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Big Book Vocabulary Part 3

Big Book Vocabulary Part 3

by gingerlatte9, Oct. 2009

Subjects: big book gre vocabulary

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	proffer	To offer to another for acceptance.
	proficiency	An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
	proficient	Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
	profile	An outline or contour.
	profiteer	One who profits.
	profligacy	Shameless viciousness.
	profligate	Abandoned to vice.
	profuse	Produced or displayed in overabundance.
	progeny	Offspring.
	progression	A moving forward or proceeding in course.
	prohibition	A decree or an order forbidding something.
	prohibitionist	One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
	prohibitory	Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
	projection	A prominence.
	proletarian	A person of the lowest or poorest class.
	prolific	Producing offspring or fruit.
	prolix	Verbose.
	prologue	A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
	prolong	To extend in time or duratio
	promenade	To walk for amusement or exercise.
	prominence	The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
	prominent	Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
	promiscuous	Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
	promissory	Expressing an engagement to pay.
	promontory	A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
	promoter	A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
	promulgate	To proclaim.
	propaganda	Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
	propagate	To spread abroad or from person to perso
	propel	To drive or urge forward.
	propellant	Propelling.
	propeller	One who or that which propels.
	prophecy	Any prediction or foretelling.
	prophesy	To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
	propitious	Kindly disposed.
	proportionate	Being in proportio
	propriety	Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
	propulsion	A driving onward or forward.
	prosaic	Unimaginative.
	proscenium	That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
	proscribe	To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciatio
	proscription	Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
	proselyte	One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
	prosody	The science of poetical forms.
	prospector	One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
	prospectus	A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
	prostrate	Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
	protagonist	A leader in any enterprise or contest.
	protection	Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
	protective	Sheltering.
	protector	A defender.
	protege	One specially cared for and favored by another usually older perso
	Protestant	A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
	protomartyr	The earliest victim in any cause.
	protocol	A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
	protoplasm	The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
	prototype	A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
	protract	To prolong.
	protrude	To push out or thrust forth.
	protrusion	The act of protruding.
	protuberance	Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
	protuberant	Bulging.
	protuberate	To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
	proverb	A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
	provident	Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
	providential	Effected by divine guidance.
	provincial	Uncultured in thought and manner.
	proviso	A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
	provocation	An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
	prowess	Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
	proximately	ad Immediately.
	proxy	A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
	prudence	Cautio
	prudential	Proceeding or marked by cautio
	prudery	An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
	prurient	Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
	pseudapostle	A pretended or false apostle.
	pseudonym	A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
	pseudonymity	The state or character of using a fictitious name.
	psychiatry	The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
	psychic	Pertaining to the mind or soul.
	psychopathic	Morally irresponsible.
	psychotherapy	The treatment of mental disease.
	pudgy	Small and fat.
	puerile	Childish.
	pugnacious	Quarrelsome.
	puissant	Possessing strength.
	pulmonary	Pertaining to the lungs.
	punctilious	Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
	punctual	Observant and exact in points of time.
	pungent	Affecting the sense of smell.
	pungency	The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
	punitive	Pertaining to punishment.
	pupilage	The state or period of being a student.
	purgatory	An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
	purl	To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
	purloin	To steal.
	purport	Intent.
	purveyor	one who supplies
	pusillanimous	Without spirit or bravery.
	putrescent	Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
	pyre	A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
	pyromania	An insane propensity to set things on fire.
	pyrotechnic	Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
	pyx	A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
	quackery	Charlatanry
	quadrate	To divide into quarters.
	quadruple	To multiply by four.
	qualification	A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
	qualify	To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
	qualm	A fit of nausea.
	quandary	A puzzling predicament.
	quantity	Magnitude.
	quarantine	The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
	quarrelsome	Irascible.
	quarter	One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
	quarterly	Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
	quartet	A composition for four voices or four instruments.
	quarto	An eight-page newspaper of any size.
	quay	A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
	querulous	Habitually complaining.
	query	To make inquiry.
	queue	A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
	quibble	An utterly trivial distinction or objectio
	quiescence	Quiet.
	quiescent	Being in a state of repose or inactio
	quiet	Making no noise.
	quietus	A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
	quintessence	The most essential part of anything.
	quintet	Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
	quite	ad Fully.
	Quixotic	Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
	rabid	Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
	racy	Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
	radiance	Brilliant or sparkling luster.
	radiate	To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
	radical	One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
	radix	That from or on which something is developed.
	raillery	Good-humored satire.
	ramify	To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
	ramose	Branch-like.
	rampant	Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
	rampart	A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
	rancor	Malice.
	rankle	To produce irritation or festering.
	rapacious	Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
	rapid	Having great speed.
	rapine	The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
	rapt	Enraptured.
	raptorial	Seizing and devouring living prey.
	ration	To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
	rationalism	The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
	raucous	Harsh.
	ravage	To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
	ravenous	Furiously voracious or hungry.
	ravine	A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
	reaction	Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflatio
	reactionary	Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reactio
	readily	ad Without objection or reluctance.
	readjust	To put in order after disarrangement.
	ready	In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasio
	realism	The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
	rearrange	To arrange again or in a different order.
	reassure	To give new confidence.
	rebellious	Insubordinate.
	rebuff	A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
	rebuild	To build again or anew.
	rebut	To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
	recant	To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
	recapitulate	To repeat again the principal points of.
	recapture	To capture agai
	recede	To move back or away.
	receivable	Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
	receptive	Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
	recessive	Having a tendency to go back.
	recidivist	A confirmed criminal.
	reciprocal	Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
	reciprocate	To give and take mutually.
	reciprocity	Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
	recitation	The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
	reck	To have a care or thought for.
	reckless	Foolishly headless of danger.
	reclaim	To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
	recline	To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or positio
	recluse	One who lives in retirement or seclusio
	reclusory	A hermitage.
	recognizance	An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
	recognize	To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
	recoil	To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
	recollect	To recall the knowledge of.
	reconcilable	Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
	reconnoiter	To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
	reconsider	To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous actio
	reconstruct	To rebuild.
	recourse	Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
	recover	To regai
	recreant	A cowardly or faithless perso
	recreate	To refresh after labor.
	recrudescence	The state of becoming raw or sore agai
	recrudescent	Becoming raw or sore agai
	recruit	To enlist men for military or naval service.
	rectify	To correct.
	rectitude	The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
	recuperate	To recover.
	recur	To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
	recure	To cure agai
	recurrent	Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
	redemption	The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
	redolent	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
	redolence	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
	redoubtable	Formidable.
	redound	Rebound.
	redress	To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
	reducible	That may be reduced.
	redundance	Excess.
	redundant	Constituting an excess.
	reestablish	To restore.
	refer	To direct or send for information or other purpose.
	referrer	One who refers.
	referable	Ascribable.
	referee	An umpire.
	refinery	A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
	reflectible	Capable of being turned back.
	reflection	The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
	reflector	A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular directio
	reflexible	Capable of being reflected.
	reform	Change for the better.
	reformer	One who carries out a reform.
	refract	To bend or turn from a direct course.
	refractory	Not amenable to control.
	refragable	Capable of being refuted.
	refringency	Power to refract.
