- acceded agree to a demand, request, or treaty. | assume an office or position.
- admonition a firm warning or reprimand.
- anachronism a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. | the action of attributing something to a period to which it does not belong.
- apothecary a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
- ardent very enthusiastic or passionate.
- atavistic relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.
- attrition the process of reducing something's strength or effectiveness through sustained attack or pressure.
- autonomy the right or condition of self-government.
- beatific feeling or expressing blissful happiness.
- benediction the utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service.
- bereft deprived of or lacking (something).
- betide happen. | I waited with beating heart, not knowing what would betide
- biped an animal that uses two legs for walking.
- brut (of sparkling wine) unsweetened; very dry.
- calcify harden by deposition of or conversion into calcium carbonate or some other insoluble calcium compounds.
- cinch an extremely easy task.
- cistern a tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet. | an underground reservoir for rainwater.
- conflated combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
- consummate make (a marriage or relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse. | showing great skill and flair.
- cordovan a kind of soft leather made originally from goatskin and now from horse hide.
- cortege a solemn procession, especially for a funeral. | a person's entourage or retinue.
- credulity a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.
- curtail to reduce or limit (something)
- dappled marked with spots or rounded patches.
- deflagration the action of heating a substance until it burns away rapidly.
- deluge a severe flood.
- desolate (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
- despoil steal or violently remove valuable possessions from; plunder.
- diabolic relating to or characteristic of the Devil.
- diatribe a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
- dirigible an airship. | capable of being steered, guided, or directed.
- ebullient cheerful and full of energy.
- ecclesiastical relating to the Christian Church or its clergy.
- eked make an amount or supply of something last longer by using or consuming it frugally. "the remains of yesterday's stew could be eked out to make another meal"
- emissary a person sent as a diplomatic representative on a special mission.
- episcopal of a bishop or bishops.
- eponymous (of a person) giving their name to something. | (of a thing) named after a particular person or group.
- equinox the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about 22 September and 20 March).
- esoteric intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
- expedient (of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral. | a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral.
- explicate to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
- fumigation a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides—or fumigants—to suffocate or poison the pests within.
- funereal having the mournful, sombre character appropriate to a funeral.
- gale a very strong wind. | an outburst of laughter.
- glean obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty. | gather (leftover grain) after a harvest.
- glibly eadily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers
- gourmand a person who enjoys eating and often eats too much.
- haphazard random, disorganized, slipshod, or hit-or-miss.
- harbinger a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- idolatry the religious worship of idols. | excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, etc.
- impudent obsolete. shameless or brazenly immodest.
- incorrigible not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform
- indelible making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: "indelible ink."
- indolent having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
- intransigent refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible. | a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- jibes to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom. | to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
- lackadaisical without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic:
- lee protective shelter
- libertine a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake. | a freethinker in religious matters.
- litigious of or relating to litigation; (litigate: to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.)
- loggerhead a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- magnanimous generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness:
- mange any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- miasma a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.
- mimeograph a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- offing the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground.
- ostracize to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.
- pachyderm a person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.; a thick-skinned person.
- papal of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- Pavlovian of, relating to, or characteristic of Pavlov or his work, especially of experiments in which he elicited predictable responses from laboratory animals.
- peal a loud, prolonged ringing of bells. | any loud, sustained sound or series of sounds, as of cannon, thunder, applause, or laughter.
- perdition a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation. | utter destruction or ruin.
- perfunctory performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial | lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic
- pestilence a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- pinion the wing of a bird. | a feather.
- plume a soft, fluffy feather
- pontifical pompous, dogmatic, or pretentious
- posterity succeeding or future generations collectively
- prerogative an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like
- propensity a natural inclination or tendency
- quoit game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible.
- reprisal (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- retrenchment the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
- revelry reveling; boisterous festivity
- sacrilege the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
- siesta a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.
- sobriety the state or quality of being sober.
- soliloquizes to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- sow to scatter seed over (land, earth, etc.) for the purpose of growth.
- strafed to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- tedium the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- temerity reckless boldness; rashness.
- tinnitus a ringing or similar sensation of sound in the ears.
- tourney a tournament.
- unmitigated not mitigated; not softened or lessened.
- unstinting to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: "Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money."
- vice an immoral or evil habit or practice. | a fault, defect, or shortcoming
- viva voce by word of mouth; orally.
- vivacious lively; animated; gay.
- wineskin a bag, usually of goatskin, for carrying wine and having a spigot from which one drinks.
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