List Words
Venture
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Tale
See Tael.
All
The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all hap..
Liberal
Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
Wedding
of Wed
Copperplate
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
Benign
Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
Exhort
To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.
Loin
That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illus..
Recuperation
Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
Tender
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Primary
First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
Check
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so men..
Opinion
That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of kno..
Pestilent
Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
Deal
A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Face
The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a ..
Batter
To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
Nibble
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
Cachet
A seal, as of a letter.
Tub
An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
Caveat
A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the..
Lapse
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
Well-intentioned
Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.
Grange
A building for storing grain; a granary.
Sock
A plowshare.
Vocabulary
A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a w..
Dig
To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Washbowl
A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
Elopement
The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.
Buffet
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
Galvanize
To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
Expostulation
The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
Agglomerate
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Renitence
Alt. of Renitency
Cut
of Cut
Advice
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
Loose
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Broach
A spit.
Slat
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
Renunciation
The act of renouncing.
Tablet
A small table or flat surface.
Blending
of Blend
Cohesion
The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Washerwoman
A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
Hardening
of Harden
Clotting
of Clot
Employment
The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.
Shut
of Shut
Barton
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.