abyss(n) - abysm;a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively);
accomplice(n) - confederate;a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan);
addendum(n) - postscript; supplement;textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end;
adept(n) - ace; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard;someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field;
#2 (adj sat) - expert; good; practiced; proficient; skilful; skillful;having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
adherent(n) - disciple;someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another;
#2 (adj sat) - sticking fast;
adjourn(v) - break up; recess;close at the end of a session;
#2 (v) - retire; withdraw;break from a meeting or gathering;
adulterate(v) - debase; dilute; load; stretch;corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;
#2 (adj sat) - adulterated; debased;mixed with impurities;
affront(n) - insult;a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect;
#2 (v) - diss; insult;treat, mention, or speak to rudely;
agrarian(adj sat) - agricultural; farming;relating to rural matters;
alms(n) - money or goods contributed to the poor;
aloft(adv) - in the higher atmosphere above the earth;
#2 (adv) - at or to great height; high up in or into the air;
#3 (adv) - upward;
#4 (adv) - at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship;
ambush(n) - ambuscade; lying in wait; trap;the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise;
#2 (v) - ambuscade; bushwhack; lie in wait; lurk; scupper; waylay;wait in hiding to attack;
#3 (v) - still-hunt;hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing;
annihilate(v) - carry off; decimate; eliminate; eradicate; extinguish; wipe out;kill in large numbers;
annotate(v) - comment; gloss;provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases;
#2 (v) - footnote;add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments;
antiseptic(n) - a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues;
#2 (adj sat) - devoid of objectionable language;
#3 (adj sat) - clean and honest;
#4 (adj) - thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms;
#5 (adj sat) - freeing from error or corruption;
antithesis(n) - the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance;
#2 (n) - exact opposite;
apprise(v) - appreciate; apprize;increase the value of;
#2 (v) - appreciate; apprize; revalue;gain in value;
#3 (v) - apprize; instruct;make aware of;
#4 (v) - advise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word;inform (somebody) of something;
apropos(adj) - of an appropriate or pertinent nature;
#2 (adv) - by the bye; by the way; incidentally;introducing a different topic; in point of fact;
#3 (adv) - seasonably; timely; well-timed;at an opportune time;
arbiter(n) - arbitrator; umpire;someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue;
#2 (n) - supreme authority;someone with the power to settle matters at will;
archaeology(n) - archeology;the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures;
argot(n) - cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular;a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
arrant(adj sat) - complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter;without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
aseptic(adj sat) - sterile;free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms;
august(n) - aug;the month following July and preceding September;
#2 (adj sat) - revered; venerable;profoundly honored;
#3 (adj sat) - grand; lordly;of or befitting a lord;
avalanche(n) - a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things;
#2 (n) - a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain;
#3 (v) - roll down;gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow;
aviary(n) - bird sanctuary; volary;a building where birds are kept;
avocation(n) - by-line; hobby; pursuit; sideline; spare-time activity;an auxiliary activity;
azure(n) - cerulean; lazuline; sapphire; sky-blue;a light shade of blue;
#2 (v) - color azure;
#3 (adj sat) - bright blue; cerulean; sky-blue;of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky;
badger(n) - sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere;
#2 (n) - wisconsinite;a native or resident of Wisconsin;
#3 (v) - persuade through constant efforts;
#4 (v) - beleaguer; bug; pester; tease;annoy persistently;
ballad(n) - lay;a narrative poem of popular origin;
#2 (n) - lay;a narrative song with a recurrent refrain;
baneful(adj sat) - baleful;deadly or sinister;
#2 (adj sat) - deadly; pernicious; pestilent;exceedingly harmful;
battalion(n) - an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies;
#2 (n) - large number; multitude; pack; plurality;a large indefinite number;
bauble(n) - bangle; fallal; gaud; gewgaw; novelty; trinket;cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing;
#2 (n) - a mock scepter carried by a court jester;
beatify(v) - declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood;
#2 (v) - make blessedly happy;
#3 (v) - exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink;fill with sublime emotion;
bedizen(v) - dizen;dress up garishly and tastelessly;
#2 (v) - decorate tastelessly;
beget(v) - bring forth; engender; father; generate; get; mother; sire;make children;
benediction(n) - blessing;the act of praying for divine protection;
#2 (n) - blessing;a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection;
bequest(n) - legacy;a gift of personal property by will;
besiege(v) - harass, as with questions or requests;
#2 (v) - beleaguer; circumvent; hem in; surround;surround so as to force to give up;
#3 (v) - cause to feel distressed or worried;
betroth(v) - affiance; engage; plight;give to in marriage;
blight(n) - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting;
#2 (n) - a state or condition being blighted;
#3 (v) - plague;cause to suffer a blight;
bogus(adj sat) - bastard; fake; phoney; phony;fraudulent; having a misleading appearance;
bombastic(adj sat) - declamatory; large; orotund; tumid; turgid;ostentatiously lofty in style;
brandish(n) - flourish;the act of waving;
#2 (v) - flourish; wave;move or swing back and forth;
#3 (v) - exhibit aggressively;
bravado(n) - bluster;a swaggering show of courage;
brooch(n) - breastpin; broach;a decorative pin worn by women;
#2 (v) - clasp;fasten with or as if with a brooch;
canny(adj sat) - cagey; cagy; clever;showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
canvass(n) - canvas;a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents);
#2 (n) - canvas;the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete;
#3 (n) - canvas;an oil painting on canvas fabric;
#4 (n) - canvas; canvas tent;a tent made of canvas fabric;
#5 (n) - canvas; sail; sheet;a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel;
#6 (n) - opinion poll; poll; public opinion poll;an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people;
#7 (n) - canvas;the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account;
#8 (v) - analyse; analyze; canvas; examine; study;consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning;
#9 (v) - canvas; poll;get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions;
#10 (v) - canvas;solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign;
capillary(n) - capillary tube; capillary tubing;a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action;
#2 (n) - capillary vessel;any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules;
#3 (adj sat) - hairlike;long and slender with a very small internal diameter;
#4 (adj) - of or relating to hair;
carnivorous(adj) - feeding on animals;
#2 (adj) - relating to or characteristic of carnivores;
caste(n) - in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony;
#2 (n) - a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth;
#3 (n) - a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity;
