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- ABLATETo remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
- ABLATIONA carrying or taking away; removal.
- AGHASTTerrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
- AGNATICof the male bloodline; patrilineal
- ALIENATEEstranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
- ANALOGICOf or pertaining to analogy.
- ANNUITYA right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
- ARCANASpecialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.
- ARRAIGNTo officially charge someone in a court of law.
- ASEITYThe attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utt
- BICAMERALBeing or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
- BOTULINAn extremely potent nerve toxin produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Ingesting botulin results in the serious medical condition of botulism.
- BOVINEOf, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- BRACHIALPertaining or belonging to the arm.
- BRACHIATEHaving decussate branches.
- CAPTIOUSThat captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
- CERULEANA greenish-blue color.
- CONATIVEOf or pertaining to a striving action.
- CONVOLUTETo make unnecessarily complex.
- COPULAA word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predi
- COVENA nunnery, a convent.
- DELECTTo delight.
- DENIGRATETo criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
- DENUDETo divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
- DERACINATETo pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
- DEROGATETo partially repeal (a law etc.).
- DESULTORYJumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
- DEVOLUTETo devolve.
- DILATORYIntentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or adjourn decision.
- DIURNALHappening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
- DOMICILEA home or residence.
- DORMITIONThe process of falling asleep.
- DOWAGERA widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- DOYENA commander in charge of ten men.
- EGREGIOUSConspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
- ETIOLOGYUS standard spelling of aetiology.
- EXPURGATETo edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
- FACETIOUSTreating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
- FATIGUEA weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- FATUOUSObnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- FEBRILEFeverish, or having a high temperature.
- FESTERA fistula.
- FETIDFoul-smelling, stinking.
- FETISHSomething which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
- FIDEISMThe doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
- FIGURALRepresenting by means of a figure; emblematic.
- FISTULAAn abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
- FOMENTTo incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- FRATRICIDEThe killing of one's brother (or sister).
- FRIABLEEasily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- FULGENTShining brilliantly; radiant.
- FULGURATETo flash or emit flashes like lightning.
- FULMINATETo make a verbal attack.
- GAOLDated spelling of jail.
- GELIDVery cold; icy or frosty; frigid.
- GLADIATORA person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- GRAVIDPregnant.
- GUTTURALOf, relating to, or connected to the throat.
- HIBERNALOf or pertaining to winter; brumal or hiemal
- HIRSUTECovered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- IGNEOUSPertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
- IGNOBLENot noble; plebeian; common.
- INANELacking sense or meaning, often to the point of boredom or annoyance.
- LAMBENTBrushing or flickering gently over a surface.
- LARESAlternative letter-case form of Lares.
- LAUREATECrowned, or decked, with laurel.
- LEGATOSmoothly, in a connected manner.
- LEVITYA lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- LICTORAn officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
- LIGNITEA low-grade, brownish-black coal.
- LINTELA horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
- LUBRICATETo make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
- LUCUBRATETo work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
- LUCUBRATIONIntense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.
- LUDICPlayful.
- LUSTRUMA lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
- MALEFICENTHarmful or evil in intent or effect.
- MALIGNEvil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
- MANDIBLEThe jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
- MARGINThe edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- MARTIALOf, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
- MELIORATETo make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
- MELIORISTA proponent of meliorism
- MENDACIOUS(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- MITISA process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum
- MODULATETo regulate, adjust or adapt. To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument. To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in propo
- MOTILEIn organisms: having the power to move spontaneously.
- MUNDANEWorldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- MUTABLEChangeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.
- NEVUSAny of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.
- NIHILA nihil dicit.
- NOUGATA mixture consisting of egg white and a sweetener, variously mixed with almonds or hazelnuts or used without nuts as a filler in candy bars.
- NOXIOUSHarmful; injurious.
- NUGATORYTrivial, trifling or of little importance.
- NUMENA divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
- NUNCIOThe ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent t
- OBDURATEStubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
- OBFUSCATETo make dark; to overshadow.
- OBLATEA person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
- OCULAROf, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight