SAT Words

To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.

To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.

To shorten by omitting parts or details.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

Differing from the norm.

The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.

To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.

Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.

To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.

To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).

Abominable; detested.

First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.

Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.

To deprive; to cut off.

To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.

Broken away (from restraint).

The act or process of cutting off.

To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.

The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.

Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.

Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.

Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss.

To agree or assent [with to ‘a proposal, a request’]; to give way.

Easy of access or approach.

To shout; to call out.

An expression of approval; praise.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.

To increase, to rise

Tasting sour or bitter.

To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.

To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.

The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).

Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.

Harsh and sharp, or bitter and not pleasant to the taste; acrid, pungent.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination; acuity of mind.

Brief, quick, short.

An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.

Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

To inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke in a serious tone; to tell off.

To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

deft, dexterous, or skillful

Flattery; fulsome praise.

Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

An opponent or rival.

Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.

The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.

Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.

Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.

Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

An abundant flow or supply.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; loose-jointed.

To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).

Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.

Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

Although, despite (it) being.

Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

To state under oath, to plead.

A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.

To set aside for a purpose.

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.

To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

Having equal or comparable ability in both hands; in particular, able to write well with both hands.

The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation.

The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.

An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

To make better; improve.

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

Showing friendliness or goodwill.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.

To render larger, more extended, or more intense.

A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.

Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".)

The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.

A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

To add annotation to.

A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.

Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .

A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.

Contending or acting against.

Earlier, either in time or in order.

To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.

Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.

old-fashioned, out of date

A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.

Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.

A concise expression of a principle in an area of knowledge; an axiom, a precept.

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

Revelatory; prophetic.

Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.

present participle and gerund of appall

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.

The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition.

To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.

Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).

Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

Understood by only a few.

The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.

Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm.

Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

Very dry.

The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.

The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

To make clear or effective.

An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.

To move upward, to fly, to soar.

The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.

To find out definitely; to discover or establish.

Of or relating to ascetics.

To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.

To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).

To agree to a proposal.

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.

To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).

Quickly and critically discerning.

A place of safety or refuge.

To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.

A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.

To gain (an object or desired result).

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

To increase; to make larger or supplement.

Of good omen; indicating future success.

Grim or severe in manner or appearance.

Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties.

Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.

Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.

To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.

To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.

Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

A cause of misery or ruin.

An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

To perplex, confuse (someone).

US spelling of belabour.

To besiege; to surround with troops.

To lie around; encompass.

To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.

Engaged in warfare, warring.

To moan or complain about (something).

Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.

Helpful or good to something or someone.

Having a disposition to do good.

Kind; gentle; mild.

To give or leave by will; to give by testament.

To chide or scold vehemently.

simple past and past participle of bereave

To beg or implore something of (a person).

To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.

To make dirty.

To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.

A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.

Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.

Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

Courageous, daring.

A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.

showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous

A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.

Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

Made of brass.

The quality of being brief in duration.

A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.

Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.

Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.

A bud, sprout, or shoot.

A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

Of or pertaining to Byzantium.

A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.

Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.

A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.

The act or state of declining or sinking.

To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.

An event resulting in great loss.

To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.

Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.

Impartial and free from prejudice.

The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.

Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.

To punish or reprimand someone severely.

A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.

Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

To give up; yield to another.

Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.

Of or relating to the brain, cerebrum, or cerebral cortex.

Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.

An ongoing winner in a game or contest.

A gift or power of leadership or authority.

A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.

To punish, especially by corporal punishment.

Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

To draw a line around; to encircle.

Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.

to avoid or get around something; to bypass

Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

A body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.

Alternative form of cliché.

To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.

To join into a single mass or whole.

Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.

Aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.

Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

The act of collaborating.

Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.

A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism.

Extremely large or on a great scale.

To congratulate or reward.

Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

present participle and gerund of compel

To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.

Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.

The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.

Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).

A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant

Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

Brief, yet including all important information.

To end; to come to an end.

To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

Real, actual, tangible.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.

To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).

Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.

To trust, have faith (in).

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.

To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.

To perplex or puzzle.

To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.

A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

To perform magic tricks.

To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.

A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.

Following as a result.

Wilderness where human development is prohibited.

Obvious or easy to notice.

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

To set up; to establish; to enact.

To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.

A translation.

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.

The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

Marked by heated arguments or controversy.

Connected; touching; abutting.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.

To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.

Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.

simple past and past participle of contrive

Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.

A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.

Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

(said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

A firmly held belief.

Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.

Vast in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.

A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.

To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.

To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.

Inclusive; affecting the whole world.

An action performed in opposition to another action.

False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.

Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

Believable or plausible.

Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.

A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.

Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.

To grow plants, notably crops.

Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.

Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.

Extreme greed, especially for wealth.

To cut short the tail of (an animal).

Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.

A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

To make feeble; to weaken.

To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

To kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

Appropriate social behavior.

An edict or law.

To denounce as harmful.

To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.

The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

A fault or malfunction.

To delay or postpone.

Respectful and considerate; showing deference.

Defying.

Inadequacy or incompleteness.

Quick and neat in action; skillful.

No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

To lower in value or social position.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Done on purpose; intentional.

A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.

To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.

A great flood or rain.

A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.

To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.

To debase; to lower; to degrade.

The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.

To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.

To show how to use (something).

To look demurely.

To criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something)

To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.

The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.

Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.

To laugh at or mock (someone or something) harshly; to ridicule, to scorn.

To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

Disparaging.

To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

To regard with contempt or scorn.

In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

Lacking something; devoid.

Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.

To take apart from; to take off.

To prevent something from happening.

To take away; to withdraw or remove.

Causing damage or harm.

To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

Completely without; having none of.

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.

Skillful with one's hands.

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.

Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

simple past and past participle of dilapidate

Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.

To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.

To make smaller.

A surname.

simple past and past participle of disaffect

An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.

To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.

To open up; unfasten.

Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.

To sell at a reduced price.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.

To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.

To harm the good reputation of (a person).

Respectful of privacy or secrecy; exercising caution in order to avoid causing embarrassment; quiet; diplomatic.

An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.

The quality of being discreet.

To make distinctions.

A feeling of contempt or scorn.

A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry

Discouraged, despairing.

Alternative form of dishevelled.

The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike

Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

Having no interest or stake in the outcome, and no conflicts of interest; free of bias, impartial.

To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.

To scatter in different directions.

To put out of place; to disarrange.

An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.

To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).

dissipated

Unrestrained by morality.

A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.

To convince not to try or do.

Capable of being perceived very clearly.

To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.

Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.

Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

Stern, harsh and forbidding.

Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.

Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.

Changing; active; in motion.

Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.

The receding movement of the tide.

Enthusiastic; high-spirited.

Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.

Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.

An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.

To build, construct.

To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.

Giving off bubbles; fizzy.

The ability to produce a desired effect under ideal testing conditions.

Insolent and shameless audacity.

Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

Selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed.

Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.

Fluently persuasive and articulate.

To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).

Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.

Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

To come from a source; issue from.

An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.

To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.

To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

To bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble.

Noteworthy, remarkable, great.

Characterized by emphasis; forceful.

Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To form a circle around; to encircle.

to seize, appropriate

To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement.

Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.

To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

To lift, raise up.

Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.

To supply with light.

The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.

A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.

Lasting for a short period of time.

The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.

The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.

Marked by or having equity.

Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation.

To pull up by the roots.

Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.

Containing an error; inaccurate.

Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.

To marry.

Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.

Pertaining to the presupposition of an invisible air-like element permeating all of space, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere.

An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.

The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.

An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.

Disappearing, vanishing.

To call out; to draw out or bring forth.

To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).

Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.

To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.

To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.

To make a hole in (something); to hollow.

To be larger, greater than (something).

Deserving honour, respect and admiration.

To show or illustrate by example.

Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.

To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.

To urge; to advise earnestly.

Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).

Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

To accelerate the progress of.

Very specific, clear, or detailed.

To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.

One who expounds, represents or advocates.

To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length.

To erase or strike out.

Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).

Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.

To praise; to make high.

Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.

To infer by extending known information.

To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.

Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.

To make easy or easier.

Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

An unsteadiness.

Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.

Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.

A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.

Able to be done in practice.

Lacking purpose.

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

Appropriate, apt, fitting.

Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, and/or belief.

An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

A fistula.

Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.

Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.

To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

Likely to bend or break under pressure; easily damaged; frail, unsubstantial.

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.

To thrive or grow well.

To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.

To vary irregularly; to swing.

The quality of smoothness of flow.

Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.

A sense of evil to come.