#4 (n) - social status or position conferred by a system based on class;
castigation(n) - chastisement;verbal punishment;
#2 (n) - bawling out; chewing out; dressing down; earful; going-over; upbraiding;a severe scolding;
cataclysm(n) - calamity; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy;an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
#2 (n) - catastrophe;a sudden violent change in the earth's surface;
cataract(n) - a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice;
#2 (n) - an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye;
chagrin(n) - humiliation; mortification;strong feelings of embarrassment;
#2 (v) - abase; humble; humiliate; mortify;cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
citadel(n) - bastion;a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle;
cleave(v) - adhere; cling; cohere; stick;come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation;
#2 (v) - rive; split;separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
#3 (v) - make by cutting into;
cleft(n) - crack; crevice; fissure; scissure;a long narrow opening;
#2 (n) - a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin);
#3 (adj sat) - dissected;having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib;
clinch(n) - the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily;
#2 (n) - hug; squeeze;a tight or amorous embrace;
#3 (n) - clamp;a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together;
#4 (n) - the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet;
#5 (n) - clench;a small slip noose made with seizing;
#6 (v) - settle conclusively;
#7 (v) - flatten the ends (of nails and rivets);
#8 (v) - secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts;
#9 (v) - embrace amorously;
#10 (v) - clench;hold in a tight grasp;
#11 (v) - hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches;
codicil(n) - a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will;
coeval(n) - contemporary;a person of nearly the same age as another;
#2 (adj sat) - coetaneous; contemporaneous;of the same period;
cognate(n) - cognate word;a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language;
#2 (n) - blood relation; blood relative; sib;one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another;
#3 (adj sat) - akin; blood-related; consanguine; consanguineal; consanguineous; kin;related by blood;
#4 (adj sat) - having the same ancestral language;
#5 (adj sat) - connate;related in nature;
compelling(adj sat) - tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument;
#2 (adj sat) - driving or forcing;
compendium(n) - a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work;
#2 (n) - collection;a publication containing a variety of works;
compress(n) - a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever);
#2 (v) - compact; constrict; contract; press; squeeze;squeeze or press together;
#3 (v) - compact; pack together;make more compact by or as if by pressing;
comprise(v) - be; constitute; make up; represent;form or compose;
#2 (v) - contain; incorporate;include or contain; have as a component;
#3 (v) - consist;be composed of;
concomitant(n) - accompaniment; attendant; co-occurrence;an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another;
#2 (adj sat) - accompanying; attendant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent;following or accompanying as a consequence;
confidant(n) - intimate;someone to whom private matters are confided;
confiscate(v) - attach; impound; seize; sequester;take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;
#2 (adj sat) - forfeit; forfeited;surrendered as a penalty;
congregation(n) - congregating;the act of congregating;
#2 (n) - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together;
#3 (n) - faithful; fold;a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church;
conjugal(adj) - connubial;of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband;
connive(v) - intrigue; scheme;form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner;
#2 (v) - encourage or assent to illegally or criminally;
consequential(adj sat) - eventful;having important issues or results;
consonant(n) - a speech sound that is not a vowel;
#2 (n) - a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant;
#3 (adj sat) - accordant; agreeable; concordant; conformable;in keeping;
#4 (adj sat) - harmonic; harmonical; harmonised; harmonized;involving or characterized by harmony;
conspire(v) - cabal; complot; conjure; machinate;engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together;
#2 (v) - collude;act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose;
constrict(v) - constringe; narrow;become tight or as if tight;
#2 (v) - compact; compress; contract; press; squeeze;squeeze or press together;
continence(n) - continency;the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters;
#2 (n) - voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge;
contravene(v) - contradict; negate;deny the truth of;
#2 (v) - conflict; infringe; run afoul;go against, as of rules and laws;
contrived(adj sat) - artificial; hokey; stilted;artificially formal;
#2 (adj sat) - showing effects of planning or manipulation;
convoke(v) - convene;call together;
cordon(n) - adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord;
#2 (n) - cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank;
#3 (n) - a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing;
corroboration(n) - certification; documentation;confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence;
corrosive(n) - a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali);
#2 (adj sat) - caustic; erosive; mordant; vitriolic;of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action;
#3 (adj sat) - spitefully sarcastic;
countervail(v) - counteract; counterbalance; neutralize;oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions;
#2 (v) - offset;compensate for or counterbalance;
covet(v) - wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person);
craven(n) - poltroon; recreant;an abject coward;
#2 (adj sat) - recreant;lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;
crease(n) - creese; kris;a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade;
#2 (n) - crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle;a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;
#3 (n) - bend; crimp; flexure; fold; plication;an angular or rounded shape made by folding;
#4 (v) - crinkle; crumple; rumple; wrinkle;become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;
#5 (v) - graze; rake;scrape gently;
#6 (v) - furrow; wrinkle;make wrinkled or creased;
#7 (v) - crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle;make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in;
creed(n) - credo;any system of principles or beliefs;
#2 (n) - church doctrine; gospel; religious doctrine;the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group;
cupidity(n) - avarice; avariciousness; covetousness;extreme greed for material wealth;
curator(n) - conservator;the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library);
debase(v) - adulterate; dilute; load; stretch;corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones;
#2 (v) - alloy;lower in value by increasing the base-metal content;
#3 (v) - corrupt; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
deface(v) - blemish; disfigure;mar or spoil the appearance of;
defile(n) - gorge;a narrow pass (especially one between mountains);
#2 (v) - befoul; foul; maculate;spot, stain, or pollute;
#3 (v) - maculate; stain; sully; tarnish;make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically;
#4 (v) - cloud; corrupt; sully; taint;place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;
deify(v) - exalt to the position of a God;
#2 (v) - consider as a god or godlike;
