*Paul's Dictionary (set 2)

• 1. the policy of extending the rule or authority of an
• empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
• 2. advocacy of __(adj. form)__ interests.
• 3. an __(adj. form)__ system of government.
• 4. Brit. the policy of so uniting the separate parts of an empire with separate
• governments as to secure for certain purposes a single state.

• (noun)
• 1. a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
• 2. the place where such troops are stationed.
• 3. a military post, especially a permanent one.

• (verb)
• 4. to prove (a fort, town, etc.) with a _______.
• 5. to occupy (a fort, post, station, etc.) with troops.
• 6. to put (troops) on duty in a fort, post, station, etc.
• 

• 1. full of fear; fearful:
• The noise made them _______.
• 2. subject to fear; timid.
• 3. characterized by or indicating fear:
• a _______ whisper.
• Syn: cowardly.

• 1. respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
• 2. respectful or courteous regard:
• in _______ to his wishes.

• 1. a teacher; schoolteacher.
• 2. a person who is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal.

• 1. ostentatious in one's learning.
• 2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.

• 1. characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others:
• an _______ dresser.
• 2. (of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice:
• Bountiful's _______ charity.
• Syn: grandiose

• 1. not respectful; manifesting or characterized by __(noun form__; deficient in veneration or respect:
• an _______ reply.
• Syn: irreligious, impious, profane.

• 1. a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing:
• Lost in _______.
• 2. a daydream.
• 3. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea:
• _______s that will never come to fruition.
• 4. Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.

• 1. an act of __(verb form)__ing.
• 2. counsel, advice, or caution.
• 3. a gentle reproof.
• 4. a warning or reproof given by an ecclesiastical authority.

• 1. Archit. a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof. Compare arcade.
• 2. a series of trees planted in a long row, as on each side of a driveway or road.
• 

a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.

not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.

• 1. (cap.) the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity...
• 2. (cap.) the body of Jews living in countries outside Israel...
• 3. (cap.) such countries collectively:
• the return of the Jews from the _______.
• 4. any group migration or flight from a country or region. dispersion, dissemination, migration, displacement, scattering
• 5. any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade...
• 6. any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion.
• 7. the spread or dissemination of something originally confined to a local, homogeneous group, as a language or cultural institution:
• the _______ of English as a global language.

• 1. a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
• 2. a deposit of such material left on the ground by a glacier.
• 

• 1. any hairy plant belonging to the genus _______... cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
• 2. any of various other plants, as the valerian or the winter ______.
• 3. any plant that turns toward the sun.
• 4. a light tint of purple; reddish lavender.
• 5. Survey. an arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station.
• 6. bloodstone (a greenish variety of chalcedony [variety of quartz] with small bloodlike spots of red jasper scattered through it)
• 

• 1. shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
• 2. falling off or shed at a particular season, stage of growth, etc., as leaves, horns, or teeth.
• 3. not permanent; transitory.

(of trees, shrubs, etc.) having green leaves throughout the entire year, the leaves of the past season not being shed until after the new foliage has been completely formed.

• 1. shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
• 2. Bot. having four or more lobes or leaflets radiating from a single point.
• 3. Zool. web-footed.
• 4. Furniture. decorated with _______s. / (in furniture of the 17th century) having bands of semicircles enclosing a radiating leaf form.
• 

• 1. Bot. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
• 2. Zool. a stalk or peduncle, as that connecting the abdomen and thorax in wasps.
• 

• 1. resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:
• a _______ branch; _______ trees.
• 2. Bot. (of a leaf) having leaflets or primary divisions arranged on each side of a common stalk.
• 

• Leaves that are staggered, not placed directly across from each other on the twig.
• 

• Two leaves that are directly across from each other on the same twig.
• 

• a tree with leaves that are flat and thin, and generally shed annually.
• 

• the primary rib or central vein of a leaf.
• 

the edge of a leaf.

the flat part of a leaf or leaflet, characteristic of broadleaf trees.

• a modified leaf that bears a flower
• 

• the marks remaining after bud scales drop in spring.
• 

• Bot. an indehiscent (not opening at maturity), usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as of the elm or maple.
• 

• a single leaf blade with a bud at the base of the leafstem.
• 

• a leaf with more than one blade. All blades are attached to a single leafstem. Where the leafstem attaches to the twig there is a bud.
• 

• indentation between lobes on a leaf.
• 

• projections that shape a leaf.
• 

a cone bearing tree.

• a leaf margin with smooth, untoothed edges.
• 

• notches on the outer edge of a leaf.
• 

• expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful:
• a _______ melody.
• Syn: wistful, sorrowful, sad

• (verb)
• 1. to move sideways or obliquely.
• 2. to edge along furtively.

• (noun)
• 3. a _______ing movement.

• 1. to express earnest disapproval of.
• 2. to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.)
• 3. to _______; belittle.
• 4. Archaic. to pray for deliverance from.
• Syn: condemn, denounce, disparage, decry

• (noun)
• 1. a discussion or conference.
• 2. an informal conference between enemies under a truce, especially to discuss terms, conditions of surrender, etc.

• (verb)
• 3. to hold an informal conference with an enemy under a truce, as between active hostilities.
• 4. to speak, talk, or confer.
• Syn: talk, converse, discuss

• 1. to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
• 2. to make stupid or foolish:
• a mind _______ed with fear and superstition.
• 3. to infatuate; obsess:
• He is ______ed by her youth and beauty.

a hater of humankind.

• 1. the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
• 2. an instance of varying; difference; discrepancy.

• 1. an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
• 2. Bot. an overlapping arrangement of five petals or leaves, in which two are interior, two are exterior, and one is partly interior and partly exterior.
• 

• mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner:
• _______ songs of lost love.
• Syn: sorrowful, melancholy

• 1. courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm:
• a _______ gentleman.
• 2. jaunty; carefree; sprightly.
• Syn: urbane, suave, elegant, polished.

• 1. to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
• 

• 1. a trifling away of time; dawdling.
• 2. amorous toying; flirtation.

• 1. (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
• 2. not kind or merciful.