acclaim | To utter with a shout. |
accommodate | To furnish something as a kindness or favor. |
accompaniment | A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part. |
accompanist | One who or that which accompanies. |
accompany | To go with, or be associated with, as a companion. |
accomplice | An associate in wrong-doing. |
accomplish | To bring to pass. |
accordion | A portable free-reed musical instrument. |
accost | To speak to. |
account | A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions. |
accouter | To dress. |
accredit | To give credit or authority to. |
accumulate | To become greater in quantity or number. |
accuracy | Exactness. |
accurate | Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard. |
accursed | Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune. |
accusation | A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error. |
accusatory | Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation. |
accuse | To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error. |
accustom | To make familiar by use. |
acerbity | Sourness, with bitterness and astringency. |
acetate | A salt of acetic acid. |
acetic | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar. |
ache | To be in pain or distress. |
Achillean | Invulnerable. |
achromatic | Colorless, |
acid | A sour substance. |
acidify | To change into acid. |
acknowledge | To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of. |
acknowledgment | Recognition. |
acme | The highest point, or summit. |
acoustic | Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing. |
acquaint | To make familiar or conversant. |
acquiesce | To comply; submit. |
acquiescence | Passive consent. |
acquire | To get as one's own. |
acquisition | Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor. |
acquit | To free or clear, as from accusation. |
acquittal | A discharge from accusation by judicial action. |
acquittance | Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility. |
acreage | Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land. |
acrid | Harshly pungent or bitter. |
acrimonious | Full of bitterness. |
acrimony | Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper. |
actionable | Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words. |
actuality | Any reality. |
actuary | An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums. |
actuate | To move or incite to action. |
acumen | Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination. |
acute | Having fine and penetrating discernment. |
adamant | Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability. |
addendum | Something added, or to be added. |
addle | To make inefficient or worthless; muddle. |
adduce | To bring forward or name for consideration. |
adhere | To stick fast or together. |
adherence | Attachment. |
adherent | Clinging or sticking fast. |
adhesion | The state of being attached or joined. |
adjacency | The state of being adjacent. |
adjacent | That which is near or bordering upon. |
adjudge | To award or bestow by formal decision. |
adjunct | Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place. |
adjuration | A vehement appeal. |
adjutant | Auxiliary. |
administrator | One who manages affairs of any kind. |
admissible | Having the right or privilege of entry. |
admittance | Entrance, or the right or permission to enter. |
admonish | To warn of a fault. |
admonition | Gentle reproof. |
ado | unnecessary activity or ceremony. |
adoration | Profound devotion. |
adroit | Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers. |
adulterant | An adulterating substance. |
adulterate | To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients. |
adumbrate | To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem. |
advent | The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage. |
adverse | Opposing or opposed. |
adversity | Misfortune. |
advert | To refer incidentally. |
advertiser | One who advertises, especially in newspapers. |
advisory | Not mandatory. |
advocacy | The act of pleading a cause. |
advocate | One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court. |
aerial | Of, pertaining to, or like the air. |
aeronaut | One who navigates the air, a balloonist. |
aeronautics | the art or practice of flying aircraft |
aerostat | A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air. |
aerostatics | The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties. |
affable | Easy to approach. |
affect | To act upon |
affectation | A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt. |
affiliate | Some auxiliary person or thing. |
affirmative | Answering yes; to a question at issue. |
affix | To fasten. |
affluence | A profuse or abundant supply of riches. |
affront | An open insult or indignity. |
afire | On fire, literally or figuratively. |
afoot | In progress. |
aforesaid | Said in a preceding part or before. |
afresh | Once more, after rest or interval. |
afterthought | A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time. |
agglomerate | To pile or heap together. |
aggrandize | To cause to appear greatly. |
aggravate | To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome. |
aggravation | The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc. |
aggregate | The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something. |
aggress | To make the first attack. |
aggression | An unprovoked attack. |
aggrieve | To give grief or sorrow to. |
aghast | Struck with terror and amazement. |
agile | Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally. |
agitate | To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts). |
agrarian | Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land. |
aide-de-camp | An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general. |
ailment | Slight sickness. |
airy | Delicate, ethereal. |
akin | Of similar nature or qualities. |
alabaster | A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum. |
alacrity | Cheerful willingness. |
albino | A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris. |
album | A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like. |
alchemy | Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold. |
alcohol | A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste. |
alcoholism | A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages. |
alcove | A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. |
alder | Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family. |
alderman | A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions. |
aldermanship | The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman. |
alias | An assumed name. |
alien | One who owes allegiance to a foreign government. |
alienable | Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands. |
alienate | To cause to turn away. |
alienation | Estrangement. |
aliment | That which nourishes. |
alkali | Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc. |
allay | To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate. |
allege | To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court. |
allegory | The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness. |
alleviate | To make less burdensome or less hard to bear. |
alley | A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like. |
alliance | Any combination or union for some common purpose. |
allot | To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person. |
allotment | Portion. |
allude | To refer incidentally, or by suggestion. |
allusion | An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it. |
alluvion | Flood. |
ally | A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness. |
almanac | A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information. |
aloof | Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. |
altar | Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned. |
alter | To make change in. |
alteration | Change or modification. |
altercate | To contend angrily or zealously in words. |
alternate | One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other. |
alternative | Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else. |
altitude | Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea. |
alto | The lowest or deepest female voice or part. |
altruism | Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest. |
altruist | One who advocates or practices altruism. |
amalgam | An alloy or union of mercury with another metal. |
amalgamate | To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body. |
amateur | Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession. |
amatory | Designed to excite love. |
ambidextrous | Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. |
ambiguous | Having a double meaning. |
ambitious | Eagerly desirous and aspiring. |
ambrosial | Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious. |
ambulance | A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded. |
ambulate | To walk about |
ambush | The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy. |
ameliorate | To relieve, as from pain or hardship |
amenable | Willing and ready to submit. |
Americanism | A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States. |
amicable | Done in a friendly spirit. |
amity | Friendship. |
amorous | Having a propensity for falling in love. |
amorphous | Without determinate shape. |
amour | A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature. |
ampere | The practical unit of electric-current strength. |
ampersand | The character &; and. |
amphibious | Living both on land and in water. |
amphitheater | An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena. |
amplitude | Largeness. |
amply | Sufficiently. |
amputate | To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body. |
amusement | Diversion. |
anachronism | Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time. |
anagram | The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase. |
analogous | Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations. |
analogy | Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed. |
analyst | One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method. |
analyze | To examine minutely or critically. |
anarchy | Absence or utter disregard of government. |
anathema | Anything forbidden, as by social usage. |
anatomy | That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms. |
ancestry | One's ancestors collectively. |
anecdote | A brief account of some interesting event or incident. |
anemia | Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles. |
anemic | Affected with anemia. |
anemometer | An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind. |
anesthetic | Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation. |