delusion(n) - head game; illusion;the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas;
#2 (n) - hallucination;a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea;
#3 (n) - psychotic belief;an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary;
dereliction(n) - willful negligence;
#2 (n) - delinquency; willful neglect;a tendency to be negligent and uncaring;
desiccant(n) - drier; drying agent; siccative;a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture);
detraction(n) - the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander);
#2 (n) - petty criticism;a petty disparagement;
disaffected(adj sat) - ill-affected; malcontent; rebellious;discontented as toward authority;
disallow(v) - forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto;command against;
disconsolate(adj sat) - blue; dark; dingy; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry;causing dejection;
#2 (adj) - inconsolable; unconsolable;sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
discretion(n) - discernment;the trait of judging wisely and objectively;
#2 (n) - free will;the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies;
#3 (n) - circumspection; discreetness; prudence;knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress;
#4 (n) - delicacy;refined taste; tact;
#5 (n) - freedom to act or judge on one's own;
dislodge(v) - bump;remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;
#2 (v) - free;remove or force out from a position;
#3 (v) - reposition; shift;change place or direction;
doggerel(n) - doggerel verse; jingle;a comic verse of irregular measure;
dour(adj sat) - dark; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen;showing a brooding ill humor;
#2 (adj sat) - forbidding; grim;harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;
#3 (adj sat) - dogged; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding;stubbornly unyielding;
dulcet(adj sat) - honeyed; mellifluous; mellisonant; sweet;pleasing to the ear;
#2 (adj sat) - extremely pleasant in a gentle way;
dwindle(v) - dwindle away; dwindle down;become smaller or lose substance;
earthenware(n) - ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat;
ecstasy(n) - adam; cristal; disco biscuit; go; hug drug; x; xtc;street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine;
#2 (n) - exaltation; rapture; raptus; transport;a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
#3 (n) - rapture;a state of elated bliss;
edify(v) - enlighten;make understand;
effervescent(adj sat) - bubbling; frothy; scintillating; sparkly;marked by high spirits or excitement;
#2 (adj) - giving off bubbles;
#3 (adj) - sparkling;used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide;
effusion(n) - flow under pressure;
#2 (n) - blowup; ebullition; gush; outburst;an unrestrained expression of emotion;
egoist(n) - egocentric;a self-centered person with little regard for others;
#2 (n) - egotist; swellhead;a conceited and self-centered person;
egotism(n) - self-importance; swelled head;an exaggerated opinion of your own importance;
#2 (n) - ego; self-importance;an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others;
elude(v) - circumvent; dodge; duck; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; sidestep; skirt;avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
#2 (v) - bilk; evade;escape, either physically or mentally;
#3 (v) - escape;be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by;
emaciate(v) - grow weak and thin or waste away physically;
#2 (v) - macerate; waste;cause to grow thin or weak;
emanate(v) - exhale; give forth;give out (breath or an odor);
#2 (v) - proceed or issue forth, as from a source;
embargo(n) - trade embargo; trade stoppage;a government order imposing a trade barrier;
#2 (v) - prevent commerce;
#3 (v) - ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons;
emote(v) - give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role;
engross(v) - absorb; engage; occupy;consume all of one's attention or time;
#2 (v) - absorb; engulf; immerse; plunge; soak up; steep;devote (oneself) fully to;
enjoin(v) - order; say; tell;give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
#2 (v) - issue an injunction;
ennui(n) - boredom; tedium;the feeling of being bored by something tedious;
enormity(n) - an act of extreme wickedness;
#2 (n) - the quality of extreme wickedness;
#3 (n) - outrageousness;the quality of being outrageous;
#4 (n) - vastness of size or extent;
entail(n) - the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple;
#2 (n) - land received by fee tail;
#3 (v) - fee-tail;limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs;
#4 (v) - implicate;impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;
#5 (v) - imply; mean;have as a logical consequence;
enzyme(n) - any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions;
epilogue(n) - epilog;a short passage added at the end of a literary work;
#2 (n) - epilog;a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play;
epiphany(n) - a divine manifestation;
#2 (n) - epiphany of our lord; january 6; three kings' day; twelfth day;twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus;
epitaph(n) - an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there;
#2 (n) - a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person;
equable(adj sat) - even-tempered; good-tempered; placid;not easily irritated;
#2 (adj sat) - not varying;
equipoise(n) - balance; counterbalance; equilibrium;equality of distribution;
euthanasia(n) - mercy killing;the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness);
evasive(adj sat) - deliberately vague or ambiguous;
#2 (adj sat) - avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire;
excerpt(n) - excerption; extract; selection;a passage selected from a larger work;
#2 (v) - extract; take out;take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy;
exhale(v) - breathe out; expire;expel air;
#2 (v) - emanate; give forth;give out (breath or an odor);
exhume(v) - disinter;dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies;
expound(v) - dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; flesh out; lucubrate;add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
#2 (v) - exposit; set forth;state;
expunge(v) - excise; scratch; strike;remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line;
extempore(adj sat) - ad-lib; extemporaneous; extemporary; impromptu; offhand; offhanded; off-the-cuff; unrehearsed;with little or no preparation or forethought;
#2 (adv) - extemporaneously; extemporarily;without prior preparation;
extrude(v) - squeeze out;form or shape by forcing through an opening;
exult(v) - exuberate; jubilate; rejoice; triumph;to express great joy;
#2 (v) - be on cloud nine; jump for joy; walk on air;feel extreme happiness or elation;
facet(n) - aspect;a distinct feature or element in a problem;
#2 (n) - a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone);
factious(adj sat) - dissentious; divisive;dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion);
faze(v) - enervate; unnerve; unsettle;disturb the composure of;
felicity(n) - felicitousness;pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression);
#2 (n) - happiness;state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy;
ferment(n) - fermentation; fermenting; zymolysis; zymosis;a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol;
#2 (n) - agitation; fermentation; tempestuousness; unrest;a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
#3 (n) - a substance capable of bringing about fermentation;
#4 (v) - sour; turn; work;go sour or spoil;
#5 (v) - work;cause to undergo fermentation;
#6 (v) - work up into agitation or excitement;
#7 (v) - be in an agitated or excited state;
ferocity(n) - fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness;the property of being wild or turbulent;
flinch(n) - wince;a reflex response to sudden pain;
