Gre Words A To D

abstain v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using abase v. To lower in position, estimation, or the like; something). abstemious adj. Characterized by self denial or degrade. abstinence, as in the use of drink, food. abbess n. The lady superior of a nunnery. abbey n. The group of buildings which collectively abstinence n. Self denial. abstruse adj. Dealing with matters difficult to be form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or understood. nuns. absurd adj. Inconsistent with reason or common abbot n. The superior of a community of monks. sense. abdicate v. To give up (royal power or the like). abundant adj. Plentiful. abdomen n. In mammals, the visceral cavity abusive adj. Employing harsh words or ill treatment. between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly. abut v. To touch at the end or boundary line. abdominal n. Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abyss n. Bottomless gulf. abdomen. academic adj. Of or pertaining to an academy, abduction n. A carrying away of a person against college, or university. his will, or illegally. academician n. A member of an academy of abed adv. In bed; on a bed. aberration n. Deviation from a right, customary, or literature, art, or science. academy n. Any institution where the higher prescribed course. branches of learning are taught. abet v. To aid, promote, or encourage the accede v. To agree. commission of (an offense). accelerate v. To move faster. abeyance n. A state of suspension or temporary accept v. To take when offered. inaction. access n. A way of approach or entrance; passage. abhorrence n. The act of detesting extremely. accessible adj. Approachable. abhorrent adj. Very repugnant; hateful. accession n. Induction or elevation, as to dignity, abidance n. An abiding. office, or government. abject adj. Sunk to a low condition. abjure v. To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath. accessory n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent. acclaim v. To utter with a shout. able-bodied adj. Competent for physical service. ablution n. A washing or cleansing, especially of the accommodate v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor. body. accompaniment n. A subordinate part or parts, abnegate v. To renounce (a right or privilege). abnormal adj. Not conformed to the ordinary rule or enriching or supporting the leading part. accompanist n. One who or that which standard. accompanies. abominable adj. Very hateful. accompany v. To go with, or be associated with, as abominate v. To hate violently. a companion. abomination n. A very detestable act or practice. accomplice n. An associate in wrong-doing. aboriginal adj. Primitive; unsophisticated. accomplish v. To bring to pass. aborigines n. The original of earliest known accordion n. A portable free-reed musical inhabitants of a country. aboveboard adv. & adj. Without concealment, fraud, instrument. accost v. To speak to. or trickery. abrade v. To wear away the surface or some part of account n. A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions. by friction. accouter v. To dress. abrasion n. That which is rubbed off. accredit v. To give credit or authority to. abridge v. To make shorter in words, keeping the accumulate v. To become greater in quantity or essential features, leaning out minor particles. number. abridgment n. A condensed form as of a book or accuracy n. Exactness. play. accurate adj. Conforming exactly to truth or to a abrogate v. To abolish, repeal. standard. abrupt adj. Beginning, ending, or changing accursed adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune. suddenly or with a break. abscess n. A Collection of pus in a cavity formed accusation n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or within some tissue of the body. abscission n. The act of cutting off, as in a surgical error. accusatory adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving an operation. abscond v. To depart suddenly and secretly, as for accusation. accuse v. To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, the purpose of escaping arrest. or error. absence n. The fact of not being present or accustom v. To make familiar by use. available. acerbity n. Sourness, with bitterness and absent-minded adj. Lacking in attention to astringency. immediate surroundings or business. acetate n. A salt of acetic acid. absolution n. Forgiveness, or passing over of acetic adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of offenses. vinegar. absolve v. To free from sin or its penalties. ache v. To be in pain or distress. absorb v. To drink in or suck up, as a sponge Achillean adj. Invulnerable. absorbs water. achromatic adj. Colorless, absorption n. The act or process of absorbing.

acid n. A sour substance. advent n. The coming or arrival, as of any important acidify v. To change into acid. change, event, state, or personage. acknowledge v. To recognize; to admit the adverse adj. Opposing or opposed. genuineness or validity of. adversity n. Misfortune. acknowledgment n. Recognition. advert v. To refer incidentally. acme n. The highest point, or summit. advertiser n. One who advertises, especially in acoustic adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of newspapers. hearing. advisory adj. Not mandatory. acquaint v. To make familiar or conversant. advocacy n. The act of pleading a cause. acquiesce v. To comply; submit. advocate n. One who pleads the cause of another, acquiescence n. Passive consent. as in a legal or ecclesiastical court. acquire v. To get as one's own. aerial adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air. acquisition n. Anything gained, or made one's own, aeronaut n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist. usually by effort or labor. aeronautics n. the art or practice of flying aircraft acquit v. To free or clear, as from accusation. aerostat n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in acquittal n. A discharge from accusation by judicial or sustained by the air. action. aerostatics n. The branch of pneumatics that treats acquittance n. Release or discharge from of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility. properties. acreage n. Quantity or extent of land, especially of affable adj. Easy to approach. cultivated land. affect v. To act upon acrid adj. Harshly pungent or bitter. affectation n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or acrimonious adj. Full of bitterness. attempt. acrimony n. Sharpness or bitterness of speech or affiliate n. Some auxiliary person or thing. temper. affirmative adj. Answering yes; to a question at actionable adj. Affording cause for instituting an issue. action, as trespass, slanderous words. affix v. To fasten. actuality n. Any reality. affluence n. A profuse or abundant supply of riches. actuary n. An officer, as of an insurance company, affront n. An open insult or indignity. who calculates and states the risks and premiums. afire adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively. actuate v. To move or incite to action. afoot adv. In progress. acumen n. Quickness of intellectual insight, or aforesaid adj. Said in a preceding part or before. discernment; keenness of discrimination. afresh adv. Once more, after rest or interval. acute adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment. afterthought n. A thought that comes later than its adamant n. Any substance of exceeding hardness appropriate or expected time. or impenetrability. agglomerate v. To pile or heap together. addendum n. Something added, or to be added. aggrandize v. To cause to appear greatly. addle v. To make inefficient or worthless; muddle. aggravate v. To make heavier, worse, or more adduce v. To bring forward or name for burdensome. consideration. aggravation n. The fact of being made heavier or adhere v. To stick fast or together. more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc. adherence n. Attachment. aggregate n. The entire number, sum, mass, or adherent adj. Clinging or sticking fast. quantity of something. adhesion n. The state of being attached or joined. aggress v. To make the first attack. adieu inter. Good-by; farewell. aggression n. An unprovoked attack. adjacency n. The state of being adjacent. aggrieve v. To give grief or sorrow to. adjacent n. That which is near or bordering upon. aghast adj. Struck with terror and amazement. adjudge v. To award or bestow by formal decision. agile adj. Able to move or act quickly, physically, or adjunct n. Something joined to or connected with mentally. another thing, but holding a subordinate place. agitate v. To move or excite (the feelings or adjuration n. A vehement appeal. thoughts). adjutant adj. Auxiliary. agrarian adj. Pertaining to land, especially administrator n. One who manages affairs of any agricultural land. kind. aide-de-camp n. An officer who receives and admissible adj. Having the right or privilege of entry. transmits the orders of the general. ailment n. Slight sickness. admittance n. Entrance, or the right or permission to airy adj. Delicate, ethereal. enter. akin adj. Of similar nature or qualities. admonish v. To warn of a fault. alabaster n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained admonition n. Gentle reproof. gypsum. ado n. unnecessary activity or ceremony. alacrity n. Cheerful willingness. adoration n. Profound devotion. albeit conj. Even though. adroit adj. Having skill in the use of the bodily or albino n. A person with milky white skin and hair, mental powers. and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris. adulterant n. An adulterating substance. album n. A book whose leaves are so made to form adulterate v. To make impure by the admixture of paper frames for holding photographs or the like. other or baser ingredients. alchemy n. Chemistry of the middle ages, adumbrate v. To represent beforehand in outline or characterized by the pursuit of changing base by emblem. metals to gold.

