List Words
Romanesque
Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
Gameness
Endurance; pluck.
Dolt
A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
Droplet
A little drop; a tear.
Nefarious
Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Innovative
Characterized by, or introducing, innovations.
Astronomic
Astronomical.
Advocate
One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Fragment
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Galling
of Gall
Terrestrial
Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.
Exhale
To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
Taint
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
Bonnyclabber
Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Plump
Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
Seducing
of Seduce
Martyr
One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
Bloodshed
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
Toddle
To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
Murder
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
Tinting
of Tint
Twig
To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
Sublease
A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
Subterfuge
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Worn
of Wear
Pliable
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
Swine
Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called b..
John
A proper name of a man.
Excrescency
Excrescence.
Subservient
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Knight service
A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
Solemnness
The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
Infatuate
Infatuated.
Understudy
To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
Formula
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
Vegetarian
One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
Grain
See Groan.
Symbolize
To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
Palm
The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
Forked
of Fork
Outline
The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
Grilled
of Grill
Infamous
Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infa..
Enrapture
To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
Short
Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
Story
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond..
Spiritless
Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
Ignoramus
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The ph..
Undertenancy
Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.
Assenting
of Assent
