GRE Big Book Words List| Match Practice

GRE Big Book Words

Group (1) - Matching Quizzes

abase

	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	v. humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem

abbess

	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
	n. the lady superior of a nunnery.
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point
	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals

abbey

	n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
	n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
	v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence

abbot

	n. unrestricted power.
	n. the superior of a community of monks.
	n. secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy
	v. charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to enemy

abdicate

	n. an acute epidemic disease.
	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	n. confederate; partner; collaborator
	n. act of clearing; space cleared; permission to proceed or trust

abdomen

	n. one who has two spouses at the same time.
	n. belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

abdominal

	n. earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends
	n. composition for orchestra and a soloist
	adj. pleased or satisfied with oneself.
	n. of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.

abduction

	v. inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	a. yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply
	adj. very repugnant; hateful.

abed

	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
	adv. in bed; on a bed.
	n. the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the greek, roman, and anglican church.

aberration

	n. deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
	a. one of two or more things, ideas or courses of action that may be used; option; choice
	n. grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.
	adj. designed for gradual destruction.

abet

	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	adj. contributing to an end.
	v. aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle

abeyance

	n. suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
	n. a college student.
	n. sharp and bitter manner

abhorrence

	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	n. the act of detesting extremely.
	n. a boat-song of venetian gondoliers.

abhorrent

	n. private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy
	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.
	adj. very repugnant; hateful.
	a. implying cause-and-effect relationship

abidance

	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker
	n. any reality.
	n. sour; water-soluble compounds having a sour taste; quality of being sarcastic, bitter, or scornful
	n. an abiding.

abject

	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. faction; tribe; division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor; a large group of relatives
	n. the state of being hard and insensible.
	a. being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status

abjure

	v. renounce upon oath; abandon forever
	v. cause transformation of liquid into or as if into soft, semisolid, or solid mass
	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
	v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem

ablution

	n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
	n. washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite
	adj. cone-bearing trees.
	v. breakdown; failure

abnegate

	n. component or part; citizen, voter
	v. to set apart as sacred.
	v. give up or surrender; deny something to oneself
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.

abnormal

	a. unusual; not typical; not normal
	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	v. ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate

abominable

	a. happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously; substitute
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	n. a coarse, heavy shoe.
	a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad

abominate

	v. to predict.
	v. to hate violently.
	a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
	n. a grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.

abomination

	n. a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	n. spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place

aboriginal

	v. express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
	a. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native
	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
	v. beg; plead with; ask for or request earnestly

aborigines

	n. the original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
	n. one who manages a government agency or department
	a. dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
	adj. having the right or privilege of entry.

abrade

	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term
	n. the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
	v. take part in a trial performance; evaluate in a trial performance
	v. wear away by friction; scrape; erode

abrasion

	n. scratch; friction
	v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	n. contestant you hope to defeat

abridge

	a. dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
	v. condense; shorten; reduce length of written text
	v. take into custody; arrest a criminal; grasp mentally; perceive
	adj. low in tone or compass.

abridgment

	n. a condensed form as of a book or play.
	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.

abrogate

	n. ritual; ceremony or rite
	a. abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
	n. intensity of passion or affection.
	n. a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.

abrupt

	v. to force into military service.
	n. one of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble
	a. broken off; very steep; having sudden transitions from one subject to another
	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something

abscess

	n. a tree.
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something

abscission

	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
	n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	n. the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.

abscond

	n. the system of doctrine taught by john calvin.
	n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
	v. leave to someone by a will; hand down
	v. leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution

absence

	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud
	n. estrangement.
	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract
	n. state of being absent; state of being away

absolution

	n. the act of detesting extremely.
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest
	v. include; consist of; be composed of
	n. a flowering shrub.

absolve

	n. proximity.
	adj. tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
	v. let off hook; relieve of requirement or obligation
	a. easily broken; having little elasticity

absorb

	a. capable; adept
	n. a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention
	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.

absorption

	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	n. process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; state of mental concentration
	n. the united kingdom of great britain.
	adj. that may be estimated by reckoning.

abstain

	v. refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
	v. cause to come together formally
	n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art
	v. refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion

abstemious

	a. sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate
	v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	v. renounce upon oath; abandon forever

abstinence

	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	n. something overdue and unpaid.
	n. restraint from eating or drinking; refraining from indulging appetite or desire

abstruse

	n. the state of being hard and insensible.
	a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.

absurd

	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
	a. rude and clumsy in behavior; ungentlemanly; awkward in manners
	n. process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; state of mental concentration
	adj. belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.

abundant

	adj. harmonious.
	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources
	n. loud, resounding noise; sharp, metallic, ringing sound; resonant, clanging sound
	v. limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle

abusive

	n. large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use
	n. harmony.
	v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem

abut

	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
	v. border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.

abyss

	n. a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
	n. enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit; any deep, immeasurable space; hell
	n. harmony.

academic

	n. the highest point; point in orbit most distant from the body being orbited
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	a. related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization; based on formal education

academician

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. an unprovoked attack.
	n. prolongation; extension by which something is carried to a further point
	n. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

academy

	n. story or poem set to music that can be sung by chorus
	a. secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
	n. school for special instruction; society of scholars, scientists, or artists
	n. ghostly figure; sudden or unusual sight; appearance; state of being visible

accede

	n. the inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
	n. treasurer or keeper of funds; purser or treasurer of college or other community
	v. agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item

accelerate

	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. an adulterating substance.
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	v. to await.

	v. to take when offered.
	n. a tree.
	n. compression
	v. to give a signal to, by nod or gesture.

access

	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
	n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
	n. the act of rising.
	n. approach; entry; entrance

accessible

	a. easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with
	adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.

accession

	v. believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
	n. induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
	adj. capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
	adj. cowardly.

accessory

	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	n. independence; self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination
	a. assured; having or marked by assurance
	n. washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite

acclaim

	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
	n. the act or state or conforming.
	v. applaud; announce with great approval
	adj. serving or tending to force.

accommodate

	a. displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible
	v. do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
	ad. even though; although; notwithstanding

accompaniment

	n. act of accompanying someone or something
	n. one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	n. assumed name; another name; name that has been assumed temporarily

accompanist

	a. kindly; favorable; not malignant
	v. to give grief or sorrow to.
	v. gain or acquire by force; take possession of by violent means; gain dominion over
	n. one who or that which accompanies.

accompany

	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	n. an officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
	v. travel with; be associated with
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.

accomplice

	n. a spiritual advisor.
	n. absence of governing body; state of disorder; political disorder and confusion
	n. partner in crime; associate in wrongdoing
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing

accomplish

	n. general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term
	a. unusual; not typical; not normal
	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete

accordion

	adj. characterized by charity and kindness.
	n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles; source of moral or ethical judgment
	a. dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
	n. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; reeds that are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

accost

	n. prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
	v. approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with demand or request
	n. a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.

account

	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
	v. testify; authenticate, affirm to be true
	n. a placing opposite.
	n. narrative or record of events; reason given for a particular action or event

accouter

	v. disclose; reveal; tell in confidence
	adj. having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
	n. shaking or agitation; shock; injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow
	v. equip; provide with military equipment

accredit

	v. authorize; commission; give credit for
	adj. living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
	n. permanence.
	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.

accumulate

	v. pile up; collect; mount up; increase
	v. to refer incidentally.
	n. secret code; an Arabic numeral or figure; a number
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

accuracy

	n. quality of nearness to the truth or the true value
	n. the state of being attached or joined.
	v. cheer from distress or depression; alleviate grief and raise spirits of; relieve; comfort
	v. bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over

accurate

	a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted
	v. gain or acquire by force; take possession of by violent means; gain dominion over
	a. capable of providing a correct reading or measurement; performing with care and precision
	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance

accursed

	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	n. an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame

accusation

	v. cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune
	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	n. act of assassinating; killing by treacherous violence; murder of public figure by surprise attack

accusatory

	v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
	adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
	n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of

accuse

	v. blame; condemn
	a. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native
	n. disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station
	n. eating or drinking of something

accustom

	v. to make familiar by use.
	a. helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
	v. to make of or ornament with brass.
	a. fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold

acerbity

	n. coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important
	n. bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
	n. a grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.

acetate

	v. to await.
	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art

acetic

	a. having properties of vinegar; sour
	v. seek to attain; long for; strive toward an end
	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
	adj. capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.

ache

	v. to be in pain or distress.
	a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
	a. unclear or doubtful in meaning
	n. sudden, unexpected fancy; impulsive change of mind

achillean

	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
	adj. invulnerable.
	n. state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune

achromatic

	adj. colorless,
	n. mental keenness; quickness of perception
	n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
	n. over-regulated administrative system

acid

	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	n. an abiding.
	n. sour; water-soluble compounds having a sour taste; quality of being sarcastic, bitter, or scornful

acidify

	v. to change into acid.
	v. restrain by force, especially by law or authority; repress; curb
	n. a small shrill trumpet or bugle.
	n. agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things

acknowledge

	n. engagement to marry.
	v. declare to be true or admit; express obligation, thanks
	a. belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial
	n. any strikingly great person or object.

acknowledgment

	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance
	adj. living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
	n. recognition.
	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.

acme

	n. largeness.
	n. a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
	v. attack from all sides; trouble persistently; hem in
	n. the highest point or level, as of achievement or development; maturity or perfection of animal

acoustic

	adj. pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
	n. an abiding.
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	n. earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends

acquaint

	n. the lady superior of a nunnery.
	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
	a. rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
	v. inform about; cause to come to know personally; make familiar

acquiesce

	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	n. person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
	v. assent; agree without protesting

acquiescence

	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
	n. passive consent.
	n. long and slender with a very small internal diameter
	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.

acquit

	n. the superior of a community of monks.
	v. to free or clear, as from accusation.
	v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another
	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters

acquittal

	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose
	v. to delay past the proper hour.
	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	n. state of being found or proved not guilty; judgment of not guilty

acquittance

	a. unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
	v. modify; cause to change; make different; convert
	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.

acreage

	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	n. quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention
	a. every two years; lasting or living for two years

acrid

	n. similarity in form or character; agreement
	n. highest point; vertex; summit; climax
	a. unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish

acrimonious

	n. quack; one who pretends to knowledge, skill, or importance
	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
	a. flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive

acrimony

100

	v. to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic
	a. exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome
	n. sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.

actionable

101

	adj. affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
	adj. joined together in pairs.
	v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
	a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted

actuality

102

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. any reality.
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	v. rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof

actuary

103

	a. rude and clumsy in behavior; ungentlemanly; awkward in manners
	n. an officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
	v. be earlier in time; go back further
	v. associate; incorporate

actuate

104

	v. put into motion or action; activate
	n. prolongation; extension by which something is carried to a further point
	a. arousing or provoking laughter
	v. to confuse.

acumen

105

	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use
	adj. capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
	n. mental keenness; quickness of perception
	a. struck by shock, terror, or amazement

acute

106

	a. quickly perceptive; keen; having a sharp point or tip; extremely sharp or severe
	n. inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
	v. to predict.
	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful

adamant

107

	a. extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
	v. to study plant-life.
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	n. condition of being dependent on chance; uncertainty; possibility

addendum

108

	n. any act of kindness or well-doing.
	a. thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope
	n. something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book
	n. act of two things flowing together; junction or meeting place where two things meet

addle

109

	adj. having resemblance of sound.
	v. muddle; drive crazy; become confused
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.

adduce

110

	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally
	v. to bring forward or name for consideration.
	n. permanence.
	n. one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.

adhere

111

	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	adj. divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
	v. stick fast; stick to firmly; be compatible or in accordance with

adherence

112

	n. attachment.
	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place
	n. grasp; ability to understand
	n. one who loves books.

adherent

113

	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	adv. from side to side.
	n. person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause
	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose

adhesion

114

	n. the science of life or living organisms.
	v. to agree.
	n. a college student.
	n. the state of being attached or joined.

adieu

115

	n. the inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
	inter. good-by; farewell.
	a. compatible
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

adjacency

116

	n. great mass of falling snow and ice
	n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
	v. associate; incorporate
	n. the state of being adjacent.

adjacent

117

	a. adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near
	n. advantage; something that aids or promotes well-being ; welfare; gain
	adj. cone-bearing trees.
	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another

adjudge

118

	v. to award or bestow by formal decision.
	v. include; consist of; be composed of
	v. refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.

adjunct

119

	n. something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book
	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct
	v. express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept

adjuration

120

	n. a vehement appeal.
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	n. expression of warm approval; praise
	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle

adjutant

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	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
	adj. auxiliary.
	n. a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.

administrator

122

	n. one who manages a government agency or department
	n. one who advocates or practices altruism.
	n. tendency to keep together
	n. one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown

admissible

123

	adj. having the right or privilege of entry.
	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	v. to agree.
	n. the united kingdom of great britain.

admittance

124

	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	n. entrance, or the right or permission to enter.

admonish

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	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.

admonition

126

	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. any reality.
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable

ado

127

	n. praise; commendation; say something to someone that expresses praise
	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle
	v. diagnose; examine
	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade

adoration

128

	a. adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near
	n. one who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	n. act of playing honor to a divine being; worship paid to God; act of addressing as a god

adroit

129

	n. the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud
	n. entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
	a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions

adulterant

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	a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
	n. an adulterating substance.

adulterate

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	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit; any deep, immeasurable space; hell
	n. an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
	v. make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

adumbrate

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	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
	v. to set apart as sacred.
	v. cry out with a loud, full sound; cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; shout
	v. to make of or ornament with brass.

advent

133

	n. a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	n. coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important
	n. estrangement.

