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| to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate |
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| to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence |
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| a student who stays away from school without permission. |
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| to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner. |
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| to suppress; put an end to; extinguish |
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| impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible. |
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| given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious |
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| loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky |
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| to deck out; adorn, especially in a showy or gaudy manner |
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| to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: |
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| expressed in few words; concise; terse. |
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| a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people |
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| to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. |
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| a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes. |
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| not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain |
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| taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret |
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| a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. |
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| not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. |
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| any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it. |
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| to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like. |
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| not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive. |
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| no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning |
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| intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened |
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| taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret |
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| hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
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| a rustic; a country bumpkin. |
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| the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey. |
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| expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
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| a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds. |
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| an Irish accent in the pronunciation of English. |
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| a railing with supporting balusters. |
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| the evening star, especially venus; Hesper. |
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| pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral. |
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| sorrowful; mournful; melancholy |
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| a breeding place or colony of gregarious birds or animals, as penguins and seals. |
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| neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce |
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| like a wag; roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular |
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| a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere. |
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| a brass musical instrument similar to the baritone tuba but somewhat smaller, with a wider bore and mellower tone, and often having a second bell. |
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| a conference or discussion. |
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| a single- or double-breasted topcoat or overcoat with a fly front and a narrow velvet collar. |
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| a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building. |
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| the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness. |
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| a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt. |
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| unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence. |
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| a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. |
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| deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: |
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| loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky |
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| pretended; sham; counterfeit |
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| to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release |
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| an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery. |
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| to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest. |
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| haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. |
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| lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow |
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| haughty manner or spirit; arrogance. |
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| the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending. |
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| willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility. |
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| an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession |
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| extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions. |
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| to walk during sleep; sleepwalk. |
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| an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. |
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| to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle |
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| to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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| swollen; distended; tumid. |
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| abundance; abundant quantity. |
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| the state of being completely forgotten or unknown |
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| tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. |
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| a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult |
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| continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending |
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| lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless |
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| easy and sprightly in manner or bearing |
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| caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.: |
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| formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined |
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| kind, especially to inferiors; gracious |
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| a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation. |
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| spacious and convenient; roomy |
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| to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain |
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| excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. |
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| extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. |
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| domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing |
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| to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, especially by deliberate effort |
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| given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious |
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| bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible |
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| the quality of being magnanimous. |
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| characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
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| unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness. |
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| cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent |
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| extreme poverty; destitution. |
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| to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble. |
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| to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.). |
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| barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate |
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| foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy. |
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| the state of being stupefied; stupor. |
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| to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like. |
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| characterized by or subject to tempests |
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| walking unsteadily or shakily. |
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| to regard or treat with reverence; revere. |
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| characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative |
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| to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension |
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| a witty remark or sentence. |
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a person who shows zeal;
an excessively zealous person; fanatic. |
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