Aberrations
Plural of: Aberration (àb´e-râ´shen) noun.
1) The act of wandering from the right way; deviation from truth or moral recitude;
deviation from a straight line.
2) Partial alienation of mind; mental wandering.
Abide
Abide (e-bìd´) verb.
1) To bear or endure; to bear patiently; as, I cannot abide his impertinence.
Note: In general, abide by, signifies to adhere to; as to abide
by a bargain, a promise, or a friend; or to suffer the consequences of;
as to abide by the event.
Abjectly
Derived from: Abject (àb´jèkt´) adjective.
1) Sunk to a low condition; applied to persons or things.
2) Worthless; mean; despicable; low in estimation without hope or regard.
Synonyms: Low, contemptible, pitiful.
Acute
Acute (e-kyoot´) adjective.
1) In medicine, sharp; severe; coming speedily to a crisis; said of disease;
the opposite of chronic.
Synonyms: Keen, penetrating, shrewd, sagacious, piercing,
pointed, sharp.
Admonish
Admonish (àd-mòn´îsh) verb, transitive.
1) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness.
2) To council against wrong practices; to caution or advise.
3) To instruct or direct; to guide; to inform or acquaint with; as, admonished
by his ear.
Synonyms: Caution, rebuke, counsel, censure, advise,
reprove, forewarn, warn.
Aggrieved
Derived from: Aggrieve (e-grêv´) verb.
1) To give pain or sorrow; to afflict.
2) To bear hard upon; to oppress or injure in one's rights; to vex or harass
by civil or political injustice.
Aghast
Aghast (à-gàst´) adjective.
1) Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.
Agnostic
Agnostic (àg-nòs´tîk) noun.
1) One who holds the doctrine of agnosticism (the doctrine that God is unknown
and unknowable; because god has not revealed himself to man; because finite
mind cannot comprehend God; because absolute God cannot come into intimacy nor
make himself known to finite mind).
Alibis
Plural of: Alibi (àl´e-bì´) noun.
1) In law, a plea showing that the person charged with the offense was in another
place at the time it was committed.
2) The fact of being elsewhere at the time of an offense charged.
Alloy
Alloy (àl´oi´) noun.
1) Figuratively, that which detracts from the value of anything: as, no happiness
is without alloy.
2) To reduce or abate by mixture; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Alluring
Alluring (à-loor´ing) adjective.
1) Inviting; having the quality of attracting or tempting.
Alpha
Alpha (àl´fa) noun.
1) The first letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to A; used to denote
first, beginning or chief.
Altruistic
Derived from: Altruism (àl´true-îz´em) noun.
1) A term first employed by the Positivists, or followers of the French philosopher
Comte, to signify devotion to others or humanity; the opposite of selfishness.
Amends
Amends (e-mèndz´) plural noun.
1) Compensation for an injury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent; as the
happiness of a future life will more than make amends for the miseries
of this.
Synonyms: Reparation, restitution, restoration, compensation.
Annihilation
Annihilation (e-nì´e-lâ´shen) noun.
1) The act of reducing to nothing, or non-existence; or the act of destroying
the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name
can no longer be applied to it.
2) The state of being reduced to nothing.
Antagonism
Antagonism (àn-tàg´e-nîz´em) noun.
1) The act of antagonizing or opposing; the characteristic quality of temper
of persons opposed.
2) The state of being antagonized, as between persons, forces, or things acting
in opposition to each other; contrariety or disagreement, as between conflicting
principles.
Antipathy
Antipathy (àn-tîp´e-thê) noun.
1) Inherent aversion or antagonism of feeling; repugnancy; revulsion; as, antipathy
to snakes; antipathy to an offensive person.
2) Any object of repugnancy or idiosyncratic aversion.
Note: Antipathy is regularly followed by to, sometimes
by for, etc. and is opposed to sympathy.