anew | Once more. |
angelic | Saintly. |
Anglophobia | Hatred or dread of England or of what is English. |
Anglo-Saxon | The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India. |
angular | Sharp-cornered. |
anhydrous | Withered. |
animadversion | The utterance of criticism or censure. |
animadvert | To pass criticism or censure. |
animalcule | An animal of microscopic smallness. |
animate | To make alive. |
animosity | Hatred. |
annalist | Historian. |
annals | A record of events in their chronological order, year by year. |
annex | To add or affix at the end. |
annihilate | To destroy absolutely. |
annotate | To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon. |
annual | Occurring every year. |
annuity | An annual allowance, payment, or income. |
annunciation | Proclamation. |
anode | The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like. |
anonymous | Of unknown authorship. |
antagonism | Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons. |
Antarctic | Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it. |
ante | In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt. |
antecede | To precede. |
antecedent | One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality. |
antechamber | A waiting room for those who seek audience. |
antedate | To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one. |
antediluvian | Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah. |
antemeridian | Before noon. |
antemundane | Pertaining to time before the world's creation. |
antenatal | Occurring or existing before birth. |
anterior | Prior. |
anteroom | A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger. |
anthology | A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors. |
anthracite | Hard coal. |
anthropology | The science of man in general. |
anthropomorphous | Having or resembling human form. |
antic | A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action. |
Antichrist | Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power. |
anticlimax | A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said. |
anticyclone | An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward. |
antidote | Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like. |
antilogy | Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas. |
antipathize | To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike. |
antiphon | A response or alteration of responses, generally musical. |
antiphony | An anthem or other composition sung responsively. |
antipodes | A place or region on the opposite side of the earth. |
antiquary | One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc. |
antiquate | To make old or out of date. |
antique | Pertaining to ancient times. |
antiseptic | Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms. |
antislavery | Opposed to human slavery. |
antispasmodic | Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections. |
antistrophe | The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home". |
antitoxin | A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms. |
antonym | A word directly opposed to another in meaning. |
anxious | Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter. |
apathy | Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling. |
aperture | Hole. |
apex | The highest point, as of a mountain. |
aphorism | Proverb. |
apiary | A place where bees are kept. |
apogee | The climax. |
apology | A disclaimer of intentional error or offense. |
apostasy | A total departure from one's faith or religion. |
apostate | False. |
apostle | Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority. |
apothecary | One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions. |
apotheosis | Deification. |
appall | To fill with dismay or horror. |
apparent | Easily understood. |
apparition | Ghost. |
appease | To soothe by quieting anger or indignation. |
appellate | Capable of being appealed to. |
appellation | The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called. |
append | To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary. |
appertain | To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation. |
apposite | Appropriate. |
apposition | The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact. |
appraise | To estimate the money value of. |
appreciable | Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect. |
apprehend | To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law. |
apprehensible | Capable of being conceived. |
approbation | Sanction. |
appropriate | Suitable for the purpose and circumstances. |
aqueduct | A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance. |
aqueous | Of, pertaining to, or containing water. |
arbiter | One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters. |
arbitrary | Fixed or done capriciously. |
arbitrate | To act or give judgment as umpire. |
arbor | A tree. |
arboreal | Of or pertaining to a tree or trees. |
arborescent | Having the nature of a tree. |
arboretum | A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs. |
arboriculture | The cultivation of trees or shrubs. |
arcade | A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it. |
archaic | Antiquated |
archaism | Obsolescence. |
archangel | An angel of high rank. |
archbishop | The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church. |
archdeacon | A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese. |
archaeology | The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man. |
archetype | A prototype. |
archipelago | Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves. |
ardent | Burning with passion. |
ardor | Intensity of passion or affection. |
arid | Very dry. |
aristocracy | A hereditary nobility |
aristocrat | A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility. |
armada | A fleet of war-vessels. |
armful | As much as can be held in the arm or arms. |
armory | An arsenal. |
aroma | An agreeable odor. |
arraign | To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not. |
arrange | To put in definite or proper order. |
arrangement | The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order. |
arrant | Notoriously bad. |
arrear | Something overdue and unpaid. |
arrival | A coming to stopping-place or destination. |
arrogant | Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc. |
arrogate | To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds. |
Artesian well | A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure |
artful | Characterized by craft or cunning. |
Arthurian | Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story. |
artifice | Trickery. |
artless | Ingenuous. |
ascendant | Dominant. |
ascension | The act of rising. |
ascent | A rising, soaring, or climbing. |
ascetic | Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion. |
ascribe | To assign as a quality or attribute. |
asexual | Having no distinct sexual organs. |
ashen | Pale. |
askance | With a side or indirect glance or meaning. |
asperity | Harshness or roughness of temper. |
aspirant | One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place. |
aspiration | An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach. |
aspire | To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained. |
assailant | One who attacks. |
assassin | One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly. |
assassinate | To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person. |
assassination | Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery. |
assay | The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore. |
assent | To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion. |
assess | To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid). |
assessor | An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes. |
assets | pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts. |
assiduous | Diligent. |
assignee | One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests. |
assimilate | To adapt. |
assonance | Resemblance or correspondence in sound. |
assonant | Having resemblance of sound. |
assonate | To accord in sound, especially vowel sound. |
assuage | To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease. |
astringent | Harsh in disposition or character. |
astute | Keen in discernment. |
atheism | The denial of the existence of God. |
athirst | Wanting water. |
athwart | From side to side. |
atomizer | An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. |
atone | To make amends for. |
atonement | Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury. |
atrocious | Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel. |
atrocity | Great cruelty or reckless wickedness. |
attache | A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy. |
attest | To certify as accurate, genuine, or true. |
attorney-general | The chief law-officer of a government. |
auburn | Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair. |
audacious | Fearless. |
audible | Loud enough to be heard. |
audition | The act or sensation of hearing. |
auditory | Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing. |
augment | To make bigger. |
augur | To predict. |
Augustinian | Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him. |
aura | Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons |
aural | Of or pertaining to the ear. |
auricle | One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins. |
auricular | Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing. |
auriferous | Containing gold. |
aurora | A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere. |
auspice | favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance. |
austere | Severely simple; unadorned. |
autarchy | Unrestricted power. |
authentic | Of undisputed origin. |
authenticity | The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed. |
autobiography | The story of one's life written by himself. |
autocracy | Absolute government. |
autocrat | Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence. |
automaton | Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical. |
autonomous | Self-governing. |
autonomy | Self-government. |
autopsy | The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death. |
autumnal | Of or pertaining to autumn. |
auxiliary | One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory. |
avalanche | The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock. |
avarice | Passion for getting and keeping riches. |
aver | To assert as a fact. |
averse | Reluctant. |
aversion | A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing. |
avert | To turn away or aside. |
aviary | A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept. |
avidity | Greediness. |
avocation | Diversion. |
