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- ABSCONDTo flee, often secretly; to steal away.
- ARRAIGNTo officially charge someone in a court of law.
- CODAA passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
- CONFABClipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).
- DOWAGERA widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- ERUDITIONProfound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
- ETUDEA short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.
- EXHUMETo dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
- EXULTTo rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
- FETIDFoul-smelling, stinking.
- FIATAn arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- FLORIDHaving a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
- FRACTALA mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is self-similar at arbitrarily small scales and thus
- GRAVIDPregnant.
- LACUNAA small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
- LICITUnforbidden; permitted.
- MAGENTAA color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
- MALIGNEvil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
- MANDIBLEThe jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
- NEWELEither of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
- OCCLUDETo obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
- OMINOUSOf or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- ORBITALOf or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
- ORDINALIndicating position in a sequence.
- PARITYEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- PUNCTUALPrompt; on time. Of an event, happening at the appointed time. Of a person, acting at the appointed time.
- PUSTULEA small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis.
- RAPTSnatched, taken away; abducted.
- SECULARNot specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- SINGULARBeing only one of a larger population; single, individual.
- SLUICEAn artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- SOBRIETYThe quality or state of being sober.
- SOFFITThe visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element.
- TENSILEOf or pertaining to tension.
- TONSURETo shave the crown of the head of (a person) as a sign of humility and religious vocation.
- TRIBUNALAn assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
- UNDULATETo cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- UNGULATEHaving hooves.
- UTILEUseful.
- VESTIGEA mark left on the earth by a foot.
- VITRINEA glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.