#2 (v) - cringe; funk; quail; recoil; shrink; squinch; wince;draw back, as with fear or pain;
flop(n) - collapse;the act of throwing yourself down;
#2 (n) - bust; fizzle;a complete failure;
#3 (n) - dud; washout;someone who is unsuccessful;
#4 (n) - floating-point operation;an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers;
#5 (v) - fall suddenly and abruptly;
#6 (v) - fall loosely;
#7 (v) - fall flat; fall through; founder;fail utterly; collapse;
#8 (adv) - right;exactly;
#9 (adv) - with a flopping sound;
fluke(n) - trematode; trematode worm;parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host;
#2 (n) - either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean;
#3 (n) - flue;flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor;
#4 (n) - a barb on a harpoon or arrow;
#5 (n) - good fortune; good luck;a stroke of luck;
fluster(n) - perturbation;a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset;
#2 (v) - cause to be nervous or upset;
#3 (v) - be flustered; behave in a confused manner;
forge(n) - smithy;a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering;
#2 (n) - furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping;
#3 (v) - contrive; devise; excogitate; formulate; invent;come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort;
#4 (v) - counterfeit; fake;make a copy of with the intent to deceive;
#5 (v) - fashion;make out of components (often in an improvising manner);
#6 (v) - form; mold; mould; shape; work;make something, usually for a specific function;
#7 (v) - hammer;create by hammering;
#8 (v) - spirt; spurt;move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy;
#9 (v) - move ahead steadily;
fulmination(n) - the act of exploding with noise and violence;
#2 (n) - diatribe;thunderous verbal attack;
gait(n) - a person's manner of walking;
#2 (n) - a horse's manner of moving;
#3 (n) - pace;the rate of moving (especially walking or running);
garnish(n) - any decoration added as a trimming or adornment;
#2 (n) - something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration;
#3 (v) - dress; trim;decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods;
#4 (v) - garnishee;take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support;
ghastly(adj sat) - grim; grisly; gruesome; macabre; sick;shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
#2 (adj sat) - charnel; sepulchral;gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;
gingerly(adj sat) - with extreme care or delicacy;
#2 (adv) - in a gingerly manner;
grandeur(n) - brilliance; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour;the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand;
#2 (n) - magnanimousness; nobility; nobleness;the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct;
guise(n) - pretence; pretense; pretext;an artful or simulated semblance;
harrow(n) - a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil;
#2 (v) - disk;draw a harrow over (land);
harry(v) - ravage;make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes;
#2 (v) - beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; hassle; molest; plague; provoke;annoy continually or chronically;
havoc(n) - mayhem;violent and needless disturbance;
heretic(n) - misbeliever; religious outcast;a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church;
#2 (n) - a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion);
hideous(adj sat) - repulsive;so extremely ugly as to be terrifying;
#2 (adj sat) - horrid; horrific; outrageous;grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
hoard(n) - cache; stash;a secret store of valuables or money;
#2 (v) - accumulate; amass; collect; compile; pile up; roll up;get or gather together;
#3 (v) - cache; hive up; lay away; squirrel away; stash;save up as for future use;
holster(n) - a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun;
#2 (n) - a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools;
husk(n) - outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds;
#2 (n) - chaff; shuck; stalk; straw; stubble;material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds;
#3 (v) - shell;remove the husks from;
hybrid(n) - cross; crossbreed;an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species;
#2 (n) - a composite of mixed origin;
#3 (n) - loanblend; loan-blend;a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root);
#4 (adj sat) - intercrossed;produced by crossbreeding;
idolatry(n) - idol worship;the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God;
#2 (n) - cultism; devotion; veneration;religious zeal; the willingness to serve God;
impediment(n) - impedimenta; obstructer; obstruction; obstructor;any structure that makes progress difficult;
#2 (n) - balk; baulk; check; deterrent; handicap; hinderance; hindrance;something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress;
impel(v) - propel;cause to move forward with force;
#2 (v) - force;urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate;
impending(adj sat) - at hand; close at hand; imminent; impendent;close in time; about to occur;
imprecation(n) - malediction;the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);
#2 (n) - a slanderous accusation;
inarticulate(adj) - unarticulate;without or deprived of the use of speech or words;
incendiary(n) - firebomb; incendiary bomb;a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel);
#2 (n) - arsonist; firebug;a criminal who illegally sets fire to property;
#3 (adj sat) - capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily;
#4 (adj sat) - incitive; inflammatory; instigative; rabble-rousing; seditious;arousing to action or rebellion;
#5 (adj) - involving deliberate burning of property;
inclined(adj) - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position;
#2 (adj) - having a preference, disposition, or tendency;
#3 (adj sat) - disposed; fain; prepared;having made preparations;
increment(n) - increase;the amount by which something increases;
#2 (n) - growth; increase;a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
indistinct(adj) - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand;
infringe(v) - encroach; impinge;advance beyond the usual limit;
#2 (v) - conflict; contravene; run afoul;go against, as of rules and laws;
inhibit(v) - conquer; curb; stamp down; subdue; suppress;to put down by force or authority;
#2 (v) - limit the range or extent of;
#3 (v) - bottle up; suppress;control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior;
#4 (v) - limit, block, or decrease the action or function of;
inkling(n) - glimmer; glimmering; intimation;a slight suggestion or vague understanding;
innuendo(n) - insinuation;an indirect (and usually malicious) implication;
inopportune(adj) - not opportune;
insouciant(adj sat) - casual; nonchalant;marked by blithe unconcern;
insularity(n) - detachment; insularism; insulation;the state of being isolated or detached;
insuperable(adj sat) - insurmountable;impossible to surmount;
#2 (adj sat) - unconquerable;incapable of being surmounted or excelled;
interlocutor(n) - conversational partner;a person who takes part in a conversation;
#2 (n) - middleman;the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk;
intoxicate(v) - have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug;
#2 (v) - inebriate; soak;make drunk (with alcoholic drinks);
#3 (v) - elate; lift up; pick up; uplift;fill with high spirits; fill with optimism;
introspection(n) - self-contemplation; self-examination;the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct;
inure(v) - harden; indurate;cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate;
inverse(n) - opposite;something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
#2 (adj sat) - reverse;reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect;
#3 (adj) - opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity;
invert(v) - reverse; turn back;turn inside out or upside down;
#2 (v) - reverse;reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of;
#3 (v) - make an inversion (in a musical composition);
iridescent(adj sat) - nacreous; opalescent; opaline; pearlescent;having a play of lustrous rainbow colors;
#2 (adj sat) - changeable; chatoyant; shot;varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles;
itinerary(n) - travel plan;a proposed route of travel;
#2 (n) - travel guidebook;a guidebook for travelers;
#3 (n) - path; route;an established line of travel or access;
jabber(n) - gabble; jabbering;rapid and indistinct speech;
#2 (v) - mouth off; rabbit on; rant; rave; spout;talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner;
jubilation(n) - exultation; rejoicing;the utterance of sounds expressing great joy;
#2 (n) - celebration;a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event;
#3 (n) - exultation; jubilance; jubilancy;a feeling of extreme joy;
jurisdiction(n) - legal power;the right and power to interpret and apply the law;
#2 (n) - in law; the territory within which power can be exercised;
leonine(adj) - of or characteristic of or resembling a lion;
levy(n) - levy en masse;the act of drafting into military service;
#2 (n) - a charge imposed and collected;
#3 (v) - raise; recruit;cause to assemble or enlist in the military;
#4 (v) - impose;impose and collect;
limn(v) - depict; portray;make a portrait of;
#2 (v) - delineate; outline;trace the shape of;
lionize(v) - celebrate; lionise;assign great social importance to;
loath(adj sat) - antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loth;strongly opposed;
#2 (adj sat) - loth; reluctant;unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom;
lunatic(n) - daredevil; harum-scarum; hothead; madcap; swashbuckler;a reckless impetuous irresponsible person;
#2 (n) - madman; maniac;an insane person;
#3 (adj sat) - moonstruck;insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon;
malevolence(n) - malevolency; malice;the quality of threatening evil;
#2 (n) - malignity;wishing evil to others;
malfeasance(n) - wrongful conduct by a public official;
manacle(n) - cuff; handcuff; handlock;shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs;
#2 (v) - cuff; handcuff;confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs;
mantle(n) - cape;a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter;
#2 (n) - curtain; drape; drapery; pall;hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window);
#3 (n) - chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantlepiece;shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;
#4 (n) - pallium;a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell;
#5 (n) - the cloak as a symbol of authority;
#6 (n) - blanket;anything that covers;
#7 (n) - the layer of the earth between the crust and the core;
#8 (n) - mickey charles mantle; mickey mantle;United States baseball player (1931-1997);
#9 (v) - cover like a mantle;
#10 (v) - spread over a surface, like a mantle;
manumit(v) - emancipate;free from slavery or servitude;
masquerade(n) - making a false outward show;
#2 (n) - fancy dress; masquerade costume;a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party;
#3 (n) - mask; masque; masquerade party;a party of guests wearing costumes and masks;
#4 (v) - pretend to be someone or something that you are not;
#5 (v) - take part in a masquerade;
maul(n) - sledge; sledgehammer;a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges;
#2 (v) - mangle;injure badly by beating;
#3 (v) - split (wood) with a maul and wedges;
mawkish(adj sat) - bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mushy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy;effusively or insincerely emotional;
mendacity(n) - the tendency to be untruthful;
mirage(n) - something illusory and unattainable;
#2 (n) - an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects;
miscreant(n) - reprobate;a person without moral scruples;
mite(n) - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods;
#2 (n) - hint; jot; pinch; soupcon; speck; tinge; touch;a slight but appreciable amount;
motto(n) - catchword; shibboleth; slogan;a favorite saying of a sect or political group;
muddle(n) - fix; hole; jam; kettle of fish; mess; pickle;informal terms for a difficult situation;
#2 (n) - clutter; fuddle; jumble; mare's nest; smother; welter;a confused multitude of things;
#3 (v) - addle; puddle;mix up or confuse;
#4 (v) - puddle;make into a puddle;
muffler(n) - damper;a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations;
#2 (n) - a scarf worn around the neck;
#3 (n) - silencer;a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise;
nebula(n) - a faint cloudy spot on the cornea;
#2 (n) - an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space;
#3 (n) - cloudiness of the urine;
#4 (n) - a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer;
nibble(n) - gentle biting;
#2 (n) - nybble;a small byte;
#3 (v) - pick; piece;eat intermittently; take small bites of;
#4 (v) - bite gently;
#5 (v) - bite off very small pieces;
oblivion(n) - obliviousness;total forgetfulness;
#2 (n) - limbo;the state of being disregarded or forgotten;
obtrusive(adj sat) - sticking out; protruding;
#2 (adj) - noticeable;undesirably noticeable;
occlude(v) - block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate;block passage through;
onslaught(n) - attack; onrush; onset;an offensive against an enemy (using weapons);
#2 (n) - barrage; bombardment; outpouring;the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written);
#3 (n) - a sudden and severe onset of trouble;
outlandish(adj sat) - bizarre; eccentric; flakey; flaky; freakish; freaky; gonzo; off-the-wall; outre;conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
overture(n) - orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio;
#2 (n) - advance; approach; feeler;a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others;
#3 (n) - preliminary; prelude;something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows;
overweening(adj sat) - uppity;presumptuously arrogant;
#2 (adj sat) - excessive; extravagant; exuberant;unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings;
painstaking(adj sat) - conscientious; scrupulous;characterized by extreme care and great effort;
palette(n) - pallet;board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used;
#2 (n) - pallette;one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor;
#3 (n) - pallet;the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art;
palpitate(v) - flutter;beat rapidly;
#2 (v) - quake; quiver;shake with fast, tremulous movements;
#3 (v) - cause to throb or beat rapidly;
pandemic(n) - an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world;
#2 (adj sat) - existing everywhere;
#3 (adj sat) - epidemic over a wide geographical area;
parlance(n) - idiom;a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language;
parley(n) - a negotiation between enemies;
#2 (v) - discuss, as between enemies;
pedestal(n) - base; stand;a support or foundation;
#2 (n) - footstall; plinth;an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue);
#3 (n) - a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority);
penance(n) - a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution;
#2 (n) - self-abasement; self-mortification;voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing;
#3 (n) - penitence; repentance;remorse for your past conduct;
penultimate(n) - penult; penultima;the next to last syllable in a word;
#2 (adj sat) - next-to-last;next to the last;
percussion(n) - the act of exploding a percussion cap;
#2 (n) - the act of playing a percussion instrument;
#3 (n) - pleximetry;tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes;
#4 (n) - percussion section; rhythm section;the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments;
peregrination(n) - traveling or wandering around;
