82566480 | Zenith | Highest point a celestial body can reach in the sky | |
82566481 | Harrow | A cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil | |
82566482 | Truculent | Aggressively self-assertive;cruel, harsh, or destructive | |
82566483 | Petulant | Insolent or rude in behavior or speech | |
82566484 | Animosity | Ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility | |
82566485 | Cantankerous | Difficult or irritating to deal with | |
82566486 | Lecherous | Suggestive of excessive indulgence in sexual activity | |
82566487 | Rakish | Dashingly or carelessly unconventional; jaunty | |
82566488 | Veneration | Respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom or talent of a person (or age) | |
82566489 | Vagrant | One who has not established residence and wanders idly | |
82566490 | Vehemence | Marked by forceful energy; intensely emotional | |
82566491 | Querulous | Habitually complaining | |
82566492 | Sardonic | Disdainfully or skeptically humorus; derisively mocking | |
82566493 | Denunciation | A public condemnation | |
82566494 | Incredulous | Unwilling to believe what is offered as true; skeptical | |
82566495 | Circuitous | Having a circular or winding course | |
82566496 | Effluvium | Unpleasant or noxious odor or vapor | |
82566497 | Fetid | Having a heavy offensive smell | |
82566498 | Lithe | Characterized by easy flexibility and grace | |
82566499 | Fatuous | Complacently foolish, silly | |
82566500 | Arbiter | One who has the power to settle or decide a dispute | |
82566501 | Conjecture | A conclusion reached by quesswork | |
82566502 | Decorous | Showing good taste manners; proper or decent | |
82566503 | Nebulous | Indistinct and vague | |
82566504 | Listless | Showing no interest in action | |
82566505 | Cowed | To be subdued by filling with fear or awe | |
82566506 | Moon | To spend in idle reverie; behave abstractly | |
82566507 | Gaunt | Thin, bony, hollow-eyed and haggard from hunger | |
82566508 | Slovenly | Careless in apperance | |
82566509 | Bemused | To occupy the attention of; absorb; to make confused; bewildered | |
82566510 | Morose | Characterized by gloom | |
82566511 | Dissipated | To break up and scatter or vanish | |
82566512 | Demure | Modest and reserved in manner or behavior | |
82566513 | Quid | A wad of something chewable | |
82566514 | Piqued | Provoked; made irritated, angry or resentful | |
82566515 | Agrarian | Characteristic of farmers or their way of life | |
82566516 | Inveterate | Firmly established by long persistence; confirmed in a habit | |
82566517 | Restive | Stubbornly resisting control; marked by impatience | |
82566518 | Pall | An overspreading element that produces an effect of gloom | |
82566519 | Vigilante | A slef-appointed doer of justice | |
82566520 | Languid | Drooping from exhaustion; without life | |
82566521 | Ostracism | Exclusion by general consent from social acceptance | |
82566522 | Belligerent | Inclined to or exhibiting hostilityor combativeness | |
82566523 | Feral | Relating to a wild beast, fierce | |
82566524 | Destitute | Lacking possessions and resources; suffering extreme poverty | |
93098341 | Heathen | Uncivilized or irreligious peron | |
93098342 | Conjure | To summon a devil or spirit | |
93098343 | Faction | A party or group that is often self-seeking | |
93098344 | Abomination | A dreadful or immoral thing | |
93098345 | Deference | Submission to the opinion of another; respectful regard | |
93098346 | Naught | Nothing | |
93098347 | Abyss | Vast chasm; anything unfathomable, profound or infinite | |
93098348 | Intimation | Indirect suggestion casting suspicion | |
93098349 | Formidable | Causing fear or dread; vastly superior or strong | |
93098350 | Trepidation | Alarm or dread | |
93098351 | Notorious | Widely and unfavorably known | |
93098352 | Prodigious | Extraordinary, big | |
93098353 | Defamation | False or unjusticed injury of the good reputation of another | |
93098354 | Licentious | Lacking moral restraint | |
93098355 | Blanched | Turned pale with shock or fear | |
93098356 | Ameliorate | To improve | |
93098357 | Indignant | Filled with anger caused by something unjust or mean | |
93098358 | Daft | Crazy; mad | |
93098359 | Taint | To contaminate morally; a trace of something bad or dishonorable | |
93098360 | Quail | To give way; to lose heart in difficulty or danger | |
93098361 | Avidly | Characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous persuit | |
93098362 | Befuddle | To confuse or stupefy; to make stupidly drunk | |
93098363 | Effrontery | Disrespectful and insulting boldness | |
93098364 | Immaculate | Without strain; pure | |
93098365 | Qualm | Pang of conscience as to conduct; doubt of the rightness of an act | |
93098366 | Probity | Complete honesty and integrity | |
93098367 | Base | Morally low; mean-spirited; selfish | |
93098368 | Conciliatory | Tending to win over; overcome distrust or hostility | |
93098369 | Beguile | Deceive | |
93098370 | Reprieve | To delay punishment; to give relief for a time | |
93098371 | Adamant | Unbreakable or hard | |
93098372 | Gaunt | Excessively thin and angular | |
93098373 | Cleave | To adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly | |
93098374 | Tantalize | To tease or torment by presenting something desirable but keeping it out of reach | |
103012781 | Acronym | A word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words (ex. SCUBA) | |
103012782 | Affix | a.A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem or root. b.Something that is attached, joined or added. | |
103012783 | Coinage | a.The invention of new words b.An invented word or phrase c.The process of making coins (ex. Hobbit) | |
103012784 | Colloquial | a.Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech;conversational b.Informal style of expression | |
103012785 | Malapropism | The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context | |
103012786 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word that imitatates or resembles what it stands for. | |
103012787 | Palindrome | A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward (ex. racecar) | |
103012788 | Portmanteau | A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two diferent words;blend (ex. blog) | |
103012789 | Simile | A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as | |
103012790 | Spoonerism | An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds. | |
116319234 | Ignominy | Deep personal humiliation and disgrace | |
116319235 | Subsequent | following in time, order, or place | |
116319236 | Phantasmagoric | Rapidly changing series of pictures | |
116319237 | Sagacity | Discerning and wise | |
116319238 | Amenable | Readily brought to yield or submit | |
116319239 | Efficacy | Power to produce an effect | |
116319240 | Alchemy | A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of base metal into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and a means of indefinitely prolonging life | |
116319241 | Lurid | Causing gorror or revulsion, ghastly | |
116319242 | Irrepressibly | Impossible to restrain or control | |
116319243 | Succor | Help, relief, aid | |
116319244 | Insidious | Awaiting a chance to entrap; harmful but enticing | |
116319245 | Contumaciously | Stubbornly rebellious | |
116319246 | Despondency | Hopeless, dejection | |
116319247 | Caprice | A sudden, impulsive action | |
116319248 | Imp | Mischievous child; small demon | |
116319249 | Placidity | Serenely free of disturbance | |
116319250 | Anathemas | Curses | |
116319251 | Panoply | Full suit of armor, ceremonial attire | |
116319252 | Expatiating | Speaking at great length | |
116319253 | Vindicate | To avenge, to set free, to provide justification or defense for | |
116319254 | Pilloried | To expose to public scorn or ridicule | |
116319255 | Importunate | Troublesomely urgent, overly persistent in request or demand | |
116319256 | Benevolent | Marked by good will | |
116319257 | Erudition | Bookish knowledge; profound | |
116319258 | Commodiousness | Comfortably and conveniently spacious | |
116319259 | Inimical | Adverse because of hostility; enemy-like | |
116319260 | Somniferous | Sleep inducing | |
116319261 | Somnambulism | Sleep walking | |
116319262 | Expiation | Act of atonement or reconciliation | |
116319263 | Torpid | No motion, sluggish, lacking energy | |
116319264 | Malevolence | Vicious ill will, spite or hatred | |
116319265 | Despotic | Ruling with absolute power; exercising power tyrannically | |
116319266 | Benign | Gracious, showing kindness and gentleness | |
116319267 | Acquiescing | To accept, comply or submit quietly | |
116319268 | Usurping | To seize and hold or take possesion by force | |
116319269 | Bane | A source of harm or ruin; a curse (antonym=boon) | |
116319270 | Blighted | A disease of plants that causes them to wither; something that frustrates plans or hopes; something that destroys; a deteriorated condition | |
116319271 | Sedulous | With careful perseverance; diligent in pursuit | |
116319272 | Enigma | Something hard to understand or explain | |
116319273 | Asperity | Harshness; severity | |
116319274 | Scintillating | Emitting sparks; brilliantly lively, stimulating or witty | |
116319275 | Mollified | to soothe in temper | |
116319276 | Jocularity | Habitually jolly | |
116319277 | Pathos | Emotion of sympathetic pity | |
127034602 | Hogshead | Barrel | |
127034603 | Gap | Yawning | |
127034604 | Hived | Stealing | |
127034605 | Ambuscade | Ambush | |
127034606 | Hiding | Whipping | |
127034607 | Meddle | Being in someones business | |
127034608 | Dandy | A pretty boy | |
127034609 | Temperance | Abstinence | |
127034610 | Skiff | A little boat | |
127034611 | Palaver | Lolly gagging by talking | |
127034612 | Trot Line | A line of fishing | |
127034613 | Quicksilver | Mercury | |
127034614 | Cooper | Having an ancestry of carrel makers | |
127034615 | Camp Meeting | Religious meeting | |
127034616 | Truck | Random items of little value | |
127034617 | Texas | Captains quarters | |
127034618 | Guys | Ropes used to sturdy something | |
127034619 | Careened | Submerged side | |
127034620 | Spondulicks | Money | |
127034621 | Sheering | To go off course | |
127034622 | Wince | Flinch | |
127034623 | Frivolousness | Not serious | |
127034624 | Feud | Long lasting hostility between two or more parties | |
127034625 | Ransack | To search thoroughly | |
127034626 | Galluses | Suspenders | |
127034627 | Jour Printer | Journeyman printer between an apprentice and master | |
127034628 | Mesmerism | Hypnotism | |
127034629 | Phrenology | Examining a persons head to tell a fortune | |
127034630 | Haughty | Proud | |
127034631 | Histrionic | Theatrical | |
127034632 | Country Jakes | Red Neck | |
127034633 | Languish | Appealing for sympathy | |
127034634 | Capet | The family name of LouisXVI | |
127034635 | Sold | Cheated | |
127034636 | Tanner | A person whose occupation is to tan hides/ work with leather | |
127034637 | Slouch | Lazy person | |
127034638 | Pallet | Small bed made of straw | |
127034639 | Stretchers | Lies | |
127034640 | Tick | A fabric case for a matress | |
127034641 | Sand | Grit, courage | |
127034642 | Harrow | Teeth | |
127034643 | Candid | Honest and sincere | |
127034644 | Disposition | Inclination | |
127034645 | Elocution | To speak out | |
127034646 | Doggery | Saloon, tavern | |
127034647 | Tight | Drunk | |
127034648 | Venture | Try, dare | |
127034649 | Bogus | A sham, not genuine | |
127034650 | Mortification | Death of flesh | |
127034651 | Waylay | To distract |
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