Synonyms: Abhorrence, aversion, contrariety, detestation,
dislike, hatred, opposition, repugnance.
Apathy
Apathy (àp´e-thê) noun.
1) Want of feeling, privation of passion or insensibility to pain; applied either
to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind it is stoicism, a calmness of
mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain or passion.
Aprópós
Aprópós (àp´re-po´) adjective.
1) Opportunely; seasonably; pertinently.
2) By the way; to the purpose; a word used to introduce an incidental observation,
suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.
Aptitudes
Plural of: Aptitude (àp´tî-tood´) noun.
1) A natural or acquired disposition for a particular purpose, or tendency toward
particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn; men acquire
an aptitude for particular vices.
2) Fitness; suitableness.
Arbiter
Arbiter (är´bî-ter) noun.
1) One who has the power of judging; one whose power of deciding and governing
is not limited.
Synonyms: Arbitrator, adjudicator, umpire, referee,
judge.
Armistice
Armistice (är´mî-stîs) noun.
1) A cessation of arms, for a short time, by convention; a truce; a temporary
suspension of hostilities by agreement of the parties.
Arrears
Derived from: Arrear (e-rîr´) noun.
1) That which is behind in payment, or remains unpaid, though due. It is generally
used in the plural ; as, the arrears of rent, wages, or taxes; and it
implies part of the money already paid.
Ascertained
Derived from: Ascertain (às´er-tân´) verb, transitive.
1) To make certain; to define or reduce to precision, by removing obscurity
or ambiguity; to determine.
Synonyms: Find out, discover, determine, detect, discern,
learn.
Askance
Askance (e-skàns´) adverb.
1) Sideways; obliquely; out of the corner of the eye; hence, distrustfully;
with suspicion; as, the regarded us askance.
Avocation
Avocation (àv´o-kâ´shen) noun.
1) The business which calls aside. The word is generally used for the smaller
affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary
or principle business.
Balked
Derived from: Balk (bôk) verb.
1) To turn aside or stop in one's course; as, the horse balked; he balked
in his speech.
2) To leave untouched generally; to omit; to pass over; to neglect; to shun.
Balmy
Balmy (bä´mê) adjective.
1) Silly; weak-minded; half-witted [Slang.]
From The New Century Dictionary, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1944.
Bedevilments
Derived from: Bedevil (bî-dèv´el) noun.
1) Vexatious confusion or bewilderment.
Belladonna
Belladonna (bèl´e-dòn´e) noun.
1) A European plant of the nightshade family (Atropa belladonna). It
is a perennial herb, poisonous in all its parts, containing the alkaloid atropin.
The plant received its name from the use of its products by ladies as cosmetics.
The extracts of root and leaf are largely used medicinally, being anodyne and
anti-spasmodic, and in optical surgery to dilate the pupil and temporarily atrophize
the muscles. Also called deadly nightshade.
Belligerent
Belligerent (be-lîj´er-ent) adjective.
1) Hostile; addicted to war; bellicose; warlike in attitude or intention; threatening
war.
Blight
Blight (blìt) noun.
1) That which frustrates or impairs one's ambition, brings to naught one's plans,
or ruins one's expectations.
Bogged
Derived from: Bog (bog) verb, transitive.
1) To sink or submerge in mud or mire; as, to bog a horse and wagon.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm (brân´stôrm´) noun.
1) Brain storm. In pathology, a period when there is an abnormally rapid
breaking down of brain cells, resulting in violent derangement of the mind.
Bristle
Bristle (brîs´el) verb.
1) To stiffen the bristles of; to erect in defiance or anger, like the bristles
of a hog; as, to bristle the crest.
2) To raise the head and show anger or defiance; as, a man bristles up.
Calamity
Calamity (ke-làm´î-tê) noun.
1) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; generally applied to events producing
extensive evils either to persons or communities.
2) A condition of distress; a time of adversity; misery.