	refringent	Having the power to refract.
	refusal	Denial of what is asked.
	refute	To prove to be wrong.
	regale	To give unusual pleasure.
	regalia	pl. The emblems of royalty.
	regality	Royalty.
	regenerate	To reproduce.
	regent	One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
	regicide	The killing of a king or sovereig
	regime	Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
	regimen	A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
	regiment	A body of soldiers.
	regnant	Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
	regress	To return to a former place or conditio
	regretful	Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
	rehabilitate	To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
	reign	To hold and exercise sovereign power.
	reimburse	To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
	rein	A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
	reinstate	To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
	reiterate	To say or do again and agai
	rejoin	To reunite after separatio
	rejuvenate	To restore to youth.
	rejuvenescence	A renewal of youth.
	relapse	To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
	relegate	To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destinatio
	relent	To yield.
	relevant	Bearing upon the matter in hand.
	reliance	Dependence.
	reliant	Having confidence.
	relinquish	To give up using or having.
	reliquary	A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
	relish	To like the taste or savor of.
	reluctance	Unwillingness.
	reluctant	Unwilling.
	remembrance	Recollectio
	reminiscence	The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
	reminiscent	Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
	remiss	Negligent.
	remission	Temporary diminution of a disease.
	remodel	Reconstruct.
	remonstrance	Reproof.
	remonstrant	Having the character of a reproof.
	remonstrate	To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
	remunerate	To pay or pay for.
	remuneration	Compensatio
	Renaissance	The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
	rendezvous	A prearranged place of meeting.
	rendition	Interpretatio
	renovate	To restore after deterioration, as a building.
	renunciation	An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
	reorganize	To change to a more satisfactory form of organizatio
	reparable	Capable of repair.
	reparation	The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
	repartee	A ready, witty, or apt reply.
	repeal	To render of no further effect.
	repel	To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
	repellent	Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
	repentance	Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
	repertory	A place where things are stored or gathered together.
	repetition	The act of repeating.
	repine	To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
	replenish	To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
	replete	Full to the uttermost.
	replica	A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
	repository	A place in which goods are stored.
	reprehend	To find fault with.
	reprehensible	Censurable.
	reprehension	Expression of blame.
	repress	To keep under restraint or control.
	repressible	Able to be kept under restraint or control.
	reprieve	To grant a respite from punishment to.
	reprimand	To chide or rebuke for a fault.
	reprisal	Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
	reprobate	One abandoned to depravity and si
	reproduce	To make a copy of.
	reproduction	The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
	reproof	An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
	repudiate	To refuse to have anything to do with.
	repugnance	Thorough dislike.
	repugnant	Offensive to taste and feeling.
	repulse	The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
	repulsive	Grossly offensive.
	repute	To hold in general opinio
	requiem	A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
	requisite	Necessary.
	requital	Adequate return for good or ill.
	requite	To repay either good or evil to, as to a perso
	rescind	To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
	reseat	To place in position of office agai
	resemblance	Similarity in quality or form.
	resent	To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
	reservoir	A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
	residue	A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
	resilience	The power of springing back to a former position
	resilient	Having the quality of springing back to a former positio
	resistance	The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
	resistant	Offering or tending to produce resistance.
	resistive	Having or exercising the power of resistance.
	resistless	Powerless.
	resonance	The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
	resonance	Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
	resonate	To have or produce resonance.
	resource	That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
	respite	Interval of rest.
	resplendent	Very bright.
	respondent	Answering.
	restitution	Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
	resumption	The act of taking back, or taking agai
	resurgent	Surging back or agai
	resurrection	A return from death to life
	resuscitate	To restore from apparent death.
	retaliate	To repay evil with a similar evil.
	retch	To make an effort to vomit.
	retention	The keeping of a thing within one's power or possessio
	reticence	The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
	reticent	Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
	retinue	The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
	retort	A retaliatory speech.
	retouch	To modify the details of.
	retrace	To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
	retract	To recall or take back (something that one has said).
	retrench	To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
	retrieve	To recover something by searching.
	retroactive	Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
	retrograde	To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
	retrogression	A going or moving backward or in a reverse directio
	retrospect	A view or contemplation of something past.
	retrospective	Looking back on the past.
	reunite	To unite or join again, as after separatio
	revelation	A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknow
	revere	To regard with worshipful veneratio
	reverent	Humble.
	reversion	A return to or toward some former state or conditio
	revert	To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
	revile	To heap approach or abuse upo
	revisal	Revisio
	revise	To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
	revocation	Repeal.
	revoke	To rescind.
	rhapsody	Rapt or rapturous utterance.
	rhetoric	The art of discourse.
	rhetorician	A showy writer or speaker.
	ribald	Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
	riddance	The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
	ridicule	Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
	ridiculous	Laughable and contemptible.
	rife	Abundant.
	righteousness	Rectitude.
	rightful	Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
	rigmarole	Nonsense.
	rigor	Inflexibility.
	rigorous	Uncompromising.
	ripplet	A small ripple, as of water.
	risible	capable of exciting laughter.
	rivulet	A small stream or brook.
	robust	Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
	rondo	A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
	rookery	A place where crows congregate to breed.
	rotary	Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
	rotate	To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
	rote	Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attentio
	rotund	Round from fullness or plumpness.
	rudimentary	Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
	rue	To regret extremely.
	ruffian	A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
	ruminant	Chewing the cud.
	ruminate	To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
	rupture	To separate the parts of by violence.
	rustic	Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
	ruth	Sorrow for another's misery.
	sacrifice	To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
	sacrificial	Offering or offered as an atonement for si
	sacrilege	The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
	sacrilegious	Impious.
	safeguard	To protect.
	sagacious	Able to discern and distinguish with wise perceptio
	salacious	Having strong sexual desires.
	salience	The condition of standing out distinctly.
	salient	Standing out prominently.
	saline	Constituting or consisting of salt.
	salutary	Beneficial.
	salutation	Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
	salutatory	The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
	salvage	Any act of saving property.
	salvo	A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
	sanctimonious	Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
	sanction	To approve authoritatively.
	sanctity	Holiness.
	sanguinary	Bloody.
	sanguine	Having the color of blood.
	sanguineous	Consisting of blood.
	sapid	Affecting the sense of taste.
	sapience	Deep wisdom or knowledge.
	sapient	Possessing wisdom.
	sapiential	Possessing wisdom.
	saponaceous	Having the nature or quality of soap.
	sarcasm	Cutting and reproachful language.
	sarcophagus	A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
	sardonic	Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
	satiate	To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
	satire	The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
	satiric	Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
	satirize	To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
	satyr	A very lascivious perso
	savage	A wild and uncivilized human being.
	savor	To perceive by taste or smell.
	scabbard	The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapo
	scarcity	Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
	scholarly	Characteristic of an erudite perso
	scholastic	Pertaining to education or schools.
	scintilla	The faintest ray.
	scintillate	To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
	scope	A range of action or view.
	scoundrel	A man without principle.
	scribble	Hasty, careless writing.
	scribe	One who writes or is skilled in writing.
	script	Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
	Scriptural	Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
	scruple	Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
	scrupulous	Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
	rectify	To correct.
	rectitude	The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
	recuperate	To recover.
