List Words
Unlade
To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon.
Revulsive
Causing, or tending to, revulsion.
Contemptible
Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Traverse
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Attemper
To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
Tucked
of Tuck
Engaging
of Encage
Confession
Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
Frippery
Coast-off clothes.
Pompadour
A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after th..
Jackstraw
An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
Reciprocal
Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
Henchman
An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
Sheer
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Sure
Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.
Outlaw
A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
Perspicuous
Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
Finished
of Finish
Application
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
Reduce
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Attestive
Attesting; furnishing evidence.
Lithe
To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
Disharmony
Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.
Beggarly
In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Atrocious
Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
Slightly
In a slight manner.
Beck
See Beak.
Subsidize
To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.
Incompatible
Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; in..
Soothe
To assent to as true.
Extort
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to ..
Skirt
The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
Lucid
Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Seriate
Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.
Indignation
The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Careless
Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
Antiquity
The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
Compute
To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.
Quake
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
Summons
The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
Supplicant
Entreating; asking submissively.
Ability
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, re..
Inexpressible
Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure.
Cortex
Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
Seasoning
of Season
Multiplication
The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.
Aerate
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
Believer
One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
Flag
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
Modify
To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.
