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- ADULATOROne who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.
- ADUNCITYCrookedness, curvaceousness, hookedness.
- APERTopen; uncovered; revealed
- COHERENTUnified; sticking together; making up a whole.
- DAMSELA young woman (of noble birth).
- DEALBATIONThe process or act of becoming or being made white, most commonly by bleaching; whitening.
- DELIRATIONaberration of the mind; delirium
- DEPURATIONThe removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
- DERAIGNTo prove or refute, especially through combat.
- DESCRYTo announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
- DESPICABLEFit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
- DESPOLIATIONA stripping or plundering; spoliation.
- DIAPHANEITYtransparency
- DIMISSORYGranting permission to be ordained.
- DISCERPTo tear into pieces; to rend.
- DISCREPANTShowing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
- DIVERTICULUMA small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
- DUBITANCYDoubt; uncertainty.
- ERINACEOUSOf, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
- EXTRANEOUSNot belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.
- FALCHIONA somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao
- FECUNDATETo make fertile.
- FRIVOLOUSSilly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a caprice or whim.
- FULCRUMThe support about which a lever pivots.
- FUTILEIncapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- GLUTENFibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
- GNOMEAn elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
- GRAVITASSeriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
- INFUSCATETo darken; to make black or obscure.
- JEOPARDYDanger of failure, harm, or loss.
- MUSICALOf, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
- PALATINEHaving local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. Subject to palatine authority.
- PEDESTRIANOf or intended for those who are walking.
- PERSIFLAGEGood-natured banter; raillery.
- PERSONALITYOf people, a set of non-physical psychological and social qualities that make one person distinct from another.
- PREDILECTIONA condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.
- PROFULGENTShining out; gleaming.
- PURVEYTo prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- QUADRIGAA Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
- QUADRIVIUMThe higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
- QUADRUMANEHaving four limbs with hand-like extremities and opposable digits; quadrumanous; loosely, "ape-like".
- QUAERETo ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
- QUAESITUMSomething sought or required.
- RESOLUTEFirm, unyielding, determined.
- RESOLUTIONA firm decision or an official decision.
- SIPHUNCLEA strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod, used primarily in emptying water from new chambers as the shell grows.
- TABESCENTWasting away, or becoming emaciated.
- TANDEMA carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to
- TEMULENCEDrunkenness; intoxication.
- TENEBRIFICProducing darkness, obscuring; gloomy.
- TENTIGOPenile erection or tumescence; especially, pathological erection (priapism).
- THEURGICOf, or pertaining to, theurgy.
- VACUITYEmptiness.
- VESTIGEA mark left on the earth by a foot.