	recur	To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
	recure	To cure agai
	recurrent	Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
	redemption	The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
	redolent	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
	redolence	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
	redoubtable	Formidable.
	redound	Rebound.
	redress	To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
	reducible	That may be reduced.
	redundance	Excess.
	redundant	Constituting an excess.
	reestablish	To restore.
	refer	To direct or send for information or other purpose.
	referrer	One who refers.
	referable	Ascribable.
	referee	An umpire.
	refinery	A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
	reflectible	Capable of being turned back.
	reflection	The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
	reflector	A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular directio
	reflexible	Capable of being reflected.
	reform	Change for the better.
	reformer	One who carries out a reform.
	refract	To bend or turn from a direct course.
	refractory	Not amenable to control.
	refragable	Capable of being refuted.
	refringency	Power to refract.
	refringent	Having the power to refract.
	refusal	Denial of what is asked.
	refute	To prove to be wrong.
	regale	To give unusual pleasure.
	regalia	pl. The emblems of royalty.
	regality	Royalty.
	regenerate	To reproduce.
	regent	One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
	regicide	The killing of a king or sovereig
	regime	Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
	regimen	A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
	regiment	A body of soldiers.
	regnant	Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
	regress	To return to a former place or conditio
	regretful	Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
	rehabilitate	To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
	reign	To hold and exercise sovereign power.
	reimburse	To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
	rein	A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
	reinstate	To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
	reiterate	To say or do again and agai
	rejoin	To reunite after separatio
	rejuvenate	To restore to youth.
	rejuvenescence	A renewal of youth.
	relapse	To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
	relegate	To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destinatio
	relent	To yield.
	relevant	Bearing upon the matter in hand.
	reliance	Dependence.
	reliant	Having confidence.
	relinquish	To give up using or having.
	reliquary	A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
	relish	To like the taste or savor of.
	reluctance	Unwillingness.
	reluctant	Unwilling.
	remembrance	Recollectio
	reminiscence	The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
	reminiscent	Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
	remiss	Negligent.
	remission	Temporary diminution of a disease.
	remodel	Reconstruct.
	remonstrance	Reproof.
	remonstrant	Having the character of a reproof.
	remonstrate	To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
	remunerate	To pay or pay for.
	remuneration	Compensatio
	Renaissance	The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
	rendezvous	A prearranged place of meeting.
	rendition	Interpretatio
	renovate	To restore after deterioration, as a building.
	renunciation	An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
	reorganize	To change to a more satisfactory form of organizatio
	reparable	Capable of repair.
	reparation	The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
	repartee	A ready, witty, or apt reply.
	repeal	To render of no further effect.
	repel	To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
	repellent	Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
	repentance	Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
	repertory	A place where things are stored or gathered together.
	repetition	The act of repeating.
	repine	To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
	replenish	To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
	replete	Full to the uttermost.
	replica	A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
	repository	A place in which goods are stored.
	reprehend	To find fault with.
	reprehensible	Censurable.
	repress	To keep under restraint or control.
	repressible	Able to be kept under restraint or control.
	reprieve	To grant a respite from punishment to.
	reprimand	To chide or rebuke for a fault.
	reprisal	Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
	reprobate	One abandoned to depravity and si
	reproduce	To make a copy of.
	reproduction	The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
	reproof	An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
	repudiate	To refuse to have anything to do with.
	repugnance	Thorough dislike.
	repugnant	Offensive to taste and feeling.
	repulse	The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
	repulsive	Grossly offensive.
	repute	To hold in general opinio
	requiem	A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
	requisite	Necessary.
	requital	Adequate return for good or ill.
	requite	To repay either good or evil to, as to a perso
	rescind	To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
	reseat	To place in position of office agai
	resemblance	Similarity in quality or form.
	resent	To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
	reservoir	A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
	residue	A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
	resilience	The power of springing back to a former position
	resilient	Having the quality of springing back to a former positio
	resistance	The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
	resistant	Offering or tending to produce resistance.
	resistive	Having or exercising the power of resistance.
	resistless	Powerless.
	resonance	The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
	resonance	Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
	resonate	To have or produce resonance.
	resource	That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
	respite	Interval of rest.
	resplendent	Very bright.
	respondent	Answering.
	restitution	Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
	resumption	The act of taking back, or taking agai
	resurgent	Surging back or agai
	resurrection	A return from death to life
	resuscitate	To restore from apparent death.
	retaliate	To repay evil with a similar evil.
	retch	To make an effort to vomit.
	retention	The keeping of a thing within one's power or possessio
	reticence	The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
	reticent	Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
	retinue	The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
	retort	A retaliatory speech.
	retouch	To modify the details of.
	retrace	To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
	retract	To recall or take back (something that one has said).
	retrench	To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
	retrieve	To recover something by searching.
	retroactive	Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
	retrograde	To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
	retrogression	A going or moving backward or in a reverse directio
	retrospect	A view or contemplation of something past.
	retrospective	Looking back on the past.
	reunite	To unite or join again, as after separatio
	revelation	A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknow
	revere	To regard with worshipful veneratio
	reverent	Humble.
	reversion	A return to or toward some former state or conditio
	revert	To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
	revile	To heap approach or abuse upo
	revisal	Revisio
	revise	To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
	revocation	Repeal.
	rhapsody	Rapt or rapturous utterance.
	rhetoric	The art of discourse.
	rhetorician	A showy writer or speaker.
	ribald	Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
	riddance	The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
	ridicule	Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
	ridiculous	Laughable and contemptible.
	rife	Abundant.
	righteousness	Rectitude.
	rightful	Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
	rigmarole	Nonsense.
	rigor	Inflexibility.
	rigorous	Uncompromising.
	ripplet	A small ripple, as of water.
	risible	capable of exciting laughter.
	rivulet	A small stream or brook.
	robust	Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
	rondo	A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
	rookery	A place where crows congregate to breed.
	rotary	Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
	rotate	To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
	rote	Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attentio
	rotund	Round from fullness or plumpness.
	rudimentary	Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
	rue	To regret extremely.
	ruffian	A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
	ruminant	Chewing the cud.
	ruminate	To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
	rupture	To separate the parts of by violence.
	rustic	Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
	ruth	Sorrow for another's misery.
	sacrifice	To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
	sacrificial	Offering or offered as an atonement for si
	sacrilege	The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
	sacrilegious	Impious.
	safeguard	To protect.
	sagacious	Able to discern and distinguish with wise perceptio
	salacious	Having strong sexual desires.
	salience	The condition of standing out distinctly.
	salient	Standing out prominently.
	saline	Constituting or consisting of salt.
	salutary	Beneficial.
	salutation	Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
	salutatory	The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
	salvage	Any act of saving property.
	salvo	A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
	sanctimonious	Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
	sanction	To approve authoritatively.
	sanctity	Holiness.
	sanguinary	Bloody.
	sanguine	Having the color of blood.
	sanguineous	Consisting of blood.
	sapid	Affecting the sense of taste.
	sapience	Deep wisdom or knowledge.
	sapient	Possessing wisdom.
	sapiential	Possessing wisdom.
	saponaceous	Having the nature or quality of soap.
	sarcasm	Cutting and reproachful language.