alcohol n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of amalgamate v. To mix or blend together in a a penetrating odor and burning taste. homogeneous body. alcoholism n. A condition resulting from the amateur adj. Practicing an art or occupation for the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages. love of it, but not as a profession. alcove n. A covered recess connected with or at the amatory adj. Designed to excite love. side of a larger room. ambidextrous adj. Having the ability of using both alder n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus hands with equal skill or ease. Alumnus, of the oak family. ambiguous adj. Having a double meaning. alderman n. A member of a municipal legislative ambitious adj. Eagerly desirous and aspiring. body, who usually exercises also certain judicial ambrosial adj. Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious. functions. aldermanship n. The dignity, condition, office, or ambulance n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick term of office of an alderman. and wounded. alias n. An assumed name. ambulate v. To walk about alien n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign ambush n. The act or state of lying concealed for government. the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy. alienable adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, ameliorate v. To relieve, as from pain or hardship as lands. amenable adj. Willing and ready to submit. alienate v. To cause to turn away. Americanism n. A peculiar sense in which an alienation n. Estrangement. English word or phrase is used in the United States. aliment n. That which nourishes. alkali n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as amicable adj. Done in a friendly spirit. lime, magnesia, etc. amity n. Friendship. allay v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity amorous adj. Having a propensity for falling in love. of; mitigate. amorphous adj. Without determinate shape. allege v. To assert to be true, especially in a formal amour n. A love-affair, especially one of an illicit manner, as in court. nature. allegory n. The setting forth of a subject under the ampere n. The practical unit of electric-current guise of another subject of aptly suggestive strength. likeness. ampersand n. The character &; and. alleviate v. To make less burdensome or less hard amphibious adj. Living both on land and in water. to bear. amphitheater n. An edifice of elliptical shape, alley n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the constructed about a central open space or arena. like. amplitude n. Largeness. alliance n. Any combination or union for some amply adv. Sufficiently. common purpose. amputate v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or allot v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain some portion of the body. person. amusement n. Diversion. allotment n. Portion. anachronism n. Anything occurring or existing out of allude v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion. its proper time. allusion n. An indirect and incidental reference to anagram n. The letters of a word or phrase so something without definite mention of it. transposed as to make a different word or phrase. alluvion n. Flood. analogous adj. Corresponding (to some other) in ally n. A person or thing connected with another, certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations. usually in some relation of helpfulness. analogy n. Reasoning in which from certain and almanac n. A series of tables giving the days of the known relations or resemblance others are formed. week together with certain astronomical analyst n. One who analyzes or makes use of the information. analytical method. aloof adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to analyze v. To examine minutely or critically. associate with others. anarchy n. Absence or utter disregard of altar n. Any raised place or structure on which government. sacrifices may be offered or incense burned. anathema n. Anything forbidden, as by social alter v. To make change in. usage. alteration n. Change or modification. anatomy n. That branch of morphology which treats altercate v. To contend angrily or zealously in of the structure of organisms. words. ancestry n. One's ancestors collectively. alternate n. One chosen to act in place of another, anecdote n. A brief account of some interesting in case of the absence or incapacity of that other. event or incident. alternative n. Something that may or must exist, be anemia n. Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles. taken or chosen, or done instead of something else. anemic adj. Affected with anemia. anemometer n. An instrument for measuring the altitude n. Vertical distance or elevation above any force or velocity of wind. point or base-level, as the sea. anesthetic adj. Pertaining to or producing loss of alto n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part. sensation. altruism n. Benevolence to others on subordination anew adv. Once more. to self-interest. angelic adj. Saintly. altruist n. One who advocates or practices altruism. Anglophobia n. Hatred or dread of England or of amalgam n. An alloy or union of mercury with what is English. another metal. Anglo-Saxon n. The entire English race wherever

found, as in Europe, the United States, or India. responsively. angular adj. Sharp-cornered. antipodes n. A place or region on the opposite side anhydrous adj. Withered. of the earth. animadversion n. The utterance of criticism or antiquary n. One who collects and examines old censure. things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc. animadvert v. To pass criticism or censure. antiquate v. To make old or out of date. animalcule n. An animal of microscopic smallness. antique adj. Pertaining to ancient times. animate v. To make alive. antiseptic n. Anything that destroys or restrains the animosity n. Hatred. growth of putrefactive micro-organisms. annalist n. Historian. antislavery adj. Opposed to human slavery. annals n. A record of events in their chronological antispasmodic adj. Tending to prevent or relieve order, year by year. non-inflammatory spasmodic affections. annex v. To add or affix at the end. antistrophe n. The inversion of terms in successive annihilate v. To destroy absolutely. classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of annotate v. To make explanatory or critical notes on home". or upon. antitoxin n. A substance which neutralizes the annual adj. Occurring every year. poisonous products of micro-organisms. annuity n. An annual allowance, payment, or antonym n. A word directly opposed to another in income. meaning. annunciation n. Proclamation. anxious adj. Distressed in mind respecting some anode n. The point where or path by which a voltaic uncertain matter. current enters an electrolyte or the like. apathy