Synonyms: Disaster, misfortune, mischance, mishap.
Camaraderie
Camaraderie (kä´me-rä´de-rê) noun.
1) Intimate, loyal and spontaneous comradeship; good-fellowship.
Capitalize
Derived from: Capital (kàp´î-tl) noun.
1) Resources; any source of profit or advantage.
From The New Century Dictionary, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1944.
Capitulated
Derived from: Capitulate (ke-pîch´e-lât´) verb, intransitive.
1) To surrender, as an army or garrison, to an enemy, by treaty, in which the
terms of surrender are specified and agreed to by the parties.
Carom
Carom (kàr´em) noun.
1) A shot in billiards in which the cue-ball strikes successively two or more
balls; also, the stroke used in making such a shot, termed in England a cannon.
Catapulted
Derived from: Catapult (kàt´e-pùlt´) noun.
1) A military engine used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones,
darts, and arrows. Later, the engine assumed the form of a gigantic crossbow
and was called a ballista.
Centric
Centric (sèn´trîk) adjective.
1) Placed in the center or middle.
Cessation
Cessation (sè-sâ´shen) noun.
1) A ceasing; a stop; the act of discontinuing motion or action of any kind,
whether temporary or final.
Synonyms: Stop, rest, pause, intermission.
Chicanery
Chicanery (shî-kâ´ne-rê) noun.
1) Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices used in contest or discussion; chicane.
Synonyms: Sophistry, caviling, quibble, trickery, stratagem.
Chronic
Chronic (kròn´îk) adjective.
1) Pertaining to time; having a reference to time.
2) Continuing a long time, as a disease. Chronic disease; one which is
inveterate or of long continuance, in distinction from an acute disease,
which speedily terminates.
Cipher
Cipher (sì´fer) noun.
1) Figuratively, something of no value or consequence; essentially a person
of no weight, influence, usefulness, or decided character.
Civic
Civic (sîv´îk) adjective.
1) Literally, pertaining to a city or citizen; relating to civil affairs or
honors.
Clemency
Clemency (klèm´en-sê) noun.
1) Mildness of temper, as shown by a superior to an inferior; disposition to
spare or forgive; mercy; leniency.
Synonyms: Mercy, lenity, compassion, mildness, gentleness,
tenderness.
Cocky
Cocky (cock´ee) adjective.
1) Pert or forward; conceited; snobbish. [Slang.]
Commence
Commence (ke-mèns´) verb.
1) To begin; to enter upon; to perform the first act of; as, to commence
operations.
Synonyms: Begin, start, set about, originate.
Communicative
Communicative (ke-myoo´nî-kâ´tîv) adjective.
1) Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Condemn
Condemn (ken-dèm´) verb, transitive.
1) To pronounce utterly wrong; to utter a sentence of disapprobation against;
to censure; to blame. The word often expresses more than censure or blame,
conveying the idea of utter rejection; as to condemn heretical opinions;
to condemn one's conduct.
2) To witness against; to show or prove to be wrong, or guilty.
Synonyms: Blame, censure, upbraid, convict, sentence,
adjudge, reprove, doom, reprobate, reproach.
Conscience
Conscience (kòn´shens) noun.
1) Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty,
power, or principle within a person which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness
of his actions and affections, and approves or condemns them.
2) Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thoughts.
Consigned
Derived from: Consign (ken-sìn´) verb.
1) To give, send, or set over; to transfer or deliver into the possession of
another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state,
or permanence of possession; as, at death the body is consigned to the
grave.
Synonyms: Commit, intrust, make over, transfer, deliver,
resign.
Console
Console (ken-sol´) verb, transitive.
1) To comfort; to cheer (the mind) in distress or depression; to alleviate (grief),
and give refreshment to (the mind or spirits); to give (some one) contentment
or moderate happiness, by relieving from distress.
Synonyms: Comfort, solace, soothe, cheer, sustain, encourage,
support.