	sarcophagus	A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
	sardonic	Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
	satiate	To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
	satire	The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
	satiric	Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
	satirize	To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
	satyr	A very lascivious perso
	savage	A wild and uncivilized human being.
	savor	To perceive by taste or smell.
	scabbard	The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapo
	scarcity	Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
	scholarly	Characteristic of an erudite perso
	scholastic	Pertaining to education or schools.
	scintilla	The faintest ray.
	scintillate	To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
	scope	A range of action or view.
	scoundrel	A man without principle.
	scribble	Hasty, careless writing.
	scribe	One who writes or is skilled in writing.
	script	Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
	Scriptural	Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
	scruple	Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
	scrupulous	Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
	scurrilous	Grossly indecent or vulgar.
	scuttle	To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
	scythe	A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
	seance	A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
	sear	To burn on the surface.
	sebaceous	Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
	secant	Cutting, especially into two parts.
	secede	To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
	secession	Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
	seclude	To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
	seclusion	Solitude.
	secondary	Less important or effective than that which is primary.
	secondly	ad In the second place in order or successio
	second-rate	Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
	secrecy	Concealment.
	secretary	One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
	secretive	Having a tendency to conceal.
	sedate	Even-tempered.
	sedentary	Involving or requiring much sitting.
	sediment	Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
	sedition	Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
	seditious	Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
	seduce	To entice to surrender chastity.
	sedulous	Persevering in effort or endeavor.
	seer	A prophet.
	seethe	To be violently excited or agitated.
	seignior	A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
	seismograph	An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
	selective	Having the power of choice.
	self-respect	Rational self-esteem.
	semblance	Outward appearance.
	semicivilized	Half-civilized.
	semiconscious	Partially conscious.
	semiannual	Recurring at intervals of six months.
	semicircle	A half-circle.
	seminar	Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
	seminary	A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
	senile	Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
	sensation	A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
	sense	The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or actio
	sensibility	Power to perceive or feel.
	sensitive	Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
	sensorium	The sensory apparatus.
	sensual	Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
	sensuous	Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
	sentence	A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
	sentience	Capacity for sensation or sense-perceptio
	sentient	Possessing the power of sense or sense-perceptio
	sentinel	Any guard or watch stationed for protectio
	separable	Capable of being disjoined or divided.
	separate	To take apart.
	separatist	A seceder.
	septennial	Recurring every seven years.
	sepulcher	A burial-place.
	sequacious	Ready to be led.
	sequel	That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
	sequence	The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
	sequent	Following in the order of time.
	sequester	To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
	sequestrate	To confiscate.
	sergeant	A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
	sergeant-at-arms	An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
	sergeant-major	The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
	service	Any work done for the benefit of another.
	serviceable	Durable.
	servitude	Slavery.
	severance	Separatio
	severely	ad Extremely.
	sextet	A band of six singers or players.
	sextuple	Multiplied by six.
	sheer	Absolute.
	shiftless	Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
	shrewd	Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
	shriek	A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
	shrinkage	A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimensio
	shrivel	To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
	shuffle	A mixing or changing the order of things.
	sibilance	A hissing sound.
	sibilant	Made with a hissing sound.
	sibilate	To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
	sidelong	Inclining or tending to one side.
	sidereal	Pertaining to stars or constellations.
	siege	A beleaguerment.
	significance	Importance.
	significant	Important, especially as pointing something out.
	signification	The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
	similar	Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
	simile	A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
	similitude	Similarity.
	simplify	To make less complex or difficult.
	simulate	Imitate.
	simultaneous	Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
	sinecure	Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
	singe	To burn slightly or superficially.
	sinister	Evil.
	sinuosity	The quality of curving in and out.
	sinuous	Curving in and out.
	sinus	An opening or cavity.
	siren	A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
	sirocco	hot winds from Africa.
	sisterhood	A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
	skeptic	One who doubts any statements.
	skepticism	The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
	skiff	Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
	skirmish	Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
	sleight	A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observatio
	slight	Of a small importance or significance.
	slothful	Lazy.
	sluggard	A person habitually lazy or idle.
	sociable	Inclined to seek company.
	socialism	A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
	socialist	One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
	sociology	The philosophical study of society.
	Sol	The su
	solace	Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
	solar	Pertaining to the su
	solder	A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
	soldier	A person engaged in military service.
	solecism	Any violation of established rules or customs.
	solicitor	One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
	solicitude	Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
	soliloquy	A monologue.
	solstice	The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declinatio
	soluble	Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
	solvent	Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
	somber	Gloomy.
	somniferous	Tending to produce sleep.
	somnolence	Oppressive drowsiness.
	somnolent	Sleepy.
	sonata	An instrumental compositio
	sonnet	A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
	sonorous	Resonant.
	soothsayer	One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
	sophism	A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
	sophistical	Fallacious.
	sophisticate	To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
	sophistry	Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
	soprano	A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
	sorcery	Witchcraft.
	sordid	Of degraded character or nature.
	souvenir	A token of remembrance.
	sparse	Thinly diffused.
	Spartan	Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
	spasmodic	Convulsive.
	specialize	To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
	specialty	An employment limited to one particular line of work.
	specie	A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
	species	A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
	specimen	One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
	specious	Plausible.
	spectator	One who beholds or looks o
	specter	Apparitio
	spectrum	An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
	speculate	To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
	speculator	One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
	sphericity	The state or condition of being a sphere.
	spheroid	A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
	spherometer	An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
	spinous	Having spines.
	spinster	A woman who has never been married.
	spontaneous	Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
	sprightly	Vivacious.
	spurious	Not genuine.
	squabble	To quarrel.
	squalid	Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
	squatter	One who settles on land without permission or right.
	stagnant	Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
	stagnate	To become dull or inert.
	stagnation	The condition of not flowing or not changing.
	stagy	Having a theatrical manner.
	staid	Of a steady and sober character.
	stallion	An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
	stanchion	A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
	stanza	A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
	statecraft	The art of conducting state affairs.
	static	Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
	statics	The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
	stationary	Not moving.
	statistician	One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
	statuesque	Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
	statuette	A figurine.
	stature	The natural height of an animal body.
	statute	Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
	stealth	A concealed manner of acting.
	stellar	Pertaining to the stars.
	steppe	One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
	sterling	Genuine.
	stifle	To smother.
	stigma	A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
	stiletto	A small dagger.
	stimulant	Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulate	To rouse to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulus	Incentive.
	stingy	Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
	stipend	A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
	Stoicism	The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
	stolid	Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
	strait	A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
	stratagem	Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
	stratum	A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
	streamlet	Rivulet.
	stringency	Strictness.
	stringent	Rigid.
	stripling	A mere youth.
	studious	Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
	stultify	To give an appearance of foolishness to.
	stupendous	Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
	stupor	Profound lethargy.
	suasion	The act of persuading.
	suave	Smooth and pleasant in manner.
	subacid	Somewhat sharp or biting.
	subaquatic	Being, formed, or operating under water.
	subconscious	Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perceptio
	subjacent	Situated directly underneath.
	subjection	The act of bringing into a state of submissio
	subjugate	To conquer.
	subliminal	Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
	sublingual	Situated beneath the tongue.
	submarine	Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
	submerge	To place or plunge under water.