The ability, or the due use of one's ability, to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.

Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.

To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.

To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.

Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.

Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.

Given to troublemaking.

Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.

Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.

Frenzied and frantic, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.

Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.

Of something which is consumed (such as money, goods, etc.): Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

Bearing no fruit; barren.

Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.

Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.

To say something in contradiction to.

To coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.

A granary; a store of grain.

Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.

Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.

Of, or relating to glaciers.

Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

The vice of eating to excess.

A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.

Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.

To please.

Given freely; unearned.

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Of an activity such as a ceremony, a person's conduct, etc.: the quality of being deeply serious and solemn, especially in a dignified manner; seriousness, solemnity; (countable, archaic or obsolete) a serious or solemn thing, such as a matter, a comment, etc.

Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

Something which causes grief.

A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.

Twelve dozen = 144.

To be prone on the ground.

Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.

Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

Repeated too often.

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.

Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.

An impassioned, disputatious public speech.

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

Showing accord in feeling or action.

Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

Someone devoted to hedonism.

A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs.

Pertaining to the ancient Greek Olympian god Hermes.

To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.

A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

Related to holism.

Of the same kind; alike, similar.

Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.

Excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally (Greek mythology) toward the gods.

The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.

Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.

To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.

One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.

A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group.

To make an idol of, or to worship as an idol.

Not noble; plebeian; common.

To shine light on something.

Anything that seems to be something that it is not.

To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.

About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

Unable to be changed without exception.

To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.

treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased

Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

Having, or revealing, no emotion.

Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors

To get in the way of; to hinder.

Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.

Essential; crucial; extremely important.

Not perceptible, not detectable, too small in magnitude to be observed.

Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.

Unaffected or unable to be affected by something.

Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.

Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.

To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.

The thing implied.

The act of implicating.

Suggested indirectly, without being directly expressed.

To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.

To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.

To make poor.

Not practical; impracticable.

Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.

Improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal.

To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.

Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

To assault, attack.

Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.

Not intentional; not on purpose; not conscious.

Not subject to being alienated, that is, surrendered, taken away, or transferred to another.

Lacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.

To induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony.

Emitting light as a result of being heated.

Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.

Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.

Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)

To call into action.

A physical tilt or bend.

Including (almost) everything within its scope.

Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.

Unable to be conceived or imagined; unbelievable.

Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

Having no consequence; not consequential; of little importance.

Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.

Not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend.

Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

The state of being indifferent.

Native to a land, especially before colonization.

Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.

Not marked by discrimination or discernment; (by extension) confused, promiscuous.

Not disputable; not open to question; obviously true

not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim

Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.

To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

To yield to a temptation or desire.

Hard-working and persistent.

Beyond expression in words; unspeakable.

Unable or insufficient to produce effect.

Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.

Unable to move or act; inanimate.

Impossible to avoid or prevent.

Impossible to prevent or stop; inevitable.

A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.

Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.

To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.

A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

A flow inward or into something; a coming in.

Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.

Naive and trusting.

To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.

Harmful in effect.

Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.

Harmless; producing no ill effect.

The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.

Eager to acquire knowledge; acquisitive.

Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.

Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.

To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

Unappetizingly flavorless.

Insulting in manner or words, particularly in an arrogant or insubordinate manner.

To bring about by urging or encouraging.

Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.

Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable.

Fearless; bold; brave.

Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.

Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.

To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.

Firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing.

Impossible to defeat, destroy, or kill; too powerful to be defeated or overcome.

To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition

Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.

Unable to be reconciled; opposed; uncompromising.

Free from blame, not open to reproach or criticism; blameless.

Undecided or unsure how to act.

Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.

Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.

A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.

Affected with jaundice.

To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

An act performed for amusement; a joke.

Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.

Humorous, amusing or joking.

Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.

In a state of elation.

Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking.

To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.

To make cold, to sharpen.

To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.

Having knowledge, especially of a particular subject.

Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

An irregular open wound to soft tissue.

Lacking brilliance or intelligence.

Communicative through the use of as few words as possible.

An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.

A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.

Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.

To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time; generosity, liberality.

Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

Existing or present but concealed or inactive.

Worthy of being lauded.

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

A salmon.

Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.

Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness.

A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training.

To release from slavery: to manumit.

A place or stead.

Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.

Mild; calm.

The conduct of a lawsuit.

High, tall, having great height or stature.

