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Freighted
of Freight
Disaffection
State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
Hampered
of Hamper
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Subscriber
One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Nickname
A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Tactics
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Builder
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Skepticism
An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Claqueur
One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Malapropos
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Extortionate
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
Inestimable
Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges.
Thieve
To practice theft; to steal.
Discarded
of Discard
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Estimate
To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the..
Harassment
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Apprised
of Apprise
Agitation
A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Outguard
A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defen..
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Tentative
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Undiscerning
Want of discernment.
Peculation
The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
Dissidence
Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
Debutant
Alt. of Debutante
Apprize
To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
Condign
Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Dispensable
Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Appertaining
of Appertain
Fructuous
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Disappointed
Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
Impersonal
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
Forethought
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
Fireproof
Proof against fire; incombustible.
Allowed
of Allow
Blindfolded
of Blindfold
Disreputable
Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, ..
Conjugal
Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.
Rejected
of Reject
Reproachablr
Opprobrius; scurrilous.
Shrewish
having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Conditioning
of Condition
Diffidence
The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Permissible
That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
Distrust
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Truculent
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Virtually
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Relative
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
Parenthetical
Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.
Impending
of Impend
Entering
of Enter
Corruptible
Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.
Approximative
Approaching; approximate.
Liberation
The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
Notary
One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.
Misusage
Bad treatment; abuse.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Recommendable
Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.
Displeased
of Displease
Miscalculate
To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Guarded
of Guard
Expressionless
Destitute of expression.
Judicial
Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proce..
Measurable
Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
Espousal
The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
Eligible
That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
Military
Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military condu..
Debarment
Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
Countermine
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Insurer
One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Propitious
Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.
Admired
of Admire
Dauntless
Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Apology
Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
Inconsequential
Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.
Henpecked
of Henpeck
Oppressed
of Oppress
Parrying
of Parry
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Proximity
The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
Thank
A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.
Theft
The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Licit
Lawful.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
Rough
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Fairway
The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
Allocation
An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
Cop
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Lour
An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Railer
One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Scouting
of Scout
Submission
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Proper
Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
Inversion
Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass.
Poetry
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Contraband
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Joule
A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere..
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Despot
A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
Idiom
An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with t..
Pace
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Duly
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Taxed
of Tax
Snatch
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Brief
Briefly.
Hard
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Groom
A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
Loathe
To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Violate
To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
Rough
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Amply
In an ample manner.
Inarch
To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.
Maker
One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
Pilfering
of Pilfer
Surcharge
To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
Metric
Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Panic
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Fear
A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
Avowed
of Avow
Grease
Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
Pall
Same as Pawl.
Denied
of Deny
Valued
of Value
Prized
of Prize
Rated
of Rate
Abhor
To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Evince
To conquer; to subdue.
Lucky
Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Theft
The thing stolen.
Domineering
of Domineer
Prediction
The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
Bloat
To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
Ape
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of th..
Early
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.
Precaution
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
Timely
Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.
Pace
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
Typo
A compositor.
Mutuality
Reciprocity of consideration.
Accrue
To increase; to augment.
Broaden
To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
Security
Freedom from risk; safety.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Inversion
The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.
Confirmation
The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Fricative
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete ..
Arrogate
To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over king..
Colonize
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Germinal
Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
Molecular
Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
Supposition
The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Haunt
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
Microcosmic
Alt. of Microcosmical
Relevant
Relieving; lending aid or support.
Indiscernible
Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.
Suited
of Suit
Dovetailing
of Dovetail
Geared
of Gear
Tailored
of Tailor
Meshing
of Mesh
Subscription
Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Mete
Meat.
Erratum
An error or mistake in writing or printing.
Invasion
The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Metaphor
The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
Exhausting
of Exhaust
Acquaint
Acquainted.
Familiarize
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Inform
To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
Parallelism
The quality or state of being parallel.
Observable
Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable.
Resemblance
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
Toughness
The quality or state of being tough.
Detectable
Alt. of Detectible
Appropinquate
To approach.
Ponder
To weigh.
Operose
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
Stupor
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Deaden
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Muffle
A pulley block containing several sheaves.
Respected
of Respect
Mishandle
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Peculate
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Obstructive
Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Buy
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to ..
Deign
To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
Acclamation
A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
Metrical
Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
Reprehend
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
Preclude
To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
Esteemed
of Esteem
Mismanage
To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Forbid
of Forbid
Wholeness
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Renounced
of Renounce
Universality
The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the..
Intrusion
The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Noumenon
The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted..
Chastity
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
Comeliness
The quality or state of being comely.
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, wh..
Frigate
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war ..
Embargo
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Inimitable
Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Unequaled
Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness.
Abominable
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Nearing
of Near
Emergent
Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.
Tribulation
That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
Prefect
A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of prov..
Dishearten
To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Sympathizer
One who sympathizes.
Ledger
A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appr..
Sink
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Disallow
To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Disavow
To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the..
Professed
of Profess
Blame
An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
Swelter
To oppress with heat.
Blindness
State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
Honorable
Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
Belittling
of Belittle
Vituperative
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Elect
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Passed
of Pass
Peerless
Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.
Gauche
Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
Fated
Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
Foul
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Lucidity
The quality or state of being lucid.
Hereafter
In time to come; in some future time or state.
Confessed
of Confess
Numerative
Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative system.
Arduous
Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
Terrorism
The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
Withdrawn
of Withdraw
Approbatory
Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.