adverse

134

	v. declare to be true or admit; express obligation, thanks
	n. a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
	n. the system of doctrine taught by john calvin.

adversity

135

	n. state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force
	n. portion.
	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	n. state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune

advert

136

	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
	n. official examination of the details of a country's population
	v. to cover with ornament.
	v. to refer incidentally.

advertiser

137

	n. one who advertises, especially in newspapers.
	n. coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important
	n. one who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
	n. feeling of deep regret; strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

advisory

138

	v. in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
	a. having power to advice; containing advice
	n. single celled organism with no nucleus
	v. cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune

advocacy

139

	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something
	adj. notoriously bad.
	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	v. estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity

advocate

140

	v. speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something
	adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
	n. elevation especially above sea level; height
	a. related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization; based on formal education

aerial

141

	n. eating or drinking of something
	a. of the air or atmosphere; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air
	n. confederate; partner; collaborator
	n. the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.

aeronaut

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	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
	a. rude and clumsy in behavior; ungentlemanly; awkward in manners
	n. one who navigates the air, a balloonist.
	n. unrestricted power.

aeronautics

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	a. unclear or doubtful in meaning
	n. a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. the art or practice of flying aircraft

aerostat

144

	n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
	n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts
	n. a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.

aerostatics

145

	v. parcel out in parts or portions; distribute to each individual concerned; assign as a share or lot
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
	n. the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
	a. complicated in structure; a whole structure, as a building, made up of interconnected or related structures

affable

146

	n. the science of life or living organisms.
	n. narrow passage, especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	a. easily approachable; warmly friendly

affect

147

	v. increase scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

affectation

148

	v. quote; adduce as an instance
	n. a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
	adj. of or pertaining to autumn.
	v. seek to attain; long for; strive toward an end

affiliate

149

	n. act of accompanying someone or something
	n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
	v. associate; incorporate
	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait

affirmative

150

	n. harmony.
	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	a. confirmative; ratifying; giving assent or approval; confirming
	v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill

affix

151

	inter. good-by; farewell.
	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something
	a. assured; having or marked by assurance

affluence

152

	v. to happen to or befall.
	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	n. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
	n. abundance; a plentiful supply of material goods; wealth

affront

153

	a. adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near
	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use
	adj. capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
	n. insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect

afoot

154

	n. a response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
	n. as much as can be held in the arm or arms.
	v. put into motion or action; activate
	adv. in progress.

aforesaid

155

	adj. said in a preceding part or before.
	a. offensively self-assertive; liable to give or take offense; forward; pushing
	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.
	a. randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle

afresh

156

	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete
	adv. once more, after rest or interval.
	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill

afterthought

157

	a. belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial
	n. quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
	n. a thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.

agglomerate

158

	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	v. to happen to or befall.
	n. examination of dead body; post-mortem
	v. to pile or heap together.

aggrandize

159

	v. beat with successive blows; beat repeatedly and with violence
	n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
	v. increase scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.

aggravate

160

	a. moved by sexual love; loving
	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
	v. worsen; make worse or more troublesome

aggravation

161

	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	v. to study plant-life.
	n. state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.

aggregate

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	n. cheerful promptness or willingness; eagerness; speed or quickness
	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
	n. hatred or dread of england or of what is english.

aggress

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	v. to make the first attack.
	n. amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
	v. to collect into a mass.
	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote

aggression

164

	n. yielding to another; ceding or surrendering
	n. an unprovoked attack.
	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible
	n. one who advertises, especially in newspapers.

aggrieve

165

	n. of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
	v. to give grief or sorrow to.
	adj. invulnerable.

aghast

166

	a. struck by shock, terror, or amazement
	n. a condensed form as of a book or play.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	v. speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something

agile

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	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
	a. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty

agitate

168

	v. cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
	n. a coming to stopping-place or destination.
	adj. saintly.
	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak

agrarian

169

	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
	a. capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down
	v. disclose; reveal; tell in confidence

ailment

170

	n. highest point; vertex; summit; climax
	adj. before noon.
	n. sickness; illness; affliction
	n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment

airy

171

	n. a person with whom another confers.
	n. expression of warm approval; praise
	v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
	adj. delicate, ethereal.

akin

172

	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	a. of the same kin; related by blood
	adj. harmonious.
	n. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

alabaster

173

	n. eating or drinking of something
	n. a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
	adj. taking notice.
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance

alacrity

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	n. one who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
	n. cheerful promptness or willingness; eagerness; speed or quickness
	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	a. tree-dwelling; treelike; living in trees

albeit

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	ad. even though; although; notwithstanding
	n. one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable

albino

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	n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
	n. a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
	v. complete; consummate; make perfect
	v. to set apart as sacred.

album

177

	n. a list of names; a register for visitors; a blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs
	n. something overdue and unpaid.
	n. as much as can be held in the arm or arms.
	n. calamity; disaster; state of extreme ruin and misfortune

alchemy

178

	a. worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean
	n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole
	a. making or willing to yield, or to make concessions
	n. medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming

alcohol

179

	n. one who advertises, especially in newspapers.
	n. a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror

alcoholism

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	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
	n. element; ingredient; abstract part of something
	a. hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger
	n. a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.

alcove

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	n. firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
	a. easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room
	n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.

alder

182

	v. to predict.
	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone like fruit

alderman

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	n. part or division of poem of some length
	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	a. reluctant; disinclined; turned away or backward; unwilling
	n. a member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.

aldermanship

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	n. the dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	n. a title of jesus
	a. capable; adept

alias

185

	n. instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere
	n. hard coal.
	v. to contend angrily or zealously in words.
	n. assumed name; another name; name that has been assumed temporarily

alien

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	a. dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
	n. disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station
	adj. serving or tending to force.

alienable

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	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
	adj. capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
	v. to take when offered.
	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing

alienate

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	n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
	v. make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
	v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally

alienation

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	n. estrangement.
	a. belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial
	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings
	v. wear away by friction; scrape; erode

aliment

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	n. that which nourishes.
	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	n. the state of being hard and insensible.
	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait

alkali

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	n. using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency
	n. soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash; one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, and ammonia
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.
	v. to name in baptism.

allay

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	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	v. to exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
	v. calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
	n. state of being found or proved not guilty; judgment of not guilty

allege

193

	v. state without proof; assert to be true
	n. recognition.
	v. leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution
	v. worsen; make worse or more troublesome

allegory

194

	a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
	n. symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
	n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.

alleviate

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	n. the utterance of criticism or censure.
	n. upward slope or grade; movement upward
	a. following one after another without interruption; sequential
	v. provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part

alley

196

	n. the practical unit of electric-current strength.
	a. exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome
	n. narrow passage, especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes
	n. science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification

alliance

197

	n. state of being allied; act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties
	v. resent; give or expend with reluctance; be envious of
	v. to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
	n. state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune

allot

198

	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.
	interj. well done.
	v. parcel out in parts or portions; distribute to each individual concerned; assign as a share or lot
	n. a fleet of warships; a large group of moving things

allotment

199

	n. prolongation; extension by which something is carried to a further point
	n. elevation especially above sea level; height
	n. portion.
	n. composition; order

allude

200

	n. hatred or dread of england or of what is english.
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	v. refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force

allusion

201

	n. a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
	n. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; reeds that are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
	v. to cover with ornament.
	n. indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor

alluvion

202

	n. book of literary selections by various authors
	n. quality of nearness to the truth or the true value
	n. the denial of the existence of god.
	n. flood.

ally

203

	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another
	v. to name in baptism.
	n. confederate; partner; collaborator
	v. regret strongly; express disapproval of

almanac

204

	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	n. a boat-song of venetian gondoliers.
	n. a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

aloof

205

	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned
	a. unusual; not typical; not normal
	adj. affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.

altar

206

	adj. of, pertaining to, or containing water.
	n. a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	n. raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity

alter

207

	v. include; consist of; be composed of
	v. yield or formally resign and surrender to another
	v. modify; cause to change; make different; convert
	v. associate; join

alteration

208

	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	a. responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
	n. unrestricted power.

altercate

209

	n. place where different tree varieties are exhibited
	n. politeness.
	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	v. to contend angrily or zealously in words.

alternate

210

	a. unusual; not typical; not normal
	v. to unite.
	n. composition for orchestra and a soloist
	a. happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously; substitute

alternative

211

	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	a. one of two or more things, ideas or courses of action that may be used; option; choice
	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	n. an officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.

altitude

212

	n. elevation especially above sea level; height
	v. to be in pain or distress.
	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes

alto

213

	n. indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing
	a. quickly perceptive; keen; having a sharp point or tip; extremely sharp or severe
	n. the lowest or deepest female voice or part.
	n. the act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.

altruism

214

	n. benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	n. induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.

altruist

215

	a. having power to advice; containing advice
	n. one who advocates or practices altruism.
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
	adj. harmonious.

amalgam

216

	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
	n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
	adj. saintly.
	v. officially charge someone in a court of law

amalgamate

217

	v. to make of or ornament with brass.
	v. associate; join
	v. combine; unite in one body; mix or alloy a metal with mercury
	n. written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material

amateur

218

	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
	a. nonprofessional; lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	n. the denial of the existence of god.

amatory

219

	v. to make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest
	adj. designed to excite love.
	adj. of or pertaining to autumn.

ambidextrous

220

	n. a coming to stopping-place or destination.
	a. capable of using either hand with equal ease
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	n. belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis

ambiguous

221

	v. to pile or heap together.
	a. unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
	n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
	a. unclear or doubtful in meaning

ambitious

222

	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud
	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
	adj. saintly.
	adj. cheerful.

ambrosial

223

	v. to contend angrily or zealously in words.
	adj. divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner

ambulance

224

	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible
	n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements; wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital
	a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
	a. unusual; not typical; not normal

ambulate

225

	v. to walk about
	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	n. partner in crime; associate in wrongdoing
	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful

ambush

226

	n. clowning; arts and practices of buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures
	v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame
	n. disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station

ameliorate

227

	n. a title of jesus
	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	v. state without proof; assert to be true

amenable

228

	n. one who has two spouses at the same time.
	a. responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
	n. an adulterating substance.
	n. kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.

americanism

229

	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
	a. arousing or provoking laughter

amicable

230

	a. cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable
	a. exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome
	n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned

amity

231

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.
	v. renounce upon oath; abandon forever
	n. friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations

amorous

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	a. moved by sexual love; loving
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.
	a. noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious

amorphous

233

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	a. formless; lacking shape or definition
	n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.

amour

234

	n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
	n. medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming
	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.

ampere

235

	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
	n. the practical unit of electric-current strength.
	v. claim without justification; claim for oneself without right
	v. move or wave, as a weapon; raise and move in various directions

amphibious

236

	n. injury that doesn't break the skin
	adj. living both on land and in water.
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.

amphitheater

237

	n. oval building with tiers of seats from central open space or arena
	v. approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with demand or request
	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.
	v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce

amplitude

238

	n. largeness.
	n. specialist; person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts
	n. madhouse.
	n. private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy

amply

239

	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
	adv. sufficiently.
	a. concerning; simultaneous

amputate

240

	v. cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune
	v. declare to be true or admit; express obligation, thanks
	a. modern; belonging to the same period of time
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth

amusement

241

	n. self control; self restraint; partial or complete abstention from sexual activity
	n. intensity of passion or affection.
	n. diversion.
	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade

anachronism

242

	adj. harmonious.
	n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
	n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

anagram

243

	v. beat with successive blows; beat repeatedly and with violence
	n. over-regulated administrative system
	n. the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate

analogous

244

	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term
	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.
	v. prevent; turn or cause to turn off or away
	a. comparable; similar or alike

analogy

245

	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct
	n. similarity in some respects; comparison based on similarity
	a. abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
	a. related to dogs; dog-like; affecting or derived from dogs

analyst

246

	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	n. one who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something

analyze

247

	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	n. the original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
	v. diagnose; examine

anarchy

248

	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	n. absence of governing body; state of disorder; political disorder and confusion
	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
	v. punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke

anathema

249

	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	n. delusive speech.
	n. that part of the world where christianity is generally professed.
	n. solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse

anatomy

250

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point

anecdote

251

	n. short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
	v. increase scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
	n. a privilege or possession into which one is born.
	a. displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate

anemia

252

	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality
	v. frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
	a. awkward; showing lack of skill or aptitude
	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.

anemic

253

	adj. affected with anemia.
	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
	v. complete; consummate; make perfect
	n. one who manages a government agency or department

anemometer

254

	n. raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity
	n. an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
	n. the communication of disease from person to person.
	n. bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone

anesthetic

255

	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	n. officer of ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers or minor division
	n. substance that causes loss of sensation; producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling
	a. awake; alert

anew

256

	n. sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate
	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance
	adv. once more.

angelic

257

	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	adj. saintly.

anglophobia

258

	a. confirmative; ratifying; giving assent or approval; confirming
	n. ally; form a group or unite
	n. hatred or dread of england or of what is english.
	n. recognition.

angular

259

	a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure
	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	a. sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
	a. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native

anhydrous

260

	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	n. a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
	adj. withered.
	n. a length of one hundredth of a meter.

animadversion

261

	n. the utterance of criticism or censure.
	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	n. contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
	n. largeness.