n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate anonymous adj. Of unknown authorship. feeling. antagonism n. Mutual opposition or resistance of aperture n. Hole. counteracting forces, principles, or persons. apex n. The highest point, as of a mountain. Antarctic adj. Pertaining to the south pole or the aphorism n. Proverb. regions near it. apiary n. A place where bees are kept. ante v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake apogee n. The climax. before the cards are dealt. apology n. A disclaimer of intentional error or antecede v. To precede. offense. antecedent n. One who or that which precedes or apostasy n. A total departure from one's faith or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or religion. causality. apostate adj. False. antechamber n. A waiting room for those who seek apostle n. Any messenger commissioned by or as audience. by divine authority. antedate v. To assign or affix a date to earlier than apothecary n. One who keeps drugs for sale and the actual one. puts up prescriptions. antediluvian adj. Of or pertaining to the times, apotheosis n. Deification. things, events before the great flood in the days of appall v. To fill with dismay or horror. Noah. apparent adj. Easily understood. antemeridian adj. Before noon. apparition n. Ghost. antemundane adj. Pertaining to time before the appease v. To soothe by quieting anger or world's creation. indignation. antenatal adj. Occurring or existing before birth. appellate adj. Capable of being appealed to. anterior adj. Prior. appellation n. The name or title by which a anteroom n. A room situated before and opening particular person, class, or thing is called. into another, usually larger. append v. To add or attach, as something anthology n. A collection of extracts from the accessory, subordinate, or supplementary. writings of various authors. appertain v. To belong, as by right, fitness, anthracite n. Hard coal. association, classification, possession, or natural anthropology n. The science of man in general. relation. anthropomorphous adj. Having or resembling apposite adj. Appropriate. human form. apposition n. The act of placing side by side, antic n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action. together, or in contact. Antichrist n. Any opponent or enemy of Christ, appraise v. To estimate the money value of. whether a person or a power. appreciable adj. Capable of being discerned by the anticlimax n. A gradual or sudden decrease in the senses or intellect. importance or impressiveness of what is said. apprehend v. To make a prisoner of (a person) in anticyclone n. An atmospheric condition of high the name of the law. central pressure, with currents flowing outward. apprehensible adj. Capable of being conceived. antidote n. Anything that will counteract or remove approbation n. Sanction. the effects of poison, disease, or the like. appropriate adj. Suitable for the purpose and antilogy n. Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or circumstances. ideas. aqueduct n. A water-conduit, particularly one for antipathize v. To show or feel a feeling of supplying a community from a distance. antagonism, aversion, or dislike. aqueous adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing water. antiphon n. A response or alteration of responses, arbiter n. One chosen or appointed, by mutual generally musical. consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters. antiphony n. An anthem or other composition sung arbitrary adj. Fixed or done capriciously.

arbitrate v. To act or give judgment as umpire. longing, as for something high and good, not yet arbor n. A tree. attained. arboreal adj. Of or pertaining to a tree or trees. assailant n. One who attacks. arborescent adj. Having the nature of a tree. assassin n. One who kills, or tries to kill, arboretum n. A botanical garden or place devoted to treacherously or secretly. the cultivation of trees or shrubs. assassinate v. To kill, as by surprise or secret arboriculture n. The cultivation of trees or shrubs. assault, especially the killing of some eminent arcade n. A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed person. passageway having shops, etc., opening from it. assassination n. Murderer, as by secret assault or archaic adj. Antiquated treachery. archaism n. Obsolescence. assay n. The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy archangel n. An angel of high rank. ore. archbishop n. The chief of the bishops of an assent v. To express agreement with a statement or ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and matter of opinion. Anglican church. assess v. To determine the amount of (a tax or other archdeacon n. A high official administrator of the sum to be paid). affairs of a diocese. assessor n. An officer whose duty it is to assess archaeology n. The branch of anthropology taxes. concerned with the systematic investigation of the assets n. pl. Property in general, regarded as relics of man. applicable to the payment of debts. archetype n. A prototype. assiduous adj. Diligent. archipelago n. Any large body of water studded with assignee n. One who is appointed to act for another islands, or the islands collectively themselves. in the management of certain property and ardent adj. Burning with passion. interests. ardor n. Intensity of passion or affection. assimilate v. To adapt. arid adj. Very dry. assonance n. Resemblance or correspondence in aristocracy n. A hereditary nobility sound. aristocrat n. A hereditary noble or one nearly assonant adj. Having resemblance of sound. connected with nobility. assonate v. To accord in sound, especially vowel armada n. A fleet of war-vessels. sound. armful n. As much as can be held in the arm or assuage v. To cause to be less harsh, violent, or arms. severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease. armory n. An arsenal. astringent adj. Harsh in disposition or character. aroma n. An agreeable odor. astute adj. Keen in discernment. arraign v. To call into court, as a person indicted for atheism n. The denial of the existence of God. crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not. athirst adj. Wanting water. arrange v. To put in definite or proper order. athwart adv. From side to side. arrangement n. The act of putting in proper order, or atomizer n. An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a the state of being put in order. fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. arrant adj. Notoriously bad. atone v. To make amends for. arrear n. Something overdue and unpaid. atonement n. Amends, reparation, or expiation arrival n. A coming to stopping-place or destination. made from wrong or injury. arrogant adj. Unduly or excessively proud, as of atrocious adj. Outrageously or wantonly wicked, wealth, station, learning, etc. criminal, vile, or cruel. arrogate v. To take, demand, or claim, especially atrocity n. Great cruelty or reckless wickedness. presumptuously or without reasons or grounds. attache n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic Artesian well n. A very deep bored well. water rises embassy. due to underground pressure attest v. To certify as accurate, genuine, or true. artful adj. Characterized by craft or cunning. attorney-general n. The chief law-officer of a Arthurian adj. Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or government. legendary hero of British poetic story. auburn adj. Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair. artifice n. Trickery. audacious adj. Fearless. artless adj. Ingenuous. audible adj. Loud enough to be heard. ascendant adj. Dominant. audition n. The act or sensation of hearing. ascension n. The act of rising. auditory adj. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ascent n. A rising, soaring, or climbing. organs or sense of hearing. ascetic adj. Given to severe self-denial and augment v. To make bigger. practicing excessive abstinence and devotion. augur v. To predict. ascribe v. To assign as a quality or attribute. Augustinian adj. Pertaining to St. Augustine, his asexual adj. Having no distinct sexual organs. doctrines, or the religious orders called after him. ashen adj. Pale. aura n. Pervasive psychic influence supposed to askance adv. With a side or indirect glance or emanate from persons meaning. aural adj. Of or pertaining to the ear. asperity n. Harshness or roughness of temper. auricle n. One of the two chambers of the heart aspirant n. One who seeks earnestly, as for which receives the blood from the veins. advancement, honors, place. auricular adj. Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, aspiration n. An earnest wish for that which is above or the sense of hearing. one's present reach. auriferous adj. Containing gold. aspire v. To have an earnest desire, wish, or aurora n. A luminous phenomenon in the upper

regions of the atmosphere. lower than tenor. auspice n. favoring, protecting, or propitious bask v. To make warm by genial heat. influence or guidance. bass adj. Low in tone or compass. austere adj. Severely simple; unadorned. baste v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while autarchy n. Unrestricted power. cooking. authentic adj. Of undisputed origin. baton n. An official staff borne either as a weapon or authenticity n. The state or quality of being genuine, as an emblem of authority or privilege. or of the origin and authorship claimed. battalion n. A body of infantry composed of two or autobiography n. The story of one's life written by more companies, forming a part of a regiment. himself. batten n. A narrow strip of wood. autocracy n. Absolute government. batter n. A thick liquid mixture of two or more autocrat n. Any one who claims or wields materials beaten together, to be used in cookery. unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence. bauble n. A trinket. automaton n. Any living being whose actions are or bawl v. To proclaim by outcry. appear to be involuntary or mechanical. beatify v. To make supremely happy. autonomous adj. Self-governing. beatitude n. Any state of great happiness. autonomy n. Self-government. beau n. An escort or lover. autopsy n. The examination of a dead body by becalm v. To make quiet. dissection to ascertain the cause of death. beck v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture. autumnal adj. Of or pertaining to autumn. bedaub v. To smear over, as with something oily or auxiliary n. One who or that which aids or helps, sticky. especially when regarded as subsidiary or bedeck v. To cover with ornament. accessory. bedlam n. Madhouse. avalanche n. The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or befog v. To confuse. ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it befriend v. To be a friend to, especially when in rock. need. avarice n. Passion for getting and keeping riches. beget v. To produce by sexual generation. aver v. To assert as a fact. begrudge v. To envy one of the possession of. averse adj. Reluctant. belate v. To delay past the proper hour. aversion n. A mental condition of fixed opposition to belay v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a or dislike of some particular thing. cleat. avert v. To turn away or aside. belie v. To misrepresent. aviary n. A spacious cage or enclosure in which live believe v. To accept as true on the testimony or birds are kept. authority of others. avidity n. Greediness. belittle v. To disparage. avocation n. Diversion. belle n. A woman who is a center of attraction avow v. To declare openly. because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. awaken v. To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the bellicose adj. Warlike. like. belligerent adj. Manifesting a warlike spirit. awry adv. & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or bemoan v. To lament position. benediction n. a solemn invocation of the divine aye adv. An expression of assent. blessing. azalea n. A flowering shrub. benefactor n. A doer of kindly and charitable acts. azure n. The color of the sky. benefice n. A church office endowed with funds or Baconian adj. Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his property for the maintenance of divine service. system of philosophy. beneficent adj. Characterized by charity and bacterium n. A microbe. kindness. badger v. To pester. beneficial adj. Helpful. baffle v. To foil or frustrate. beneficiary n. One who is lawfully entitled to the bailiff n. An officer of court having custody of profits and proceeds of an estate or property. prisoners under arraignment. benefit n. Helpful result. baize n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric benevolence n. Any act of kindness or well-doing. used for table-covers, curtains, etc. benevolent adj. Loving others and actively desirous bale n. A large package prepared for transportation of their well-being. or storage. benign adj. Good and kind of heart. baleful adj. Malignant. benignant adj. Benevolent in feeling, character, or ballad n. Any popular narrative poem, often with aspect. epic subject and usually in lyric form. benignity n. Kindness of feeling, disposition, or balsam n. A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, manner. used for healing. benison n. Blessing. banal adj. Commonplace. bequeath v. To give by will. barcarole n. A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers. bereave v. To make desolate with loneliness and barograph n. An instrument that registers grief. graphically and continuously the atmospheric berth n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc. pressure. barometer n. An instrument for indicating the beseech v. To implore. atmospheric pressure per unit of surface. beset v. To attack on all sides. barring prep. Apart from. besmear v. To smear over, as with any oily or sticky baritone adj. Having a register higher than bass and substance.