avow | To declare openly. |
awaken | To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like. |
awry | & - Out of the proper form, direction, or position. |
aye | An expression of assent. |
azalea | A flowering shrub. |
azure | The color of the sky. |
Baconian | Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy. |
bacterium | A microbe. |
badger | To pester. |
baffle | To foil or frustrate. |
bailiff | An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment. |
baize | A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. |
bale | A large package prepared for transportation or storage. |
baleful | Malignant. |
ballad | Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form. |
balsam | A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing. |
banal | Commonplace. |
barcarole | A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers. |
barograph | An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure. |
barometer | An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface. |
baritone | Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor. |
bask | To make warm by genial heat. |
bass | Low in tone or compass. |
baste | To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking. |
baton | An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege. |
battalion | A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment. |
batten | A narrow strip of wood. |
batter | A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery. |
bauble | A trinket. |
bawl | To proclaim by outcry. |
beatify | To make supremely happy. |
beatitude | Any state of great happiness. |
beau | An escort or lover. |
becalm | To make quiet. |
beck | To give a signal to, by nod or gesture. |
bedaub | To smear over, as with something oily or sticky. |
bedeck | To cover with ornament. |
bedlam | Madhouse. |
befog | To confuse. |
befriend | To be a friend to, especially when in need. |
beget | To produce by sexual generation. |
begrudge | To envy one of the possession of. |
belate | To delay past the proper hour. |
belay | To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat. |
belie | To misrepresent. |
believe | To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others. |
belittle | To disparage. |
belle | A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. |
bellicose | Warlike. |
belligerent | Manifesting a warlike spirit. |
bemoan | To lament |
benediction | a solemn invocation of the divine blessing. |
benefactor | A doer of kindly and charitable acts. |
benefice | A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service. |
beneficent | Characterized by charity and kindness. |
beneficial | Helpful. |
beneficiary | One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property. |
benefit | Helpful result. |
benevolence | Any act of kindness or well-doing. |
benevolent | Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being. |
benign | Good and kind of heart. |
benignant | Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect. |
benignity | Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner. |
benison | Blessing. |
bequeath | To give by will. |
bereave | To make desolate with loneliness and grief. |
berth | A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc. |
beseech | To implore. |
beset | To attack on all sides. |
besmear | To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance. |
bestial | Animal. |
bestrew | To sprinkle or cover with things strewn. |
bestride | To get or sit upon astride, as a horse. |
bethink | To remind oneself. |
betide | To happen to or befall. |
betimes | In good season or time. |
betroth | To engage to marry. |
betrothal | Engagement to marry. |
bevel | Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees. |
bewilder | To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. |
bibliomania | The passion for collecting books. |
bibliography | A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject. |
bibliophile | One who loves books. |
bibulous | Fond of drinking. |
bide | To await. |
biennial | A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second. |
bier | A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave. |
bigamist | One who has two spouses at the same time. |
bigamy | The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living. |
bight | A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line. |
bilateral | Two-sided. |
bilingual | Speaking two languages. |
biograph | A bibliographical sketch or notice. |
biography | A written account of one's life, actions, and character. |
biology | The science of life or living organisms. |
biped | An animal having two feet. |
birthright | A privilege or possession into which one is born. |
bitterness | Acridity, as to the taste. |
blase | Sated with pleasure. |
blaspheme | To indulge in profane oaths. |
blatant | Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous. |
blaze | A vivid glowing flame. |
blazon | To make widely or generally known. |
bleak | Desolate. |
blemish | A mark that mars beauty. |
blithe | Joyous. |
blithesome | Cheerful. |
blockade | The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces. |
boatswain | A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc. |
bodice | A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist. |
bodily | Corporeal. |
boisterous | Unchecked merriment or animal spirits. |
bole | The trunk or body of a tree. |
bolero | A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing. |
boll | A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton. |
bolster | To support, as something wrong. |
bomb | A hollow projectile containing an explosive material. |
bombard | To assail with any missile or with abusive speech. |
bombardier | A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells. |
bombast | Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects. |
boorish | Rude. |
bore | To weary by tediousness or dullness. |
borough | An incorporated village or town. |
bosom | The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman. |
botanical | Connected with the study or cultivation of plants. |
botanize | To study plant-life. |
botany | The science that treats of plants. |
bountiful | Showing abundance. |
Bowdlerize | To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages. |
bowler | In cricket, the player who delivers the ball. |
boycott | To place the products or merchandise of under a ban. |
brae | Hillside. |
braggart | A vain boaster. |
brandish | To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear. |
bravado | An aggressive display of boldness. |
bray | A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn. |
braze | To make of or ornament with brass. |
brazier | An open pan or basin for holding live coals. |
breach | The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation. |
breaker | One who trains horses, dogs, etc. |
breech | The buttocks. |
brethren | pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like. |
brevity | Shortness of duration. |
bric-a-brac | Objects of curiosity or for decoration. |
bridle | The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins. |
brigade | A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments. |
brigadier | General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general. |
brigand | One who lives by robbery and plunder. |
brimstone | Sulfur. |
brine | Water saturated with salt. |
bristle | One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc. |
Britannia | The United Kingdom of Great Britain. |
Briticism | A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British. |
brittle | Fragile. |
broach | To mention, for the first time. |
broadcast | Disseminated far and wide. |
brogan | A coarse, heavy shoe. |
brogue | Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people. |
brokerage | The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker. |
bromine | A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor. |
bronchitis | Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. |
bronchus | Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs. |
brooch | An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside. |
brotherhood | Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity. |
browbeat | To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner. |
brusque | Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech. |
buffoon | A clown. |
buffoonery | Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc. |
bulbous | Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb. |
bullock | An ox. |
bulrush | Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water. |
bulwark | Anything that gives security or defense. |
bumper | A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health. |
bumptious | Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit. |
bungle | To execute clumsily. |
buoyancy | Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas. |
buoyant | Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat. |
bureau | A chest of drawers for clothing, etc. |
bureaucracy | Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business. |
burgess | In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia. |
burgher | An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town. |
burnish | To make brilliant or shining. |
bursar | A treasurer. |
bustle | To hurry. |
butt | To strike with or as with the head, or horns. |
butte | A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated. |
buttress | Any support or prop. |
by-law | A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like. |
cabal | A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose. |
cabalism | Superstitious devotion to one's religion. |
cabinet | The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation. |
cacophony | A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones. |
cadaverous | Resembling a corpse. |
cadence | Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops. |
cadenza | An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument. |
caitiff | Cowardly. |
cajole | To impose on or dupe by flattering speech. |
cajolery | Delusive speech. |
calculable | That may be estimated by reckoning. |
calculus | A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness. |
callosity | The state of being hard and insensible. |
callow | Without experience of the world. |
calorie | Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade. |
calumny | Slander. |
Calvary | The place where Christ was crucified. |
Calvinism | The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin. |
Calvinize | To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism. |
came | A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows. |
cameo | Any small engraved or carved work in relief. |
campaign | A complete series of connected military operations. |
