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| a container or utensil made of any of various alloys in which tin is the chief constituent (prize money or trophy in British slang) |
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| without sensation or feeling; inanimate |
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| suitable, inclined, clever |
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| the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole |
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| any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere; A rod from a birch, used to administer a whipping |
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| shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs; not permanent; transitory |
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| lasting only a short time; brief |
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| any of various one-celled aquatic or parasitic protozoans of the genus Amoeba; has no definite form and consists of a mass of protoplasm containing one or more nuclei surrounded by a flexible outer membrane; moves by means of pseudopods |
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| any of various small, chiefly freshwater turbellarian flatworms of the order Tricladida, having soft, broad, ciliated bodies, a three-branched digestive cavity, and the ability to regenerate body parts |
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| any tree or shrub of the genus Cornus of Europe and America; the wood of any such tree |
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| next; immediately before or after in order; approximate; forthcoming; imminent |
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| approaching in time; available when expected; frank and candid; friendly and outgoing |
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| severe; self-denying; plain |
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| self-denying; austere; abstinent |
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| the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such |
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| of or pertaining to knowledge or the conditions for acquiring it |
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| hard to understand; recondite; esoteric |
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| dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter |
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| understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential |
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| requires, necessitates, implies, entails, presumes, assumes |
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| to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon); to ensue |
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| understood without being openly expressed; implied; silent; saying nothing; unvoiced or unspoken |
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| in grammar, pertaining to substantives (nouns); in philosophy, having independent existence, independent; belonging to the real nature or essential part of a thing, essential; real or actual; of considerable amount or quantity; possessing substance |
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| a noun; a pronoun, word, or phrase functioning or inflected like a noun |
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| to provide an instance of, or concrete evidence in support of (a theory, concept, claim, etc.) |
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| cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; liveliness or briskness |
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| a person or thing detested, cursed, or consigned to damnation; a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication; any imprecation of divine punishment; a curse or execration |
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| to detest, abhor, curse, or imprecate evil upon |
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| to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person |
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| a medicine, or anything that relieves distress or allays distress or pain/relieving pain or soothing to the mind or feelings |
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| to calm, put to rest, quiet, lessen, relieve, mitigate, or alleviate |
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| to lessen in force, to make less severe or milder, to become milder |
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| a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation-i.e. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton) |
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| neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy; abruptly concise; curt; brusque |
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| brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible |
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| abrupt in manner; blunt; rough |
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| a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc. |
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| to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right; to attribute or assign to another; ascribe |
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reversion to an earlier type; throwback
(biology) the reappearance of an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generation; -ist, an individual embodying such a reversion |
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| of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle |
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| a ludicrous descent from the exalted of lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax; insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness; triteness or triviality of style |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
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| characterized by sticky sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin; having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating |
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| tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental; mawkishly sentimental because of drunkeness |
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| to deprive or make desolate, especially by death; to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by "of") |
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| a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something |
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| a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor (cookery) a duck intended or used for food (aeronautics) an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer (canard wing) and elevators located forward of the wing |
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| 1) phrases that have been repeated endlessly and lost impact and meaning 2) to tilt, incline, or turn upside-down 3) whiny speech 4) to speak in a jargon or secret language particular to a group 5) a slope in the turn of a road or track where the outside is higher 6) to dispose of by auction 7) to talk hypocritically |
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| a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail; a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; (genetics) an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species |
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(used with object) to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.
(used without object) to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance |
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| overabundance, excess, over indulgence; general disgust or discomfort caused by excess of food or drink |
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| a body of companions, especially a military retinue with its leader |
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| to link together; unite in a series or chain; (adj.) linked together as in a chain |
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| copacetic (also copasetic) |
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| (slang) fine; completely satisfactory; okay |
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| to pamper (noun) a pet, especially a pet lamb |
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| eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something; greed; avarice |
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| something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance or interest; something serving for guidance or direction |
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| a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; a dabbler; a lover of an art or science |
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| passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling; proceeding by reasoning or argument rather intuition |
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| wavering, unsteady, erratic, irregular, unmethodical, inconsistent, random |
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| wavering, unsteady, erratic, irregular, unmethodical, inconsistent, random |
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| to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; departure from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc. (archaic) to turn aside |
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| (adj) first or highest in rank, importance, or value; of, of the nature of, or constituting principal or capital (geometry) the axis of a conic passing through the foci (noun) chief or head; head or director of a school or, especially in England, a college; a person who take a leading part in any activity; the first player of a division of instruments in an orchestra (except the leader of the first violins); something principal or of chief importance (law) a person who authorizes another, as an agent, to represent him or her; a person primarily liable for an obligation (finance) a capital sum (music) an organ stop; the subject of a fugue (framed structure) a member, as a truss, upon which adjacent or similar members depend for support (duel) each of the combatants in a duel, as distinguished from the seconds |
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| a college or university lecturer; a person who is a knowledgeable guide, especially one who conducts visitors through a museum and delivers a commentary on the exhibitions |
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| extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant (archaic) distinguished or eminent |
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| an undistinguished imitator, follower, or successor of an important writer, painter, etc. |
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| inanely foolish and unintelligent; stupid |
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| the state of being happy especially in a high degree; bliss; a source of happiness; a skillful faculty; an instance or display of this (archaic) good fortune |
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| taken, done, used, etc. surreptitiously or by stealth; secret; sly or shifty |
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| obtained, done, made, etc. by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine; obtained by subreption; subreptitious |
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(canon law) a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petitions, as for dispensation of favor
(scots law) act of obtaining something, as an escheat, by concealing pertinent facts
(noun) a fallacious representation or an inference from it |
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| characterize by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious |
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| characterize by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious |
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| given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary; being without apparent reason, cause, or justification (law) given without receiving any return value |
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| an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs |
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