bestial adj. Animal. bombast n. Inflated or extravagant language, bestrew v. To sprinkle or cover with things strewn. especially on unimportant subjects. bestride v. To get or sit upon astride, as a horse. boorish adj. Rude. bethink v. To remind oneself. bore v. To weary by tediousness or dullness. betide v. To happen to or befall. borough n. An incorporated village or town. betimes adv. In good season or time. bosom n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax betroth v. To engage to marry. of a human being, especially of a woman. betrothal n. Engagement to marry. botanical adj. Connected with the study or bevel n. Any inclination of two surfaces other than cultivation of plants. 90 degrees. botanize v. To study plant-life. bewilder v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment botany n. The science that treats of plants. of. bountiful adj. Showing abundance. bibliomania n. The passion for collecting books. Bowdlerize v. To expurgate in editing (a literary bibliography n. A list of the words of an author, or composition) by omitting words or passages. the literature bearing on a particular subject. bowler n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball. bibliophile n. One who loves books. boycott v. To place the products or merchandise of bibulous adj. Fond of drinking. under a ban. bide v. To await. brae n. Hillside. biennial n. A plant that produces leaves and roots braggart n. A vain boaster. the first year and flowers and fruit the second. brandish v. To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly bier n. A horizontal framework with two handles at or defiantly, as a sword or spear. each end for carrying a corpse to the grave. bravado n. An aggressive display of boldness. bigamist n. One who has two spouses at the same bravo interj. Well done. time. bray n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or bigamy n. The crime of marrying any other person the blast of a horn. while having a legal spouse living. braze v. To make of or ornament with brass. bight n. A slightly receding bay between headlands, brazier n. An open pan or basin for holding live formed by a long curve of a coast-line. coals. bilateral adj. Two-sided. breach n. The violation of official duty, lawful right, bilingual adj. Speaking two languages. or a legal obligation. biograph n. A bibliographical sketch or notice. breaker n. One who trains horses, dogs, etc. biography n. A written account of one's life, actions, breech n. The buttocks. and character. brethren n. pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, biology n. The science of life or living organisms. profession, association, or the like. biped n. An animal having two feet. brevity n. Shortness of duration. birthright n. A privilege or possession into which one bric-a-brac n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration. is born. bridle n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of bitterness n. Acridity, as to the taste. a head-stall, a bit, and the reins. blase adj. Sated with pleasure. brigade n. A body of troops consisting of two or blaspheme v. To indulge in profane oaths. more regiments. blatant adj. Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous. brigadier n. General officer who commands a blaze n. A vivid glowing flame. brigade, ranking between a colonel and a majorblazon v. To make widely or generally known. general. bleak adj. Desolate. brigand n. One who lives by robbery and plunder. blemish n. A mark that mars beauty. brimstone n. Sulfur. blithe adj. Joyous. brine n. Water saturated with salt. blithesome adj. Cheerful. bristle n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: blockade n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or used in brush-making, etc. a line of coast by hostile forces. Britannia n. The United Kingdom of Great Britain. boatswain n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who Briticism n. A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc. of Great Britain or the British. bodice n. A women's ornamental corset-shaped brittle adj. Fragile. laced waist. broach v. To mention, for the first time. bodily adj. Corporeal. broadcast adj. Disseminated far and wide. boisterous adj. Unchecked merriment or animal brogan n. A coarse, heavy shoe. spirits. brogue n. Any dialectic pronunciation of English, bole n. The trunk or body of a tree. especially that of the Irish people. bolero n. A Spanish dance, illustrative of the brokerage n. The business of making sales and passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and purchases for a commission; a broker. singing. bromine n. A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid boll n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or element with a suffocating odor. cotton. bronchitis n. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. bolster v. To support, as something wrong. bronchus n. Either of the two subdivisions of the bomb n. A hollow projectile containing an explosive trachea conveying air into the lungs. material. brooch n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged bombard v. To assail with any missile or with pin and hook on the underside. abusive speech. brotherhood n. Spiritual or social fellowship or bombardier n. A person who has charge of mortars, solidarity. bombs, and shells. browbeat v. To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by

stern, haughty, or rude address or manner. relief. brusque adj. Somewhat rough or rude in manner or campaign n. A complete series of connected military speech. operations. buffoon n. A clown. Canaanite n. A member of one of the three tribes buffoonery n. Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc. that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western bulbous adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb. Palestine. bullock n. An ox. canary adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow. bulrush n. Any one of various tall rush-like plants candid adj. Straightforward. growing in damp ground or water. candor n. The quality of frankness or bulwark n. Anything that gives security or defense. outspokenness. bumper n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, canine adj. Characteristic of a dog. especially one to be drunk as a toast or health. canon n. Any rule or law. bumptious adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self- cant v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with conceit. affected solemnity. bungle v. To execute clumsily. cantata n. A choral composition. buoyancy n. Power or tendency to float on or in a canto n. One of the divisions of an extended poem. liquid or gas. cantonment n. The part of the town or district in buoyant adj. Having the power or tendency to float which the troops are quartered. or keep afloat. capacious adj. Roomy. bureau n. A chest of drawers for clothing, etc. capillary n. A minute vessel having walls composed bureaucracy n. Government by departments of men of a single layer of cells. transacting particular branches of public business. capitulate v. To surrender or stipulate terms. burgess n. In colonial times, a member of the lower caprice n. A whim. house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia. caption n. A heading, as of a chapter, section, burgher n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a document, etc. borough burgh, or corporate town. captious adj. Hypercritical. burnish v. To make brilliant or shining. captivate v. To fascinate, as by excellence. bursar n. A treasurer. eloquence, or beauty. bustle v. To hurry. carcass n. The dead body of an animal. butt v. To strike with or as with the head, or horns. cardiac adj. Pertaining to the heart. butte n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural cardinal adj. Of prime or special importance. turret, generally isolated. caret n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating buttress n. Any support or prop. where omitted words, etc., should be inserted. by-law n. A rule or law adopted by an association, a caricature n. a picture or description in which corporation, or the like. natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted. cabal n. A number of persons secretly united for carnage n. Massacre. effecting by intrigue some private purpose. carnal adj. Sensual. cabalism n. Superstitious devotion to one's religion. carnivorous adj. Eating or living on flesh. cabinet n. The body of men constituting the official carouse v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or advisors of the executive head of a nation. jovial manner. cacophony n. A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant carrion n. Dead and putrefying flesh. sound or combination of sounds or tones. cartilage n. An elastic animal tissue of firm cadaverous adj. Resembling a corpse. consistence. cadence n. Rhythmical or measured flow or cartridge n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting. movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of caste n. The division of society on artificial grounds. marching troops. castigate v. To punish. cadenza n. An embellishment or flourish, prepared casual adj. Accidental, by chance. or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument. casualty n. A fatal or serious accident or disaster. caitiff adj. Cowardly. cataclysm n. Any overwhelming flood of water. cajole v. To impose on or dupe by flattering speech. cataract n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in cajolery n. Delusive speech. complete or partial blindness. calculable adj. That may be estimated by reckoning. catastrophe n. Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity. calculus n. A concretion formed in various parts of cathode n. The negative pole or electrode of a the body resembling a pebble in hardness. galvanic battery. callosity n. The state of being hard and insensible. Catholicism n. The system, doctrine, and practice of callow adj. Without experience of the world. the Roman Catholic Church. calorie n. Amount of heat needed to raise the catholicity n. Universal prevalence or acceptance. temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree cat-o-nine-tails n. An instrument consisting of nine centigrade. pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the calumny n. Slander. army and navy. Calvary n. The place where Christ was crucified. caucus n. A private meeting of members of a Calvinism n. The system of doctrine taught by John political party to select candidates. Calvin. causal adj. Indicating or expressing a cause. Calvinize v. To teach or imbue with the doctrines of caustic adj. Sarcastic and severe. Calvinism. cauterize v. To burn or sear as with a heated iron. came n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for cede v. To pass title to. fastening panes in stained-glass windows. censor n. An official examiner of manuscripts cameo n. Any small engraved or carved work in empowered to prohibit their publication.