animadvert

262

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	v. to pass criticism or censure.
	n. use of force to get someone to obey
	v. approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with demand or request

animalcule

263

	n. an animal of microscopic smallness.
	a. of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; showing a fighting disposition
	adv. an expression of assent.
	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use

animate

264

	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. a thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
	adj. living both on land and in water.
	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force

animosity

265

	v. make shiny by rubbing; polish
	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
	n. unrestricted power.
	n. bitter hostility; active hatred; hostile feeling or act

annalist

266

	v. authorize; commission; give credit for
	n. the highest point or level, as of achievement or development; maturity or perfection of animal
	n. historian.
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance

annals

267

	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	n. contestant you hope to defeat
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	adj. having or resembling human form.

annex

268

	n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
	v. to predict.
	v. append or attach; take possession of; incorporate into an existing political unit
	a. offensively self-assertive; liable to give or take offense; forward; pushing

annihilate

269

	n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
	v. contradict; give a false impression
	n. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

annotate

270

	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
	v. comment; make explanatory notes
	n. favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
	v. to unite.

annual

271

	a. quickly perceptive; keen; having a sharp point or tip; extremely sharp or severe
	v. leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution
	a. occurring or payable every year
	n. quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression

annuity

272

	v. surrender; end all resistance; give up; go along with or comply
	n. annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
	n. hillside.
	n. diversion.

annunciation

273

	v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing
	n. the act or state or conforming.
	n. proclamation.
	n. a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes

anode

274

	n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	n. a grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.

anonymous

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	a. having no name; having unknown or unacknowledged name
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest
	v. regret strongly; express disapproval of
	n. title; chapter heading; text under illustration

antagonism

276

	n. active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable
	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	a. awkward; showing lack of skill or aptitude

antarctic

277

	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. act of accompanying someone or something
	a. assured; having or marked by assurance
	a. opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it

ante

278

	v. in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose
	n. study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.

antecede

279

	a. with sideways or indirect look; Turned to side, especially of eyes
	n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
	v. precede; go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order
	n. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; reeds that are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

antecedent

280

	adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
	v. calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
	n. one who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
	v. precede; go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order

antechamber

281

	n. destruction of life; savage and excessive killing of many people
	n. a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
	n. a waiting room for those who seek audience.
	n. person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause

antedate

282

	n. the buttocks.
	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
	v. be earlier in time; go back further
	v. to be in pain or distress.

antediluvian

283

	n. any article of personal property.
	n. state of being suitable
	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another
	a. antiquated; extremely old and ancient; belonging to very ancient times

antemeridian

284

	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. assumed name; another name; name that has been assumed temporarily
	adj. before noon.
	a. nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing

antenatal

285

	adj. occurring or existing before birth.
	adj. having resemblance of sound.
	n. the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
	v. breakdown; failure

286

	a. helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
	a. before in time; antecedent; placed before or in front
	a. sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
	a. thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope

anteroom

287

	a. inclined or eager to fight; aggressive
	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
	adj. occurring or existing before birth.
	n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.

anthology

288

	n. sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
	v. estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
	n. book of literary selections by various authors
	n. sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate

anthracite

289

	n. water saturated with salt.
	adj. capable of being appealed to.
	n. hard coal.
	a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule

anthropology

290

	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings
	adv. sufficiently.
	n. one who entrusts.
	n. one who works in a coal-mine.

anthropomorphous

291

	n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
	adj. having or resembling human form.
	n. hillside.
	n. opening; diameter of such an opening; hole

antic

292

	v. contradict; give a false impression
	v. stop motion; curb or restrain
	n. a grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
	n. group of closely located islands

antichrist

293

	n. any opponent or enemy of christ, whether a person or a power.
	a. capable of providing a correct reading or measurement; performing with care and precision
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing

anticlimax

294

	n. letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise
	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
	a. of or relating to the heart
	n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.

anticyclone

295

	n. dictator; ruler having unlimited power
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
	n. specialist; person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts

antidote

296

	n. the denial of the existence of god.
	n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts
	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources
	n. the act or state or conforming.

antilogy

297

	n. the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
	v. to force into military service.
	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.

antipathize

298

	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	v. to show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
	n. one who lives by robbery and plunder.

antiphon

299

	n. a response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
	n. attachment.
	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	adj. producing coagulation.

antiphony

300

	v. to sail quite around.
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	adv. once more, after rest or interval.
	n. an anthem or other composition sung responsively.

antipodes

301

	n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
	n. suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension
	n. courtesy towards women
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing

antiquary

302

	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
	n. one who attacks.
	n. one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.

antiquate

303

	v. to unite.
	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	n. as much as can be held in the arm or arms.
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned

antique

304

	n. something overdue and unpaid.
	n. any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion
	n. greediness.
	n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone like fruit

antiseptic

305

	n. substance that prevents infection; substance that restricts the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
	adj. containing gold.
	v. cause to come together formally
	adj. cheerful.

antislavery

306

	a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
	adj. opposed to human slavery.
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror

antispasmodic

307

	adj. tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.
	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.
	n. a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.

antistrophe

308

	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	n. an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
	n. the inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".

antitoxin

309

	n. permanence.
	n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place
	n. an unprovoked attack.

antonym

310

	n. amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
	n. the practical unit of electric-current strength.
	v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term

anxious

311

	a. opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it
	a. eager; keen; worried; uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter
	v. to change into acid.
	n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

apathy

312

	v. to act or give judgment as umpire.
	n. unrestricted power.
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	n. lack of caring; indifference

aperture

313

	n. person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will
	a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
	n. the place where christ was crucified.
	n. opening; diameter of such an opening; hole

apex

314

	n. advantage; something that aids or promotes well-being ; welfare; gain
	n. highest point; vertex; summit; climax
	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	n. narrow passage, especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes

aphorism

315

	n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
	n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
	v. to study plant-life.
	v. form by an exercise of ingenuity; devise; invent; design

apiary

316

	n. place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey
	a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
	adj. joined together in pairs.
	adj. having the nature of a tree.

apogee

317

	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another
	n. the highest point; point in orbit most distant from the body being orbited
	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
	n. harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

apology

318

	n. acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon for a fault or offense; explanation or excuse
	v. to conduct or behave (oneself).
	n. sudden, unexpected fancy; impulsive change of mind
	n. the buttocks.

apostate

319

	v. combine; unite in one body; mix or alloy a metal with mercury
	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	n. one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs

apostle

320

	v. refrain from buying or using
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	n. any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.

apothecary

321

	n. one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
	n. one who entrusts.
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.

apotheosis

322

	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
	a. unclear or doubtful in meaning
	n. any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.

appall

323

	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
	v. to happen to or befall.
	v. to await.
	adj. that may or can collapse.

apparent

324

	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	n. officer of ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers or minor division
	v. put into motion or action; activate
	a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye

apparition

325

	adj. producing coagulation.
	n. ghostly figure; sudden or unusual sight; appearance; state of being visible
	a. helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
	v. to exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.

appease

326

	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	v. to unite.

appellate

327

	n. ritual; ceremony or rite
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
	adj. capable of being appealed to.
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected

appellation

328

	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	n. name; title; act of naming; act of appealing for aid, sympathy
	inter. good-by; farewell.

append

329

	n. the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
	n. a waiting room for those who seek audience.
	v. attach; add as supplement or appendix
	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind

appertain

330

	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
	v. to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.

apposite

331

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.
	a. strikingly appropriate and relevant; well-suited
	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.

apposition

332

	a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
	a. opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it
	v. to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
	n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.

appraise

333

	v. estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
	adj. withered.
	adj. harmonious.
	adj. divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.

appreciable

334

	n. raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity
	n. the act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
	n. name; title; act of naming; act of appealing for aid, sympathy
	a. considerable; perceptible

apprehend

335

	v. take into custody; arrest a criminal; grasp mentally; perceive
	v. to await.
	n. a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of canaan, or western palestine.
	n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.

apprehensible

336

	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
	n. madhouse.
	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
	adj. capable of being conceived.

approbation

337

	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
	n. expression of warm approval; praise
	adj. taking notice.
	n. similarity in some respects; comparison based on similarity

appropriate

338

	a. extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
	v. approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with demand or request
	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	v. put into motion or action; activate

aqueduct

339

	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic
	n. a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
	a. belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing

aqueous

340

	adj. of, pertaining to, or containing water.
	n. one who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room
	n. one who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.

arbiter

341

	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	n. that which nourishes.
	n. absence of governing body; state of disorder; political disorder and confusion
	a. capable of providing a correct reading or measurement; performing with care and precision

arbitrary

342

	a. randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	v. to confuse.

arbitrate

343

	n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
	v. to act or give judgment as umpire.
	adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
	n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.

arbor

344

	n. a tree.
	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	v. occur at the same time as; correspond

arboreal

345

	a. tree-dwelling; treelike; living in trees
	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of.
	n. highest point; vertex; summit; climax

arborescent

346

	v. refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
	n. that which nourishes.
	v. to award or bestow by formal decision.
	adj. having the nature of a tree.

arboretum

347

	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
	v. to give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
	n. place where different tree varieties are exhibited

arboriculture

348

	n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
	n. a fleet of warships; a large group of moving things
	n. clowning; arts and practices of buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures
	n. the cultivation of trees or shrubs.

arcade

349

	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place
	n. an adulterating substance.
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.
	n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

archaeology

350

	n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
	n. subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity
	n. study of artifacts and relics of early mankind

archaic

351

	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic
	v. to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
	a. confirmative; ratifying; giving assent or approval; confirming
	a. no longer current or applicable; antiquated

archaism

352

	n. an anthem or other composition sung responsively.
	n. obsolescence.
	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker
	n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes

archangel

353

	n. message that is transmitted by radio or television; radio or television show
	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete
	n. inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
	n. an angel of high rank.

archbishop

354

	n. something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book
	n. confederate; partner; collaborator
	n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
	n. the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the greek, roman, and anglican church.

archdeacon

355

	n. any reality.
	n. a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
	v. provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part
	n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing

archetype

356

	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
	n. one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
	n. prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.

archipelago

357

	n. contestant you hope to defeat
	n. group of closely located islands
	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.

ardent

358

	a. displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
	n. firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
	n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
	v. to hate violently.

ardor

359

	n. intensity of passion or affection.
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
	v. lead into perplexity or confusion; perplex with mazes
	adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony.

arid

360

	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
	a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
	a. dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.

aristocracy

361

	n. hereditary nobility; privileged class
	a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule
	n. an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence

aristocrat

362

	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
	n. one of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble
	n. one who advocates or practices altruism.

armada

363

	v. to refer incidentally.
	v. leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution
	n. a fleet of warships; a large group of moving things
	n. that which nourishes.

armful

364

	a. compatible
	n. the art or practice of flying aircraft
	n. as much as can be held in the arm or arms.
	a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad

armory

365

	n. arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured
	v. to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
	adv. sufficiently.
	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something

aroma

366

	v. to make supremely happy.
	v. to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
	n. fragrance; scent; pleasant characteristic odor, as of a plant, spice, or food
	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose

arraign

367

	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	n. treasurer or keeper of funds; purser or treasurer of college or other community
	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	v. contradict; give a false impression

arrange

368

	v. cause to come together formally
	n. contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
	n. a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose

arrangement

369

	n. the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
	v. associate; join
	v. breakdown; failure
	n. composition; order

arrant

370

	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	adj. opposed to human slavery.
	adj. notoriously bad.
	n. something as bars at edges to absorb shock and prevent serious damage

arrear

371

	n. a coarse, heavy shoe.
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	n. something overdue and unpaid.
	v. to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.

arrival

372

	v. stop motion; curb or restrain
	n. a coming to stopping-place or destination.
	v. recover gradually from an illness
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.

arrogant

373

	v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem
	n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
	a. arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
	n. a flowering shrub.

arrogate

374

	v. claim without justification; claim for oneself without right
	v. to sail quite around.
	v. to accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
	v. to exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.

artesian

375

	well n. a very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
	n. one who manages a government agency or department
	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force

artful

376

	adj. characterized by craft or cunning.
	a. intended to confuse in an argument
	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
	v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm

arthurian

377

	adj. withered.
	adj. pertaining to king arthur, the real or legendary hero of british poetic story.
	adv. in progress.
	v. parcel out in parts or portions; distribute to each individual concerned; assign as a share or lot

artifice

378

	n. subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
	v. to pass criticism or censure.

artless

379

	a. obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
	v. leave to someone by a will; hand down
	n. the science of life or living organisms.
	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest

ascendant

380

	v. to pile or heap together.
	adj. dominant.
	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. approach; entry; entrance

ascension

381

	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.
	n. the act of rising.
	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated

ascent

382

	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	n. upward slope or grade; movement upward
	a. sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
	n. the denial of the existence of god.

ascetic

383

	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
	a. leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere
	n. an officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
	a. strikingly appropriate and relevant; well-suited

ascribe

384

	n. an abiding.
	v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
	v. inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
	n. greediness.

asexual

385

	n. a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
	n. eating or drinking of something
	v. punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.

ashen

386

	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	adj. living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
	v. cry out with a loud, full sound; cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; shout
	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes

askance

387

	a. with sideways or indirect look; Turned to side, especially of eyes
	n. one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown
	v. to twist into a misshapen form.
	v. pester; annoy persistently; persuade through constant efforts

asperity

388

	n. sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate
	n. the system of doctrine taught by john calvin.
	a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality

aspirant

389

	n. one who works in a coal-mine.
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	n. one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women

aspire

390

	v. seek to attain; long for; strive toward an end
	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete
	n. power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind

assailant

391

	n. one who attacks.
	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
	n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.

assassin

392

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. one who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
	n. historian.

assassinate

393

	n. the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic

assassination

394

	v. declare to be true; affirm
	n. act of assassinating; killing by treacherous violence; murder of public figure by surprise attack
	adv. from side to side.
	a. happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously; substitute

assay

395

	v. analyze; evaluate; examine by trial or experiment; put to test
	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	n. an acute epidemic disease.
	n. written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material

assent

396

	n. secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy
	adj. living both on land and in water.
	v. express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
	n. indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing

assess

397

	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
	a. modern; belonging to the same period of time
	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.
	v. estimate value; judge worth of something

assessor

398

	n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
	n. similarity in form or character; agreement
	n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
	v. contradict; give a false impression

assets

399

	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	v. approach; tend to meet; come together
	n. the state or quality of being in accord with.

assiduous

400

	n. release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
	a. constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing or persistent
	n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.

assignee

401

	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	n. one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
	n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
	n. fragrance; scent; pleasant characteristic odor, as of a plant, spice, or food

assimilate

402

	n. amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
	v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud

assonance

403

	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of
	v. to contend angrily or zealously in words.
	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	a. cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable

assonant

404

	adj. having resemblance of sound.
	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
	n. release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.

assonate

405

	v. to accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
	v. to cover with ornament.
	v. to change into acid.
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.

assuage

406

	adv. an expression of assent.
	v. ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame
	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings

astringent

407

	a. trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others
	a. causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere
	v. provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part
	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete

astute

408

	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	adj. that may be estimated by reckoning.
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.

atheism

409

	v. aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	n. the dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
	n. the denial of the existence of god.

athirst

410

	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
	adj. wanting water.
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry

athwart

411

	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye
	v. to pass criticism or censure.
	adv. from side to side.

atomizer

412

	v. frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
	n. an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
	n. a charge for a firearm, or for blasting.

atone

413

	v. make amends, as for sin or fault; pay for; turn away from sin
	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	adj. joined together in pairs.

atonement

414

	a. unusual; not typical; not normal
	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.
	a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
	n. amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.

atrocious

415

	n. a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
	v. to make familiar by use.

atrocity

416

	ad. even though; although; notwithstanding
	n. brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness
	n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
	n. inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect

attache

417

	adv. in bed; on a bed.
	n. a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
	n. a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
	v. to make familiar by use.

attest

418

	v. testify; authenticate, affirm to be true
	a. having power to advice; containing advice
	n. the state of being attached or joined.
	v. make shiny by rubbing; polish

auburn

419

	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	adv. an expression of assent.
	n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	n. an acute epidemic disease.

audacious

420

	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	a. worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean
	a. fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity

audible

421

	n. obsolescence.
	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	n. a person with whom another confers.
	n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.

audition

422

	v. take part in a trial performance; evaluate in a trial performance
	n. substance that causes loss of sensation; producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling
	v. inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence

auditory

423

	n. act of contributing; payment exacted for special purpose; impost or levy
	a. capable of using either hand with equal ease
	a. of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing
	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable

augment

424

	n. proximity.
	a. causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere
	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
	n. use of force to get someone to obey

augur

425

	n. clowning; arts and practices of buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures
	v. to predict.
	n. a list of names; a register for visitors; a blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs
	a. cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable

augustinian

426

	n. gift giver; person who gives people or institutions with financial help
	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	n. calamity; disaster; state of extreme ruin and misfortune
	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.

aura

427

	a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
	n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
	n. that which nourishes.
	v. speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something

aural

428

	v. to confuse.
	n. place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey
	n. written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
	adj. of or pertaining to the ear.

auricle

429

	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	v. seize as forfeited to the public treasury; appropriate to the public use
	v. cause transformation of liquid into or as if into soft, semisolid, or solid mass
	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior

auricular

430

	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
	adj. of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
	a. easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with
	n. state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force

auriferous

431

	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	n. general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
	adj. containing gold.

aurora

432

	v. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories
	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
	n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
	n. condition of being dependent on chance; uncertainty; possibility

auspice

433

	n. partner in crime; associate in wrongdoing
	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	v. humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem
	n. favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.

austere

434

	n. general structure, form, or outline.
	v. express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	a. strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented

autarchy

435

	n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone like fruit
	n. unrestricted power.
	v. limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle
	adj. contributing to an end.

authentic

436

	a. not counterfeit or copied; valid; trustworthy
	a. worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean
	n. narrative or record of events; reason given for a particular action or event
	v. leave to someone by a will; hand down

authenticity

437

	a. diligent; responsible; reliable
	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	n. the buttocks.
	n. the state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.

autocracy

438

	adj. low in tone or compass.
	n. absolute government.
	n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	n. induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.

autocrat

439

	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
	adj. invulnerable.
	n. dictator; ruler having unlimited power
	a. every two years; lasting or living for two years

automaton

440

	n. the place in which a consul transacts official business.
	n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans
	v. to study plant-life.
	a. like corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body

autonomous

441

	v. to pass criticism or censure.
	a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
	adv. once more, after rest or interval.
	a. having no name; having unknown or unacknowledged name

autonomy

442

	n. study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	n. independence; self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination

autopsy

443

	a. extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
	adj. invulnerable.
	n. examination of dead body; post-mortem
	n. a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.

autumnal

444

	adj. of or pertaining to autumn.
	n. group of closely located islands
	v. associate; join
	v. declare to be true or admit; express obligation, thanks

auxiliary

445

	adv. sufficiently.
	a. helper, additional or subsidiary
	adj. of or pertaining to autumn.
	v. make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

avalanche

446

	n. great mass of falling snow and ice
	adj. said in a preceding part or before.
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
	n. one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival

avarice

447

	n. a narrow strip of wood.
	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	n. an officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
	n. the lowest or deepest female voice or part.

aver

448

	n. firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
	v. in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
	v. estimate value; judge worth of something
	v. declare to be true; affirm

averse

449

	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something
	a. reluctant; disinclined; turned away or backward; unwilling
	v. make clear and comprehensible; elucidate
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame

aversion

450

	n. firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
	n. state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
	n. arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured

avert

451

	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
	a. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native
	v. prevent; turn or cause to turn off or away
	n. a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.

aviary

452

	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	n. large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
	n. the passion for collecting books.
	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.

avidity

453

	a. intended to confuse in an argument
	a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct
	n. greediness.

avocation

454

	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
	n. a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of canaan, or western palestine.
	a. rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
	n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment

avow

455

	n. fortress; fortified place which people could go for shelter during battle
	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources
	v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble

awaken

456

	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
	a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure
	v. to assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
	n. small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy

aye

457

	n. narrow passage, especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes
	v. to pile or heap together.
	adv. an expression of assent.
	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak

azalea

458

	n. a flowering shrub.
	n. sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point

azure

459

	v. testify; authenticate, affirm to be true
	adj. auxiliary.
	a. abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
	a. sky blue; light purplish-blue

baconian

460

	v. refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
	n. one who or that which regulates or directs.
	v. declare to be true; affirm
	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.

bacterium

461

	n. single celled organism with no nucleus
	adj. cheerful.
	n. boaster; one given to loud, empty boasting; very talkative person
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room

badger

462

	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	v. pester; annoy persistently; persuade through constant efforts
	a. sky blue; light purplish-blue

baffle

463

	n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
	v. frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
	n. a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct

bailiff

464

	v. claim without justification; claim for oneself without right
	n. one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position
	n. an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.

baize

465

	v. to hate violently.
	n. a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
	n. symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
	n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.

bale

466

	n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art
	n. the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	n. a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

baleful

467

	n. contestant you hope to defeat
	v. cause transformation of liquid into or as if into soft, semisolid, or solid mass
	a. portending evil; harmful in intent or effect.
	n. absolute government.

ballad

468

	n. the state of being hard and insensible.
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned
	n. fortress; fortified place which people could go for shelter during battle
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing

balsam

469

	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
	n. one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.

banal

470

	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	a. obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally

barcarole

471

	n. compression
	n. a spiritual advisor.
	v. to name in baptism.
	n. a boat-song of venetian gondoliers.

baritone

472

	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle
	n. the state or condition of being joined together.
	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	adj. having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.

barograph

473

	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something
	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing
	v. approach; tend to meet; come together
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.

barometer

474

	n. instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere
	adj. auxiliary.
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with
	v. refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice

barring

475

	n. the lady superior of a nunnery.
	prep. apart from.
	n. a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
	a. causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere

bask

476

	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. piece of jewelry; a small scale used as a jewel for adornment; famous actor's special appearance in a minor role in film
	n. symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.

bass

477

	a. flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
	adj. low in tone or compass.
	n. breaking of contract or duty
	n. tendency to keep together

baste

478

	n. list of works of a specific author or publisher; list of writings relating to a given subject
	a. infectious; of or relating to communicable diseases
	v. to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
	n. the art or practice of flying aircraft

baton

479

	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	n. staff or truncheon for various purposes, as one of a conductor in musical performances, one transferred by runners in a relay race
	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place

battalion

480

	v. cheer from distress or depression; alleviate grief and raise spirits of; relieve; comfort
	n. a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
	n. breaking of contract or duty
	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.

batten

481

	n. a narrow strip of wood.
	n. one who engages in a conspiracy; plotter
	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	n. contestant you hope to defeat

batter

482

	a. compatible; harmonious
	v. beat with successive blows; beat repeatedly and with violence
	adj. cone-bearing trees.
	n. a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.

bauble

483

	n. small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy
	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
	adj. colorless,

bawl

484

	v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another
	n. property of a continuous and connected period of time
	v. to study plant-life.
	v. cry out with a loud, full sound; cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; shout

beatify

485

	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	n. a title of jesus
	v. to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
	v. to make supremely happy.

beatitude

486

	n. the practical unit of electric-current strength.
	n. incorporated town that is not a city; association of men who gave pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other
	a. carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect
	n. blessedness; state of extreme happiness

beau

487

	n. an escort or lover.
	a. obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
	adv. sufficiently.
	adj. divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.

becalm

488

	n. hereditary nobility; privileged class
	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
	v. keep from motion, or stop progress of; make calm or still
	n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.

beck

489

	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	v. to give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
	adj. of or pertaining to autumn.

bedaub

490

	v. to smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
	n. an unprovoked attack.
	n. written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
	a. of or relating to the heart

bedeck

491

	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	v. to cover with ornament.
	a. helper, additional or subsidiary
	v. refrain from buying or using

bedlam

492

	v. to happen to or befall.
	n. proximity.
	v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of.
	n. madhouse.

befog

493

	v. to confuse.
	v. travel with; be associated with
	a. abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
	v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete

befriend

494

	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.
	n. the passion for collecting books.
	n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party

beget

495

	v. produce; give rise to
	adj. colorless,
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
	n. injury that doesn't break the skin

begrudge

496

	n. delusive speech.
	adj. colorless,
	v. resent; give or expend with reluctance; be envious of
	a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious

belate

497

	adj. designed for gradual destruction.
	v. to delay past the proper hour.
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown

belay

498

	v. to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
	a. arousing or provoking laughter
	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
	v. refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice

belie

499

	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.
	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	n. a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
	v. contradict; give a false impression

believe

500

	n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements; wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital
	v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with
	n. a waiting room for those who seek audience.

belittle

501

	n. hatred or dread of england or of what is english.
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down
	v. to unite.
	n. sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.

belle

502

	n. a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
	v. claim without justification; claim for oneself without right
	n. an angel of high rank.
	v. make clear and comprehensible; elucidate

bellicose

503

	adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
	n. delusive speech.
	a. warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; showing or having impulse to be combative
	n. shaking or agitation; shock; injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow

belligerent

504

	a. inclined or eager to fight; aggressive
	v. keep from motion, or stop progress of; make calm or still
	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	a. intended to confuse in an argument

bemoan

505

	v. assent; agree without protesting
	n. hillside.
	v. regret strongly; express disapproval of
	v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm

benediction

506

	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	n. quality of nearness to the truth or the true value
	v. condense; shorten; reduce length of written text
	n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes

benefactor

507

	v. blame; condemn
	v. do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
	n. a narrow strip of wood.
	n. gift giver; person who gives people or institutions with financial help

benefice

508

	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	n. a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
	n. process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; state of mental concentration
	v. cause to come together formally

beneficent

509

	adj. characterized by charity and kindness.
	n. permanence.
	v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing
	a. nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing

beneficial

510

	a. helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
	v. make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
	n. shaking or agitation; shock; injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow
	prep. apart from.

beneficiary

511

	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	n. the communication of disease from person to person.
	v. bully; intimidate; discourage or frighten with threats
	n. person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will

benefit

512

	v. regret strongly; express disapproval of
	n. the highest point or level, as of achievement or development; maturity or perfection of animal
	n. advantage; something that aids or promotes well-being ; welfare; gain
	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention

benevolence

513

	n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
	v. take into custody; arrest a criminal; grasp mentally; perceive
	n. any act of kindness or well-doing.
	n. independence; self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination

benevolent

514

	adj. sated with pleasure.
	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable
	a. capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
	a. adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near

benign

515

	a. kindly; favorable; not malignant
	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.
	a. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
	a. strikingly appropriate and relevant; well-suited

benignant

516

	v. state without proof; assert to be true
	adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
	n. overseer of morals; official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
	n. an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.

benignity

517

	a. hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point
	n. kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
	a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious

benison

518

	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
	n. blessing.
	a. comparable; similar or alike
	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.

bequeath

519

	v. to remind oneself.
	v. precede; go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order
	v. leave to someone by a will; hand down
	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.

