List Words
Fine
Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
Base
Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Sycophantic
Alt. of Sycophantical
Guide
The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
Bang
To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
Class
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
Graving
of Grave
Ado
To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
Cirro-stratus
See under Cloud.
Gob
Same as Goaf.
Squeeze
To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in ..
Presentation
The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
Oratory
A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
Verbiage
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Usage
The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
Shoot
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rap..
Assessment
The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.
Fanaticism
Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
Fatality
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Riddle
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
Steal
A handle; a stale, or stele.
Perplex
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
Wife
A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
Goodwife
The mistress of a house.
Concubine
A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
Duplication
The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
Pit
A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
Torsion
The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudina..
Rosebay
An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.
Modality
The quality or state of being modal.
Cimbia
A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
Exposition
The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
Seal
Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Embarrass
To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.
Dereliction
The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
Quatrefoil
Same as Quarterfoil.
Quittance
Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Tetrapody
A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.
Quadrilateral
Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
Reclamation
The act or process of reclaiming.
Biquadrate
The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
Quadrennium
A space or period of four years.
Compensation
The act or principle of compensating.
Surplus
That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Tumefy
To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.
Inflate
Blown in; inflated.
Expatiate
To range at large, or without restraint.
Cringing
of Cringe
Slimy
Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
