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- ABJECTExisting in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
- ANTIPATHYOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious rea
- BRACHOriginally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound.
- CALAMITOUSCausing or involving calamity; disastrous.
- CARRIONRotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
- ELUCIDATETo make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
- ERYTHEMAAbnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation.
- EVERTTo turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
- LECHERA lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
- NAVICULARShaped like a boat.
- PRANDIALOf or pertaining to a meal, especially dinner.
- QUAYA stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.
- SMITETo hit; to strike.
- SUBORNTo induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- SUNDRYMore than one or two but not very many; a number of, several.
- WAIFAn article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belon
- WHILSTOften preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.