bereave

520

	n. harmony.
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
	v. to make desolate with loneliness and grief.
	a. causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere

berth

521

	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	adj. connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
	v. to bring forward or name for consideration.
	n. space for ship to dock or anchor; allotted place; place to sleep or stay; appointment or job

beseech

522

	v. to accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something
	v. refrain from buying or using
	v. beg; plead with; ask for or request earnestly

beset

523

	v. attack from all sides; trouble persistently; hem in
	n. group of closely located islands
	v. assent; agree without protesting
	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason

besmear

524

	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
	n. agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things
	v. modify; cause to change; make different; convert
	v. cause transformation of liquid into or as if into soft, semisolid, or solid mass

bestial

525

	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources

bestrew

526

	a. related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization; based on formal education
	n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
	v. to sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
	a. arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others

bestride

527

	n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.
	n. benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
	a. obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
	v. to get or sit upon astride, as a horse.

bethink

528

	n. a length of one hundredth of a meter.
	v. to remind oneself.
	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	n. the art or practice of flying aircraft

betide

529

	v. attack from all sides; trouble persistently; hem in
	a. antiquated; extremely old and ancient; belonging to very ancient times
	n. a vehement appeal.
	v. to happen to or befall.

betimes

530

	n. instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere
	adv. in good season or time.
	v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication
	v. be earlier in time; go back further

betroth

531

	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	n. kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
	a. of the air or atmosphere; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry

betrothal

532

	v. to refer incidentally.
	a. inclined or eager to fight; aggressive
	n. any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
	n. engagement to marry.

bevel

533

	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	adj. fit to be eaten.
	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. feeling of deep regret; strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

bewilder

534

	n. fortress; fortified place which people could go for shelter during battle
	v. lead into perplexity or confusion; perplex with mazes
	v. mismanage; blunder; work or act in clumsy, awkward, or blundering manner
	a. unusual; not typical; not normal

bibliography

535

	n. covered passageway, usually lined with shops; simple arched opening in a wall; vault or vaulted place
	a. plentiful; possessing riches or resources
	n. one who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
	n. list of works of a specific author or publisher; list of writings relating to a given subject

bibliomania

536

	n. as much as can be held in the arm or arms.
	n. complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease
	v. quote; adduce as an instance
	n. the passion for collecting books.

bibliophile

537

	n. one who loves books.
	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality
	v. rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof
	n. title; chapter heading; text under illustration

bibulous

538

	adj. fond of drinking.
	n. one who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
	v. to blend.
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.

bide

539

	n. composition; order
	v. to await.
	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	n. gift giver; person who gives people or institutions with financial help

biennial

540

	n. large or high waterfall; eye abnormality
	n. harmony.
	a. every two years; lasting or living for two years
	adj. cheerful.

bier

541

	n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
	v. refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
	n. any act of kindness or well-doing.

bigamist

542

	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	v. inform about; cause to come to know personally; make familiar
	a. eating or feeding on flesh; predatory
	n. one who has two spouses at the same time.

bigamy

543

	n. the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	v. to get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.

bight

544

	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned
	n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
	adj. of or pertaining to the ear.
	n. battle ;a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

bilateral

545

	v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
	a. of the same kin; related by blood
	a. two-sided; mutual
	v. to get or sit upon astride, as a horse.

bilingual

546

	well n. a very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
	n. unrestricted power.
	n. using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency

biograph

547

	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.
	n. the place where christ was crucified.
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote

biology

548

	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of
	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
	n. of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
	n. the science of life or living organisms.

biped

549

	n. an animal having two feet.
	adj. of or pertaining to the ear.
	n. an acute epidemic disease.
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance

birthright

550

	n. a condensed form as of a book or play.
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
	n. a privilege or possession into which one is born.
	v. blame; condemn

bitterness

551

	adj. harmonious.
	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. sharp and bitter manner

blase

552

	adj. saintly.
	n. deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
	adj. sated with pleasure.
	n. similarity in form or character; agreement

blaspheme

553

	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	n. absence of governing body; state of disorder; political disorder and confusion
	v. to indulge in profane oaths.

blatant

554

	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	n. a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
	a. flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
	adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.

blaze

555

	a. being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native
	v. comment; make explanatory notes
	v. travel with; be associated with
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame

blazon

556

	n. complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease
	v. to make widely or generally known.
	n. a privilege or possession into which one is born.
	n. fee for services; group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize

bleak

557

	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm
	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.
	a. cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable

blemish

558

	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint
	a. relative; based on, or involving comparison
	n. an atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.

blithe

559

	a. arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
	a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest
	n. belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis

blithesome

560

	adj. cheerful.
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	v. blame; condemn
	n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right.

blockade

561

	n. water saturated with salt.
	n. small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy
	n. shutting up of a place by troops or ships; obstruction to passage
	n. rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat

boatswain

562

	n. a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
	a. dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
	n. one who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
	n. an animal of microscopic smallness.

bodily

563

	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
	n. gift giver; person who gives people or institutions with financial help
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	adj. corporeal.

boisterous

564

	a. rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
	n. substance that causes loss of sensation; producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling
	v. to set apart as sacred.
	a. straightforward; frank; free from prejudice; impartial

bole

565

	v. stick fast; stick to firmly; be compatible or in accordance with
	v. quote; adduce as an instance
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.

bolero

566

	n. calamity; disaster; state of extreme ruin and misfortune
	n. bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
	n. a spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.

boll

567

	v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.
	n. arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured
	n. a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.

bolster

568

	n. examination of dead body; post-mortem
	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another
	adj. characterized by charity and kindness.
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion

bomb

569

	adj. fond of drinking.
	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
	n. officer of ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers or minor division

bombard

570

	a. no longer current or applicable; antiquated
	v. to sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something
	v. to assail with any missile or with abusive speech.

bombardier

571

	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
	v. put into motion or action; activate
	v. to walk about
	n. medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming

bombast

572

	n. narrative or record of events; reason given for a particular action or event
	a. awake; alert
	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.

boorish

573

	n. an angel of high rank.
	a. of the same kin; related by blood
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down
	a. rude and clumsy in behavior; ungentlemanly; awkward in manners

bore

574

	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
	n. an animal having two feet.
	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill

borough

575

	n. the first light of day; an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
	n. incorporated town that is not a city; association of men who gave pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other
	a. before in time; antecedent; placed before or in front
	v. in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.

bosom

576

	n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
	a. strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented
	n. an ox.
	n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone like fruit

botanical

577

	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
	n. expression of warm approval; praise
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. hard coal.

botanize

578

	n. act of two things flowing together; junction or meeting place where two things meet
	v. to study plant-life.
	v. bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

botany

579

	n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
	n. inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	n. science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification

bountiful

580

	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	adv. from side to side.
	a. abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
	n. a waiting room for those who seek audience.

bowdlerize

581

	adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
	n. partnership; league; state of being combined into one body
	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly

bowler

582

	n. one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival
	a. of or relating to the heart
	inter. good-by; farewell.
	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.

boycott

583

	v. refrain from buying or using
	v. to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
	adj. delicate, ethereal.
	a. adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near

brae

584

	n. state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
	v. stoop or descend; let one's self down; submit; waive the privilege of rank or dignity
	v. to change into acid.
	n. hillside.

braggart

585

	n. intensity of passion or affection.
	v. to make desolate with loneliness and grief.
	n. boaster; one given to loud, empty boasting; very talkative person
	v. to refer incidentally.

brandish

586

	adj. living both on land and in water.
	v. to free or clear, as from accusation.
	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	v. move or wave, as a weapon; raise and move in various directions

bravado

587

	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	v. to make desolate with loneliness and grief.
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with
	n. official examination of the details of a country's population

bravo

588

	v. stop motion; curb or restrain
	interj. well done.
	v. beg; plead with; ask for or request earnestly
	n. intensity of passion or affection.

bray

589

	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
	v. to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
	n. a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
	n. an adulterating substance.

braze

590

	n. firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
	v. to make of or ornament with brass.
	a. following one after another without interruption; sequential
	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.

brazier

591

	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	adj. having the nature of a tree.
	n. great mass of falling snow and ice
	adj. tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.

breach

592

	adj. delicate, ethereal.
	n. breaking of contract or duty
	n. narrow passage, especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes
	adj. contributing to an end.

breaker

593

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes
	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	v. append or attach; take possession of; incorporate into an existing political unit

breech

594

	n. a coarse, heavy shoe.
	a. responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	n. the buttocks.

brethren

595

	a. definitive; decisive; final
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
	n. over-regulated administrative system

brevity

596

	n. quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
	a. marked by formality; strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony or ritual
	n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
	v. aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage

bridle

597

	n. general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
	n. headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins
	n. the lady superior of a nunnery.
	n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal.

brigade

598

	n. one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
	v. to pass criticism or censure.
	adj. auxiliary.
	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.

brigadier

599

	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
	n. scratch; friction
	n. rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat
	n. general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.

brigand

600

	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
	a. pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
	n. one who lives by robbery and plunder.
	n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.

brimstone

601

	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	n. sulfur.
	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	n. one who lives by robbery and plunder.

brine

602

	n. water saturated with salt.
	n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans
	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. a placing opposite.

bristle

603

	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	n. prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	n. one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.

britannia

604

	n. the united kingdom of great britain.
	v. travel with; be associated with
	n. harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
	adj. capable of being conceived.

briticism

605

	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	n. a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of great britain or the british.
	a. sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.

brittle

606

	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	v. in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
	n. sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
	a. easily broken; having little elasticity

broach

607

	v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
	adj. broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	v. muddle; drive crazy; become confused

broadcast

608

	n. message that is transmitted by radio or television; radio or television show
	adj. having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
	n. praise; commendation; say something to someone that expresses praise
	v. to coagulate.

brogan

609

	adj. fond of drinking.
	a. displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
	n. a coarse, heavy shoe.
	n. an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.

brogue

610

	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
	n. mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
	a. concerning; simultaneous
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.

brokerage

611

	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	n. using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency
	n. crash; conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
	v. to cover with ornament.

bromine

612

	n. a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
	n. space for ship to dock or anchor; allotted place; place to sleep or stay; appointment or job
	adv. in progress.
	v. give up or surrender; deny something to oneself

bronchitis

613

	a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
	n. inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down
	v. to be in collusion.

bronchus

614

	n. either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
	v. believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
	a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change

brooch

615

	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	v. to delay past the proper hour.
	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.

brotherhood

616

	a. antiquated; extremely old and ancient; belonging to very ancient times
	v. to pile or heap together.
	n. quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
	n. spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.

browbeat

617

	n. act of contributing; payment exacted for special purpose; impost or levy
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	v. bully; intimidate; discourage or frighten with threats
	n. place where different tree varieties are exhibited

brusque

618

	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
	a. abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
	v. to study plant-life.
	n. law or rule; decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by authority; books of the Bible officially accepted; a group of literary works

buffoon

619

	n. breaking of contract or duty
	a. formless; lacking shape or definition
	v. blame; condemn
	n. one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown

buffoonery

620

	n. approach; entry; entrance
	n. one who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
	n. clowning; arts and practices of buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures
	v. ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease

bulbous

621

	v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another
	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	v. to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.

bullock

622

	n. the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
	n. a title of jesus
	n. an ox.
	v. lead into perplexity or confusion; perplex with mazes

bulrush

623

	n. any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
	n. the state of being adjacent.
	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	v. estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity

bulwark

624

	n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.
	v. comment; make explanatory notes
	adj. capable of being appealed to.
	n. earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends

bumper

625

	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.
	adj. said in a preceding part or before.
	n. one who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
	n. something as bars at edges to absorb shock and prevent serious damage

bumptious

626

	a. offensively self-assertive; liable to give or take offense; forward; pushing
	v. to walk about
	adj. very repugnant; hateful.
	n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.

bungle

627

	v. mismanage; blunder; work or act in clumsy, awkward, or blundering manner
	a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
	v. ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
	a. antiquated; extremely old and ancient; belonging to very ancient times

buoyancy

628

	n. power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	a. implying cause-and-effect relationship
	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak

buoyant

629

	adj. colorless,
	v. agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
	adj. broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic

bureau

630

	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	n. estrangement.
	n. the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the greek, roman, and anglican church.

bureaucracy

631

	n. over-regulated administrative system
	a. definitive; decisive; final
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
	a. easily approachable; warmly friendly

burgess

632

	n. an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
	n. washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite
	a. dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.

burgher

633

	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable
	v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
	n. an inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
	v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point

burnish

634

	n. upward slope or grade; movement upward
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	v. make shiny by rubbing; polish
	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker

bursar

635

	adj. affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.
	n. treasurer or keeper of funds; purser or treasurer of college or other community
	n. water saturated with salt.

bustle

636

	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.
	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	v. move or cause to move energetically and busily; teem
	n. study of artifacts and relics of early mankind

butt

637

	n. something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
	a. compatible
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame
	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.

butte

638

	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
	a. struck by shock, terror, or amazement
	n. group of closely located islands

buttress

639

	v. humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem
	v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
	a. of the same lineage or origin; having common ancestor
	n. belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis

cabal

640

	n. small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests
	n. large or high waterfall; eye abnormality
	v. humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem
	n. a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.

cabinet

641

	n. group of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister; hut; cottage; small house; small room; closet
	v. resent; give or expend with reluctance; be envious of
	v. to study plant-life.
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.

cacophony

642

	a. portending evil; harmful in intent or effect.
	n. one to whom secrets are entrusted.
	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
	n. a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.

cadaverous

643

	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
	a. like corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body
	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose

cadence

644

	n. rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat
	n. long and slender with a very small internal diameter
	n. oval building with tiers of seats from central open space or arena
	adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.