perforate(v) - penetrate;pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance;
#2 (v) - punch;make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation;
#3 (adj sat) - perforated; pierced; punctured;having a hole cut through;
periphery(n) - fringe; outer boundary;the outside boundary or surface of something;
perjure(v) - knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury;
perpetrate(v) - commit; pull;perform an act, usually with a negative connotation;
perverse(adj sat) - depraved; perverted; reprobate;deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good;
#2 (adj sat) - contrary; obstinate; wayward;resistant to guidance or discipline;
#3 (adj sat) - marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict;
pervert(n) - degenerate; deviant; deviate;a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior;
#2 (v) - abuse; misuse;change the inherent purpose or function of something;
#3 (v) - convolute; sophisticate; twist; twist around;practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive;
#4 (v) - corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; profane; subvert; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
pestilential(adj sat) - pestiferous; pestilent; plaguey;likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease;
philanthropic(adj sat) - beneficent; benevolent; eleemosynary;generous in assistance to the poor;
#2 (adj) - of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy;
philology(n) - linguistics;the humanistic study of language and literature;
piquant(adj sat) - engaging;attracting or delighting;
#2 (adj sat) - salty;engagingly stimulating or provocative;
#3 (adj sat) - savory; savoury; spicy; zesty;having an agreeably pungent taste;
pitfall(n) - pit;a trap in the form of a concealed hole;
#2 (n) - booby trap;an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty;
plenitude(n) - plenteousness; plentifulness; plentitude; plenty;a full supply;
poise(n) - aplomb; assuredness; cool; sang-froid;great coolness and composure under strain;
#2 (n) - a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second;
#3 (n) - a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium;
#4 (v) - balance;hold or carry in equilibrium;
#5 (v) - cause to be balanced or suspended;
#6 (v) - brace;prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult;
#7 (v) - be motionless, in suspension;
potentate(n) - dictator;a ruler who is unconstrained by law;
predominate(v) - dominate; prevail; reign; rule;be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;
#2 (v) - hulk; loom; tower;appear very large or occupy a commanding position;
#3 (adj sat) - overriding; paramount; predominant; preponderant; preponderating;having superior power and influence;
preempt(n) - pre-empt; preemptive bid;a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding;
#2 (v) - make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge;
#3 (v) - acquire for oneself before others can do so;
#4 (v) - gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land);
#5 (v) - displace;take the place of or have precedence over;
preen(v) - dress; plume; primp;dress or groom with elaborate care;
#2 (v) - congratulate;pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement;
#3 (v) - plume;clean with one's bill;
premature(adj sat) - untimely;uncommonly early or before the expected time;
#2 (adj sat) - previous;too soon or too hasty;
#3 (adj) - born after a gestation period of less than the normal time;
procrastination(n) - cunctation; shillyshally;the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time;
#2 (n) - dilatoriness;slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it;
procure(v) - pander; pimp;arrange for sexual partners for others;
#2 (v) - secure;get by special effort;
profligacy(n) - dissipation; dissolution; licentiousness; looseness;dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure;
#2 (n) - extravagance; prodigality;the trait of spending extravagantly;
prolix(adj) - tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length;
propinquity(n) - proximity;the property of being close together;
prostrate(v) - render helpless or defenseless;
#2 (v) - throw down flat, as on the ground;
#3 (v) - bow down;get into a prostrate position, as in submission;
#4 (adj sat) - flat;stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
#5 (adj sat) - prone;lying face downward;
protract(v) - draw out; extend; prolong;lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer;
proviso(n) - provision;a stipulated condition;
pucker(n) - ruck;an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth);
#2 (v) - cockle; crumple; knit; rumple;to gather something into small wrinkles or folds;
#3 (v) - ruck; ruck up;become wrinkled or drawn together;
#4 (v) - gather; tuck;draw together into folds or puckers;
pungency(n) - bite; raciness; sharpness;a strong odor or taste property;
#2 (n) - bite;wit having a sharp and caustic quality;
punitive(adj) - punitory;inflicting punishment;
quiescence(n) - dormancy; quiescency; sleeping;quiet and inactive restfulness;
#2 (n) - dormancy; quiescency;a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction;
rankle(v) - eat into; fret; grate;gnaw into; make resentful or angry;
ration(n) - the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel);
#2 (n) - a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity);
#3 (v) - ration out;distribute in rations, as in the army;
#4 (v) - restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war;
ravine(n) - a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water);
rebut(v) - controvert; refute;prove to be false or incorrect;
#2 (v) - refute;overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof;
recast(v) - reforge; remodel;cast or model anew;
#2 (v) - remold; remould;cast again;
#3 (v) - cast again, in a different role;
reciprocity(n) - mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges;
#2 (n) - reciprocality;a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence;
recline(v) - recumb; repose;lean in a comfortable resting position;
#2 (v) - cause to recline;
#3 (v) - lean back;move the upper body backwards and down;
recompense(n) - compensation;the act of compensating for service or loss or injury;
#2 (n) - payment or reward (as for service rendered);
#3 (v) - compensate; remunerate;make payment to; compensate;
#4 (v) - compensate; indemnify; repair;make amends for; pay compensation for;
recrimination(n) - mutual accusations;
redeem(v) - convert into cash; of commercial papers;
#2 (v) - pay off;pay off (loans or promissory notes);
#3 (v) - ransom;exchange or buy back for money; under threat;
#4 (v) - to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange;
#5 (v) - restore the honor or worth of;
#6 (v) - deliver; save;save from sins;
regent(n) - someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch;
#2 (n) - trustee;members of a governing board;
#3 (adj sat) - acting or functioning as a regent or ruler;
rehabilitate(v) - help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute;
#2 (v) - restore to a state of good condition or operation;
#3 (v) - reinstall politically;
relic(n) - keepsake; souvenir; token;something of sentimental value;
#2 (n) - an antiquity that has survived from the distant past;
reminiscent(adj sat) - evocative; redolent; remindful; resonant;serving to bring to mind;
remission(n) - absolution; remission of sin; remittal;the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance;
#2 (n) - remit; remitment;the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court);
#3 (n) - remittal; subsidence;an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease);
#4 (n) - remitment; remittal; remittance;a payment of money sent to a person in another place;
renegade(n) - apostate; deserter; ratter; recreant; turncoat;a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.;