censorious adj. Judging severely or harshly. clamorous adj. Urgent in complaint or demand. census n. An official numbering of the people of a clan n. A tribe. country or district. clandestine adj. Surreptitious. centenary adj. Pertaining to a hundred years or a clangor n. Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, period of a hundred years. or bells; clamor. centiliter n. A hundredth of a liter. clarify v. To render intelligible. centimeter n. A length of one hundredth of a meter. clarion n. A small shrill trumpet or bugle. centurion n. A captain of a company of one hundred classify v. To arrange in a class or classes on the infantry in the ancient Roman army. basis of observed resemblance’s and differences. cereal adj. Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous clearance n. A certificate from the proper authorities seeds. that a vessel has complied with the law and may ceremonial adj. Characterized by outward form or sail. ceremony. clemency n. Mercy. ceremonious adj. Observant of ritual. clement adj. Compassionate. cessation n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion. close-hauled adj. Having the sails set for sailing as cession n. Surrender, as of possessions or rights. close to the wind as possible. chagrin n. Keen vexation, annoyance, or clothier n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing. mortification, as at one's failures or errors. clumsy adj. Awkward of movement. chameleon adj. Changeable in appearance. coagulate v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by chancery n. A court of equity, as distinguished from heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment. a common-law court. coagulant adj. Producing coagulation. chaos n. Any condition of which the elements or coalescence n. The act or process of coming parts are in utter disorder and confusion. together so as to form one body, combination, or characteristic n. A distinctive feature. product. characterize v. To describe by distinctive marks or coalition n. Combination in a body or mass. peculiarities. coddle v. To treat as a baby or an invalid. charlatan n. A quack. codicil n. A supplement adding to, revoking, or chasm n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's explaining in the body of a will. surface. coerce v. To force. chasten v. To purify by affliction. coercion n. Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or chastise v. To subject to punitive measures. physical. chastity n. Sexual or moral purity. coercive adj. Serving or tending to force. chateau n. A castle or manor-house. cogent adj. Appealing strongly to the reason or chattel n. Any article of personal property. conscience. check v. To hold back. cognate adj. Akin. chiffon n. A very thin gauze used for trimmings, cognizant adj. Taking notice. evening dress, etc. cohere v. To stick together. chivalry n. The knightly system of feudal times with cohesion n. Consistency. its code, usages and practices. cohesive adj. Having the property of consistency. cholera n. An acute epidemic disease. coincide v. To correspond. choleric adj. Easily provoked to anger. coincidence n. A circumstance so agreeing with choral adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed another: often implying accident. by a chorus or choir. coincident adj. Taking place at the same time. Christ n. A title of Jesus collaborate v. To labor or cooperate with another or christen v. To name in baptism. others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits. Christendom n. That part of the world where collapse v. To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail. Christianity is generally professed. collapsible adj. That may or can collapse. chromatic adj. Belonging, relating to, or abounding colleague n. An associate in professional in color. employment. chronology n. The science that treats of collective adj. Consisting of a number of persons or computation of time or of investigation and objects considered as gathered into a mass, or arrangement of events. sum. chronometer n. A portable timekeeper of the highest collector n. One who makes a collection, as of attainable precision. objects of art, books, or the like. cipher v. To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun collegian n. A college student. meaning zero or nothing) collide v. To meet and strike violently. circulate v. To disseminate. collier n. One who works in a coal-mine. circumference n. The boundary-line of a circle. collision n. Violent contact. circumlocution n. Indirect or roundabout expression. colloquial adj. Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary. circumnavigate v. To sail quite around. colloquialism n. Form of speech used only or chiefly circumscribe v. To confine within bounds. in conversation. circumspect adj. Showing watchfulness, caution, or colloquy n. Conversation. careful consideration. collusion n. A secret agreement for a wrongful citadel n. Any strong fortress. purpose. cite v. To refer to specifically. colossus n. Any strikingly great person or object. claimant n. One who makes a claim or demand, as comely adj. Handsome. of right. comestible adj. Fit to be eaten. clairvoyance n. Intuitive sagacity or perception. comical adj. Funny.