The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.

Talkative; chatty.

Clear; easily understood.

Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.

Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.

Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.

Noble and generous in spirit.

Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.

A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.

Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.

Various in kind, quality, or manifestation; diverse.

To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).

Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.

One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.

The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.

Unbranded.

Having little flesh; lean; thin.

One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.

To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.

Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.

To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.

Lying, untruthful or dishonest.

One motivated by gain, especially monetary.

Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).

Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward.

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.

To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.

To use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname.

To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

Not excessive; acting in moderation

A modest, small, or trifling amount.

To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.

Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

Very liberal in giving or bestowing.

Ten thousand; 10,000

Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

A self-centered personality trait in which the person is infatuated with their own characteristics and image that are idealized while others and their differences are devalued in comparison (unless sameness kindles spectacular affinity that forms a rerouting of one's self-love, i.e. the person can see themselves in the other).

In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.

To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.

The state of being negligent.

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.

The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.

Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.

The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.

Primarily active during the night.

Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.

Casually calm and relaxed.

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.

Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.

A minor distinction.

To make legally invalid.

Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

To make dark; to overshadow.

Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.

To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.

Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.

Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer).

Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.

Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.

To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.

To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).

Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

Obliging, attentive, eager to please.

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

Having unlimited power, force or authority.

Having total knowledge.

Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.

Neither reflecting nor emitting light.

Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.

To keep down by unjust force.

Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.

A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.

To speak formally; to give a speech.

Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.

To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.

Of ostentation.

To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.

To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.

Open and not concealed or secret.

To engulf, surge over and submerge.

To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.

Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

Pleasing to the taste, tasty.

To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.

Trashy, trivial, of little value.

A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.

A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.

A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others.

Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.

A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.

Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.

Pertaining to a parish.

A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess.

An adherent to a party or faction.

The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).

To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.

Fewness in number; too few.

Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.

Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.

Taste, liking, or inclination (for).

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.

Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.

Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.

Done only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty.

Dangerous, full of peril.

On the periphery or boundary.

To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

Causing much harm in a subtle way.

Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.

To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.

To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.

Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.

Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.

A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.

To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.

An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.

To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.

Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

Childishly irritable.

A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.

Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind

Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

Reverence and devotion to God.

The highest point.

To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.

calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil

An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.

Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.

An excessive amount or number; an abundance.

A dire or unfortunate situation.

Sharp-pointed; keen.

To cause to have a polarization.

Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

Heavy, massive, weighty.

Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.

Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.

Powerful; possessing power; effective.

Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

To give a sermon.

Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.

An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.

To make something happen suddenly and quickly.

To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.

Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.

Of, or relating to a predator.

One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.

A condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.

Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.

To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

An exclusive hereditary or official right or privilege.

To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.

Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.

To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

Widespread or preferred.

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.

Wastefully extravagant.

Extraordinarily amazing.

Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

Ability, skill, competence.

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.

abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.

abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia

To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

To extend in space or length.

Standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant.

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.

An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.

One who supports something; an advocate.

The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.

To forbid or prohibit.

The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.

To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

Of or pertaining to a province.

Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.

To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Skillfulness or extraordinary ability in a particular area of expertise; dexterity, mastery, or proficiency.

Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.

Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.

Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

Having a strong odor that stings the nose; said especially of acidic or spicy substances.

Inflicting punishment; punishing.

To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).

A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.

A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.

A period of 40 days, particularly

A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).

Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.

A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint.

Inactive, quiet, at rest.

Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.

Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.

Happening every day; daily.

Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.

Rank in taste or smell.

A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.

A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.

Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.

Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.

To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.

To make something rational or more rational.

Harsh and rough-sounding.

To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.

A sudden resistance or refusal.

A harsh criticism.

The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.

Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.

To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.

To summarize or repeat in concise form.

Capable of receiving something.

To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.

Sequestered; secluded, isolated.

To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.

Difficult to grasp or understand; abstruse, profound.

To heal (an organ or part of the body).

To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.

The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it

To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.

To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.

To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.

To render young again.

Exile or banish to a particular place.

Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.

To give up, abandon or retire from something; to trade away.

Flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.

Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.

To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.

A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

To cause to become.

To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.

An act of renouncing.

To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

To cancel, invalidate, annul.

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity to.

Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.

Rejected; cast off as worthless.

To express disapproval.

To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.

Having a good reputation; honourable.

