List Words
Prejudice
Foresight.
Colony
A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
Cunning
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
Misfit
The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
Nest
The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
Slip
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
Pash
To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.
Inexact
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Shard
A plant; chard.
Tableau vivant
Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Host
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
Ruck
A roc.
Clutter
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Streak
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Category
One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Adjust
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
Qualify
To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment nece..
Lubricate
To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
Counterpoise
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Compass
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Orthodoxy
Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
Silk
The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx..
Bane
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
Lug
The ear, or its lobe.
Undueness
The quality of being undue.
Convey
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
Gamut
The scale.
Stock
The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Erring
of Err
Infect
Infected. Cf. Enfect.
Despoliation
A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Imposition
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
Take
Taken.
Aberrancy
State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
Harass
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
Glimmering
of Glimmer
Usurious
Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
Overdone
of Overdo
Command
To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Silvery
Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
Disadvantageous
Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.
Deposit
To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
Stiff
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Hypertrophied
Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.
Recommendation
The act of recommending.
Unscrupulous
Not scrupulous; unprincipled.
Antagonistic
Alt. of Antagonistical
Reposition
The act of repositing; a laying up.
Splinter
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
Folderol
Nonsense.