	submergence	The act of submerging.
	submersible	Capable of being put underwater.
	submersion	The act of submerging.
	submission	A yielding to the power or authority of another.
	submittal	The act of submitting.
	subordinate	Belonging to an inferior order in a classificatio
	subsequent	Following in time.
	subservience	The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
	subservient	Servilely following another's behests.
	subside	To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
	subsist	To be maintained or sustained.
	subsistence	Sustenance.
	substantive	Solid.
	subtend	To extend opposite to.
	selective	Having the power of choice.
	self-respect	Rational self-esteem.
	semblance	Outward appearance.
	semicivilized	Half-civilized.
	semiconscious	Partially conscious.
	semiannual	Recurring at intervals of six months.
	semicircle	A half-circle.
	seminar	Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
	seminary	A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
	senile	Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
	sensation	A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
	sense	The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or actio
	sensibility	Power to perceive or feel.
	sensitive	Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
	sensorium	The sensory apparatus.
	sensual	Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
	sensuous	Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
	sentence	A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
	sentience	Capacity for sensation or sense-perceptio
	sentient	Possessing the power of sense or sense-perceptio
	sentinel	Any guard or watch stationed for protectio
	separable	Capable of being disjoined or divided.
	selective	Having the power of choice.
	self-respect	Rational self-esteem.
	semblance	Outward appearance.
	semicivilized	Half-civilized.
	semiconscious	Partially conscious.
	semiannual	Recurring at intervals of six months.
	semicircle	A half-circle.
	seminar	Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
	seminary	A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
	senile	Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
	sensation	A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
	sense	The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or actio
	sensibility	Power to perceive or feel.
	sensitive	Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
	sensorium	The sensory apparatus.
	sensual	Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
	sensuous	Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
	sentence	A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
	sentience	Capacity for sensation or sense-perceptio
	sentient	Possessing the power of sense or sense-perceptio
	sentinel	Any guard or watch stationed for protectio
	separable	Capable of being disjoined or divided.
	separate	To take apart.
	separatist	A seceder.
	septennial	Recurring every seven years.
	sepulcher	A burial-place.
	sequacious	Ready to be led.
	sequel	That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
	sequence	The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
	sequent	Following in the order of time.
	sequester	To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
	sequestrate	To confiscate.
	sergeant	A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
	sergeant-at-arms	An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
	sergeant-major	The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
	service	Any work done for the benefit of another.
	serviceable	Durable.
	servitude	Slavery.
	severance	Separatio
	severely	ad Extremely.
	sextet	A band of six singers or players.
	sextuple	Multiplied by six.
	sheer	Absolute.
	shiftless	Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
	shrewd	Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
	shriek	A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
	shrinkage	A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimensio
	shrivel	To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
	shuffle	A mixing or changing the order of things.
	sibilance	A hissing sound.
	sibilant	Made with a hissing sound.
	sibilate	To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
	sidelong	Inclining or tending to one side.
	sidereal	Pertaining to stars or constellations.
	siege	A beleaguerment.
	significance	Importance.
	significant	Important, especially as pointing something out.
	signification	The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
	similar	Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
	simile	A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
	similitude	Similarity.
	simplify	To make less complex or difficult.
	simulate	Imitate.
	simultaneous	Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
	sinecure	Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
	singe	To burn slightly or superficially.
	sinister	Evil.
	sinuosity	The quality of curving in and out.
	sinuous	Curving in and out.
	sinus	An opening or cavity.
	siren	A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
	sirocco	hot winds from Africa.
	sisterhood	A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
	skeptic	One who doubts any statements.
	skepticism	The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
	skiff	Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
	skirmish	Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
	sleight	A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observatio
	slight	Of a small importance or significance.
	slothful	Lazy.
	sluggard	A person habitually lazy or idle.
	sociable	Inclined to seek company.
	socialism	A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
	socialist	One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
	sociology	The philosophical study of society.
	Sol	The su
	solace	Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
	solar	Pertaining to the su
	solder	A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
	soldier	A person engaged in military service.
	solecism	Any violation of established rules or customs.
	solicitor	One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
	solicitude	Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
	soliloquy	A monologue.
	solstice	The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declinatio
	soluble	Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
	solvent	Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
	somber	Gloomy.
	somniferous	Tending to produce sleep.
	somnolence	Oppressive drowsiness.
	somnolent	Sleepy.
	sonata	An instrumental compositio
	sonnet	A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
	sonorous	Resonant.
	soothsayer	One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
	sophism	A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
	sophistical	Fallacious.
	sophisticate	To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
	sophistry	Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
	soprano	A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
	sorcery	Witchcraft.
	sordid	Of degraded character or nature.
	souvenir	A token of remembrance.
	sparse	Thinly diffused.
	Spartan	Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
	spasmodic	Convulsive.
	specialize	To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
	specialty	An employment limited to one particular line of work.
	specie	A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
	species	A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
	specimen	One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
	specious	Plausible.
	spectator	One who beholds or looks o
	specter	Apparitio
	spectrum	An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
	speculate	To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
	speculator	One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
	sphericity	The state or condition of being a sphere.
	spheroid	A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
	spherometer	An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
	spinous	Having spines.
	spinster	A woman who has never been married.
	spontaneous	Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
	sprightly	Vivacious.
	spurious	Not genuine.
	squabble	To quarrel.
	squalid	Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
	squatter	One who settles on land without permission or right.
	stagnant	Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
	stagnate	To become dull or inert.
	stagnation	The condition of not flowing or not changing.
	stagy	Having a theatrical manner.
	staid	Of a steady and sober character.
	stallion	An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
	stanchion	A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
	stanza	A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
	statecraft	The art of conducting state affairs.
	static	Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
	statics	The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
	stationary	Not moving.
	statistician	One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
	statuesque	Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
	statuette	A figurine.
	stature	The natural height of an animal body.
	statute	Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
	stealth	A concealed manner of acting.
	stellar	Pertaining to the stars.
	steppe	One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
	sterling	Genuine.
	stifle	To smother.
	stigma	A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
	stiletto	A small dagger.
	stimulant	Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulate	To rouse to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulus	Incentive.
	stingy	Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
	stipend	A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
	Stoicism	The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
	stolid	Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
	strait	A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
	stratagem	Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
	stratum	A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
	streamlet	Rivulet.
	stringency	Strictness.
	stringent	Rigid.
	stripling	A mere youth.
	studious	Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
	stultify	To give an appearance of foolishness to.
	stupendous	Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
	stupor	Profound lethargy.
	suasion	The act of persuading.
	suave	Smooth and pleasant in manner.
	subacid	Somewhat sharp or biting.
	subaquatic	Being, formed, or operating under water.
	subconscious	Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perceptio
	subjacent	Situated directly underneath.
	subjection	The act of bringing into a state of submissio
	subjugate	To conquer.
	subliminal	Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
	sublingual	Situated beneath the tongue.
	submarine	Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
	submerge	To place or plunge under water.
	submergence	The act of submerging.
	submersible	Capable of being put underwater.
	submersion	The act of submerging.
	submission	A yielding to the power or authority of another.
	submittal	The act of submitting.
	subordinate	Belonging to an inferior order in a classificatio
	subsequent	Following in time.
