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revert
n. a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy
v. to stick together
n. forcible encroachment or trespass
v. to return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like
manor
adj. guilty
adj. caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power
n. a person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of
helpfulness
n. the landed estate of a lord or nobleman
emblem
v. to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty
adj. involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of
alcoholic beverages
n. a symbol
adj. causing or tending to cause exhaustion
minion
adj. understood
adj. melancholy
n. misfortune
n. a servile favorite
disyllable
n. a philanthropist
n. a word of two syllables
n. proverb
adj. irascible
legislate
adj. foolish
adj. veracious
n. the yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or
another
v. to make or enact a law or laws
batten
adj. being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development
n. a narrow strip of wood
n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc
v. to predict
reformer
n. a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk
n. a prominence
n. one who carries out a reform
v. to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison
velvety
adj. marked by lightness and softness
v. to slander
n. a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings
n. a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest
foresight
n. provision against harm or need
n. a piece of bric-a-brac
n. the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch
n. a breaking up of a union of persons
quandary
v. to deny oneself
n. a puzzling predicament
adj. small in quantity or importance
adj. rude
oculist
n. an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some
particular act
n. one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye
n. helpful result
adj. conceited
mania
v. to throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like
adj. doubtful
n. insanity
v. to misgovern
refute
adj. having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible
v. to prove to be wrong
v. to cause to become frightened
n. luster
vicarious
adj. having no limit or end
adj. cone-bearing trees
adj. suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another
n. harangue
ailment
v. to call or summon forth
v. to comfort
n. slight sickness
n. remorseful feeling
successful
n. the art of public speaking
adj. situated on the other side of the Alps
adj. having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity
n. vacillation
deleterious
adj. swollen
v. to make milder or more endurable
adj. hurtful, morally or physically
v. to bring out more clearly the facts concerning
wholly
adj. having lost sparkling quality and flavor
adv. completely
n. the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally
n. a woman who has never been married
concur
n. a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
v. to agree
v. to deprive of water
n. a figure with six angles
endemic
n. the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self
adj. peculiar to some specified country or people
n. proverb
n. the state of being dormant
impetuosity
adj. strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom
n. the getting rid of waste matter
n. rashness
v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like
gravity
n. one who or that which is only of temporary existence
n. seriousness
n. one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority
adj. noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific
course
n. line of motion or direction
n. the quality of being grand or admirably great
n. a young cow
adj. returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals
wizen
v. to become or cause to become withered or dry
adj. limited
n. the state of being joined together, or the things so joined
n. one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay
vacate
n. one skilled in metaphysics
v. to leave
adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass
adj. pertaining to the mind or soul
perspicacious
n. estrangement
n. sorcery
adj. astute
n. a restriction
obstetrician
n. a human skull as a symbol of death
adj. lacking foresight or thrift
v. to renounce (a right or privilege)
n. a practitioner of midwifery
wampum
adj. beginning
n. passage from one place, condition, or action to another
adv. gradually
n. beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as
currency
composure
n. patient endurance or toleration of offenses
adj. not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony
n. calmness
adj. taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned
reactionary
adj. expressing or causing sorrow or pain
adj. pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction
n. a falling of the spirits
n. oppressive drowsiness
epic
adj. very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity
n. a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great
personages, heroes, etc
n. the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in
smoky tints
n. a fossil reptile
beneficial
n. the common people
n. the act or process of absorbing
adj. helpful
n. harshness or roughness of temper
prudence
n. an eight-page newspaper of any size
v. to wet or moisten
n. rapt or rapturous utterance
n. caution
indolence
conj. even though
n. laziness
adj. changeable
v. to speak to
abbey
adj. beneficial
n. a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony
or province
v. to equip with less than the full complement of men
n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a
society of monks or nuns
compressible
n. a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be
disguised
n. subtle contrivance used to gain a point
adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass
adj. lucid
sibilate
v. to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s
n. a vehement appeal
n. the quality of frankness or outspokenness
n. the face, countenance, or look of a person
imbibe
adj. illogical
v. to drink or take in
adj. pertaining to ancient times
v. to enlist men for military or naval service
corporeal
adj. not harsh
n. slight sickness
v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of
adj. of a material nature; physical
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