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- ABLATIONA carrying or taking away; removal.
- AFFLUENTSomeone who is wealthy.
- AGUEAn acute fever.
- ANOSMIAInability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.
- AVARICEExcessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
- AVIANCharacteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.
- BONNYAlternative spelling of bonnie (“attractive”).
- BREVEA semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
- 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.
- CAPUTThe head.
- CODAA passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
- CONCHAAny shell-shaped structure: The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening. Ellipsis of nasal concha.
- CONFLATETo combine or mix together.
- CONYA rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
- COUPA quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- CULPANegligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
- CUNEIFORMHaving the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- DEIFYTo make into a god.
- DORSALWith respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand. Produced using
- DOWAGERA widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- DRACHMAThe currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- EFFLUENTFlowing out; outflowing.
- EXHORTTo urge; to advise earnestly.
- EXHUMETo dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
- FECUNDITYAbility to produce offspring.
- FIDUCIARYRelating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
- FLOTSAMDebris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
- FOLIAGEThe leaves of plants.
- FOLICOf or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.
- FRACASA noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
- INCUBATETo brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- JOCULARHumorous, amusing or joking.
- LINGUASynonym of tongue.
- MADRIGALA song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
- MAGNATEPowerful industrialist; captain of industry.
- MILIEUAn environment or setting; a medium; environs
- OBFUSCATETo make dark; to overshadow.
- OBFUSCATIONThe act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to inte
- OBVIATETo anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
- OCULAROf, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight
- PIETYReverence and devotion to God.
- PLOVERAny of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
- POSITSomething that is posited; a postulate.
- PUCEA brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- SCAPULAEither of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.
- SIGNETAn object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin.
- SUBSIDIARYAuxiliary or supplemental.
- SVELTEAttractively thin; gracefully slender.
- TAUPEA dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.
- TIBIALOf or pertaining to a tibia or a structure associated with a tibia.
- VAGUSEllipsis of vagus nerve.
- VASCULARRelating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids
- VEGETALCapable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
- VELUMA thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain. The soft palate. A thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relati
- VESTIGIALOf or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
- VIADUCTA bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
- WYVERNA draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.