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- ABHORTo regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- AVIARYA house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse.
- BOVINEOf, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- BROACHA series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- BUNGA stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- CANDORThe state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
- CARTEA bill of fare; a menu.
- CHAFEHeat excited by friction.
- CIRCASynonym of around, about, approximately, particularly used with historical dating.
- CORPUSA collection of written or spoken texts. Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- DELUXEVery fine in quality or luxurious.
- DEVOLUTIONA rolling down.
- DIFFIDENCEThe state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.
- DIGITA position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system.
- DILATETo enlarge; to make bigger.
- DIVULGETo make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
- DOWERThe part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- DOWRYPayment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
- ENTRAILSplural of entrail The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
- EVINCETo show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
- EXCULPATETo clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.
- EXEMPLARSomething fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.
- FASCIAA wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
- FATUOUSObnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- FECUNDHighly fertile; able to produce offspring.
- FEMINISMA social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of publi
- FETIDFoul-smelling, stinking.
- FIATAn arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- FOMENTTo incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- GLADIATORA person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- GRADIENTA slope or incline.
- GRAILThe Holy Grail.
- HOMAGEA demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
- HUMIDITYDampness, especially that of the air.
- IGNOBLENot noble; plebeian; common.
- INCREASE(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- INCUBUSAn evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
- LEISUREFreedom provided by the cessation of activities.
- NATUREThe way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distin
- NOELA kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
- OBITThe death of a person.
- OCCLUDETo obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
- PALADINA heroic champion, especially a knight.
- PENDTo hang down; to cause something to hang down
- PENULTIMATENext to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- PORCINEOf, pertaining to, or being a pig.
- PRURIENTUneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
- PUBISThe pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
- PULSATETo expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- REAGENTA compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
- REDUXOf a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
- REGENTOne who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
- RELICThat which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.
- SEVERTo cut free.
- STAMINAThe energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
- TIBIAThe inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone.
- TITANIUMA chemical element (symbol Ti), atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc.
- TRIDENTA three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.
- VAPIDOffering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
- VERDANTGreen in colour.
- VIOLETA plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; similar-looking plants and flowers.