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1. eternal life (ant. mortality)
2. lasting fame |
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1. death rate
2. mortal nature |
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| shame; humiliation; embarrassment |
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| embarrass; shame; humiliate (literally, "make dead," "kill") |
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| bodily, as in corporal punishment |
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| body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties |
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1. organized body of persons
2. branch of the military, as in the Marine Corps |
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| general collection or body of writings, laws, etc. |
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| 1. blood cell (literally, "little body") |
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1. facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. body of the victim in a murder case |
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| spirit of a body of persons; group spirit |
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1. writ (order) requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention (the writ begins with the words hapeas corpus, meaning "you should have the body")
2. right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment |
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| combine as to form one body |
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| tending to lead to; contributive; helpful |
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1. taking away; subtraction (ant. addition)
2. reasoning from the general to the particular |
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| tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc. |
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1. able to be drawn out or hammered thin (said of metal)
2. easily led; doctile |
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| lead on; move by persuation |
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| admit ("lead in") as a member; initiate |
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1. ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. reasoning from the particular to the general |
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| enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing |
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| (literally, "lead along" as a spectacle to bring into disgrace); malign; slander; vilify; calumniate |
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| bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc. |
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| following in regular order; successive |
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1 that which follows logically; result
2. importance, as a person of consequence |
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1. follow through to completion; carry out
2. put to death |
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| of no consequence; trivial; uninportant |
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| statement that does not follow from previous statements |
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1. follow to the end or until finished
2. conduct legal proceedings against; sue |
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| something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome |
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| the following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series |
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| arranged in a sequence; serial |
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1. agree; be of the same opinion ("literally, "run together") (ant. contend)
2. happen together; coincide |
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| running together; occurring at the same time; simultaneously |
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| now in progress; prevailing |
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| flow (as electrical or river currents) |
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| running or flowing(said of handwriting in which the letters are joined) |
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| running over hastily; superficially done, as a cursory glance |
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| wandering ("running") from one topic to another; rambling; digressive |
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| going ("running") out or forth; expedition |
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1. meet with ("run into") something undesirable
2. bring upon oneself |
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1. rushing into
2. hostile invasion; raid |
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| happen again (literally, "run again") |
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| means of going out; exit (ant. access) |
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1. change by steps or stages
2. act of grading |
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| step; stage; degree; rating |
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| 1. rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, voltage, etc., rises or falls ("steps" up or down) |
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| complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree |
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1. going backward
2. becoming worse |
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| act of going from a better to a worse state; deterioration (ant. progress) |
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| step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break a law; violate |
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1. facilitate (literally, "extricate someone caught by the foor")
2. accelerate or speed up (ant. delay) |
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1. hinderance; obstacle (literally, "something entangling the feet")
2. defect |
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1. support or foot of a column or staue
2. foundation |
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| commonplace, as a pedestrian performance; unimaginative; dull |
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1. child's tricycle (literally, "swift foot")
2. early form of bicycle |
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| touching; in physical contact; adjoining |
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1. dependent on something else (literally, "touching together")
2. accidental |
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1. not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch
2. hard to grasp or define exactly (ant. tangible) |
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| sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion |
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| having or showing tact; diplomatic |
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1. pertaining to the sense of touch
2. tangible |
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| touching at only one point |
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| line or surface meeting a curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it |
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| merely touching; slightly connected; digressive |
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1. seize or take into custody
2. understand |
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1. quick to understand or grasp
2. fearful of what may come; anxious (ant. confident) |
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| able to be grasped menatally; understandable (ant. incomprehensible) |
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| including ("seizing") very much; extensive |
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| adapted for seizing, as a prehensile tail |
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| find fault with (literally, "hold back"); rebuke; reprimand; censure |
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| deserving of censure; culpable |
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| sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt; wretched |
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| guess; supposition; inference |
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| downcast ("thrown down"); discouraged; depressed |
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| force ("throw in"); introduce |
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| throw in between; insert; interpose |
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| thrust or "throw forward" (as projecting one's ideas for a plan, one's voice to be heard more clearly, or one's slides on a screen); plan |
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| force (someone) to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient; expose; make liable to |
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| turn attention; refer (as adverting to a previous topic) |
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| feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike; antipathy |
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| dispute (literally, a "turning against"); debate; quarrel |
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1. turn aside
2. amuse; entertain |
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| someone "turned outward" (e.g., social, outgoing, gregarious, focused on outside matters than on inner concerns) (ant. introvert) |
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| without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionally |
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| not able to be "turned opposite" or disputed; not open to question (ant. controvertible; disputable) |
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| not able to be "turned opposite" or disputed; not open to question (ant. controvertible; disputable) |
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| someone "turned inward" (e.g., shy, diffident, focused on one's own thoughts and feelings rather than on outside matters) |
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| someone "turned inward" (e.g., shy, diffident, focused on one's own thoughts and feelings rather than on outside matters) |
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| side turned toward the observer; therefore, the front of a coin, medal, etc. (ant. reverse) |
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| turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded |
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| turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to |
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| return; go back; as: "The property will revert to the owner when the lease is up." |
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| able to turn with ase from one thing to another; adaptable |
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| line of poetry (literally, "turning around"; After a fixed number of syllables, the poet has to "turn around" to begin a new line." |
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| condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness |
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1. consignment ("sending") to prison or a mental institution
2. pledge |
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| person sent out on a mission |
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| coming and getting at intervals, as an intermittent fever (literally, "sending between") |
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| written message sent; letter |
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| negligent; careless; lax (ant. scrupulous) |
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| lessening, relieving, or disappearance (as of disease symptoms); forgiveness, abatement, or cancellation (as of guilt or of a penalty) |
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1. send money due
2. forgive, as to one's sins remitted |
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| convey; cause something to go from one person or place to another |
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| roundabout way of speaking |
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| conversational; informal (as a colloquial speech or writing) |
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| talking together; conference; conversation |
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| art of speaking out or of reading effectively in public |
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| speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive |
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| using lofty or pompous words; bombastic |
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1. questioner
2. one who participates in a conversation |
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1. speaking against; censure; reproach (ant. praise)
2. bad repute |
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| bearing cones, as the pine tree |
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| yielding an odor, usually fragrant |
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1. infected with or bearing disease; pestilential
2. evil |
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| producing new growth rapidly and extensively |
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| bearing or inducing sleep |
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| producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy |
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