Dictionary Words

Front 1

sycophant
SIK-uh-fuhnt

Back 1

1.
A person who attempts to win favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; a parasite; a toady.

Front 2

patronage

Used in a sentence
Our little establishment has finally been deemed worthy of the bank's patronage

Back 2

1. the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
2. patrons collectively; clientele.
3. the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.
4. offices, jobs, or other favors so controlled.
5. the distribution of jobs and favors on a political basis, as to those who have supported one's party or political campaign.
6. a condescending manner or attitude in granting favors, in dealing with people, etc.; condescension: an air of patronage toward his business subordinates.
7. the position, encouragement, influence, or support of a patron, as toward an artist, institution, etc.
8. the right of presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

Front 3

ecclesiastic Noun

–adjective
3. ecclesiastical.

It is a fine example of ecclesiastic architecture, despite having suffered in four wars and being burnt down three time. Used as a Noun

Back 3

1. a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
2. a member of the ecclesia in ancient Athens.

Front 4

desiccated

Back 4

–adjective
dehydrated or powdered: desiccated coconut.

Front 5

decussated

Back 5

1.to cross in the form of an X; intersect.

Front 6

albeit
 

Back 6

–conjunction
although; even if: a peaceful, albeit brief retirement.

Front 7

corniculate

Back 7

adjective
1. resembling a small horn in appearance.
2. having horns or hornlike parts; horned.

Front 8

Thenar

Back 8

1. the fleshy mass of the outer side of the palm of the hand.
2. the fleshy prominence or ball of muscle at the base of the thumb

Front 9

Surfeit

Back 9

–noun
1. excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
2. excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. general disgust caused by excess or satiety.
–verb (used with object)
5. to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
6. to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

Front 10

primitive

Back 10

–adjective
1. being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, esp. in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
2. early in the history of the world or of humankind.
3. characteristic of early ages or of an early state of human development: primitive toolmaking.
4. Anthropology. of or pertaining to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similarities with their early ancestors: no longer in technical use.
5. unaffected or little affected by civilizing influences; uncivilized; savage: primitive passions.
6. being in its earliest period; early: the primitive phase of the history of a town.
7. old-fashioned: primitive ideas and habits.
8. simple; unsophisticated: a primitive farm implement.
9. crude; unrefined: primitive living conditions.
10. Linguistics.
a. of or pertaining to a form from which a word or other linguistic form is derived; not derivative; original or radical.
b. of or pertaining to a protolanguage.
c. of or pertaining to a linguistic prime.
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