cadenza

645

	a. intended to confuse in an argument
	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	v. keep from motion, or stop progress of; make calm or still
	a. every two years; lasting or living for two years

caitiff

646

	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place
	n. a placing opposite.
	adj. cowardly.

cajole

647

	v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
	a. easily approachable; warmly friendly
	n. washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite
	n. release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.

cajolery

648

	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
	n. delusive speech.
	n. act of two things flowing together; junction or meeting place where two things meet
	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.

calculable

649

	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of
	v. to give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
	a. inclined or eager to fight; aggressive
	adj. that may be estimated by reckoning.

calculus

650

	n. one who attacks.
	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree

callosity

651

	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	n. the state of being hard and insensible.
	adj. very repugnant; hateful.
	n. instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere

callow

652

	n. mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
	a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
	n. friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

calorie

653

	adj. rebellious.
	a. able to float; cheerful and optimistic
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	a. trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others

calumny

654

	n. sulfur.
	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
	n. intuitive sagacity or perception.
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

calvary

655

	n. the state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
	v. to conduct or behave (oneself).
	n. the place where christ was crucified.
	n. prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned

calvinism

656

	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
	n. the system of doctrine taught by john calvin.
	n. attachment.
	n. a person with whom another confers.

calvinize

657

	adv. an expression of assent.
	adj. fond of drinking.
	adj. sated with pleasure.
	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.

came

658

	n. the original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
	n. a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something
	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.

cameo

659

	n. the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
	n. piece of jewelry; a small scale used as a jewel for adornment; famous actor's special appearance in a minor role in film
	n. an abiding.
	n. the trunk or body of a tree.

campaign

660

	n. bitter hostility; active hatred; hostile feeling or act
	n. disorder; condition or place of great disorder or confusion; disorderly mass
	n. battle ;a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
	n. inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect

canaanite

661

	a. related to dogs; dog-like; affecting or derived from dogs
	v. calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
	n. a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of canaan, or western palestine.
	n. deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.

canary

662

	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned
	v. cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance

candid

663

	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	v. state without proof; assert to be true
	a. straightforward; frank; free from prejudice; impartial
	n. a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

candor

664

	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	n. deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
	adv. sufficiently.

canine

665

	a. related to dogs; dog-like; affecting or derived from dogs
	n. substance that causes loss of sensation; producing temporary loss or impairment of feeling
	v. associate; incorporate
	v. to free or clear, as from accusation.

canon

666

	adj. tending to one point.
	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	n. law or rule; decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by authority; books of the Bible officially accepted; a group of literary works
	n. the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.

cant

667

	v. cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
	n. inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect
	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole

cantata

668

	a. arousing or provoking laughter
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.
	a. warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; showing or having impulse to be combative
	n. story or poem set to music that can be sung by chorus

canto

669

	n. part or division of poem of some length
	n. a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.
	n. a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.

cantonment

670

	n. the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
	v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
	n. one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival
	n. a coming to stopping-place or destination.

capacious

671

	n. bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
	a. offensively self-assertive; liable to give or take offense; forward; pushing
	a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
	v. seize as forfeited to the public treasury; appropriate to the public use

capillary

672

	n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
	n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
	n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
	n. long and slender with a very small internal diameter

capitulate

673

	v. surrender; end all resistance; give up; go along with or comply
	n. one who attacks.
	n. proclamation.
	a. of or relating to the heart

caprice

674

	n. a response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
	n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
	adj. contributing to an end.
	n. sudden, unexpected fancy; impulsive change of mind

caption

675

	a. sky blue; light purplish-blue
	n. proclamation.
	n. the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
	n. title; chapter heading; text under illustration

captious

676

	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	a. intended to confuse in an argument
	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	adj. having or resembling human form.

captivate

677

	n. any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
	n. the highest point; point in orbit most distant from the body being orbited
	v. complete; consummate; make perfect
	v. charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to enemy

carcass

678

	n. symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
	v. to refer incidentally.
	n. dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.

cardiac

679

	n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
	a. of or relating to the heart
	n. a member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point

cardinal

680

	v. declare to be true; affirm
	a. chief; serving as an essential component
	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	v. leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution

caret

681

	v. to blend.
	n. message that is transmitted by radio or television; radio or television show
	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	a. happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously; substitute

caricature

682

	v. stoop or descend; let one's self down; submit; waive the privilege of rank or dignity
	n. representation that is deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect
	n. absence of governing body; state of disorder; political disorder and confusion
	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud

carnage

683

	n. destruction of life; savage and excessive killing of many people
	adj. affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
	adj. having the right or privilege of entry.
	n. science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification

carnal

684

	v. testify; authenticate, affirm to be true
	a. fleshly; of or relating to body or flesh; bodily
	n. elevation especially above sea level; height
	v. inform about; cause to come to know personally; make familiar

carnivorous

685

	a. reasonable and convincing; based on evidence; forcefully persuasive
	n. estrangement.
	a. capable of providing a correct reading or measurement; performing with care and precision
	a. eating or feeding on flesh; predatory

carouse

686

	v. to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
	v. seize as forfeited to the public treasury; appropriate to the public use
	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement

carrion

687

	n. dead and putrefying flesh.
	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.
	n. a title of jesus
	n. a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

cartilage

688

	n. one who engages in a conspiracy; plotter
	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
	n. similarity in form or character; agreement
	n. an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.

cartridge

689

	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	a. arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
	a. capable of using either hand with equal ease
	n. a charge for a firearm, or for blasting.

caste

690

	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	v. to be in pain or distress.
	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention

castigate

691

	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally
	n. a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
	adj. cone-bearing trees.
	v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication

casual

692

	adj. withered.
	adj. designed for gradual destruction.
	a. informal; purposeless; occurring by chance
	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way

casualty

693

	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	a. modern; belonging to the same period of time
	n. serious or fatal accident; someone injured or killed in an accident
	v. officially charge someone in a court of law

cataclysm

694

	a. of the same lineage or origin; having common ancestor
	n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water
	v. to await.
	n. a hollow projectile containing an explosive material.

cataract

695

	adj. before noon.
	v. to teach or imbue with the doctrines of calvinism.
	n. belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis
	n. large or high waterfall; eye abnormality

catastrophe

696

	a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
	n. feeling of deep regret; strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt
	n. calamity; disaster; state of extreme ruin and misfortune
	a. comparable; similar or alike

cathode

697

	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.
	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	n. the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
	a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad

catholicism

698

	v. to make the first attack.
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	a. quickly perceptive; keen; having a sharp point or tip; extremely sharp or severe
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.

catholicity

699

	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use
	n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
	n. universal prevalence or acceptance.
	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.

caucus

700

	n. private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy
	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality
	a. thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope
	a. compatible; harmonious

causal

701

	n. passage from one form or state to another; change
	n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole
	a. implying cause-and-effect relationship
	n. subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity

caustic

702

	n. group of closely located islands
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	a. capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
	adj. of or pertaining to lord bacon or his system of philosophy.

cauterize

703

	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.
	a. awake; alert
	v. make obsolete or old-fashioned
	n. estrangement.

cede

704

	v. yield or formally resign and surrender to another
	a. helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
	v. make clear and comprehensible; elucidate
	a. large destructive fire; burning; large-scale military conflict

censor

705

	n. faction; tribe; division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor; a large group of relatives
	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	n. overseer of morals; official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

censorious

706

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure
	n. passive consent.
	a. tree-dwelling; treelike; living in trees

census

707

	n. official examination of the details of a country's population
	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	n. a grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
	n. group of closely located islands

centenary

708

	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
	a. rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander
	a. relating to a 100-year period; occurring once every 100 years

centiliter

709

	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention
	n. a hundredth of a liter.
	a. nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing
	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use

centimeter

710

	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	v. believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
	n. a length of one hundredth of a meter.
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.

centurion

711

	n. attachment.
	n. dictator; ruler having unlimited power
	n. officer of ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers or minor division
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.

cereal

712

	v. to set apart as sacred.
	n. the communication of disease from person to person.
	n. grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food.
	v. to be a friend to, especially when in need.

ceremonial

713

	n. ritual; ceremony or rite
	v. let off hook; relieve of requirement or obligation
	n. kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity

ceremonious

714

	a. marked by formality; strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony or ritual
	n. any article of personal property.
	v. seek to attain; long for; strive toward an end
	a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions

cessation

715

	v. contradict; give a false impression
	n. the communication of disease from person to person.
	v. charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to enemy
	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing

cession

716

	n. inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect
	adj. very repugnant; hateful.
	n. yielding to another; ceding or surrendering
	n. a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.

chameleon

717

	a. helper, additional or subsidiary
	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	n. lizard that changes color in different situations
	n. hatred or dread of england or of what is english.

chancery

718

	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.
	v. inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
	n. impressive country house or castle in France; large country house
	n. a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.

chaos

719

	n. disorder; condition or place of great disorder or confusion; disorderly mass
	adj. having the right or privilege of entry.
	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	n. enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit; any deep, immeasurable space; hell

characteristic

720

	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
	v. refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
	n. elevation especially above sea level; height
	n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.

characterize

721

	v. take part in a trial performance; evaluate in a trial performance
	n. quack; one who pretends to knowledge, skill, or importance
	adj. having no distinct sexual organs.
	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of

charlatan

722

	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
	n. quack; one who pretends to knowledge, skill, or importance
	n. assumed name; another name; name that has been assumed temporarily
	a. of the same kin; related by blood

chasten

723

	n. a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation
	n. the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the greek, roman, and anglican church.
	v. rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth

chastise

724

	v. punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
	v. let off hook; relieve of requirement or obligation
	n. any article of personal property.
	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker

chastity

725

	n. state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
	v. occur at the same time as; correspond
	n. any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion
	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing

chateau

726

	v. to blend.
	n. impressive country house or castle in France; large country house
	n. union of diverse things into one body or form or group; growing together of parts
	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something

chattel

727

	n. any article of personal property.
	n. solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse
	n. shutting up of a place by troops or ships; obstruction to passage
	n. narrative or record of events; reason given for a particular action or event

check

728

	v. fasten; append; add on; secure to something
	v. stop motion; curb or restrain
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	v. be face to face with; oppose in hostility or competition; deal with

chiffon

729

	n. sickness; illness; affliction
	n. in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of maryland or virginia.
	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.

chivalry

730

	n. prolongation; extension by which something is carried to a further point
	n. one of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble
	n. courtesy towards women
	v. muddle; drive crazy; become confused

cholera

731

	n. a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
	n. an animal having two feet.
	n. an acute epidemic disease.
	v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.

choleric

732

	a. hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger
	n. one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
	n. oval building with tiers of seats from central open space or arena
	a. helper, additional or subsidiary

choral

733

	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	adj. joined together in pairs.
	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract
	adj. pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.

christ

734

	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings
	a. arousing or provoking laughter
	n. a title of jesus
	n. boaster; one given to loud, empty boasting; very talkative person

christen

735

	n. act of accompanying someone or something
	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
	n. ritual; ceremony or rite
	v. to name in baptism.

christendom

736

	n. the state or quality of being in accord with.
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
	n. that part of the world where christianity is generally professed.

chromatic

737

	adj. belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
	n. trade forbidden by law or treaty.
	v. to make the first attack.
	n. arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured

chronology

738

	n. time sequence; arrangement of events in time
	n. person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause
	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing

chronometer

739

	v. leave to someone by a will; hand down
	adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	n. a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.

cipher

740

	n. secret code; an Arabic numeral or figure; a number
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
	n. state of being allied; act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties
	a. of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; showing a fighting disposition

circulate

741

	a. of or relating to the heart
	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
	n. the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
	v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point

circumference

742

	n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest
	a. offensively self-assertive; liable to give or take offense; forward; pushing

circumlocution

743

	a. chief; serving as an essential component
	a. of the same kin; related by blood
	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
	n. indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing

circumnavigate

744

	v. make shiny by rubbing; polish
	v. to sail quite around.
	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
	n. attachment.

circumscribe

745

	v. limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle
	a. possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
	a. eating or feeding on flesh; predatory
	adj. reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.

circumspect

746

	a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	n. harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
	adj. sated with pleasure.

citadel

747

	v. acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
	ad. even though; although; notwithstanding
	n. secret code; an Arabic numeral or figure; a number
	n. fortress; fortified place which people could go for shelter during battle

cite

748

	adj. pertaining to king arthur, the real or legendary hero of british poetic story.
	v. to make widely or generally known.
	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	v. quote; adduce as an instance

claimant

749

	n. mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
	a. wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp intelligence
	n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another

clairvoyance

750

	n. intuitive sagacity or perception.
	v. border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
	n. ritual; ceremony or rite
	v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering

clamorous

751

	a. speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud
	v. limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle
	n. a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.

clan

752

	n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.
	n. faction; tribe; division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor; a large group of relatives
	n. using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency
	n. a flowering shrub.

clandestine

753

	v. regret strongly; express disapproval of
	a. secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
	adj. colorless,
	v. to set apart as sacred.

clangor

754

	n. loud, resounding noise; sharp, metallic, ringing sound; resonant, clanging sound
	n. using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency
	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	n. passage from one form or state to another; change

clarify

755

	v. make clear and comprehensible; elucidate
	n. a privilege or possession into which one is born.
	v. make shiny by rubbing; polish
	adj. withered.

clarion

756

	adj. delicate, ethereal.
	n. a small shrill trumpet or bugle.
	n. a bibliographical sketch or notice.
	a. randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle

classify

757

	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
	a. implying cause-and-effect relationship
	v. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories
	n. act of yielding; point yielded; acknowledgment or admission

clearance

758

	v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication
	n. act of clearing; space cleared; permission to proceed or trust
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
	n. breaking of contract or duty

clemency

759

	adj. of or pertaining to the ear.
	v. bump; hit; conflict
	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.
	n. mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act

clement

760

	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
	n. an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
	v. claim without justification; claim for oneself without right
	adj. compassionate.

clothier

761

	n. one who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
	n. faction; tribe; division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor; a large group of relatives
	a. formless; lacking shape or definition
	n. soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash; one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, and ammonia

clumsy

762

	a. awkward; showing lack of skill or aptitude
	a. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
	a. diligent; responsible; reliable
	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.

coagulant

763

	adj. producing coagulation.
	n. a tree.
	n. any article of personal property.
	n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.

coagulate

764

	v. cause transformation of liquid into or as if into soft, semisolid, or solid mass
	v. take into custody; arrest a criminal; grasp mentally; perceive
	n. a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
	n. something as bars at edges to absorb shock and prevent serious damage

coalescence

765

	n. act of assassinating; killing by treacherous violence; murder of public figure by surprise attack
	n. rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat
	n. act of accompanying someone or something
	n. union of diverse things into one body or form or group; growing together of parts

coalition

766

	n. partnership; league; state of being combined into one body
	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something
	a. flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.

coddle

767

	a. abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
	n. flood.
	n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point

codicil

768

	n. the act of rising.
	n. fee for services; group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize
	n. clowning; arts and practices of buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures
	n. supplement or appendix, especially to a will

coerce

769

	v. restrain by force, especially by law or authority; repress; curb
	n. madhouse.
	v. bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over
	n. secret code; an Arabic numeral or figure; a number

coercion

770

	n. the united kingdom of great britain.
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	a. diligent; responsible; reliable
	n. use of force to get someone to obey

coercive

771

	n. independence; self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination
	adj. serving or tending to force.
	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance

cogent

772

	a. favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room
	a. confirmative; ratifying; giving assent or approval; confirming
	a. reasonable and convincing; based on evidence; forcefully persuasive

cognate

773

	n. large or high waterfall; eye abnormality
	n. the lowest or deepest female voice or part.
	n. bringing or coming to end; ceasing
	a. related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function

cognizant

774

	n. feeling secure or certain about something
	adv. in progress.
	adj. taking notice.
	a. helper, additional or subsidiary

cohere

775

	n. component or part; citizen, voter
	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
	v. stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation
	v. inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality

cohesion

776

	n. a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
	n. state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune
	n. tendency to keep together
	n. confederate; partner; collaborator

cohesive

777

	n. one who trains horses, dogs, etc.
	a. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
	a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule

coincide

778

	v. pile up; collect; mount up; increase
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	v. occur at the same time as; correspond
	v. to change into acid.

coincidence

779

	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	n. any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
	n. two or more things occurring at the same time by chance
	a. marked by formality; strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony or ritual

coincident

780

	n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
	adj. characterized by charity and kindness.
	a. concerning; simultaneous
	adj. that may be estimated by reckoning.

collaborate

781

	n. a very detestable act or practice.
	v. quote; adduce as an instance
	n. a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of great britain or the british.
	v. work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort

collapse

782

	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	v. breakdown; failure
	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	v. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories

collapsible

783

	n. feeling secure or certain about something
	adj. that may or can collapse.
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
	n. letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise

colleague

784

	n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker
	n. a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
	n. sharp and bitter manner
	v. to mean; signify.

collective

785

	n. state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune
	a. common; assembled into or viewed as a whole
	v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
	n. coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important

collector

786

	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
	v. pester; annoy persistently; persuade through constant efforts
	n. a tree.
	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.

collegian

787

	n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
	adj. affected with anemia.
	n. the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
	n. a college student.

collide

788

	v. bump; hit; conflict
	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
	v. to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
	a. broken off; very steep; having sudden transitions from one subject to another

collier

789

	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art
	n. quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
	n. one who works in a coal-mine.

collision

790

	n. crash; conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
	a. trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others
	a. moved by sexual love; loving
	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league

colloquial

791

	n. a small shrill trumpet or bugle.
	n. one who navigates the air, a balloonist.
	n. portion.
	a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty

colloquialism

792

	v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
	a. rude and clumsy in behavior; ungentlemanly; awkward in manners
	n. mental keenness; quickness of perception
	n. colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

colloquy

793

	n. conversation.
	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings
	n. passive consent.
	v. to exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.

collusion

794

	v. estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
	v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
	n. blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes
	n. secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy

colossus

795

	v. to await.
	v. to make of or ornament with brass.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	n. officer of ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers or minor division

comely

796

	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	v. serve as a memorial to; honor the memory of with a ceremony
	adj. producing coagulation.

comestible

797

	n. use of force to get someone to obey
	v. blame; condemn
	adj. fit to be eaten.
	n. complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease

comical

798

	v. to change into acid.
	a. arousing or provoking laughter
	n. contestant you hope to defeat
	a. related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function

commemorate

799

	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
	v. declare to be true; affirm
	n. small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy
	v. serve as a memorial to; honor the memory of with a ceremony

commentary

800

	n. written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
	v. surrender; end all resistance; give up; go along with or comply
	v. treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point
	a. moved by sexual love; loving

commingle

801

	n. one who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures; droll; mimic; clown
	n. benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
	a. marked by formality; strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony or ritual
	v. to blend.

commissariat

802

	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.
	n. the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	n. destruction of life; savage and excessive killing of many people

commission

803

	n. fee for services; group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize
	v. form by an exercise of ingenuity; devise; invent; design
	n. recognition.
	v. precede; go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order

commitment

804

	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
	n. a title of jesus
	n. a college student.
	adj. invulnerable.

committal

805

	n. the act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
	a. infectious; of or relating to communicable diseases
	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. passive consent.

commodity

806

	n. any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
	n. goods; article of trade; advantage; benefit.
	a. having power to advice; containing advice
	a. warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; showing or having impulse to be combative

commotion

807

	n. fortress; fortified place which people could go for shelter during battle
	n. disturbed or violent motion; agitation; public disturbance; riot; excitement
	adj. sated with pleasure.
	n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

commute

808

	n. the highest point; point in orbit most distant from the body being orbited
	n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
	n. any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
	v. obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; travel regularly from a place of residence to another place

comparable

809

	n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
	n. one who or that which accompanies.
	n. elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with

comparative

810

	a. unclear or doubtful in meaning
	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	a. relative; based on, or involving comparison
	n. gift giver; person who gives people or institutions with financial help

comparison

811

	n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
	a. capable of using either hand with equal ease
	v. to bring forward or name for consideration.
	v. to contend angrily or zealously in words.

compensate

812

	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	a. concerning; simultaneous
	v. make amends for; reimburse
	v. to make supremely happy.

competence

813

	n. a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
	n. a list of names; a register for visitors; a blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs
	a. kindly; favorable; not malignant

competent

814

	n. ornamental clasp; decorative pin worn by women
	a. capable; adept
	v. charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to enemy
	adj. contributing to an end.

competitive

815

	a. leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere
	a. of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; showing a fighting disposition
	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	v. to make the first attack.

competitor

816

	a. easily approachable; warmly friendly
	n. one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival
	v. depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
	n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object

complacent

817

	n. condition of being dependent on chance; uncertainty; possibility
	n. battle ;a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
	adj. pleased or satisfied with oneself.
	n. one who attacks.

complaisance

818

	a. endowed with life; alive; living; animated
	n. politeness.
	n. doing; bother; troublesome business; fuss; bustle
	n. mental keenness; quickness of perception

complaisant

819

	n. an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
	n. a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of great britain or the british.
	a. trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others
	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together

complement

820

	v. officially charge someone in a court of law
	n. a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
	v. complete; consummate; make perfect
	adj. producing coagulation.

complex

821

	n. message that is transmitted by radio or television; radio or television show
	a. complicated in structure; a whole structure, as a building, made up of interconnected or related structures
	n. a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
	n. diversion.

compliant

822

	n. a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
	a. yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply
	v. inform about; cause to come to know personally; make familiar
	n. the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.

complicate

823

	v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
	n. sudden, unexpected fancy; impulsive change of mind
	v. to make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
	v. provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part

complication

824

	n. complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
	n. symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
	a. exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome

complicity

825

	v. recover gradually from an illness
	v. to collect into a mass.
	n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing
	n. science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification

compliment

826

	n. amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
	n. one who has two spouses at the same time.
	n. friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
	n. praise; commendation; say something to someone that expresses praise

component

827

	a. arising from feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others
	a. like corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body
	n. element; ingredient; abstract part of something
	a. of the air or atmosphere; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air

comport

828

	n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water
	adj. divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
	v. to conduct or behave (oneself).

composure

829

	v. to conduct or behave (oneself).
	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
	n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
	n. word of opposite meaning; counter term

comprehensible

830

	v. agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible
	n. annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
	n. official examination of the details of a country's population

comprehension

831

	a. helper, additional or subsidiary
	n. one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
	a. concerning; simultaneous
	n. grasp; ability to understand

comprehensive

832

	n. gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
	a. not counterfeit or copied; valid; trustworthy
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	a. thorough; including all or everything; broad in scope

compress

833

	n. fee for services; group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize
	n. the act of detesting extremely.
	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract
	n. brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness

compressible

834

	n. the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
	adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
	a. possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
	n. an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.

compression

835

	n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
	adj. of, pertaining to, or containing water.
	n. official examination of the details of a country's population
	n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts

comprise

836

	v. to be in pain or distress.
	n. absolute government.
	v. include; consist of; be composed of
	a. trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others

compulsion

837

	v. border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
	n. act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint
	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	n. detailed analysis; branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals

compulsory

838

	n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
	n. attachment.
	a. mandatory; obligatory; required by rule
	n. incorporated town that is not a city; association of men who gave pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other

compunction

839

	n. feeling of deep regret; strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt
	n. a salt of acetic acid.
	v. beg; plead with; ask for or request earnestly
	n. an ox.

compute

840

	v. reckon; make mathematical calculation
	n. a flowering shrub.
	n. a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
	n. estrangement.

concede

841

	n. fee for services; group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize
	v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
	v. admit; yield; give up physical control of another
	a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye

conceit

842

	n. any article of personal property.
	n. the system, doctrine, and practice of the roman catholic church.
	n. overly high self-esteem; feelings of excessive pride
	n. secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy

conceive

843

	v. form or develop in the mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
	v. include; consist of; be composed of
	n. any article of personal property.
	n. short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography

concerto

844

	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
	n. composition for orchestra and a soloist
	n. a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible

concession

845

	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	adj. designed for gradual destruction.
	n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
	n. act of yielding; point yielded; acknowledgment or admission

conciliate

846

	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct
	v. to obtain the friendship of.
	n. the place in which a consul transacts official business.
	v. to mean; signify.

conciliatory

847

	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
	n. general structure, form, or outline.
	v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose
	a. making or willing to yield, or to make concessions

conclusive

848

	a. definitive; decisive; final
	adj. harmonious.
	n. a condensed form as of a book or play.
	n. the buttocks.

concord

849

	n. enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit; any deep, immeasurable space; hell
	adj. designed to excite love.
	n. group of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister; hut; cottage; small house; small room; closet
	n. agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things

concordance

850

	n. harmony.
	adj. notoriously bad.
	a. of the same lineage or origin; having common ancestor
	v. speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something

concur

851

	v. to agree.
	a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
	v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of.
	v. to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.

concurrence

852

	n. pl. members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
	n. one who navigates the air, a balloonist.
	a. coarsely insulting; physically harmful; characterized by improper or wrongful use
	n. agreement.

concurrent

853

	adj. having the right or privilege of entry.
	n. one who or that which regulates or directs.
	n. the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
	a. simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time

concussion

854

	n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
	n. any dialectic pronunciation of english, especially that of the irish people.
	n. shaking or agitation; shock; injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow
	v. bully; intimidate; discourage or frighten with threats

condensation

855

	n. a boat-song of venetian gondoliers.
	n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water
	a. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
	n. compression

condense

856

	n. criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force
	v. to give grief or sorrow to.
	v. change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; compress or concentrate
	n. the system of doctrine taught by john calvin.

condescend

857

	v. stoop or descend; let one's self down; submit; waive the privilege of rank or dignity
	a. relative; based on, or involving comparison
	n. support; active pleading on behalf of something
	n. benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.

condolence

858

	n. act of clearing; space cleared; permission to proceed or trust
	n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
	n. grasp; ability to understand
	n. one who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.

conduce

859

	n. substance that prevents infection; substance that restricts the growth of disease-causing microorganisms
	v. to bring about.
	n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing
	n. partner in crime; associate in wrongdoing

conducive

860

	adj. contributing to an end.
	n. brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	a. being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status

conductible

861

	n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
	v. to conduct or behave (oneself).
	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.

conduit

862

	v. to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
	n. act of yielding; point yielded; acknowledgment or admission
	n. a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.

confectionery

863

	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
	n. boaster; one given to loud, empty boasting; very talkative person
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise

confederacy

864

	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract
	adj. capable of being conducted or transmitted.
	n. alliance
	n. raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity

confederate

865

	n. ally; form a group or unite
	n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals.
	v. lead into perplexity or confusion; perplex with mazes
	n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball.

confer

866

	n. state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force
	a. eager; keen; worried; uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter
	v. make or become better; improve; grow better
	v. bestow; present; have a conference in order to talk something over

conferee

867

	v. mismanage; blunder; work or act in clumsy, awkward, or blundering manner
	v. do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
	n. a person with whom another confers.
	a. assured; having or marked by assurance

confessor

868

	a. free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
	n. a spiritual advisor.
	adj. affected with anemia.
	n. a chest of drawers for clothing, etc.