commemorate v. To serve as a remembrance of. concord n. Harmony. commentary n. A series of illustrative or explanatory concordance n. Harmony. notes on any important work. concur v. To agree. commingle v. To blend. concurrence n. Agreement. commissariat n. The department of an army concurrent adj. Occurring or acting together. charged with the provision of its food and water and concussion n. A violent shock to some organ by a daily needs. fall or a sudden blow. commission v. To empower. condensation n. The act or process of making commitment n. The act or process of entrusting or dense or denser. consigning for safe-keeping. condense v. To abridge. committal n. The act, fact, or result of committing, or condescend v. To come down voluntarily to equal the state of being terms with inferiors. commodity n. Something that is bought and sold. condolence n. Expression of sympathy with a commotion n. A disturbance or violent agitation. person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune. commute v. To put something, especially something conduce v. To bring about. less severe, in place of. conducive adj. Contributing to an end. comparable adj. Fit to be compared. conductible adj. Capable of being conducted or comparative adj. Relative. transmitted. comparison n. Examination of two or more objects conduit n. A means for conducting something, with reference to their likeness or unlikeness. particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid. compensate v. To remunerate. confectionery n. The candy collectively that a competence n. Adequate qualification or capacity. confectioner makes or sells, as candy. competent adj. Qualified. confederacy n. A number of states or persons in competitive adj. characterized by rivalry. compact or league with each other, as for mutual competitor n. A rival. aid. complacence n. Satisfaction with one's acts or confederate n. One who is united with others in a surroundings. league, compact, or agreement. complacent adj. Pleased or satisfied with oneself. confer v. To bestow. complaisance n. Politeness. conferee n. A person with whom another confers. complaisant adj. Agreeable. confessor n. A spiritual advisor. complement v. To make complete. confidant n. One to whom secrets are entrusted. complex adj. Complicated. confide v. To reveal in trust or confidence. compliant adj. Yielding. confidence n. The state or feeling of trust in or complicate v. To make complex, difficult, or hard to reliance upon another. deal with. confident adj. Assured. complication n. An intermingling or combination of confinement n. Restriction within limits or things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner. boundaries. complicity n. Participation or partnership, as in confiscate v. To appropriate (private property) as wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer. forfeited to the public use or treasury. compliment v. To address or gratify with conflagration n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a expressions of delicate praise. forest, or the like. component n. A constituent element or part. confluence n. The place where streams meet. comport v. To conduct or behave (oneself). confluent n. A stream that unites with another. composure n. Calmness. conformance n. The act or state or conforming. comprehensible adj. Intelligible. conformable adj. Harmonious. comprehension n. Ability to know. conformation n. General structure, form, or outline. comprehensive adj. Large in scope or content. conformity n. Correspondence in form, manner, or compress v. To press together or into smaller use. space. confront v. To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles. compressible adj. Capable of being pressed into smaller compass. congeal v. To coagulate. compression n. Constraint, as by force or authority. congenial adj. Having kindred character or tastes. comprise v. To consist of. congest v. To collect into a mass. compulsion n. Coercion. congregate v. To bring together into a crowd. compulsory adj. Forced. coniferous adj. Cone-bearing trees. compunction n. Remorseful feeling. conjecture n. A guess. compute v. To ascertain by mathematical conjoin v. To unite. calculation. conjugal adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, concede v. To surrender. or married persons. conceit n. Self-flattering opinion. conjugate adj. Joined together in pairs. conceive v. To form an idea, mental image or conjugation n. The state or condition of being joined thought of. together. concerto n. A musical composition. conjunction n. The state of being joined together, or concession n. Anything granted or yielded, or the things so joined. admitted in response to a demand, petition, or connive v. To be in collusion. claim. connoisseur n. A critical judge of art, especially one conciliate v. To obtain the friendship of. with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of conciliatory adj. Tending to reconcile. art. conclusive adj. Sufficient to convince or decide. connote v. To mean; signify.

connubial adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony. or rivalry. conquer v. To overcome by force. contiguity n. Proximity. consanguineous adj. Descended from the same contiguous adj. Touching or joining at the edge or parent or ancestor. boundary. conscience n. The faculty in man by which he continence n. Self-restraint with respect to desires, distinguishes between right and wrong in character appetites, and passion. and conduct. contingency n. Possibility of happening. conscientious adj. Governed by moral standard. contingent adj. Not predictable. conscious adj. Aware that one lives, feels, and continuance n. Permanence. thinks. continuation n. Prolongation. conscript v. To force into military service. continuity n. Uninterrupted connection in space, consecrate v. To set apart as sacred. time, operation, or development. consecutive adj. Following in uninterrupted continuous adj. Connected, extended, or prolonged succession. without separation or interruption of sequence. consensus n. A collective unanimous opinion of a contort v. To twist into a misshapen form. number of persons. contraband n. Trade forbidden by law or treaty. conservatism n. Tendency to adhere to the existing contradiction n. The assertion of the opposite of that order of things. which has been said. conservative adj. Adhering to the existing order of contradictory adj. Inconsistent with itself. things. contraposition n. A placing opposite. conservatory n. An institution for instruction and contravene v. To prevent or obstruct the operation training in music and declamation. of. consign v. To entrust. contribution n. The act of giving for a common consignee n. A person to whom goods or other purpose. property has been entrusted. contributor n. One who gives or furnishes, in consignor n. One who entrusts. common with others, for a common purpose. consistency n. A state of permanence. contrite adj. Broken in spirit because of a sense of console v. To comfort. sin. consolidate v. To combine into one body or system. contrivance n. The act planning, devising, inventing, consonance n. The state or quality of being in or adapting something to or for a special purpose. accord with. contrive v. To manage or carry through by some consonant adj. Being in agreement or harmony device or scheme. with. control v. To exercise a directing, restraining, or consort n. A companion or associate. governing influence over. conspicuous adj. Clearly visible. controller n. One who or that which regulates or conspirator n. One who agrees with others to directs. cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose. contumacious adj. Rebellious. contumacy n. Contemptuous disregard of the conspire v. To plot. requirements of rightful authority. constable n. An officer whose duty is to maintain the contuse v. To bruise by a blow, either with or without peace. the breaking of the skin. constellation n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of contusion n. A bruise. stars. convalesce v. To recover after a sickness. consternation n. Panic. convalescence n. The state of progressive constituency n. The inhabitants or voters in a district restoration to health and strength after the represented in a legislative body. cessation of disease. constituent n. One who has the right to vote at an convalescent adj. Recovering health after sickness. election. convene v. To summon or cause to assemble. constrict v. To bind. convenience n. Fitness, as of time or place. consul n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign converge v. To cause to incline and approach city, chiefly to represent his country. nearer together. consulate n. The place in which a consul transacts convergent adj. Tending to one point. official business. conversant adj. Thoroughly informed. consummate v. To bring to completion. conversion n. Change from one state or position to consumption n. Gradual destruction, as by burning, another, or from one form to another. eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc. convertible adj. Interchangeable. consumptive adj. Designed for gradual destruction. convex adj. Curving like the segment of the globe or contagion n. The communication of disease from of the surface of a circle. person to person. conveyance n. That by which anything is contagious adj. Transmitting disease. transported. contaminate v. To pollute. convivial adj. Devoted to feasting, or to goodcontemplate v. To consider thoughtfully. fellowship in eating or drinking. contemporaneous adj. Living, occurring, or existing convolution n. A winding motion. at the same time. convolve v. To move with a circling or winding contemporary adj. Living or existing at the same motion. time. convoy n. A protecting force accompanying property contemptible adj. Worthy of scorn or disdain. in course of transportation. contemptuous adj. Disdainful. convulse v. To cause spasms in. contender n. One who exerts oneself in opposition convulsion n. A violent and abnormal muscular