Deification
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Vilify
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Lobby
A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechambe..
Exasperation
The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
Encomium
Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Panegyric
An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.
Hampering
of Hamper
Conveyance
The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
Burdensome
Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Dissenting
of Dissent
Partisanship
The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
Enjoin
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
Aristocratic
Alt. of Aristocratical
Solicitude
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Gripe
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
Opprobrious
Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language.
Scurrile
Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
Initial
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Resistance
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; ..
Admissibility
The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Advise
To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
Abduction
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
Roughly
In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
Degrading
of Degrade
Capture
The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
Countersign
To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
Submission
The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
Startle
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Squelch
To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Sociability
The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
Prematurity
The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.
Overmaster
To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
Mismatch
To match unsuitably.
Hush
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Frighten
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Defame
To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
Candor
Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Bode
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
Ballooning
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
Attain
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
Achieve
To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Aptly
In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.
Disown
To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown..
Overload
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
Invincible
Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.
Calibrate
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Customary
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Sound
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Hoity-toity
Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, wit..
Appreciativeness
The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
Nonacceptance
A neglect or refusal to accept.
Mechanism
The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the ..
Repulse
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Roustabout
A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Offering
of Offer
Bale
A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
Diabolism
Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
Wisdom
The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.
Nigh
Not distant or remote in place or time; near.
Millstone
One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.
Eloquence
Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction..
Insight
A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.
Contradict
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Predetermination
The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.
Foreknowledge
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Extenuate
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Precognition
Previous cognition.
Substantially
In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially.
Foreground
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the ..
Foresight
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Constriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
Perspicuity
The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
Face
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
Interpolation
The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
Mainly
Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.
Grimace
A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face..
Impediment
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Around
In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.
Defalcation
A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
Approximately
With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.
Deprecation
The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
Incumbency
The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.
Remember
To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I ..
Nearly
In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
Converge
To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Futurity
State of being that is yet to come; future state.
Retrace
To trace back, as a line.
Roundly
In a round form or manner.
Normally
In a normal manner.
Encumbrance
That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
Functionally
In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
To
The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement tow..
Almost
Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
Invitation
The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.
Enlighten
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
Festival
Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Practically
In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
Mostly
For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.
Intersect
To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center.
Generally
In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
Frank
A pigsty.
Outspoken
Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke.
Inhibiting
of Inhibit
Innocent
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
Textual
Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
Altogether
All together; conjointly.
Hairiness
The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
Reunion
A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.
Reticence
The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
Adoption
The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Canescent
Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Planning
of Plan
Tax
A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
Preconception
The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
Excellence
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Misappropriate
To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
Strangling
of Strangle
Adopt
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Pollute
To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
Preserve
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
Interruptive
Tending to interrupt; interrupting.
Appropriately
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
Scarcely
With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
Meager
Alt. of Meagre
Crossing
of Cross
Elevation
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; el..
Rightfully
According to right or justice.
Crosswise
In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
Premonition
Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
Overall
Everywhere.
Usurp
To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or disposse..
Presage
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Broadly
In a broad manner.
Preapprehension
An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.
Espouse
To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
Puzzling
of Puzzle
Reconciliation
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Menace
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Partly
In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.
Mildly
In a mild manner.
Rebuke
To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
Predisposition
The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
Relatively
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.
Incompletely
In an incomplete manner.
Hardly
In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.
Illegality
The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.
Properly
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.
Barely
Without covering; nakedly.
Misappropriation
Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
Fairly
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Prostitution
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
Insignificantly
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose.
Intricacy
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of acco..
Assignat
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been ..
Diversion
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Evasion
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
Hardness
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Awake
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Partially
In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.
Simply
In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
Merely
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Waif
Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the fe..
Disinclination
The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Infraction
The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.
Purely
In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
Lowness
The state or quality of being low.
License
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such ..
Abstruseness
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
Foster
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relat..
Distance
The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
Percipient
Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
Plainly
In a plain manner; clearly.
Vilification
The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Surveyor
One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
Appraiser
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
Valuer
One who values; an appraiser.
Valuator
One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
Assessor
One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
Profanation
The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sa..
Uphill
Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
Publican
A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great de..
Taker
One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
Avail
To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
Comet
A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet..
Cumbersome
Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
Awkward
Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a tric..
Indecency
The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
Cumbrous
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Persecute
To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular reli..
Onerous
Burdensome; oppressive.
Sentinel
One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
Befoul
To make foul; to soil.
Neighborhood
The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Besetting
of Beset
Soil
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them..
Watchdog
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Immediacy
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Interfere
To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
Computation
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Encroach
To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach ..
Measuring
of Measure
Prosperous
Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
Disturbance
An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current...
Classification
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
Appraisal
A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.
Signalize
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
Overruling
of Overrule
Sorting
of Sort
Contemn
To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
Gauging
of Gauge
Appraising
of Appraise
Valuation
The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
Contumely
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Analyzing
of Analyze
Triangulation
The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determi..
Critique
The art of criticism.
Adherence
The quality or state of adhering.
Defraud
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor..
Tout
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Comparable
Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.
Inaccessible
Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc.
Cathedral
The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
Depress
To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
Accroach
To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.
Confiscate
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Detain
To keep back or from; to withhold.
Misfeasance
A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.
Illusion
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
Tyrannical
Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical govern..
Overweight
Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
Dictatorial
Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Sweltry
Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Repressive
Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.
High-handed
Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