Consternation
Consternation (kòn´ster-nâ´shen) noun.
1) Amazement or horror that confounds; excessive terror, wonder, or surprise.
Synonyms: Dismay, alarm, terror, panic, overwhelming
fear, horror.
Constitutionally
Derived from: Constitutional (kòn´stî-too´she-nel) adjective.
1) Of, pertaining to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the natural frame
of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional
ardor or dullness.
Consummation
Consummation (kòn´se-mâ´shen) noun.
1) Completion; end; perfection of a work, process, or scheme; the act of consummating.
Consumption
Consumption (ken-sùmp´shen) noun.
1) The act of consuming; waste; destruction; as, the consumption of fuel,
of food, of time, etc.
Synonyms: Decay, decline, waste, destruction.
Contemporaries
Plural of: Contemporary (ken-tèm´pe-rèr´ê) noun.
1) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Socrates and Plato were
contemporaries.
Contempt
Contempt (ken-tèmpt´) noun.
1) The act of despising; the act of viewing or considering and treating as mean,
vile, and worthless; disdain; hatred of what is mean or deemed vile.
Synonyms: Disdain, scorn, derision, mockery, contumely,
neglect, disregard, slight.
Contention
Contention (ken-tèn´shen) noun.
1) Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something; contest; quarrel.
2) Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy; as, contention
over property.
3) Something contended for in a debate or other argument; the argument in support
of it.
Synonyms: Struggle, contest, litigation, controversy,
quarrel, conflict, feud, dissension, variance, disagreement, debate, competition,
emulation, discord.
Contingent
Contingent (ken-tîn´jent) adjective.
1) Dependent on an uncertain issue; of doubtful occurrence; incidental; casual;
conditional.
Synonyms: Incidental, accidental, casual, fortuitous.
Contrition
Contrition (ken-trîsh´en) noun.
1) Penitance; deep sorrow for sin; grief of heart for having done wrong.
Synonyms: Penitence, sorrow, repentance, compunction,
remorse.
Convalescence
Convalescence (kòn´ve-lès´ens) noun.
1) Renewal of health; the insensible recovery of health and strength after disease;
the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; also, the
period occupied in such recovery or renewal.
Conviviality
Conviviality (ken-vîv´ê-àl´î-tê) noun.
1) The good humor or mirth indulged in at entertainments of a convivial character.
2) A convivial spirit or disposition.
Cordially
Derived from: Cordial (kôr´jel) adjective.
1) Proceeding as from the heart (the ancients believing the heart the source
of affection); hearty; sincere; not hypocritical; warm; affectionate; as, we
give our friends a cordial reception.
Countenance
Countenance (koun´te-nens) noun.
1) Out of countenance: abashed (expressed astonishment).
From Abbott's Ready Reference Dictionary, Western Printing & Lithographing.
Co. 1938.
Crave
Crave (krâv) verb.
1) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a
passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.
Synonyms: Desire, entreat, beseech, implore, adjure,
request, supplicate, solicit, ask.
Criterion
Criterion (krì-tîr´ê-en) noun.
1) A standard of judging; any established law, rule, principle, or fact, by
which facts, propositions, opinions, and behavior are compared, in order to
discover their truth or falsehood, or by which a correct judgment may be formed;
spelled also, rarely, criterium.
Synonyms: Rule, measure, test, standard.
Crusade
Crusade (kroo-sâd´) noun.
1) An enterprise projected in a spirit of enthusiasm and conducted with earnestness
against some social or economic wrong; as, a crusade against the slave-trade;
a crusade against impure milk.
Crux
Crux (krùks, kruks) noun.
1) Anything that puzzles, vexes, or tries, in the highest degree.
Cynically
Derived from: Cynical (sîn´î-kel) adjective.
1) In a snarling, captious, or morose manner.
Cynicism
Cynicism (sîn-î´sîzm) noun.