contraction of the body. more persons or parties. copious adj. Plenteous. covert adj. Concealed, especially for an evil coquette n. A flirt. purpose. cornice n. An ornamental molding running round the covey n. A flock of quails or partridges. walls of a room close to the ceiling. cower v. To crouch down tremblingly, as through cornucopia n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peacefear or shame. and prosperity. coxswain n. One who steers a rowboat, or one who corollary n. A proposition following so obviously has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an from another that it requires little demonstration. officer. coronation n. The act or ceremony of crowning a crag n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge. monarch. coronet n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its cranium n. The skull of an animal, especially that form, various degrees of noble rank less than part enclosing the brain. sovereign. crass adj. Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as corporal adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to thin or fine. opposed to the mind. craving n. A vehement desire. corporate adj. Belonging to a corporation. creak n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound. corporeal adj. Of a material nature; physical. creamery n. A butter-making establishment. corps n. A number or body of persons in some way creamy adj. Resembling or containing cream. associated or acting together. credence n. Belief. corpse n. A dead body. credible adj. Believable. corpulent adj. Obese. credulous adj. Easily deceived. corpuscle n. A minute particle of matter. creed n. A formal summary of fundamental points of correlate v. To put in some relation of connection or religious belief. correspondence. crematory adj. A place for cremating dead bodies. correlative adj. Mutually involving or implying one crevasse n. A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a another. glacier. corrigible adj. Capable of reformation. crevice n. A small fissure, as between two corroborate v. To strengthen, as proof or conviction. contiguous surfaces. corroboration n. Confirmation. criterion n. A standard by which to determine the corrode v. To ruin or destroy little by little. correctness of a judgment or conclusion. corrosion n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface critique n. A criticism or critical review. disintegration. crockery n. Earthenware made from baked clay. corrosive n. That which causes gradual decay by crucible n. A trying and purifying test or agency. crumbling or surface disintegration. crusade n. Any concerted movement, vigorously corruptible adj. Open to bribery. prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle. corruption n. Loss of purity or integrity. crustacean adj. Pertaining to a division of cosmetic adj. Pertaining to the art of beautifying, arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, especially the complexion. etc. cosmic adj. Pertaining to the universe. crustaceous adj. Having a crust-like shell. cosmogony n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin cryptogram n. Anything written in characters that of the universe. are secret or so arranged as to have hidden cosmography n. The science that describes the meaning. universe, including astronomy, geography, and crystallize v. To bring together or give fixed shape geology. to. cosmology n. The general science of the universe. cudgel n. A short thick stick used as a club. cosmopolitan adj. Common to all the world. culinary adj. Of or pertaining to cooking or the cosmopolitanism n. A cosmopolitan character. kitchen. cosmos n. The world or universe considered as a cull v. To pick or sort out from the rest. system, perfect in order and arrangement. culpable adj. Guilty. counter-claim n. A cross-demand alleged by a culprit n. A guilty person. defendant in his favor against the plaintiff. culvert n. Any artificial covered channel for the counteract v. To act in opposition to. passage of water through a bank or under a road, counterbalance v. To oppose with an equal force. canal. countercharge v. To accuse in return. cupidity n. Avarice. counterfeit adj. Made to resemble something else. curable adj. Capable of being remedied or counterpart n. Something taken with another for the corrected. completion of either. curator n. A person having charge as of a library or countervail v. To offset. museum. counting-house n. A house or office used for curio n. A piece of bric-a-brac. transacting business, bookkeeping, cursive adj. Writing in which the letters are joined correspondence, etc. together. countryman n. A rustic. cursory adj. Rapid and superficial. courageous adj. Brave. curt adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or course n. Line of motion or direction. expression. courser n. A fleet and spirited horse. curtail v. To cut off or cut short. courtesy n. Politeness originating in kindness and curtsy n. A downward movement of the body by exercised habitually. bending the knees. covenant n. An agreement entered into by two or cycloid adj. Like a circle.

cygnet n. A young swan. reasoning from given premises or principles. cynical adj. Exhibiting moral skepticism. deface v. To mar or disfigure the face or external cynicism n. Contempt for the opinions of others and surface of. of what others value. defalcate v. To cut off or take away, as a part of cynosure n. That to which general interest or something. attention is directed. defamation n. Malicious and groundless injury done daring adj. Brave. to the reputation or good name of another. darkling adv. Blindly. defame v. To slander. Darwinism n. The doctrine that natural selection has default n. The neglect or omission of a legal been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms. requirement. dastard n. A base coward. defendant n. A person against whom a suit is datum n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact. brought. dauntless adj. Fearless. defensible adj. Capable of being maintained or day-man n. A day-laborer. justified. dead-heat n. A race in which two or more defensive adj. Carried on in resistance to competitors come out even, and there is no winner. aggression. dearth n. Scarcity, as of something customary, defer v. To delay or put off to some other time. essential ,or desirable. deference n. Respectful submission or yielding, as death's-head n. A human skull as a symbol of to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment. death. defiant adj. Characterized by bold or insolent debase v. To lower in character or virtue. opposition. debatable adj. Subject to contention or dispute. deficiency n. Lack or insufficiency. debonair adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or deficient adj. Not having an adequate or proper manner. supply or amount. debut n. A first appearance in society or on the definite adj. Having an exact signification or positive stage. meaning. decagon n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles. deflect v. To cause to turn aside or downward. decagram n. A weight of 10 grams. deforest v. To clear of forests. decaliter n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters. deform v. To disfigure. decalogue n. The ten commandments. deformity n. A disfigurement. Decameron n. A volume consisting of ten parts or defraud v. To deprive of something dishonestly. books. defray v. To make payment for. decameter n. A length of ten meters. degeneracy n. A becoming worse. decamp v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly. degenerate v. To become worse or inferior. decapitate v. To behead. degradation n. Diminution, as of strength or decapod adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed. magnitude. decasyllable n. A line of ten syllables. degrade v. To take away honors or position from. deceit n. Falsehood. dehydrate v. To deprive of water. deceitful adj. Fraudulent. deify v. To regard or worship as a god. deceive v. To mislead by or as by falsehood. deign v. To deem worthy of notice or account. decency n. Moral fitness. deist n. One who believes in God, but denies decent adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, supernatural revelation. speech, manners, or dress. deity n. A god, goddess, or divine person. deciduous adj. Falling off at maturity as petals after deject v. To dishearten. flowering, fruit when ripe, etc. dejection n. Melancholy. decimal adj. Founded on the number 10. delectable adj. Delightful to the taste or to the decimate v. To destroy a measurable or large senses. proportion of. delectation n. Delight. 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