confidant

869

	n. one to whom secrets are entrusted.
	n. one who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
	n. the state or quality of being in accord with.
	v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided

confide

870

	n. social science that studies origins and social relationships of human beings
	v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; transfer property or ownership; isolate or dissociate emotionally
	v. make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
	v. disclose; reveal; tell in confidence

confidence

871

	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	n. feeling secure or certain about something
	a. related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function
	v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly

confident

872

	a. assured; having or marked by assurance
	a. strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented
	n. something overdue and unpaid.
	n. the science of life or living organisms.

confinement

873

	n. state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force
	v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm
	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	n. time sequence; arrangement of events in time

confiscate

874

	n. one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; rival
	v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
	v. seize as forfeited to the public treasury; appropriate to the public use
	a. intended to confuse in an argument

conflagration

875

	n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements; wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital
	a. large destructive fire; burning; large-scale military conflict
	adj. connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
	n. recognition.

confluence

876

	v. believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality
	n. act of two things flowing together; junction or meeting place where two things meet
	n. the art or practice of flying aircraft

confluent

877

	v. assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention
	n. an animal of microscopic smallness.
	v. to make supremely happy.
	n. a stream that unites with another.

conformable

878

	v. prevent; turn or cause to turn off or away
	n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
	adj. harmonious.
	adj. compassionate.

conformance

879

	n. a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
	n. the act or state or conforming.
	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
	v. support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion

conformation

880

	n. general structure, form, or outline.
	v. to make widely or generally known.
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down
	n. similarity in form or character; agreement

conformity

881

	a. possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
	v. to mean; signify.
	n. similarity in form or character; agreement
	n. any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion

confront

882

	v. be face to face with; oppose in hostility or competition; deal with
	n. proximity.
	a. in opposing direction; harmful or unfavorable; acting or serving to oppose
	v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble

congeal

883

	a. sky blue; light purplish-blue
	v. to remind oneself.
	v. to coagulate.
	v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication

congenial

884

	v. stoop or descend; let one's self down; submit; waive the privilege of rank or dignity
	a. compatible
	v. take part in a trial performance; evaluate in a trial performance
	n. letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise

congest

885

	n. a number of stars seen from the Earth as a group and often having a name
	n. secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy
	v. to collect into a mass.
	adj. pertaining to st. augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.

congregate

886

	n. one who or that which regulates or directs.
	v. assemble; convene; gather
	a. beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
	n. chronological record of the events of successive years

coniferous

887

	n. a coming to stopping-place or destination.
	adj. cone-bearing trees.
	a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected

conjecture

888

	v. believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	adj. pertaining to king arthur, the real or legendary hero of british poetic story.
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected

conjoin

889

	n. sulfur.
	v. to unite.
	n. one who engages in a conspiracy; plotter
	n. hillside.

conjugal

890

	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	v. move faster; cause to develop or progress more quickly; occur sooner than expected
	a. belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial
	n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole

conjugate

891

	adj. joined together in pairs.
	adv. once more.
	v. analyze; evaluate; examine by trial or experiment; put to test
	a. easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with

conjugation

892

	n. chronological record of the events of successive years
	a. having properties of vinegar; sour
	n. the state or condition of being joined together.
	n. coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important

conjunction

893

	n. release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
	n. state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league
	v. to make the first attack.
	n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.

connive

894

	a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye
	v. to be in collusion.
	n. a fleet of warships; a large group of moving things
	adj. living, occurring, or existing at the same time.

connoisseur

895

	v. give up or surrender; deny something to oneself
	a. dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
	a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious
	n. specialist; person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts

connote

896

	v. to mean; signify.
	n. private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy
	a. randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
	v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of

connubial

897

	v. to smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
	adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
	n. large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
	n. active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor

conquer

898

	n. a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
	v. parcel out in parts or portions; distribute to each individual concerned; assign as a share or lot
	a. nonprofessional; lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art
	v. gain or acquire by force; take possession of by violent means; gain dominion over

consanguineous

899

	a. of the same lineage or origin; having common ancestor
	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	v. calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
	v. to change into acid.

conscience

900

	n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles; source of moral or ethical judgment
	v. to await.
	n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
	v. analyze; evaluate; examine by trial or experiment; put to test

conscientious

901

	well n. a very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
	a. diligent; responsible; reliable
	v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
	n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

conscious

902

	a. awake; alert
	n. restraint from eating or drinking; refraining from indulging appetite or desire
	v. to strike with or as with the head, or horns.
	a. understandable; readily comprehended or understood; intelligible

conscript

903

	a. compatible; harmonious
	adj. characterized by craft or cunning.
	v. to force into military service.
	n. group of closely located islands

consecrate

904

	a. worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean
	n. the act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
	v. to set apart as sacred.
	adj. taking notice.

consecutive

905

	n. one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
	n. induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
	a. following one after another without interruption; sequential
	n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.

consensus

906

	n. school for special instruction; society of scholars, scientists, or artists
	n. conversation.
	n. blessedness; state of extreme happiness
	n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole

conservatism

907

	n. a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
	n. grasp; ability to understand
	n. the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
	adj. delicate, ethereal.

conservative

908

	a. favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
	a. pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
	a. of the same lineage or origin; having common ancestor
	n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.

conservatory

909

	v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
	a. ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
	n. greenhouse; school of music or dramatic art
	n. passive consent.

consign

910

	ad. even though; although; notwithstanding
	a. compatible; harmonious
	n. a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
	v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another

consignee

911

	n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
	n. a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
	n. indictment; charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down

consignor

912

	v. be earlier in time; go back further
	n. the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
	n. one who entrusts.
	v. close; squeeze or press together; contract

consistency

913

	a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
	n. book of literary selections by various authors
	v. luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
	n. harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

console

914

	v. cheer from distress or depression; alleviate grief and raise spirits of; relieve; comfort
	adj. having the nature of a tree.
	n. the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
	n. hard coal.

consolidate

915

	v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
	a. simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time
	v. make solid; unite or press together into a compact mass; harden or make dense and firm
	v. to burn or sear as with a heated iron.

consonance

916

	n. the state or quality of being in accord with.
	v. give, transfer, or deliver in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another
	a. strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented
	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action

consonant

917

	n. universal prevalence or acceptance.
	a. compatible; harmonious
	n. estrangement.
	a. capable of using either hand with equal ease

consort

918

	v. to predict.
	n. restraint from eating or drinking; refraining from indulging appetite or desire
	a. easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with
	v. associate; join

conspicuous

919

	a. confirmative; ratifying; giving assent or approval; confirming
	a. noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious
	n. a college student.
	n. an abiding.

conspirator

920

	n. one who engages in a conspiracy; plotter
	v. restrain by force, especially by law or authority; repress; curb
	n. mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
	n. any opponent or enemy of christ, whether a person or a power.

conspire

921

	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	a. compatible; harmonious
	v. diagnose; examine
	v. make a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; plot together

constable

922

	v. punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
	v. reckon; make mathematical calculation
	n. an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
	n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required

constellation

923

	n. brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness
	n. a number of stars seen from the Earth as a group and often having a name
	n. greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
	n. a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.

consternation

924

	n. pl. property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
	n. mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
	n. the denial of the existence of god.

constituency

925

	n. an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
	n. any strikingly great person or object.
	v. bump; hit; conflict
	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.

constituent

926

	n. unit of heat; unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
	n. large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
	n. component or part; citizen, voter
	n. the original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.

constrict

927

	v. restrict; shrink; make smaller or narrower by binding or squeezing
	n. one who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
	v. let off hook; relieve of requirement or obligation
	v. to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.

consul

928

	v. to make the first attack.
	a. fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
	n. an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
	n. the practical unit of electric-current strength.

consulate

929

	v. to be in collusion.
	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
	n. the place in which a consul transacts official business.
	a. capable; adept

consummate

930

	v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
	v. combine; unite in one body; mix or alloy a metal with mercury
	a. carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect
	n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance

consumption

931

	n. frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
	adj. of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
	n. eating or drinking of something
	n. the state of being adjacent.

consumptive

932

	adj. designed for gradual destruction.
	v. to make familiar by use.
	v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
	n. contestant you hope to defeat

contagion

933

	v. move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
	n. specialist; person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts
	n. the communication of disease from person to person.
	a. following one after another without interruption; sequential

contagious

934

	a. large destructive fire; burning; large-scale military conflict
	a. perceptible; heard or perceptible by the ear
	a. infectious; of or relating to communicable diseases
	n. brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness

contaminate

935

	n. composition; order
	a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted
	a. kindly; favorable; not malignant
	v. make impure or unclean by contact or mixture; pollute; defile

contemplate

936

	adj. doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
	v. look at attentively and thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
	v. to take when offered.
	v. disparage or depreciate; put down

contemporaneous

937

	adj. broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
	n. act of contributing; payment exacted for special purpose; impost or levy
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	adj. living, occurring, or existing at the same time.

contemporary

938

	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
	n. place where different tree varieties are exhibited
	n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
	a. modern; belonging to the same period of time

contemptible

939

	v. to accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
	a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
	a. worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean
	v. to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.

contemptuous

940

	n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water
	a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
	v. to mean; signify.
	n. nook; small, recessed section of a room

contender

941

	n. a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation
	a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
	n. contestant you hope to defeat
	adj. capable of being appealed to.

contiguity

942

	n. short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
	n. a stream that unites with another.
	n. soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash; one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, and ammonia
	n. proximity.

contiguous

943

	n. one who advocates or practices altruism.
	v. provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part
	a. sharing an edge or boundary; touching; neighboring
	v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly

continence

944

	n. self control; self restraint; partial or complete abstention from sexual activity
	a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions
	n. that which nourishes.
	n. a coarse, heavy shoe.

contingency

945

	v. charm; enthrall; seize by force, as an enemy in war, or anything belonging to enemy
	n. deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
	v. to make of or ornament with brass.
	n. condition of being dependent on chance; uncertainty; possibility

contingent

946

	a. simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time
	a. possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
	n. the business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
	a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions

continuance

947

	a. generous in providing aid to others; charitable
	v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
	a. making or willing to yield, or to make concessions
	n. permanence.

continuation

948

	n. a privilege or possession into which one is born.
	n. condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; deficiency of red blood cells; lack of vitality
	v. pester; annoy persistently; persuade through constant efforts
	n. prolongation; extension by which something is carried to a further point

continuity

949

	v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
	n. pledge, undertaking; act of binding yourself to a course of action
	adj. outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
	n. property of a continuous and connected period of time

continuous

950

	n. one who or that which accompanies.
	adj. connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
	a. diligent; responsible; reliable
	n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.

contort

951

	v. stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation
	v. to twist into a misshapen form.
	v. resent; give or expend with reluctance; be envious of
	a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy

contraband

952

	n. the dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
	n. the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
	n. trade forbidden by law or treaty.

contradiction

953

	n. assertion of contrary; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; opposition, whether by argument or conduct
	a. sky blue; light purplish-blue
	n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
	adj. harmonious.

contradictory

954

	a. nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing
	v. travel with; be associated with
	a. following one after another without interruption; sequential
	n. an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.

contraposition

955

	n. a number of stars seen from the Earth as a group and often having a name
	v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
	n. a placing opposite.
	a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure

contravene

956

	v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of.
	a. extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
	n. large or high waterfall; eye abnormality
	n. a title of jesus

contribution

957

	adj. sated with pleasure.
	n. act of contributing; payment exacted for special purpose; impost or levy
	v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
	n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.

contributor

958

	n. one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
	v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
	n. a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of great britain or the british.
	n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.

contrite

959

	n. the buttocks.
	v. to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
	v. to award or bestow by formal decision.
	adj. broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.

contrivance

960

	adj. saintly.
	n. the act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
	n. a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
	n. act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest

contrive

961

	adj. designed to excite love.
	n. one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position
	v. form by an exercise of ingenuity; devise; invent; design
	adj. taking notice.

control

962

	v. prevent; turn or cause to turn off or away
	n. an angel of high rank.
	v. to exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
	n. the highest point or level, as of achievement or development; maturity or perfection of animal

controller

963

	v. to make desolate with loneliness and grief.
	v. authorize; commission; give credit for
	n. a narrow strip of wood.
	n. one who or that which regulates or directs.

contumacious

964

	n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
	n. largeness.
	n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
	adj. rebellious.

contumacy

965

	a. of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing
	n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
	v. approach; tend to meet; come together
	n. contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.

contuse

966

	v. gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
	v. to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
	n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing
	a. easily approachable; warmly friendly

contusion

967

	adj. fit to be eaten.
	n. portion.
	v. to indulge in profane oaths.
	n. injury that doesn't break the skin

convalesce

968

	v. recover gradually from an illness
	a. dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
	n. a peculiar sense in which an english word or phrase is used in the united states.
	a. related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization; based on formal education

convalescence

969

	n. the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
	n. indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
	n. unrestricted power.
	n. an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.

convalescent

970

	n. the act of detesting extremely.
	n. popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
	adj. recovering health after sickness.
	n. self control; self restraint; partial or complete abstention from sexual activity

convene

971

	v. equip; provide with military equipment
	n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
	v. cause to come together formally
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror

convenience

972

	n. state of being suitable
	a. related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function
	n. inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
	a. similar or equivalent; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with

converge

973

	n. one who manages a government agency or department
	n. complexity; intricacy; any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of another disease
	a. being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
	v. approach; tend to meet; come together

convergent

974

	adj. tending to one point.
	n. person with power to decide a dispute; judge
	n. overseer of morals; official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
	n. intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror

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