Canaanite | A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine. |
canary | Of a bright but delicate yellow. |
candid | Straightforward. |
candor | The quality of frankness or outspokenness. |
canine | Characteristic of a dog. |
canon | Any rule or law. |
cant | To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity. |
cantata | A choral composition. |
canto | One of the divisions of an extended poem. |
cantonment | The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered. |
capacious | Roomy. |
capillary | A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells. |
capitulate | To surrender or stipulate terms. |
caprice | A whim. |
caption | A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc. |
captious | Hypercritical. |
captivate | To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty. |
carcass | The dead body of an animal. |
cardiac | Pertaining to the heart. |
cardinal | Of prime or special importance. |
caret | A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted. |
caricature | a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted. |
carnage | Massacre. |
carnal | Sensual. |
carnivorous | Eating or living on flesh. |
carouse | To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner. |
carrion | Dead and putrefying flesh. |
cartilage | An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence. |
cartridge | A charge for a firearm, or for blasting. |
caste | The division of society on artificial grounds. |
castigate | To punish. |
casual | Accidental, by chance. |
casualty | A fatal or serious accident or disaster. |
cataclysm | Any overwhelming flood of water. |
cataract | Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness. |
catastrophe | Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity. |
cathode | The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery. |
Catholicism | The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church. |
catholicity | Universal prevalence or acceptance. |
cat-o-nine-tails | An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy. |
caucus | A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates. |
causal | Indicating or expressing a cause. |
caustic | Sarcastic and severe. |
cauterize | To burn or sear as with a heated iron. |
cede | To pass title to. |
censor | An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication. |
censorious | Judging severely or harshly. |
census | An official numbering of the people of a country or district. |
centenary | Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years. |
centiliter | A hundredth of a liter. |
centimeter | A length of one hundredth of a meter. |
centurion | A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army. |
cereal | Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds. |
ceremonial | Characterized by outward form or ceremony. |
ceremonious | Observant of ritual. |
cessation | Discontinuance, as of action or motion. |
cession | Surrender, as of possessions or rights. |
chagrin | Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors. |
chameleon | Changeable in appearance. |
chancery | A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court. |
chaos | Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion. |
characteristic | A distinctive feature. |
characterize | To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities. |
charlatan | A quack. |
chasm | A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface. |
chasten | To purify by affliction. |
chastise | To subject to punitive measures. |
chastity | Sexual or moral purity. |
chateau | A castle or manor-house. |
chattel | Any article of personal property. |
check | To hold back. |
chiffon | A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc. |
chivalry | The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices. |
cholera | An acute epidemic disease. |
choleric | Easily provoked to anger. |
choral | Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir. |
Christ | A title of Jesus |
christen | To name in baptism. |
Christendom | That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed. |
chromatic | Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color. |
chronology | The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events. |
chronometer | A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision. |
cipher | To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing) |
circulate | To disseminate. |
circumference | The boundary-line of a circle. |
circumlocution | Indirect or roundabout expression. |
circumnavigate | To sail quite around. |
circumscribe | To confine within bounds. |
circumspect | Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration. |
citadel | Any strong fortress. |
cite | To refer to specifically. |
claimant | One who makes a claim or demand, as of right. |
clairvoyance | Intuitive sagacity or perception. |
clamorous | Urgent in complaint or demand. |
clan | A tribe. |
clandestine | Surreptitious. |
clangor | Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor. |
clarify | To render intelligible. |
clarion | A small shrill trumpet or bugle. |
classify | To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences. |
clearance | A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail. |
clemency | Mercy. |
clement | Compassionate. |
close-hauled | Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible. |
clothier | One who makes or sells cloth or clothing. |
clumsy | Awkward of movement. |
coagulate | To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment. |
coagulant | Producing coagulation. |
coalescence | The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product. |
coalition | Combination in a body or mass. |
coddle | To treat as a baby or an invalid. |
codicil | A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will. |
coerce | To force. |
coercion | Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical. |
coercive | Serving or tending to force. |
cogent | Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience. |
cognate | Akin. |
cognizant | Taking notice. |
cohere | To stick together. |
cohesion | Consistency. |
cohesive | Having the property of consistency. |
coincide | To correspond. |
coincidence | A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident. |
coincident | Taking place at the same time. |
collaborate | To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits. |
collapse | To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail. |
collapsible | That may or can collapse. |
colleague | An associate in professional employment. |
collective | Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum. |
collector | One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like. |
collegian | A college student. |
collide | To meet and strike violently. |
collier | One who works in a coal-mine. |
collision | Violent contact. |
colloquial | Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary. |
colloquialism | Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation. |
colloquy | Conversation. |
collusion | A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose. |
colossus | Any strikingly great person or object. |
comely | Handsome. |
comestible | Fit to be eaten. |
comical | Funny. |
commemorate | To serve as a remembrance of. |
commentary | A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work. |
commingle | To blend. |
commissariat | The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs. |
commission | To empower. |
commitment | The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping. |
committal | The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being |
commodity | Something that is bought and sold. |
commotion | A disturbance or violent agitation. |
commute | To put something, especially something less severe, in place of. |
comparable | Fit to be compared. |
comparative | Relative. |
comparison | Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness. |
compensate | To remunerate. |
competence | Adequate qualification or capacity. |
competent | Qualified. |
competitive | characterized by rivalry. |
competitor | A rival. |
complacence | Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings. |
complacent | Pleased or satisfied with oneself. |
complaisance | Politeness. |
complaisant | Agreeable. |
complement | To make complete. |
complex | Complicated. |
compliant | Yielding. |
complicate | To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with. |
complication | An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner. |
complicity | Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer. |
compliment | To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise. |
component | A constituent element or part. |
comport | To conduct or behave (oneself). |
composure | Calmness. |
comprehensible | Intelligible. |
comprehension | Ability to know. |
comprehensive | Large in scope or content. |
compress | To press together or into smaller space. |
compressible | Capable of being pressed into smaller compass. |
compression | Constraint, as by force or authority. |
comprise | To consist of. |
compulsion | Coercion. |
compulsory | Forced. |
compunction | Remorseful feeling. |
compute | To ascertain by mathematical calculation. |
concede | To surrender. |
conceit | Self-flattering opinion. |
conceive | To form an idea, mental image or thought of. |
concerto | A musical composition. |
concession | Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim. |
conciliate | To obtain the friendship of. |
conciliatory | Tending to reconcile. |
conclusive | Sufficient to convince or decide. |
concord | Harmony. |
concordance | Harmony. |
concur | To agree. |
concurrence | Agreement. |
concurrent | Occurring or acting together. |
concussion | A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow. |
condensation | The act or process of making dense or denser. |
condense | To abridge. |
condescend | To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors. |
condolence | Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune. |
conduce | To bring about. |
conducive | Contributing to an end. |
conductible | Capable of being conducted or transmitted. |
conduit | A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid. |
confectionery | The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy. |
confederacy | A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid. |
confederate | One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement. |
confer | To bestow. |
conferee | A person with whom another confers. |
confessor | A spiritual advisor. |
confidant | One to whom secrets are entrusted. |
confide | To reveal in trust or confidence. |
confidence | The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another. |
