ichthyic | | a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like |
alkali | | having gentle or courteous bearing or manner |
littoral | | boundless |
accession | | state of suspension or temporary inaction |
encumber | | a servile favorite |
infirm | | a zoo |
connoisseur | | to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath |
bedlam | | annoyance or mortification at one's errors |
heptarchy | | patient endurance or toleration of offenses |
effrontery | | lacking in bodily or mental strength |
distensible | | framework to carry corpse to the grave |
garrote | | musical flourish |
minion | | crowned with a laurel for distinction |
colloquialism | | a critical judge of art with thorough knowledge |
cabalism | | Greek myth-dude in love with his own reflection |
debonair | | a narrow strip of wood |
illimitable | | to utter taunts or reproaches |
felonious | | capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction |
Narcissus | | showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling |
accouter | | to waste away in flesh |
gyrate | | to impede with obstacles |
divulge | | to tell of make known, something previously secret |
flatulence | | to dissolve gradually and become liquid with water in the air |
deponent | | anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc. |
caitiff | | to cover with ornament |
broach | | a group of seven governments |
abeyance | | a member of the lower house of the legislature of MD or VA |
deliquesce | | to mention, for the first time |
bowdlerize | | a personal weakness or failing |
nostrum | | characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and manners |
abscission | | a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers |
bedeck | | to make supremely happy |
immiscible | | to expurgate in editing by omitting words or passages |
batten | | calm |
biennial | | to dress |
cadenza | | the neglect or omission of a legal requirement |
default | | superstitious devotion to one's religion |
forbearance | | to revolve |
laureate | | any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character |
allay | | to renounce upon oath |
bier | | induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government |
foible | | to bring out more clearly the facts concerning |
lexicon | | madhouse |
burgess | | showing criminal or evil purpose |
ebullient | | unblushing impudence |
beatify | | a dictionary |
elucidate | | separating, as oil and water |
halcyon | | laying down |
menagerie | | a plant: leaves and roots one year, flowers and fruit the next |
forswear | | cowardly |
conflagration | | to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate |
chagrin | | the act of cutting off, as in surgery |
emaciate | | accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels |
abjure | | form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation |
impertinence | | rudeness |
gratuitous | | something to do with the shore |
foppish | | to execute by strangling |
barcarole | | voluntarily |
gentile | | fish-like |
gibe | | belonging to a people not Jewish |