List Words
Disadvantageous
Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.
Silvery
Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
Command
To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Overdone
of Overdo
Usurious
Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
Glimmering
of Glimmer
Harass
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
Aberrancy
State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
Take
Taken.
Imposition
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
Despoliation
A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Infect
Infected. Cf. Enfect.
Erring
of Err
Stock
The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Gamut
The scale.
Convey
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
Undueness
The quality of being undue.
Lug
The ear, or its lobe.
Bane
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
Silk
The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx..
Orthodoxy
Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
Compass
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Counterpoise
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Lubricate
To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
Qualify
To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment nece..
Adjust
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
Category
One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Streak
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Clutter
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Ruck
A roc.
Host
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
Tableau vivant
Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Shard
A plant; chard.
Inexact
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Pash
To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.
Slip
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
Nest
The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
Misfit
The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
Cunning
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
Colony
A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
Prejudice
Foresight.
Immerse
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
Caliber
Alt. of Calibre
Destruction
The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
Joke
Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
Booth
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
Symptom
Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond ..
Moral
Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought ..
Forbear
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Communicate
To share in common; to participate in.