confident | Assured. |
confinement | Restriction within limits or boundaries. |
confiscate | To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury. |
conflagration | A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like. |
confluence | The place where streams meet. |
confluent | A stream that unites with another. |
conformance | The act or state or conforming. |
conformable | Harmonious. |
conformation | General structure, form, or outline. |
conformity | Correspondence in form, manner, or use. |
confront | To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles. |
congeal | To coagulate. |
congenial | Having kindred character or tastes. |
congest | To collect into a mass. |
congregate | To bring together into a crowd. |
coniferous | Cone-bearing trees. |
conjecture | A guess. |
conjoin | To unite. |
conjugal | Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons. |
conjugate | Joined together in pairs. |
conjugation | The state or condition of being joined together. |
conjunction | The state of being joined together, or the things so joined. |
connive | To be in collusion. |
connoisseur | A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art. |
connote | To mean; signify. |
connubial | Pertaining to marriage or matrimony. |
conquer | To overcome by force. |
consanguineous | Descended from the same parent or ancestor. |
conscience | The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct. |
conscientious | Governed by moral standard. |
conscious | Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks. |
conscript | To force into military service. |
consecrate | To set apart as sacred. |
consecutive | Following in uninterrupted succession. |
consensus | A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons. |
conservatism | Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things. |
conservative | Adhering to the existing order of things. |
conservatory | An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation. |
consign | To entrust. |
consignee | A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted. |
consignor | One who entrusts. |
consistency | A state of permanence. |
console | To comfort. |
consolidate | To combine into one body or system. |
consonance | The state or quality of being in accord with. |
consonant | Being in agreement or harmony with. |
consort | A companion or associate. |
conspicuous | Clearly visible. |
conspirator | One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose. |
conspire | To plot. |
constable | An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace. |
constellation | An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars. |
consternation | Panic. |
constituency | The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body. |
constituent | One who has the right to vote at an election. |
constrict | To bind. |
consul | An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country. |
consulate | The place in which a consul transacts official business. |
consummate | To bring to completion. |
consumption | Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc. |
consumptive | Designed for gradual destruction. |
contagion | The communication of disease from person to person. |
contagious | Transmitting disease. |
contaminate | To pollute. |
contemplate | To consider thoughtfully. |
contemporaneous | Living, occurring, or existing at the same time. |
contemporary | Living or existing at the same time. |
contemptible | Worthy of scorn or disdain. |
contemptuous | Disdainful. |
contender | One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry. |
contiguity | Proximity. |
contiguous | Touching or joining at the edge or boundary. |
continence | Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion. |
contingency | Possibility of happening. |
contingent | Not predictable. |
continuance | Permanence. |
continuation | Prolongation. |
continuity | Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development. |
continuous | Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence. |
contort | To twist into a misshapen form. |
contraband | Trade forbidden by law or treaty. |
contradiction | The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said. |
contradictory | Inconsistent with itself. |
contraposition | A placing opposite. |
contravene | To prevent or obstruct the operation of. |
contribution | The act of giving for a common purpose. |
contributor | One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose. |
contrite | Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin. |
contrivance | The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose. |
contrive | To manage or carry through by some device or scheme. |
control | To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over. |
controller | One who or that which regulates or directs. |
contumacious | Rebellious. |
contumacy | Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority. |
contuse | To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin. |
contusion | A bruise. |
convalesce | To recover after a sickness. |
convalescence | The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease. |
convalescent | Recovering health after sickness. |
convene | To summon or cause to assemble. |
convenience | Fitness, as of time or place. |
converge | To cause to incline and approach nearer together. |
convergent | Tending to one point. |
conversant | Thoroughly informed. |
conversion | Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another. |
convertible | Interchangeable. |
convex | Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle. |
conveyance | That by which anything is transported. |
convivial | Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking. |
convolution | A winding motion. |
convolve | To move with a circling or winding motion. |
convoy | A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation. |
convulse | To cause spasms in. |
convulsion | A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body. |
copious | Plenteous. |
coquette | A flirt. |
cornice | An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling. |
cornucopia | The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity. |
corollary | A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration. |
coronation | The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch. |
coronet | Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign. |
corporal | Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind. |
corporate | Belonging to a corporation. |
corporeal | Of a material nature; physical. |
corps | A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together. |
corpse | A dead body. |
corpulent | Obese. |
corpuscle | A minute particle of matter. |
correlate | To put in some relation of connection or correspondence. |
correlative | Mutually involving or implying one another. |
corrigible | Capable of reformation. |
corroborate | To strengthen, as proof or conviction. |
corroboration | Confirmation. |
corrode | To ruin or destroy little by little. |
corrosion | Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration. |
corrosive | That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration. |
corruptible | Open to bribery. |
corruption | Loss of purity or integrity. |
cosmetic | Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion. |
cosmic | Pertaining to the universe. |
cosmogony | A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe. |
cosmography | The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology. |
cosmology | The general science of the universe. |
cosmopolitan | Common to all the world. |
cosmopolitanism | A cosmopolitan character. |
cosmos | The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement. |
counter-claim | A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff. |
counteract | To act in opposition to. |
counterbalance | To oppose with an equal force. |
countercharge | To accuse in return. |
counterfeit | Made to resemble something else. |
counterpart | Something taken with another for the completion of either. |
countervail | To offset. |
counting-house | A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. |
countryman | A rustic. |
courageous | Brave. |
course | Line of motion or direction. |
courser | A fleet and spirited horse. |
courtesy | Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually. |
covenant | An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties. |
covert | Concealed, especially for an evil purpose. |
covey | A flock of quails or partridges. |
cower | To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame. |
coxswain | One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer. |
crag | A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge. |
cranium | The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain. |
crass | Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine. |
craving | A vehement desire. |
creak | A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound. |
creamery | A butter-making establishment. |
creamy | Resembling or containing cream. |
credence | Belief. |
credible | Believable. |
credulous | Easily deceived. |
creed | A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief. |
crematory | A place for cremating dead bodies. |
crevasse | A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier. |
crevice | A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces. |
criterion | A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion. |
critique | A criticism or critical review. |
crockery | Earthenware made from baked clay. |
crucible | A trying and purifying test or agency. |
crusade | Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle. |
crustacean | Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc. |
crustaceous | Having a crust-like shell. |
cryptogram | Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning. |
crystallize | To bring together or give fixed shape to. |
cudgel | A short thick stick used as a club. |
culinary | Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen. |
cull | To pick or sort out from the rest. |
culpable | Guilty. |
culprit | A guilty person. |
culvert | Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal. |
cupidity | Avarice. |
curable | Capable of being remedied or corrected. |
curator | A person having charge as of a library or museum. |
curio | A piece of bric-a-brac. |
cursive | Writing in which the letters are joined together. |
cursory | Rapid and superficial. |
curt | Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression. |
curtail | To cut off or cut short. |
curtsy | A downward movement of the body by bending the knees. |
cycloid | Like a circle. |
cygnet | A young swan. |
cynical | Exhibiting moral skepticism. |
