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- ACUITYSharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
- ADDUCTIONThe act of adducing or bringing forward.
- ALIMENTFood.
- ARBALESTA steel crossbow.
- ARRAIGNTo officially charge someone in a court of law.
- ATTRITIONGrinding down or wearing away by friction.
- AUGURYA divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- BILIOUSOf or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
- BITUMENA sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of th
- BREVETA military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
- CALUMNYA false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
- CARNALITYThe state of being carnal.
- CAULA style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
- COMITYCourtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
- CONFLATETo combine or mix together.
- CORPULENTLarge in body; fat; overweight.
- CORTINAA cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
- CROMULENTAcceptable, satisfactory, or valid.
- CURIAAny of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
- DECLAIMTo recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arg
- DESCRYTo announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
- DETRITUSPieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- DISPUTATIVETending to dispute.
- DUCALOf or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
- EDUCETo direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
- EFFLUENTFlowing out; outflowing.
- EGESTTo eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).
- EGESTIONThe act or result of egesting
- EGRESSIONThe act of going; egress.
- ELUSIONThe act of eluding.
- EXPULSIONThe act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
- EXTEMPORALExtemporaneous.
- EXTRUDETo push or thrust out.
- EXULTTo rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
- FEBRILEFeverish, or having a high temperature.
- FECUNDITYAbility to produce offspring.
- FISSILEAble to be split.
- FLECTIONAlternative spelling of flexion.
- FLUMEA ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
- FRICATIVEAny of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonan
- FUSTIANOriginally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, whic
- GANTRYA framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- GENUFLECTTo bend the knee, as in servitude.
- IMMANENTNaturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; intrinsic.
- IMPERIALRelated to an empire, emperor, or empress.
- IMPERIOUSDomineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
- IMPIOUSNot pious.
- IMPLICATETo show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
- IMPORTUNETo bother, irritate, trouble.
- INCULPATETo imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
- INDEFATIGABLEExtremely persistent and untiring.
- INESTIMABLENot able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.
- INEXTRICABLEImpossible to untie or disentangle.
- INFLECTTo cause to curve inwards.
- INQUESTA formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
- INVEIGLETo convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
- JUVENALOf a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
- LAMINAROf fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
- LEGATEA deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
- LENTICULAROf or pertaining to a lens.
- LICTORAn officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
- MAGNIFYTo praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- MANACLESplural of manacle
- MARLA mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
- MAUDLINThe Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.
- MUNIFICENTVery liberal in giving or bestowing.
- MURIATICPertaining to salt or brine.
- NECROPOLISA cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.
- OBDURATEStubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
- ORDINATEThe second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
- ORTOLANA small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.
- PALADINA heroic champion, especially a knight.
- PAUCITYFewness in number; too few.
- PERCOLATIONThe seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
- PIMIENTOSynonym of pimento, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum.
- PLACIDITYThe state of being placid; peacefulness.
- PLAINTA complaint.
- PLOVERAny of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
- PORTAGEAn act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
- PRIVYPrivate, exclusive; not public; one's own.
- PROVIDENTIALPertaining to divine providence.
- PROXIMALCloser to the point of attachment or observation.
- PURGATIONThe process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
- PUTREFACTIONThe act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
- QUOTIDIANHappening every day; daily.
- RAPACITYThe quality of being rapacious; voracity.
- REDOUBTA small, temporary, military fortification.
- RIPARIANOf or relating to the bank of a river or stream.
- SACRILEGEDesecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
- SAGACITYThe quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
- SEPULCHREA burial chamber.
- SOPORIFICSomething inducing sleep, especially a drug.
- SUBALTERNOf a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
- TEMULENTIntoxicated, drunk.
- TURGIDDistended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- VERTEXThe highest point, top or apex of something.
- VITRIFYTo convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion.
- VITRINEA glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.