List Words
Exaction
The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; h..
Plunder
To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
Levy
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
Wrest
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
Perquisite
Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
Figure
The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
Stipend
Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
Churn
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Curvation
The act of bending or crooking.
Shock
A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
Tumultuation
Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.
Seething
of Seethe
Quarrel
An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
Disquiet
Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
Rumble
To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
Remonstrance
The act of remonstrating
Thunderclap
A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Picket
A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
Chafe
To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
Restraint
The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
Cloud
A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
Bat
A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
Mode
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Helter-skelter
In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly.
Wound
of Wind
Responsive
That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
Art
The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an endin..
Organize
To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past ..
Measure
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is ..
Interweave
To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
Grammar
The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a ..
Station
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
Champaign
A flat, open country.
Dilate
To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
Predicament
A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
Fracture
The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
Attempt
To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
Venus
The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
Sore
Reddish brown; sorrel.
Shape
To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
Air hole
A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.
Transport
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
Nod
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
Arch
Any part of a curved line.
Desertion
The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from ..
Refine
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to..
Career
A race course: the ground run over.
Hie
To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
Clarify
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
Flee
To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