#2 (n) - someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw;
#3 (v) - rebel;break with established customs;
#4 (adj sat) - recreant;having deserted a cause or principle;
renunciation(n) - forgoing; forswearing;the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.);
#2 (n) - repudiation;rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid;
#3 (n) - renouncement;an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned;
#4 (n) - apostasy; defection;the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes);
reprisal(n) - a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime;
repugnance(n) - horror; repulsion; revulsion;intense aversion;
#2 (n) - incompatibility; inconsistency; mutual exclusiveness;the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time;
repulsive(adj) - possessing the ability to repel;
#2 (adj sat) - hideous;so extremely ugly as to be terrifying;
#3 (adj sat) - abhorrent; detestable; obscene; repugnant;offensive to the mind;
resort(n) - recourse; refuge;act of turning to for assistance;
#2 (n) - recourse; refuge;something or someone turned to for assistance or security;
#3 (n) - hangout; haunt; repair; stamping ground;a frequently visited place;
#4 (n) - holiday resort; resort hotel;a hotel located in a resort area;
#5 (v) - repair;move, travel, or proceed toward some place;
#6 (v) - fall back; recur;have recourse to;
retrospective(n) - an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work;
#2 (adj) - concerned with or related to the past;
revert(v) - undergo reversion, as in a mutation;
#2 (v) - regress; retrovert; return; turn back;go back to a previous state;
revile(v) - rail; vilify; vituperate;spread negative information about;
rift(n) - breach; break; falling out; rupture; severance;a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
#2 (n) - a narrow fissure in rock;
#3 (n) - a gap between cloud masses;
rogue(n) - knave; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; varlet;a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel;
sash(n) - cincture; girdle; waistband; waistcloth;a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers;
#2 (n) - window sash;a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame;
schism(n) - split;division of a group into opposing factions;
#2 (n) - the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences;
scintillate(v) - coruscate; sparkle;be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity;
#2 (v) - physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon;
#3 (v) - twinkle; winkle;emit or reflect light in a flickering manner;
#4 (v) - coruscate; sparkle;reflect brightly;
#5 (v) - give off;
scruple(n) - an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action;
#2 (n) - misgiving; qualm;uneasiness about the fitness of an action;
#3 (n) - a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains;
#4 (v) - have doubts about;
#5 (v) - raise scruples;
#6 (v) - hesitate on moral grounds;
sear(v) - parch;cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat;
#2 (v) - scorch;make very hot and dry;
#3 (v) - blacken; char; scorch;burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color;
#4 (v) - scorch; singe;become superficially burned;
#5 (adj sat) - dried-up; sere; shriveled; shrivelled; withered;having lost all moisture;
seclusion(n) - the act of secluding yourself from others;
#2 (n) - privacy; privateness;the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others;
seethe(v) - roll;boil vigorously;
#2 (v) - foam as if boiling;
#3 (v) - boil;be in an agitated emotional state;
#4 (v) - buzz; hum;be noisy with activity;
semblance(n) - likeness;picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing;
#2 (n) - color; colour; gloss;an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading;
#3 (n) - illusion;an erroneous mental representation;
sensual(adj sat) - sultry;sexually exciting or gratifying;
#2 (adj sat) - animal; carnal; fleshly;marked by the appetites and passions of the body;
sententious(adj sat) - pithy;concise and full of meaning;
#2 (adj sat) - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;
sentient(adj) - animate;endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness;
#2 (adj sat) - consciously perceiving;
severance(n) - severing;the act of severing;
#2 (n) - breach; break; falling out; rift; rupture;a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
sheath(n) - cocktail dress;a dress suitable for formal occasions;
#2 (n) - a protective covering (as for a knife or sword);
#3 (n) - case;an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part;
shrivel(v) - shrink;decrease in size, range, or extent;
#2 (v) - shrink; shrivel up; wither;wither, as with a loss of moisture;
shuffle(n) - shamble; shambling; shuffling;walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet;
#2 (n) - make; shuffling;the act of mixing cards haphazardly;
#3 (v) - mix; ruffle;mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;
#4 (v) - scuffle; shamble;walk by dragging one's feet;
#5 (v) - move about, move back and forth;
simper(n) - a silly self-conscious smile;
#2 (v) - smirk;smile affectedly or derisively;
slate(n) - a writing tablet made of slate;
#2 (n) - ticket;a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices;
#3 (n) - a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers;
#4 (n) - slating;thin layers of rock used for roofing;
#5 (v) - designate or schedule;
#6 (v) - cover with slate;
#7 (v) - enter on a list or slate for an election;
slur(n) - blot; daub; smear; smirch; smudge; spot;a blemish made by dirt;
#2 (n) - aspersion;a disparaging remark;
#3 (n) - a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato;
#4 (v) - blur; dim;become vague or indistinct;
#5 (v) - utter indistinctly;
#6 (v) - speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur;
#7 (v) - play smoothly or legato;
smolder(n) - smoulder;a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame;
#2 (v) - smoulder;burn slowly and without a flame;
#3 (v) - smoulder;have strong suppressed feelings;
snare(n) - gin; noose;a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose;
#2 (n) - strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit;
#3 (n) - a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities;
#4 (n) - side drum; snare drum;a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head;
#5 (n) - trap;something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;
#6 (v) - hook;entice and trap;
#7 (v) - ensnare; entrap; trammel; trap;catch in or as if in a trap;
sodden(adj sat) - soppy;wet through and through; thoroughly wet;
solder(n) - an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces;
#2 (v) - join or fuse with solder;
soluble(adj) - capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water);
#2 (adj) - susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained;
sonorous(adj sat) - heavy;full and loud and deep;
sophisticated(adj sat) - advanced;ahead in development; complex or intricate;
#2 (adj sat) - intellectually appealing;
#3 (adj) - having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire;
spate(n) - freshet;the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow;
#2 (n) - rush; surge; upsurge;a sudden forceful flow;
#3 (n) - batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; stack; tidy sum; wad;a large number or amount or extent;
spoof(n) - burlesque; charade; lampoon; mockery; parody; pasquinade; put-on; sendup; takeoff; travesty;a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way;
#2 (v) - burlesque; parody;make a parody of;
stentorian(adj sat) - booming;used of the voice;
stint(n) - an individual's prescribed share of work;
#2 (n) - erolia minutilla; least sandpiper;smallest American sandpiper;
#3 (n) - stretch;an unbroken period of time during which you do something;
#4 (v) - scant; skimp;supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;