	subservience	The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
	subservient	Servilely following another's behests.
	subside	To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
	subsist	To be maintained or sustained.
	subsistence	Sustenance.
	substantive	Solid.
	subtend	To extend opposite to.
	subterfuge	Evasio
	subterranean	Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
	subtle	Discriminating.
	subtrahend	That which is to be subtracted.
	subversion	An overthrow, as from the foundatio
	subvert	To bring to rui
	succeed	To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
	success	A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
	successful	Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
	successor	One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
	succinct	Concise.
	succulent	Juicy.
	succumb	To cease to resist.
	sufferance	Toleratio
	sufficiency	An ample or adequate supply.
	suffrage	The right or privilege of voting.
	suffuse	To cover or fill the surface of.
	suggestible	That can be suggested.
	suggestive	Stimulating to thought or reflectio
	summary	An abstract.
	sumptuous	Rich and costly.
	superabundance	An excessive amount.
	superadd	To add in addition to what has been added.
	superannuate	To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
	superb	Sumptuously elegant.
	supercilious	Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
	superficial	Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
	superfluity	That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
	superfluous	Being more than is needed.
	superheat	To heat to excess.
	superintend	To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
	superintendence	Direction and management.
	superintendent	One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
	superlative	That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
	specialty	An employment limited to one particular line of work.
	specie	A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
	species	A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
	specimen	One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
	specious	Plausible.
	spectator	One who beholds or looks o
	specter	Apparitio
	spectrum	An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
	speculate	To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
	speculator	One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
	sphericity	The state or condition of being a sphere.
	spheroid	A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
	spherometer	An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
	spinous	Having spines.
	spinster	A woman who has never been married.
	spontaneous	Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
	sprightly	Vivacious.
	spurious	Not genuine.
	squabble	To quarrel.
	squalid	Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
	squatter	One who settles on land without permission or right.
	stagnant	Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
	stagnate	To become dull or inert.
	stagnation	The condition of not flowing or not changing.
	stagy	Having a theatrical manner.
	staid	Of a steady and sober character.
	stallion	An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
	stanchion	A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
	stanza	A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
	statecraft	The art of conducting state affairs.
	static	Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
	statics	The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
	stationary	Not moving.
	statistician	One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
	statuesque	Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
	statuette	A figurine.
	stature	The natural height of an animal body.
	statute	Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
	stealth	A concealed manner of acting.
	stellar	Pertaining to the stars.
	steppe	One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
	sterling	Genuine.
	stifle	To smother.
	stigma	A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
	stiletto	A small dagger.
	stimulant	Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulate	To rouse to activity or to quickened actio
	stimulus	Incentive.
	stingy	Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
	stipend	A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
	Stoicism	The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
	stolid	Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
	strait	A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
	stratagem	Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
	stratum	A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
	streamlet	Rivulet.
	stringency	Strictness.
	stringent	Rigid.
	stripling	A mere youth.
	studious	Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
	stultify	To give an appearance of foolishness to.
	stupendous	Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
	stupor	Profound lethargy.
	suasion	The act of persuading.
	suave	Smooth and pleasant in manner.
	subacid	Somewhat sharp or biting.
	subaquatic	Being, formed, or operating under water.
	subconscious	Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perceptio
	subjacent	Situated directly underneath.
	subjection	The act of bringing into a state of submissio
	subjugate	To conquer.
	subliminal	Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
	sublingual	Situated beneath the tongue.
	submarine	Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
	submerge	To place or plunge under water.
	submergence	The act of submerging.
	submersible	Capable of being put underwater.
	submersion	The act of submerging.
	submission	A yielding to the power or authority of another.
	submittal	The act of submitting.
	subordinate	Belonging to an inferior order in a classificatio
	subsequent	Following in time.
	subservience	The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
	subservient	Servilely following another's behests.
	subside	To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
	subsist	To be maintained or sustained.
	subsistence	Sustenance.
	substantive	Solid.
	subtend	To extend opposite to.
	subterfuge	Evasio
	subterranean	Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
	subtle	Discriminating.
	subtrahend	That which is to be subtracted.
	subversion	An overthrow, as from the foundatio
	subvert	To bring to rui
	succeed	To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
	success	A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
	successful	Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
	successor	One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
	succinct	Concise.
	succulent	Juicy.
	succumb	To cease to resist.
	sufferance	Toleratio
	sufficiency	An ample or adequate supply.
	suffrage	The right or privilege of voting.
	suffuse	To cover or fill the surface of.
	suggestible	That can be suggested.
	suggestive	Stimulating to thought or reflectio
	summary	An abstract.
	sumptuous	Rich and costly.
	superabundance	An excessive amount.
	superadd	To add in addition to what has been added.
	superannuate	To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
	superb	Sumptuously elegant.
	supercilious	Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
	superficial	Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
	superfluity	That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
	superfluous	Being more than is needed.
	superheat	To heat to excess.
	superintend	To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
	superintendence	Direction and management.
	superintendent	One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
	superlative	That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
	supernatural	Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
	supernumerary	Superfluous.
	supersede	To displace.
	supine	Lying on the back.
	supplant	To take the place of.
	supple	Easily bent.
	supplementary	Being an addition to.
	supplicant	One who asks humbly and earnestly.
	supplicate	To beg.
	supposition	Conjecture.
	suppress	To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
	suppressible	Capable of being suppressed.
	suppression	A forcible putting or keeping dow
	supramundane	Supernatural.
	surcharge	An additional amount charged.
	surety	Security for payment or performance.
	surfeit	To feed to fullness or to satiety.
	surmise	To conjecture.
	surmount	To overcome by force of will.
	surreptitious	Clandestine.
	surrogate	One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
	surround	To encircle.
	surveyor	A land-measurer.
	susceptibility	A specific capability of feeling or emotio
	susceptible	Easily under a specified power or influence.
	suspense	Uncertainty.
	suspension	A hanging from a support.
	suspicious	Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
	sustenance	Food.
	swarthy	Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexio
	Sybarite	A luxurious perso
	sycophant	A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
	syllabic	Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
	syllabication	Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
	syllable	That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
	syllabus	Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
	sylph	A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
	symmetrical	Well-balanced.
	symmetry	Relative proportion and harmony.
	sympathetic	Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
	sympathize	To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
	symphonic	Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
	symphonious	Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
	symphony	A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
	synchronism	Simultaneousness.
	syndicate	An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
	syneresis	The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
	synod	An ecclesiastical council.
	synonym	A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
	synopsis	A syllabus or summary.
	systematic	Methodical.
	tableau	An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
	tacit	Understood.
	taciturn	Disinclined to conversatio
	tack	A small sharp-pointed nail.
	tact	Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
	tactician	One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
	tactics	Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
	tangency	The state of touching.
	tangent	Touching.
	tangible	Perceptible by touch.
	tannery	A place where leather is tanned.
	tantalize	To tease.
	tantamount	Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
	tapestry	A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
	tarnish	To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
	taut	Stretched tight.
	taxation	A levy, by government, of a fixed contributio
	taxidermy	The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
	technic	Technical.
	technicality	Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
	technique	Manner of performance.
	technography	The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
	technology	The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
	teem	To be full to overflowing.
