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| extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer. |
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reward or pay for services:
He received little remuneration for his services. |
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the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power. |
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commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress. |
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a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter. |
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to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella. |
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a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face. |
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above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives. |
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| Resembling a round shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base. |
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to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence. |
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| a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding. |
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| required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer. |
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| the flesh of sheep, esp. full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food. |
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a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice. |
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| a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner. |
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| pertaining to formation or development: a child's most formative years. |
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the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals with plant life. |
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| to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously. |
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devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic. |
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| a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers. |
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| class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music. |
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to take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud: to plunder a piece of property. |
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to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry. |
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to cut or chop into very small pieces. |
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| any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing |
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