#5 (v) - scrimp; skimp;subsist on a meager allowance;
stria(n) - band; banding; striation;a stripe or stripes of contrasting color;
#2 (n) - striation;any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue;
striate(v) - mark with striae or striations;
#2 (adj) - marked with stria or striations;
stricture(n) - severe criticism;
#2 (n) - stenosis;abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway;
subsequent(adj) - following in time or order;
substantive(n) - any word or group of words functioning as a noun;
#2 (adj) - essential;defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established;
#3 (adj sat) - substantial;having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable;
#4 (adj sat) - meaty;being on topic and prompting thought;
subsume(v) - colligate;consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle;
#2 (v) - contain or include;
subvert(v) - destroy completely;
#2 (v) - bring down; overthrow; overturn;cause the downfall of; of rulers;
#3 (v) - counteract; countermine; sabotage; undermine; weaken;destroy property or hinder normal operations;
#4 (v) - corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
suffocate(v) - choke; gag; strangle;struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake;
#2 (v) - feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air;
#3 (v) - asphyxiate; stifle;be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen;
#4 (v) - choke;suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of;
#5 (v) - choke;become stultified, suppressed, or stifled;
#6 (v) - asphyxiate; choke; stifle;impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
#7 (v) - asphyxiate; smother;deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
superimpose(v) - lay over; superpose;place on top of;
suppliant(n) - petitioner; requester; supplicant;one praying humbly for something;
#2 (adj sat) - supplicant; supplicatory;humbly entreating;
susceptibility(n) - susceptibleness;the state of being susceptible; easily affected;
tarnish(n) - discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation;
#2 (v) - defile; maculate; stain; sully;make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically;
tenet(n) - dogma;a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof;
tepid(adj sat) - halfhearted; half-hearted; lukewarm;feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm;
#2 (adj sat) - lukewarm;moderately warm;
theoretical(adj) - theoretic;concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations;
#2 (adj) - concerned with theories rather than their practical applications;
tinge(n) - undertone;a pale or subdued color;
#2 (n) - hint; jot; mite; pinch; soupcon; speck; touch;a slight but appreciable amount;
#3 (v) - tinct; tint; touch;color lightly;
#4 (v) - color; colour; distort;affect as in thought or feeling;
topple(v) - tumble;fall down, as if collapsing;
#2 (v) - tip; tumble;cause to topple or tumble by pushing;
transmute(v) - metamorphose; transform;change in outward structure or looks;
#2 (v) - alter the nature of (elements);
#3 (v) - transform; transubstantiate;change or alter in form, appearance, or nature;
tremor(n) - shudder;an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear);
#2 (n) - earth tremor; microseism;a small earthquake;
#3 (n) - shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease);
#4 (v) - quake;shake with seismic vibrations;
trifling(n) - dalliance; dawdling;the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working;
#2 (adj sat) - negligible; paltry;not worth considering;
truce(n) - armistice; cease-fire;a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms;
trudge(n) - a long difficult walk;
#2 (v) - footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp;walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
truism(n) - an obvious truth;
turmoil(n) - agitation; excitement; hullabaloo; upheaval;disturbance usually in protest;
#2 (n) - tumult;violent agitation;
#3 (n) - convulsion; upheaval;a violent disturbance;
ultimatum(n) - a final peremptory demand;
unassuming(adj sat) - retiring;not arrogant or presuming;
unbridled(adj sat) - unchecked; uncurbed; ungoverned;not restrained or controlled;
uncouth(adj sat) - coarse; common; rough-cut; vulgar;lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
unearth(v) - excavate;recover through digging;
#2 (v) - bring to light;
unfeigned(adj sat) - genuine; true;not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed;
unobtrusive(adj) - unnoticeable;not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable;
valorous(adj sat) - valiant;having or showing valor;
vanquish(v) - beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce;come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
vassal(n) - feudatory; liege; liege subject; liegeman;a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord;
veer(v) - shift to a clockwise direction;
#2 (v) - curve; cut; sheer; slew; slue; swerve; trend;turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
venison(n) - meat from a deer used as food;
verve(n) - vitality;an energetic style;
viable(adj sat) - capable of life or normal growth and development;
#2 (adj sat) - executable; feasible; practicable; workable;capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are;
vigilance(n) - watchfulness; weather eye;vigilant attentiveness;
#2 (n) - alertness; wakefulness; watchfulness;the process of paying close and continuous attention;
virago(n) - amazon;a large strong and aggressive woman;
#2 (n) - a noisy or scolding or domineering woman;
visage(n) - countenance;the appearance conveyed by a person's face;
#2 (n) - countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler;the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British);
visceral(adj sat) - intuitive; nonrational;obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation;
#2 (adj) - splanchnic;relating to or affecting the viscera;
vogue(n) - style; trend;the popular taste at a given time;
#2 (n) - a current state of general acceptance and use;
volley(n) - a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces;
#2 (n) - burst; fusillade; salvo;rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms;
#3 (v) - utter rapidly;
#4 (v) - make a volley;
#5 (v) - discharge in, or as if in, a volley;
#6 (v) - hit before it touches the ground;
#7 (v) - be dispersed in a volley;
watershed(n) - landmark; turning point;an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend;
#2 (n) - basin; catchment area; catchment basin; drainage area; drainage basin; river basin;the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet;
#3 (n) - divide; water parting;a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems;
welter(n) - clutter; fuddle; jumble; mare's nest; muddle; smother;a confused multitude of things;
#2 (v) - be immersed in;
#3 (v) - wallow;roll around,;
#4 (v) - toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way;
whine(n) - whimper;a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way;
#2 (v) - grizzle; yammer; yawp;complain whiningly;
#3 (v) - snivel;talk in a tearful manner;
#4 (v) - move with a whining sound;
#5 (v) - creak; screak; screech; skreak; squeak;make a high-pitched, screeching noise;
wizened(adj sat) - shriveled; shrivelled; shrunken; withered; wizen;lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
wrangle(n) - haggle; haggling; wrangling;an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining);
#2 (n) - dustup; quarrel; row; run-in; words;an angry dispute;
#3 (v) - brawl;to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively;
#4 (v) - herd and care for;
writ(n) - judicial writ;a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer;
yarn(n) - thread;a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving;
#2 (n) - narration; recital;the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;
#3 (v) - tell or spin a yarn;