List Words
Attract
To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
Nix
One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
Cerise
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Discredit
The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
Neat
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
Abet
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
Lavishness
The quality or state of being lavish.
Alienate
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
Substantial
Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
Withholding
of Withhold
Devouring
of Devour
Fickle
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
Renegade
One faithless to principle or party.
Overfraught
of Overfreight
Outright
Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
Buxom
Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
Discontinue
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Dumb
Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
Casual
Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Top
A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means..
Misconception
Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
Figural
Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
Fornication
Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Exacting
of Exact
Scruple
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Forestall
To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
Gratuitous
Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
Diorama
A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of..
Dastardly
Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Sperm
The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.
Expressive
Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.
Profile
An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
Apparition
The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
Lovely
Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
Multitude
A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
Chance
A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
Splice
To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
Annoyance
The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
Therewith
With that or this.
Lurking
of Lurk
Splenetic
Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
Wynd
A narrow lane or alley.
High
To hie.
Roughness
The quality or state of being rough.
Gun
of Gin
Witless
Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
Surprise
The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
Shilly-shally
In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.
Sweat
of Sweat
Luciferous
Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.