cynicism | Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value. |
cynosure | That to which general interest or attention is directed. |
daring | Brave. |
darkling | Blindly. |
Darwinism | The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms. |
dastard | A base coward. |
datum | A premise, starting-point, or given fact. |
dauntless | Fearless. |
day-man | A day-laborer. |
dead-heat | A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner. |
dearth | Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable. |
death's-head | A human skull as a symbol of death. |
debase | To lower in character or virtue. |
debatable | Subject to contention or dispute. |
debonair | Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner. |
debut | A first appearance in society or on the stage. |
decagon | A figure with ten sides and ten angles. |
decagram | A weight of 10 grams. |
decaliter | A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters. |
decalogue | The ten commandments. |
Decameron | A volume consisting of ten parts or books. |
decameter | A length of ten meters. |
decamp | To leave suddenly or unexpectedly. |
decapitate | To behead. |
decapod | Ten-footed or ten-armed. |
decasyllable | A line of ten syllables. |
deceit | Falsehood. |
deceitful | Fraudulent. |
deceive | To mislead by or as by falsehood. |
decency | Moral fitness. |
decent | Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress. |
deciduous | Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc. |
decimal | Founded on the number 10. |
decimate | To destroy a measurable or large proportion of. |
decipher | To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible. |
decisive | Conclusive. |
declamation | A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public. |
declamatory | A full and formal style of utterance. |
declarative | Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation. |
declension | The change of endings in nouns and - to express their different relations of gender. |
decorate | To embellish. |
decorous | Suitable for the occasion or circumstances. |
decoy | Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation. |
decrepit | Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity. |
dedication | The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause. |
deduce | To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles. |
deface | To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of. |
defalcate | To cut off or take away, as a part of something. |
defamation | Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another. |
defame | To slander. |
default | The neglect or omission of a legal requirement. |
defendant | A person against whom a suit is brought. |
defensible | Capable of being maintained or justified. |
defensive | Carried on in resistance to aggression. |
defer | To delay or put off to some other time. |
deference | Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment. |
defiant | Characterized by bold or insolent opposition. |
deficiency | Lack or insufficiency. |
deficient | Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount. |
definite | Having an exact signification or positive meaning. |
deflect | To cause to turn aside or downward. |
deforest | To clear of forests. |
deform | To disfigure. |
deformity | A disfigurement. |
defraud | To deprive of something dishonestly. |
defray | To make payment for. |
degeneracy | A becoming worse. |
degenerate | To become worse or inferior. |
degradation | Diminution, as of strength or magnitude. |
degrade | To take away honors or position from. |
dehydrate | To deprive of water. |
deify | To regard or worship as a god. |
deign | To deem worthy of notice or account. |
deist | One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation. |
deity | A god, goddess, or divine person. |
deject | To dishearten. |
dejection | Melancholy. |
delectable | Delightful to the taste or to the senses. |
delectation | Delight. |
deleterious | Hurtful, morally or physically. |
delicacy | That which is agreeable to a fine taste. |
delineate | To represent by sketch or diagram. |
deliquesce | To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air. |
delirious | Raving. |
delude | To mislead the mind or judgment of. |
deluge | To overwhelm with a flood of water. |
delusion | Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring. |
demagnetize | To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism. |
demagogue | An unprincipled politician. |
demeanor | Deportment. |
demented | Insane. |
demerit | A mark for failure or bad conduct. |
demise | Death. |
demobilize | To disband, as troops. |
demolish | To annihilate. |
demonstrable | Capable of positive proof. |
demonstrate | To prove indubitably. |
demonstrative | Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts. |
demonstrator | One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner. |
demulcent | Any application soothing to an irritable surface |
demurrage | the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing. |
dendroid | Like a tree. |
dendrology | The natural history of trees. |
denizen | Inhabitant. |
denominate | To give a name or epithet to. |
denomination | A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline. |
denominator | Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided. |
denote | To designate by word or mark. |
denouement | That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up. |
denounce | To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium. |
dentifrice | Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth. |
denude | To strip the covering from. |
denunciation | The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment. |
deplete | To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste. |
deplorable | Contemptible. |
deplore | To regard with grief or sorrow. |
deponent | Laying down. |
depopulate | To remove the inhabitants from. |
deport | To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony. |
deportment | Demeanor. |
deposition | Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court. |
depositor | One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited. |
depository | A place where anything is kept in safety. |
deprave | To render bad, especially morally bad. |
deprecate | To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite. |
depreciate | To lessen the worth of. |
depreciation | A lowering in value or an underrating in worth. |
depress | To press down. |
depression | A falling of the spirits. |
depth | Deepness. |
derelict | Neglectful of obligation. |
deride | To ridicule. |
derisible | Open to ridicule. |
derision | Ridicule. |
derivation | That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning. |
derivative | Coming or acquired from some origin. |
derive | To deduce, as from a premise. |
dermatology | The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases. |
derrick | An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights. |
descendant | One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc. |
descendent | Proceeding downward. |
descent | The act of moving or going downward. |
descry | To discern. |
desert | To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned |
desiccant | Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds. |
designate | To select or appoint, as by authority. |
desist | To cease from action. |
desistance | Cessation. |
despair | Utter hopelessness and despondency. |
desperado | One without regard for law or life. |
desperate | Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair. |
despicable | Contemptible. |
despond | To lose spirit, courage, or hope. |
despondent | Disheartened. |
despot | An absolute and irresponsible monarch. |
despotism | Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part. |
destitute | Poverty-stricken. |
desultory | Not connected with what precedes. |
deter | To frighten away. |
deteriorate | To grow worse. |
determinate | Definitely limited or fixed. |
determination | The act of deciding. |
deterrent | Hindering from action through fear. |
detest | To dislike or hate with intensity. |
detract | To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation. |
detriment | Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss. |
detrude | To push down forcibly. |
deviate | To take a different course. |
devilry | Malicious mischief. |
deviltry | Wanton and malicious mischief. |
devious | Out of the common or regular track. |
devise | To invent. |
devout | Religious. |
dexterity | Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work. |
diabolic | Characteristic of the devil. |
diacritical | Marking a difference. |
diagnose | To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena. |
diagnosis | Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease. |
dialect | Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district. |
dialectician | A logician. |
dialogue | A formal conversation in which two or more take part. |
diaphanous | Transparent. |
diatomic | Containing only two atoms. |
diatribe | A bitter or malicious criticism. |
dictum | A positive utterance. |
didactic | Pertaining to teaching. |
difference | Dissimilarity in any respect. |
differentia | Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species. |
differential | Distinctive. |
differentiate | To acquire a distinct and separate character. |
diffidence | Self-distrust. |
diffident | Affected or possessed with self-distrust. |
diffusible | Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly. |
diffusion | Dispersion. |
dignitary | One who holds high rank. |
digraph | A union of two characters representing a single sound. |
digress | To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter. |
dilate | To enlarge in all directions. |
dilatory | Tending to cause delay. |
dilemma | A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary. |
dilettante | A superficial amateur. |
diligence | Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken. |
dilute | To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something. |
diminution | Reduction. |
dimly | Obscurely. |
diphthong | The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds. |
diplomacy | Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters. |
diplomat | A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another. |
diplomatic | Characterized by special tact in negotiations. |
diplomatist | One remarkable for tact and shrewd management. |
disagree | To be opposite in opinion. |
disallow | To withhold permission or sanction. |
disappear | To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being. |
disappoint | To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of. |
disapprove | To regard with blame. |
disarm | To deprive of weapons. |
disarrange | To throw out of order. |
disavow | To disclaim responsibility for. |
disavowal | Denial. |
disbeliever | One who refuses to believe. |
disburden | To disencumber. |
disburse | To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. |
discard | To reject. |
discernible | Perceivable. |
disciple | One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine. |
disciplinary | Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority. |
discipline | To train to obedience. |
disclaim | To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to. |
discolor | To stain. |
discomfit | To put to confusion. |
discomfort | The state of being positively uncomfortable. |
disconnect | To undo or dissolve the connection or association of. |
disconsolate | Grief-stricken. |
discontinuance | Interruption or intermission. |
discord | Absence of harmoniousness. |
discountenance | To look upon with disfavor. |
discover | To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived. |
discredit | To injure the reputation of. |
discreet | Judicious. |
discrepant | Opposite. |
discriminate | To draw a distinction. |
discursive | Passing from one subject to another. |
discussion | Debate. |
disenfranchise | To deprive of any right privilege or power |
disengage | To become detached. |
disfavor | Disregard. |
disfigure | To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of. |
dishabille | Undress or negligent attire. |
dishonest | Untrustworthy. |
disillusion | To disenchant. |
disinfect | To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases. |
disinfectant | A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases. |
disinherit | To deprive of an inheritance. |
disinterested | Impartial. |
disjunctive | Helping or serving to disconnect or separate. |
dislocate | To put out of proper place or order. |
dismissal | Displacement by authority from an office or an employment. |
dismount | To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like. |
disobedience | Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction. |
disobedient | Neglecting or refusing to obey. |
disown | To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself. |
disparage | To regard or speak of slightingly. |
disparity | Inequality. |
dispel | To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions. |
dispensation | That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power. |
displace | To put out of the proper or accustomed place. |
dispossess | To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate. |
disputation | Verbal controversy. |
disqualify | To debar. |
disquiet | To deprive of peace or tranquillity. |
disregard | To take no notice of. |
disreputable | Dishonorable or disgraceful. |
disrepute | A bad name or character. |
disrobe | To unclothe. |
disrupt | To burst or break asunder. |
dissatisfy | To displease. |
dissect | To cut apart or to pieces. |
dissection | The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal. |
dissemble | To hide by pretending something different. |
disseminate | To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown. |
dissension | Angry or violent difference of opinion. |
dissent | Disagreement. |
dissentient | One who disagrees. |
dissentious | Contentious. |
dissertation | Thesis. |
disservice | An ill turn. |
dissever | To divide. |
dissimilar | Different. |
dissipate | To disperse or disappear. |
dissipation | The state of being dispersed or scattered. |
dissolute | Lewd. |
dissolution | A breaking up of a union of persons. |
dissolve | To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture. |
dissonance | Discord. |
dissonant | Harsh or disagreeable in sound. |
dissuade | To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading. |
dissuasion | The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading. |
disyllable | A word of two syllables. |
distemper | A disease or malady. |
distend | To stretch out or expand in every direction. |
distensible | Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction. |
distention | Expansion. |
distill | To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation. |
distillation | Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile. |
distiller | One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors. |
distinction | A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies. |
distort | To twist into an unnatural or irregular form. |
distrain | To subject a person to distress. |
distrainor | One who subjects a person to distress. |
distraught | Bewildered. |
distrust | Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person. |
disunion | Separation of relations or interests. |
diurnal | Daily. |
divagation | Digression. |
divergent | Tending in different directions. |
diverse | Capable of various forms. |
diversion | Pastime. |
diversity | Dissimilitude. |
divert | To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established. |
divertible | Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established. |
divest | To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment. |
divination | The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden. |
divinity | The quality or character of being godlike. |
divisible | Capable of being separated into parts. |
divisor | That by which a number or quantity is divided. |
divulge | To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret. |
divulgence | A divulging. |
docile | Easy to manage. |
docket | The registry of judgments of a court. |
doe | The female of the deer. |
dogma | A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority. |
dogmatic | Making statements without argument or evidence. |
dogmatize | To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence. |
doleful | Melancholy. |
dolesome | Melancholy. |
dolor | Lamentation. |
dolorous | Expressing or causing sorrow or pain. |
domain | A sphere or field of action or interest. |
domesticity | Life in or fondness for one's home and family. |
domicile | The place where one lives. |
dominance | Ascendancy. |
dominant | Conspicuously prominent. |
dominate | To influence controllingly. |
domination | Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority. |
domineer | To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance. |
donate | To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause. |
donator | One who makes a donation or present. |
donee | A person to whom a donation is made. |
donor | One who makes a donation or present. |
dormant | Being in a state of or resembling sleep. |
doublet | One of a pair of like things. |
doubly | In twofold degree or extent. |
dowry | The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage. |
drachma | A modern and an ancient Greek coin. |
dragnet | A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water. |
dragoon | In the British army, a cavalryman. |
drainage | The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc. |
dramatist | One who writes plays. |
dramatize | To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner. |
drastic | Acting vigorously. |
drought | Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither. |
drowsy | Heavy with sleepiness. |
drudgery | Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation. |
dubious | Doubtful. |
duckling | A young duck. |
ductile | Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread. |
duet | A composition for two voices or instruments. |
dun | To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment. |
duplex | Having two parts. |
duplicity | Double-dealing. |
durance | Confinement. |
duration | The period of time during which anything lasts. |
duteous | Showing submission to natural superiors. |
dutiable | Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty. |
dutiful | Obedient. |
dwindle | To diminish or become less. |
dyne | The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s. |
earnest | Ardent in spirit and speech. |
earthenware | Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun. |
eatable | Edible. |
ebullient | Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling. |
eccentric | Peculiar. |
eccentricity | Idiosyncrasy. |
eclipse | The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body. |
economize | To spend sparingly. |
ecstasy | Rapturous excitement or exaltation. |
ecstatic | Enraptured. |
edible | Suitable to be eaten. |
edict | That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action. |
edify | To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion. |
editorial | An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument. |
educe | To draw out. |
efface | To obliterate. |
effect | A consequence. |
effective | Fit for a destined purpose. |
effectual | Efficient. |
effeminacy | Womanishness. |
effeminate | Having womanish traits or qualities. |
effervesce | To bubble up. |
effervescent | Giving off bubbles of gas. |
effete | Exhausted, as having performed its functions. |
efficacious | Effective. |
efficacy | The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it. |
efficiency | The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty. |
efficient | Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results. |
efflorescence | The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance. |
efflorescent | Opening in flower. |
effluvium | A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter. |
effrontery | Unblushing impudence. |
effulgence | Splendor. |
effuse | To pour forth. |
effusion | an outpouring. |
egoism | The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self. |
egoist | One who advocates or practices egoism. |
egotism | Self-conceit. |
egotist | One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences. |
egregious | Extreme. |
egress | Any place of exit. |
eject | To expel. |
elapse | To quietly terminate: said of time. |
elasticity | That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed. |
electrolysis | The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current. |
electrotype | A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin. |
elegy | A lyric poem lamenting the dead. |
element | A component or essential part. |
elicit | To educe or extract gradually or without violence. |
eligible | Qualified for selection. |
eliminate | To separate and cast aside. |
Elizabethan | Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era. |
elocution | The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading. |
eloquent | Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech. |
elucidate | To bring out more clearly the facts concerning. |
elude | To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice. |
elusion | Evasion. |
emaciate | To waste away in flesh. |
emanate | To flow forth or proceed, as from some source. |