1) The practice of a cynic; a morose contempt of the pleasures and arts of life.
Czar
Czar (zär) noun.
1) A king; a chief; specifically, a title of the emperor of Russia; also spelled
tsar, tzar.
Debacle
Debacle (dî-bä´kel) noun.
1) A breaking up of ice in a river; a violent rush of waters, carrying along
debris; hence, a general break-up, rout or overthrow.
From The New Century Dictionary, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1944.
Debauch
Debauch (dî-bôch´) noun.
1) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; gluttony; lewdness.
2) A time or period of debauchery.
Defects
Plural of: Defect (dê´fèkt´) noun.
1) Want or absence of something necessary or useful toward perfection; fault,
imperfection; lack; as, a defect in the plan.
2) Any natural want or imperfection, whether physical or moral; mistake; blemish;
deformity; as, a defect in timber; a defect of memory.
Synonyms: Fault, blemish, flaw, speck, imperfection,
spot, stain.
Deflation
Deflation (dî-flâ´shen) noun.
1) To reduce (currency, prices etc.) from an inflated condition.
From The New Century Dictionary, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1944.
Delirium
Delirium (dî-lîr´ê-em) noun.
1) A temporary disordered state of the mental faculties occurring during illness,
either of a febrile or of an exhausting nature; wandering of the mind.
Delirium tremens; an affection of the brain induced by the excessive
and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors.
Synonyms: Madness, mania, aberration, frenzy, lunacy,
insanity.
Demoralization
Derived from: Demoralize (dî-môr´e-lìz´) verb, transitive.
1) To lower the tone or spirit of; to render distrustful and hopeless; as, hunger
and cold demoralized the army.
2) To confuse or disorder mentally; as, the examiner's questions demoralized
the applicant.
Denial
Denial (dî-nì´el) noun.
1) The act of denying, contradicting, refusing, or disowning; an assertion that
a declaration or fact stated is not true; negation; contradiction; opposed to
affirmation.
2) A rejection or refusing to acknowledge; a disowning; a refusing to receive
or embrace; as, a denial of the faith or the truth.
Synonyms: Disavowal, renunciation, contradiction, dissent,
rejection, abnegation.
Denizens
Plural of: Denizen (dèn´î-zen) noun.
1) A stranger admitted to residence in a foreign country; specifically, in English
law, an alien who is made a subject by the king's letters patent, holding a
middle state between an alien and a natural-born subject.
2) A dweller; as, the denizens of air.
Denomination
Denomination (dî-nòm´e-nâ´shen) noun.
1) A society or collection of individuals called by the same name; a sect; as,
the Universalist denomination.
Deportment
Deportment (dî-pôrt´ment) noun.
1) Carriage; manner of acting in relation to the duties of life; behavior; demeanor;
conduct; management.
Deranged
Deranged (dî-rânj´d) adjective.
1) Disordered in mind; insane.
Derelictions
Plural of: Dereliction (dèr´e-lîk´shen) noun.
1) Neglect; unfaithfulness.
2) The state of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter
forsaking; abandonment.
Derided
Derived from: Deride (dî-rìd´) verb, transitive.
1) To laugh at in contempt; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to
treat with scorn by laughter.
Synonyms: Ridicule, mock, taunt.
Destitution
Destitution (dès´tî-too´shen) noun.
1) The state of being destitute or of being deprived of anything; want; poverty;
indigence; as, the fire caused much destitution.
Synonyms: Indigence, poverty, want, privation, distress,
need, deficiency, pauperism.
Diffident
Diffident (dîf´î-dent) adjective.
1) Having or showing diffidence (Distrust of oneself; lack of self reliance;
want of confidence in one's own power, ability, or correctness.)
Synonyms: Modest, reserved, retiring, humble, bashful,
hesitating, doubtful, suspicious.
Diligently
Derived from: Diligent (dîl´e-jent) adjective.
