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