emancipate | To release from bondage. |
embargo | Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade. |
embark | To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme. |
embarrass | To render flustered or agitated. |
embellish | To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features. |
embezzle | To misappropriate secretly. |
emblazon | To set forth publicly or in glowing terms. |
emblem | A symbol. |
embody | To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form. |
embolden | To give courage to. |
embolism | An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel. |
embroil | To involve in dissension or strife. |
emerge | To come into view or into existence. |
emergence | A coming into view. |
emergent | Coming into view. |
emeritus | Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position. |
emigrant | One who moves from one place to settle in another. |
emigrate | To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another. |
eminence | An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc. |
eminent | High in station, merit, or esteem. |
emit | To send or give out. |
emphasis | Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word. |
emphasize | To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words. |
emphatic | Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words. |
employee | One who works for wages or a salary. |
employer | One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay. |
emporium | A bazaar or shop. |
empower | To delegate authority to. |
emulate | To imitate with intent to equal or surpass. |
enact | To make into law, as by legislative act. |
enamor | To inspire with ardent love. |
encamp | To pitch tents for a resting-place. |
encomium | A formal or discriminating expression of praise. |
encompass | To encircle. |
encore | The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance. |
encourage | To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind. |
encroach | To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another. |
encumber | To impede with obstacles. |
encyclical | Intended for general circulation. |
encyclopedia | A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject. |
endanger | To expose to peril. |
endear | To cause to be loved. |
endemic | Peculiar to some specified country or people. |
endue | To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual. |
endurable | Tolerable. |
endurance | The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing. |
energetic | Working vigorously. |
enervate | To render ineffective or inoperative. |
enfeeble | To debilitate. |
enfranchise | To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote. |
engender | To produce. |
engrave | To cut or carve in or upon some surface. |
engross | To occupy completely. |
enhance | To intensify. |
enigma | A riddle. |
enjoin | To command. |
enkindle | To set on fire. |
enlighten | To cause to see clearly. |
enlist | To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment. |
enmity | Hatred. |
ennoble | To dignify. |
enormity | Immensity. |
enormous | Gigantic. |
enrage | To infuriate. |
enrapture | To delight extravagantly or intensely. |
enshrine | To keep sacred. |
ensnare | To entrap. |
entail | To involve; necessitate. |
entangle | To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications. |
enthrall | To bring or hold under any overmastering influence. |
enthrone | To invest with sovereign power. |
enthuse | To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling. |
enthusiastic | Full of zeal and fervor. |
entirety | A complete thing. |
entomology | The branch of zoology that treats of insects. |
entrails | pl. The internal parts of an animal. |
entreaty | An earnest request. |
entree | The act of entering. |
entrench | To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall. |
entwine | To interweave. |
enumerate | To name one by one. |
epic | A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc. |
epicure | One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking. |
Epicurean | Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite. |
epicycle | A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle. |
epicycloid | A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle. |
epidemic | Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region. |
epidermis | The outer skin. |
epigram | A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation. |
epilogue | The close of a narrative or dramatic poem. |
epiphany | Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity. |
episode | An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it. |
epitaph | An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead. |
epithet | Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas". |
epitome | A simplified representation. |
epizootic | Prevailing among animals. |
epoch | A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events. |
epode | A species of lyric poems. |
equalize | To render uniform. |
equanimity | Evenness of mind or temper. |
equestrian | Pertaining to horses or horsemanship. |
equilibrium | A state of balance. |
equitable | Characterized by fairness. |
equity | Fairness or impartiality. |
equivalent | Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like. |
equivocal | Ambiguous. |
equivocate | To use words of double meaning. |
eradicate | To destroy thoroughly. |
errant | Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds. |
erratic | Irregular. |
erroneous | Incorrect. |
erudite | Very-learned. |
erudition | Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc. |
eschew | To keep clear of. |
espy | To keep close watch. |
esquire | A title of dignity, office, or courtesy. |
essence | That which makes a thing to be what it is. |
esthetic | Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts. |
estimable | Worthy of respect. |
estrange | To alienate. |
estuary | A wide lower part of a tidal river. |
eugenic | Relating to the development and improvement of race. |
eulogize | To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character. |
eulogy | A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character. |
euphemism | A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted. |
euphonious | Characterized by agreeableness of sound. |
euphony | Agreeableness of sound. |
evade | To avoid by artifice. |
evanesce | To vanish gradually. |
evanescent | Fleeting. |
evangelical | Seeking the conversion of sinners. |
evangelist | A preacher who goes from place to place holding services. |
evasion | Escape. |
eventual | Ultimate. |
evert | To turn inside out. |
evict | To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree. |
evidential | Indicative. |
evince | To make manifest or evident. |
evoke | To call or summon forth. |
evolution | Development or growth. |
evolve | To unfold or expand. |
exacerbate | To make more sharp, severe, or virulent. |
exaggerate | To overstate. |
exasperate | To excite great anger in. |
excavate | To remove by digging or scooping out. |
exceed | To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc. |
excel | To be superior or distinguished. |
excellence | Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities. |
excellency | A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials. |
excellent | Possessing distinguished merit. |
excerpt | An extract or selection from written or printed matter. |
excess | That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience. |
excitable | Nervously high-strung. |
excitation | Intensified emotion or action. |
exclamation | An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling. |
exclude | To shut out purposely or forcibly. |
exclusion | Non-admission. |
excrescence | Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development. |
excretion | The getting rid of waste matter. |
excruciate | To inflict severe pain or agony upon. |
excursion | A journey. |
excusable | Justifiable. |
execrable | Abominable. |
execration | An accursed thing. |
executor | A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will. |
exegesis | Biblical exposition or interpretation. |
exemplar | A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated. |
exemplary | Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation. |
exemplify | To show by example. |
exempt | Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others. |
exert | To make an effort. |
exhale | To breathe forth. |
exhaust | To empty by draining off the contents. |
exhaustible | Causing or tending to cause exhaustion. |
exhaustion | Deprivation of strength or energy. |
exhaustive | Thorough and complete in execution. |
exhilarate | To fill with high or cheerful spirits. |
exhume | To dig out of the earth (what has been buried). |
exigency | A critical period or condition. |
exigent | Urgent. |
existence | Possession or continuance of being. |
exit | A way or passage out. |
exodus | A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people. |
exonerate | To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame. |
exorbitance | Extravagance or enormity. |
exorbitant | Going beyond usual and proper limits. |
exorcise | To cast or drive out by religious or magical means. |
exotic | Foreign. |
expand | To increase in range or scope. |
expanse | A continuous area or stretch. |
expansion | Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like. |
expatriate | To drive from one's own country. |
expect | To look forward to as certain or probable. |
expectancy | The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable. |
expectorate | To cough up and spit forth. |
expediency | Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case. |
expedient | Contributing to personal advantage. |
expedite | To hasten the movement or progress of. |
expeditious | Speedy. |
expend | To spend. |
expense | The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength. |
expiate | To make satisfaction or amends for. |
explicate | To clear from involvement. |
explicit | Definite. |
explode | To cause to burst in pieces by force from within. |
explosion | A sudden and violent outbreak. |
explosive | Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak. |
exposition | Formal presentation. |
expository | Pertaining to a formal presentation. |
expostulate | To discuss. |
exposure | An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass. |
expressive | Full of meaning. |
expulsion | Forcible ejection. |
extant | Still existing and known. |
extemporaneous | Done or made without much or any preparation. |
extempore | Without studied or special preparation. |
extensible | Capable of being thrust out. |
extension | A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope. |
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