1) Steadily applied; prosecuted with care and constant effort; careful; assiduous;
as, make diligent search.
2) Steady in application to business; constant in effort or exertion to accomplish
what is undertaken; assiduous; attentive; industrious; not idle or negligent;
applied to persons.
Synonyms: Active, assiduous, sedulous, laborious, persevering,
attentive, industrious, indefatigable, unremitting, untiring, careful.
Disconcerted
Derived from: Disconcert (dîs´ken-sûrt´) verb, transitive.
1) To throw into disorder or confusion; to undo, as a scheme or plan; to defeat;
to frustrate; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
2) To unsettle the mind of; to discompose; to disturb the self-possession of;
to confuse.
Discord
Discord (dîs´kôrd´) noun.
1) Disagreement; want of concord or harmony; said of persons or things. Applied
to persons, difference of opinions; variance; opposition; contention; strife;
any disagreement which produces angry passions, disputes, litigation, or war.
Synonyms: Disagreement, discordance, variance, difference,
opposition, dissension, contention, strife, rupture, clashing, dissonance.
Discretion
Discretion (dî-skrèsh´en) noun.
1) The quality of being discreet; prudence; that discernment which enables a
person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution;
nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding
one's own conduct.
2) Liberty or power of acting without other control than one's own judgment;
as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the president.
Synonyms: Sagacity, circumspection, wariness, prudence,
caution.
Disease
Disease (dî-zêz´) noun
1) Pain; uneasiness; distress.
2) Any morbid state of the body generally, or of any particular organ or part
of the body; the cause of pain or uneasiness; distemper; malady; sickness; disorder;
any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are
interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without
a disruption of parts by violence, which is called a wound. The word
is also applied to the disorders of other animals, as well as to those of man,
and to any derangement of the vegetative functions of plants.
3) Any disorder, or depraved condition or element, moral, mental, social, political,
etc.; as, a political foundation laid in disease and corruption.
Synonyms: Distemper, ailment, malady, disorder, sickness,
illness, indisposition, complaint, infirmity.
Also:
Disease: verb, transitive.
1) To interrupt or impair any or all the natural and regular functions of (the
several organs of a living body); to afflict with pain or sickness; to make
morbid; used chiefly in the past participle; as, a diseased body; a diseased
stomach.
2) To pain; to make uneasy.
Disillusionment
Derived from: Disillusion (dîs´î-loo´zhen) verb, transitive.
1) To free from that which deludes or is illusory.
Disinherited
Derived from: Disinherit (dîs´în-hèr´ît) verb, transitive.
1) To cut off from hereditary right; to deprive of an inheritance; to prevent,
as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right which by law
or custom would devolve on him in the course of descent; as, a father sometimes
disinherits his children by will.
Disposition
Disposition (dîs´pe-zîsh´en) noun.
1) Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as, an amiable or an irritable
disposition.
2) Inclination; propensity; the temper or frame of mind as directed to particular
objects; humor; as, the disposition of a person to undertake a particular
work; the dispositions of men toward each other; a disposition
friendly to any design.
Synonyms: Inclination, tendency.
Disproportionate
Disproportionate (dîs´pre-pôr´she-nît) adjective.
1) Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else, in bulk, form,
or value; inadequate; as, in a perfect form of the body, none of the limbs are
disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work with disproportionate
means.
Dissensions
Plural of: Dissension (dî-sèn´shen) noun.
1) Disagreement in opinion, usually a disagreement which is violent, producing
warm debates or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel;
breach of friendship and union.
Synonyms: Contention, discord, dispute, disagreement,
strife, quarrel.
Dissipation
Dissipation (dîs´e-pâ´shen) noun.
1) Distracted attention; that which diverts and calls off the mind from any
subject.
2) A dissolute, irregular course of life; a wandering from object to object
in pursuit of pleasure; a course of life usually attended with careless and
exorbitant expenditures of money, and indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin
both health and fortune.
