List Words
Rarely
In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.
Adulation
Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Startling
of Startle
Flare
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Precipitate
Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
Sufferer
One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.
Tripody
Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Bowman
A man who uses a bow; an archer.
Chorus
A band of singers and dancers.
Chasten
To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
Throb
To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.
Muffle
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
Smoker
One who dries or preserves by smoke.
Devotion
The act of devoting; consecration.
Tangential
Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Tribute
An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue..
Anarchy
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Salute
To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
Communion
The act of sharing; community; participation.
Malcontent
discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.
Flood
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a fre..
Mewl
To cry, as a young child; to squall.
Pursuit
The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.
Composure
The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
Enfoldment
The act of infolding. See Infoldment.
Blind
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
Incompetent
Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
Transference
The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
Cortical
Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
Glossing
of Gloss
Peaking
of Peak
Smile
To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
Impugn
To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.
Scream
To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
Wither
To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
Knoll
A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Sheltering
of Shelter
Block
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by wh..
Windlass
A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
Said
imp. & p. p. of Say.
Grouser
A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.
Steeple
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
Obscurement
The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration.
Bosomy
Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Advertise
To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
Defensive
Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
Suffocate
Suffocated; choked.
Dire
Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Annex
To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
Flower
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