	telepathy	Thought-transference.
	telephony	The art or process of communicating by telephone.
	telescope	To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
	telltale	That gives warning or informatio
	temerity	Recklessness.
	temporal	Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
	temporary	Lasting for a short time only.
	temporize	To pursue a policy of delay.
	tempt	To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
	tempter	An allurer or enticer to evil.
	tenacious	Unyielding.
	tenant	An occupant.
	tendency	Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
	tenet	Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
	tenor	A settled course or manner of progress.
	tense	Strained to stiffness.
	tentative	Done as an experiment.
	tenure	The term during which a thing is held.
	tercentenary	Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
	termagant	Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
	terminal	Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
	terminate	To put an end or stop to.
	termination	The act of ending or concluding.
	terminus	The final point or goal.
	terrify	To fill with extreme fear.
	territorial	Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdictio
	terse	Pithy.
	testament	A will.
	testator	The maker of a will.
	testimonial	A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
	thearchy	Government by a supreme deity.
	theism	Belief in God.
	theocracy	A government administered by ecclesiastics.
	theocrasy	The mixed worship of polytheism.
	theologian	A professor of divinity.
	theological	Based on or growing out of divine revelatio
	theology	The branch of theological science that treats of God.
	theoretical	Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
	theorist	One given to speculating.
	theorize	To speculate.
	thereabout	ad Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
	therefor	ad For that or this.
	thermal	Of or pertaining to heat.
	thermoelectric	Denoting electricity produced by heat.
	thermoelectricity	Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
	thesis	An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
	thoroughbred	Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
	thoroughfare	A public street or road.
	thrall	One controlled by an appetite or a passio
	tilth	Cultivatio
	timbre	The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
	timorous	Lacking courage.
	tincture	A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
	tinge	A faint trace of color.
	tipsy	Befuddled with drinks.
	tirade	Harangue.
	tireless	Untiring.
	tiresome	Wearisome.
	Titanic	Of vast size or strength.
	toilsome	Laborious.
	tolerable	Moderately good.
	tolerance	Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
	tolerant	Indulgent.
	tolerate	To passively permit or put up with.
	toleration	A spirit of charitable leniency.
	topography	The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
	torpor	Apathy.
	torrid	Excessively hot.
	tortious	Wrongful.
	tortuous	Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
	torturous	Marked by extreme suffering.
	tractable	Easily led or controlled.
	trait	A distinguishing feature or quality.
	trajectory	The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
	trammel	An impediment.
	tranquilize	To soothe.
	tranquility	Calmness.
	transalpine	Situated on the other side of the Alps.
	transact	To do business.
	transatlantic	Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
	transcend	To surpass.
	transcendent	Surpassing.
	transcontinental	Extending or passing across a continent.
	transcribe	To write over again (something already written)
	transcript	A copy made directly from an original.
	transfer	To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
	transferable	Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
	transferee	The person to whom a transfer is made.
	transference	The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
	transferrer	One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
	transfigure	To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
	transfuse	To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
	transfusible	Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
	transfusion	The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
	transgress	To break a law.
	transience	Something that is of short duratio
	transient	One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
	transition	Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
	transitory	Existing for a short time only.
	translate	To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
	translator	An interpreter.
	translucence	The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
	translucent	Allowing the passage of light.
	transmissible	That may e sent through or across.
	transmission	The act of sending through or across.
	transmit	To send trough or across.
	transmute	To change in nature, substance, or form.
	transparent	Easy to see through or understand.
	transpire	To come to pass.
	transplant	To remove and plant in another place.
	transposition	The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
	transverse	Lying or being across or in a crosswise directio
	travail	Hard or agonizing labor.
	travesty	A grotesque imitatio
	treacherous	Perfidious.
	treachery	Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
	treasonable	Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
	treatise	An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
	treble	Multiplied by three.
	trebly	ad Triply.
	tremendous	Awe-inspiring.
	tremor	An involuntary trembling or shivering.
	tremulous	Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
	trenchant	Cutting deeply and quickly.
	trepidation	Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
	trestle	An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
	triad	A group of three persons of things.
	tribune	Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
	trickery	Artifice.
	tricolor	Of three colors.
	tricycle	A three-wheeled vehicle.
	trident	The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
	triennial	Taking place every third year.
	trimness	Neatness.
	trinity	A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
	trio	Three things grouped or associated together.
	triple	Threefold.
	triplicate	Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
	triplicity	The state of being triple or threefold.
	tripod	A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
	trisect	To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
	trite	Made commonplace by frequent repetitio
	triumvir	One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
	trivial	Of little importance or value.
	troublesome	Burdensome.
	truculence	Ferocity.
	truculent	Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
	truism	A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
	truthful	Veracious.
	turgid	Swolle
	turpitude	Depravity.
	tutelage	The act of training or the state of being under instructio
	tutelar	Protective.
	tutorship	The office of a guardia
	twinge	A darting momentary local pai
	typical	Characteristic.
	typify	To serve as a characteristic example of.
	typographical	Pertaining to typography or printing.
	typography	The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
	tyrannical	Despotic.
	tyranny	Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
	tyro	One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or professio
	ubiquitous	Being present everywhere.
	ulterior	Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
	ultimate	Beyond which there is nothing else.
	ultimatum	A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
	ultramundane	Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
	ultramontane	Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
	umbrage	A sense of injury.
	unaccountable	Inexplicable.
	unaffected	Sincere.
	unanimous	Sharing the same views or sentiments.
	unanimity	The state or quality of being of one mind.
	unavoidable	Inevitable.
	unbearable	Unendurable.
	unbecoming	Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
	unbelief	Doubt.
	unbiased	Impartial, as judgment.
	unbridled	Being without restraint.
	uncommon	Rare.
	unconscionable	Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
	unconscious	Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
	unction	The art of anointing as with oil.
	unctuous	Oily.
	undeceive	To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
	undercharge	To make an inadequate charge for.
	underexposed	Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
	undergarment	A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
	underman	To equip with less than the full complement of me
	undersell	To sell at a lower price tha
	undersized	Of less than the customary size.
	underhanded	Clandestinely carried o
	underlie	To be the ground or support of.
	underling	A subordinate.
	undermine	To subvert in an underhand way.
	underrate	To undervalue.
	understate	To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
	undervalue	To underestimate.
	underworld	Hades.
	underwrite	To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
	undue	More than sufficient.
	undulate	To move like a wave or in waves.
	undulous	Resembling waves.
	unfavorable	Adverse.
	ungainly	Clumsy.
	unguent	Any ointment or lubricant for local applicatio
	unicellular	Consisting of a single cell.
	univalence	Monovalency.
	unify	To cause to be one.
	unique	Being the only one of its kind.
	unison	A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
	unisonant	Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
	Unitarian	Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
	unlawful	Illegal.
	unlimited	Unconstrained.
	unnatural	Artificial.
	unnecessary	Not essential under the circumstances.
	unsettle	To put into confusio
	unsophisticated	Showing inexperience.
	unspeakable	Abominable.
	untimely	Unseasonable.
	untoward	Causing annoyance or hindrance.
	unutterable	Inexpressible.
	unwieldy	Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
	unwise	Foolish.
	unyoke	To separate.
	up-keep	Maintenance.