Doggerel
Doggerel (dô´ger-el) noun.
1) A loose, irregular kind of poetry; rime trivial in sentiment and poor in
execution.
Dubious
Dubious (doo´bê-es) adjective.
1) Doubtful; wavering or fluctuating in opinion; not determined; as, the mind
is in a dubious state.
2) Uncertain; of which the truth is not known; causing doubt; not clear; as,
a dubious signal.
3) Of doubtful propriety; questionable; causing suspicion; as, dubious
methods.
Emanate
Emanate (èm´e-nât´) verb, intransitive & transitive.
1) To issue from a source; to flow forth; as, light emanates from the
sun.
2) To proceed, as from a source or fountain; to take rise; as, the powers of
government in republics emanate from the people.
Embittered
Derived from: Embitter (èm-bît´er) verb, transitive.
1) To render unhappy, as by wrong or disappointment; to fill with distress or
anguish.
Eminently
Derived from: Eminent (èm´e-nent) adjective.
1) In a high degree; in a degree to attract observation; in a degree to be conspicuous
and distinguished from others; as, to be eminently learned or useful.
Ensuing
Derived from: Ensue (èn-soo´) verb, intransitive.
1) To follow as a consequence of premises; as, this result ensues.
2) To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after;
as, he spoke, and silence ensued; the ensuing age or years.
Environs
Environs (èn-vì´renz) noun.
1) The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood;
as, the environs of a city or town.
Epoch
Epoch (ê´pòk´) noun.
1) In chronology, a fixed point of time from which succeeding years are numbered;
a point from which computation of years begins; any fixed time or period; era;
date; as, the exodus from Egypt and the Babylonish captivity are remarkable
epochs in the history of the Jews.
Eradicated
Derived from: Eradicate (î-ràd´î-kât´) verb, transitive.
1) To destroy thoroughly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate errors, false
principles, vice, or disease.
Synonyms: Extirpate, uproot, exterminate, destroy, annihilate.
Erroneous
Erroneous (î-ro´nê-es) adjective.
1) Wrong; false; mistaken; not conformable to truth; erring from truth or justice;
liable to mislead; as, an erroneous opinion; erroneous doctrine.
Exchequers
Plural of: Exchequer (èks´chèk´er) noun.
1) A state treasury; hence, pecuniary property in general; funds; as, my exchequer
is very low.
Exonerating
Derived from: Exonerate (îg-zòn´e-rât´) verb, transitive.
1) To relieve, as of a charge or blame resting on one; to clear of something
that lies upon the character as an imputation; as, to exonerate oneself
from blame or from the charge of avarice.
Synonyms: Absolve, clear, justify, acquit, exculpate,
relieve.
Fallacious
Fallacious (fe-lâ´shes) adjective.
1) Deceptive; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing an
error or mistake; sophistical; of the nature of, pertaining to, or embodying
a fallacy.
Synonyms: Deceitful, fraudulent, delusive.
Fettered
Derived from: Fetter (fèt´er) verb.
1) Anything that confines or restrains from motion; that which destroys liberty
and freedom.
Fictitious
Fictitious (fîk-tîsh´es) adjective.
1) Feigned; imaginary; not real.
2) Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Finite
Finite (fì´nìt´) adjective.
1) Having a limit; limited; bounded; opposed to infinite.
Flank
Flank (flàngk) noun.
1) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment
or battalion; the extreme right or left; thus, to attack in flank is to attack
on the side.
Forebodings
Derived from: Forebode (fôr-bod´) verb.
1) To foretell; to prognosticate.
2) To foresee; to be prescient of; to feel a secret premonition of.
Synonyms: To foretell, predict, prognosticate, augur,
presage, portend, betoken.
Forthwith
Forthwith (fôrth-wîth´) adverb.
1) Immediately; without delay; directly.
2) In law, as soon as the thing required may reasonably be done, commonly within
twenty-four hours.
