List Words
Renunciation
The act of renouncing.
Slat
A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
Broach
A spit.
Loose
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Advice
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
Cut
of Cut
Renitence
Alt. of Renitency
Agglomerate
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Expostulation
The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
Galvanize
To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
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.
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.
Washbowl
A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
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.
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..
Sock
A plowshare.
Grange
A building for storing grain; a granary.
Well-intentioned
Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.
Lapse
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
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..
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.
Cachet
A seal, as of a letter.
Nibble
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
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.
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 ..
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.
Pestilent
Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
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..
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..
Primary
First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
Tender
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Recuperation
Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
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..
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.
Benign
Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
Copperplate
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
Wedding
of Wed
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.
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..
Tale
See Tael.
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.
Meeting
of Meet
Patois
A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
Sheet
In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
Fold
To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
Sequester
To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to anoth..
Collide
To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
Poop
See 2d Poppy.
Shaving
of Shave
Exactly
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