	upbraid	To reproach as deserving blame.
	upcast	A throwing upward.
	upheaval	Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or conditio
	upheave	To raise or lift with effort.
	uppermost	First in order of precedence.
	uproarious	Noisy.
	uproot	To eradicate.
	upturn	To throw into confusio
	urban	Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
	urbanity	Refined or elegant courtesy.
	urchin	A roguish, mischievous boy.
	urgency	The pressure of necessity.
	usage	Treatment.
	usurious	Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
	usurp	To take possession of by force.
	usury	The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
	utilitarianism	The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
	utility	Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
	utmost	The greatest possible extent.
	vacate	To leave.
	vaccinate	To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
	vacillate	To waver.
	vacuous	Empty.
	vacuum	A space entirely devoid of matter.
	vagabond	A wanderer.
	vagrant	An idle wanderer.
	vainglory	Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
	vale	Level or low land between hills.
	valediction	A bidding farewell.
	valedictorian	Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institutio
	valedictory	A parting address.
	valid	Founded on truth.
	valorous	Courageous.
	vapid	Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
	vaporizer	An atomizer.
	variable	Having a tendency to change.
	variance	Change.
	variant	A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
	variation	Modificatio
	variegate	To mark with different shades or colors.
	vassal	A slave or bondma
	vaudeville	A variety show.
	vegetal	Of or pertaining to plants.
	vegetarian	One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
	vegetate	To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
	vegetation	Plant-life in the aggregate.
	vegetative	Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
	vehement	Very eager or urgent.
	velocity	Rapid motio
	velvety	Marked by lightness and softness.
	venal	Mercenary, corrupt.
	vendible	Marketable.
	vendition	The act of selling.
	vendor	A seller.
	veneer	Outside show or elegance.
	venerable	Meriting or commanding high esteem.
	venerate	To cherish reverentially.
	venereal	Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
	venial	That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable si
	venison	The flesh of deer.
	venom	The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
	venous	Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
	veracious	Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
	veracity	Truthfulness.
	verbatim	ad Word for word.
	verbiage	Use of many words without necessity.
	verbose	Wordy.
	verdant	Green with vegetatio
	verification	The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
	verify	To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
	verily	ad In truth.
	verity	Truth.
	vermin	A noxious or troublesome animal.
	vernacular	The language of one's country.
	vernal	Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
	versatile	Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
	version	A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinio
	vertex	Apex.
	vertical	Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizo
	vertigo	Dizziness.
	vestige	A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
	vestment	Clothing or covering.
	veto	The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
	vicarious	Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
	viceroy	A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
	vicissitude	A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
	vie	To contend.
	vigilance	Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
	vigilant	Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
	vignette	A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
	vincible	Conquerable.
	vindicate	To prove true, right, or real.
	vindicatory	Punitive.
	vindicative	Revengeful.
	vinery	A greenhouse for grapes.
	viol	A stringed instrument of the violin class.
	viola	A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violi
	violator	One who transgresses.
	violation	Infringement.
	violoncello	A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
	virago	A bold, impudent, turbulent woma
	virile	Masculine.
	virtu	Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
	virtual	Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
	virtuoso	A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
	venial	That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable si
	venison	The flesh of deer.
	venom	The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
	venous	Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
	veracious	Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
	veracity	Truthfulness.
	verbatim	ad Word for word.
	verbiage	Use of many words without necessity.
	verbose	Wordy.
	verdant	Green with vegetatio
	verification	The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
	verify	To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
	verily	ad In truth.
	verity	Truth.
	vermin	A noxious or troublesome animal.
	vernacular	The language of one's country.
	vernal	Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
	versatile	Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
	version	A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinio
	vertex	Apex.
	vertical	Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizo
	vertigo	Dizziness.
	vestige	A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
	vestment	Clothing or covering.
	veto	The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
	vicarious	Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
	viceroy	A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
	vicissitude	A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
	vie	To contend.
	vigilance	Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
	vigilant	Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
	vignette	A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
	vincible	Conquerable.
	vindicate	To prove true, right, or real.
	vindicatory	Punitive.
	vindicative	Revengeful.
	vinery	A greenhouse for grapes.
	viol	A stringed instrument of the violin class.
	viola	A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violi
	violator	One who transgresses.
	violation	Infringement.
	violoncello	A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
	virago	A bold, impudent, turbulent woma
	virile	Masculine.
	virtu	Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
	virtual	Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
	virtuoso	A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
	virulence	Extreme poisonousness.
	virulent	Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
	visage	The face, countenance, or look of a perso
	viscount	In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
	vista	A view or prospect.
	visual	Perceptible by sight.
	visualize	To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation
	vitality	The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
	vitalize	To endow with life or energy.
	vitiate	To contaminate.
	vituperable	Deserving of censure.
	vivacity	Liveliness.
	vivify	To endue with life.
	vivisection	The dissection of a living animal.
	vocable	a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
	vocative	Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
	vociferance	The quality of making a clamor.
	vociferate	To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
	vociferous	Making a loud outcry.
	vogue	The prevalent way or fashio
	volant	Flying or able to fly.
	volatile	Changeable.
	volition	An act or exercise of will.
	volitive	Exercising the will.
	voluble	Having great fluency in speaking.
	voluptuous	having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
	voracious	Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
	vortex	A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
	votary	Consecrated by a vow or promise.
	votive	Dedicated by a vow.
	vulgarity	Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
	vulnerable	Capable of receiving injuries.
	waif	A homeless, neglected wanderer.
	waistcoat	A vest.
	waive	To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
	wampum	Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
	wane	To diminish in size and brilliancy.
	wantonness	Recklessness.
	warlike	Belligerent.
	wavelet	A ripple.
	weak-kneed	Without resolute purpose or energy.
	weal	Well-being.
	wean	To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
	wearisome	Fatiguing.
	wee	Very small.
	well-bred	Of good ancestry.
	well-doer	A performer of moral and social duties.
	well-to-do	In prosperous circumstances.
	whereabouts	The place in or near which a person or thing is.
	whereupon	ad After which.
	wherever	ad In or at whatever place.
	wherewith	The necessary means or resources.
	whet	To make more keen or eager.
	whimsical	Capricious.
	whine	To utter with complaining tone.
	wholly	ad Completely.
	wield	To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
	wile	An act or a means of cunning deceptio
	winsome	charming (in a childlike way); agreeable; gracious; engaging
	wintry	Lacking warmth of manner.
	wiry	Thin, but tough and sinewy.
	witchcraft	Sorcery.
	witless	Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
	witling	A person who has little understanding.
	witticism	A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
	wittingly	ad With knowledge and by desig
	wizen	To become or cause to become withered or dry.
	wizen-faced	Having a shriveled face.
	working-man	One who earns his bread by manual labor.
	workmanlike	Like or befitting a skilled workma
	workmanship	The art or skill of a workma
	wrangle	To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
	wreak	To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
	wrest	To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
	wretchedness	Extreme misery or unhappiness.
	writhe	To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
	writing	The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
	wry	Deviating from that which is proper or right.
	yearling	A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
	zealot	One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
	zeitgeist	The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
	zenith	The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
	zephyr	Any soft, gentle wind.
	zodiac	An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.

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