Frailties
Plural of: Frailty (frâl´tê) noun.
1) Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
2) A foible or infirmity resulting from some weakness; a fault.
3) Frailness; infirmity of body.
Synonyms: Frailness, infirmity, imperfection, foible,
failing.
Frank
Frank (fràngk) adjective.
1) Open; ingenuous; candid; free in uttering real sentiments; not reserved;
using no disguise.
Synonyms: Candid, honest, plain, open, sincere.
Futile
Futile (fyoot´l) adjective.
1) Trifling; of no weight or importance; answering no valuable purpose; worthless;
of no effect.
Futility
Derived from: Futile (fyoot´l) adjective.
See definition of futile above.
Gallantly
Derived from: Gallant (gàl´ent) adjective.
1) Brave; high spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; of a noble bearing.
Gastric
Gastric (gàs´trîk) adjective.
1) Pertaining to the stomach; abdominal.
Gaunt
Gaunt (gônt) adjective.
1) Vacant; hollow; empty; as, an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager;
thin; slender.
Gay
Gay (gâ) adjective.
1) Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicsome. It denotes more life and animation
than cheerful.
2) Inflamed or merry with liquor; intoxicated; dissipated. [Colloquial.]
Synonyms: Merry, lively, blithe, sprightly, sportive,
hilarious.
God
God (god) noun.
1) In monotheism, the Supreme Being, having always existed and ever to exist, the Author and Ruler of the universe.
2) In various polytheistic religions, a being, or one of a number of beings, to be worshiped or feared by reason of superior intelligence or supernatural powers; a deity.
3) Figuratively, that which is first in worship, devotion, or admiration; an all absorbing passion, pursuit, or hobby; something idolized.
Gorge
Gorge (gôrj) noun.
1) A sensation of constriction in the muscles of the throat, due to disgust,
anger or the like; as, his gorge rose.
Grenadier
Grenadier (grèn´e-dîr´) noun.
1) Originally, one who threw grenades. Only soldiers of long service and acknowledged
bravery were selected for this duty. When hand-grenades went out of general
use, the name was still retained for the company, the members of which were
of great height and were distinguished by a particular dress, as for instance
the high bearskin cap. In the British and French armies the grenadier company
was the first of each battalion.
Grievous
Grievous (grê´ves) adjective.
1) Heavy; oppressive; hard to be borne; burdensome; as, a grievous load
of taxes.
Hamlet
Hamlet (hàm´lît) noun.
1) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country; especially in
England, one which has no church.
Hemorrhage
Hemorrhage (hèm´er-îj) noun.
1) A discharge of blood from the blood-vessels.
Heresies
Plural of: Heresy (hèr´î-sê) noun.
1) In law, an offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some of
its essential doctrines, publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
Highball
Highball (hì´bôl´) noun.
1) A drink consisting of whisky, brandy, or other spirit diluted with soda-water,
ginger ale, or some effervescing mineral water. [Slang.]
Humbly
Derived from: Humble (hùm´bel) adjective.
1) To bring down; to reduce to a low state; as, the power of Rome was humbled
but not subdued.
2) To mortify or make ashamed; as, one may be humbled without having
true humility.
3) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride of; to reduce the arrogance
and self-dependence of; to give a low opinion of the moral worth of; in a religious
sense, to make meek and submissive to the divine will; often used reflexively.
Synonyms: Humiliate, lower, mortify, disgrace, degrade.
Humility
Humility (hyoo-mîl´î-tê) noun.
1) Freedom from pride and arrogance; humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of
one's own worth; also, self-abasement; penitence for sin.
2) An act of submission.
Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy (hì´dre-thèr´e-pê) noun.
1) The water-cure, a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use
of pure water, both internally and externally. This system is said to increase
the cutaneous exhalation to a very large amount, and thus to draw off speedily
from the blood certain deleterious matters.
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