Essential, indispensable, required.

To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.

Anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one or one's group has been wronged or betrayed by others; indignation.

plural of reservation

Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)

Firm, unyielding, determined.

To find a solution to (a problem).

To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

A brief interval of rest or relief.

Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

An instance of something resurging; a renewal of vigor or vitality.

To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.

Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.

A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.

To pull (something) back or back inside.

Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.

To regain or get back something.

Showing or characterized by great respect or reverence; respectful.

Synonym of rhetorical.

Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.

Able to withstand adverse conditions.

An arousal.

Of or relating to one or more rudiments.

Sorrow; repentance; regret.

Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.

Of or relating to sugar; sugary.

Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.

Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.

Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.

Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.

Having the colour of blood; blood red.

Scornfully mocking or cynical.

To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.

present participle and gerund of scathe

A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.

A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

Exactly and carefully conducted.

To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.

To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.

Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

Of a person: diligent in application or pursuit; constant and persevering in business or in endeavours to effect a goal; steadily industrious.

The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.

Of or pertaining to sensation.

A general thought, feeling, or sense.

Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

Excessively eager to please; obsequious.

To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

The quality or state of being sincere.

Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.

A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.

The quality or state of not being intoxicated.

Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.

US standard spelling of sombre.

Drowsy or sleepy.

Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore.

Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.

Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.

In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.

Having widely spaced intervals.

Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.

(of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.

False, not authentic, not genuine.

To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

Lacking flow or motion, and thus usually not fresh or healthy; decaying through stillness.

Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.

Firmly or solidly built.

Hard, firm; obdurate.

Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.

Fixed or unchanging; steady.

An indication of infamy or disgrace.

To stop (an action); cease, desist.

To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.

Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe

A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).

Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.

Forced into submission; subjugated.

To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container; (generally) to change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.

Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.

A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.

To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate.

Of an action or movement: very delicate or slight, and thus barely noticeable; not obvious; inconspicuous, unintrusive.

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

Brief and to the point.

To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.

Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.

Existing, occurring, or located on the surface.

In excess of what is required or sufficient.

To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

Something added; especially, such an addition added to make up for a deficiency.

Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.

To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.

Sated; surfeited; filled.

Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.

To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense.

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

Likely to be affected by something.

To maintain, or keep in existence.

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.

Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.

Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.

A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.

Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.

To tease (someone) by offering or showing them something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.

Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.

Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.

Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.

Moderate; not excessive.

Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.

A trial; an experiment; an attempt.

Thin in substance or consistency.

Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.

A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).

Showing thrift; economical; frugal.

Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

Lacking in courage or confidence.

A long, angry or violent speech.

Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.

unmoving

A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.

Free from emotional or mental disturbance.

To pass beyond the limits of something.

To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.

An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.

A shake, quiver, or vibration.

Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.

Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.

Ignorable; of little significance or value.

Cruel or savage.

Characterized by loud, confused noise.

Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

A state of great disorder or uncertainty.

A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power, or this system of government; especially, one that acts cruelly and unjustly.

Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

Based on unanimity, assent or agreement.

Secure against attack; impregnable.

Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.

To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.

A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.

Unambiguous; without equivocation or ambiguity; singularly clear, unmistakable, or unquestionable

Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.

Unvarying; all the same.

Of or pertaining to the universe.

Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.

Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

Without scruples; immoral.

Lacking strength; weak.

To criticize severely.

Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

Of or relating to utility.

A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.

To render valid.

The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.

To defeat (someone); to overcome.

Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

Able to vary or be varied.

Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

To treat with great respect and deference.

True.

The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.

Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.

Green in colour.

To substantiate or prove the truth of something.

The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.

True; genuine.

The language of a people or a national language.

Capable of doing many things competently.

A mark left on the earth by a foot.

To annoy, irritate.

Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).

Alert watchfulness.

Physically strong and active.

To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.

To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.

An expert in virtù or art objects and antiquities; a connoisseur.

Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.

Of or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).

Relating to or characteristic of life.

Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol.

Lively and animated; full of life and energy.

Making or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.

A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.

Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.

Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent

To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

Given to whimsy.

Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

Sly, cunning, full of tricks.

Full of longing or yearning.

To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.

To resist or endure (something) successfully.

simple past and past participle of wizen

Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.

To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.

To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.

The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.

Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion, particularly in matters of religion.

The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.