*Paul's Dictionary (set 6)

• Naut. a heavy rope for mooring or towing.

• 1. intended to entrap or beguile:
• an _______ plan.
• 2. stealthily treacherous or deceitful:
• an _______ enemy.
• 3. operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect:
• an _______ disease.
• Syn: corrupting... artful, cunning, wily, subtle, crafty.

• Noun
• 1. painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
• 2. pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
• 3. the pain of childbirth.

• Verb
• 4. to suffer the pangs of childberth; be in labor.
• 5. to toil or exert oneself.

Syn: labor, moil... torment, agony.

• 1. of, pertaining to, or capable of walking:
• an _______ exploration of the countryside.
• 2. adapted for walking, as the limbs of many animals.
• 3. moving around or from place to place; not stationary:
• an _______ tribe.
• 4. Med. not confined to bed; able or strong enough to walk.

• 1. pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows:
• _______ troops.

• 1. incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
• 2. ornamentation with a figure or design sunk below the surface.
• 3. a gem, seal, piece of jewelry, or the like, cut with an incised or sunken design.
• 4. an incised or countersunk die.
• 5. a figure or design so produced.
• 6. a process in which a design, text, etc., is engraved into the surface of a plate so that when ink is applied and the excess is wiped off, ink remains in the grooves and is transferred to paper in printing, as in engraving or etching.
• 7. an impression or printing from such a design, engraving, etc.

• 1. one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
• 2. the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster.
• 3. the erectile hair on the back of an animals neck:
• at the sound of footsteps, the dog raised her ______s.
• anger, especially when aroused in a challenging or challenged manner:
• with one's ______s up.

• Idiom: raise one's _______s. to arouse one's anger:
• such officiousness always raises my ______s.

• 1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
• Gambling was the ______ of his existence.
• 2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants):
• wolfs______; hen_______.
• 3. death; destruction; ruin.
• 4. Obs. that which causes death or destroys life:
• entrapped and drowned beneath the watery ______.

• 1. Fort. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base of the main work.
• 2. a fortified place.
• 3. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.:
• a ______ of solitude; a ______ of democracy.
• Syn: fortress, fort, bulwark, stronghold, citadel.

• 1. generous bestowal of gifts.
• 2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
• 3. Obs. generosity; liberality.

• Noun
• 1. a leafy shelter or recess; arbor.
• 2. a rustic dwelling; cottage.
• 3. a lady's boudoir in a medieval castle.

• Verb
• 4. to enclose in or as in a ______; em_______.

• Naut (alternative): an anchor carried at a ship's bow.

• a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.

• Noun
• 1. the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
• 2. the wing of a bird.
• 3. a feather.
• 4. the flight feathers collectively.

• Verb
• 5. to cut off the ___(noun)____ of (a wing) or bind (the wings), as in order to prevent a bird from flying.
• 6. to disable or restrain (a bird) in such a manner.
• 7. to bind (a person's arms or hands) so they cannot be used.
• 8. to disable (someone) in such a manner; shackle.
• 9. to bind or hold fast, as to a thing:
• to be _______ed to one's bad habits.

• 1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:
• ________ parents; _______ farmland.
• 2. very productive or creative intellectually:
• the ________ years of the Italian Renaissance.

• a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

• 1. Class. Myth. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
• 2. Pathol. an acrid, watery discharge, as from an ulcer or wound.

• 1. light, airy, or tenuous:
• an _______ world created through the poetic imagination.
• 2. extremely delicate or refined:
• _______ beauty.
• 3. heavenly or celestial:
• gone to his ______ home.
• 4. of or pertaining to the upper regions of space.

• 1. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
• 2. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

• Noun
• 1. a repository for dead bodies (_______ house).

• Adj.
• 2. of, like, or fit for a ______; deathlike; sepulchral.

• Adj.
• 1. done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably:
• a ______ attack; ______ cruelty.
• 2. deliberate and without motive or provocation; uncalled-for; headstrong; willful:
• Why jeapordize your career in such a ______ way?
• 3. without regard for what is right, just, humane, etc.; careless; reckless:
• a ______ attacker of religious convictions.
• 4. sexually lawless or unrestrained; loose; lascivious; lewd:
• ______ behavior.
• 5. extravagantly or excessively luxurious, as a person, manner of living, or style.
• 6. Archaic. sportive or frolicsome, as children or young animals // having free play:
• ______ breezes; a ______ brook.

• Noun
• 8. a ______ or lascivious person, especially a woman.

• Verb
• 9. to behave in a ______ manner; become ______.
• 10. to squander, especially in pleasure (often followed by away):
• to ______ away one's inheritance.

Syn: malicious, calculated, heedless, inconsiderate, licentious, dissolute, immoral, libidinous, concupiscent, lustful, lavish, waste. Ant: careful, considerate, restrained.

• a large two-handled storage jar having an oval body, usually tapering to a point at the base, with a pair of handles extending fro immediately below the lip to the shoulder. Used chiefly for wine, oil, etc., and, set on a foot, as a commemorative vase awarded the victors in contess such as the Panathenaic games.

• Noun
• 1. impudence; effrontery.
• 2. bile, especially that of an animal.
• 3. something bitter or severe.
• 4. bitterness of spirit; rancor.

• Idiom
• 5. ______ and wormwood: bitterness of spirit; deep resentment.

Syn: nerve, audacity, brass, cheek.

• //2nd def.
• Verb
• 1. to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely:
• The saddle ______ed the horse's back.
• 2. to vex or irritate greatly:
• His arrogant manner ______s me.
• 3. to become chafed.

• Noun
• 4. a sore on the skin, especially of a horse, due to rubbing; excoriation.
• 5. something very vexing or irritating.
• 6. a state of vexation or irritation.

• characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly:
• an ______ professor; an ______ commentary.

• Adj.
• 1. traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; journeying.
• 2. characterized by such traveling:
• ______ preaching.
• 3. working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually a a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering:
• an ______ farm hand.

• Noun
• 4. a person who alternates between working and wandering.
• 5. a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

Syn: wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic. Ant: settled.

• 1. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary:
• ______ accuracy; an ______ knack of foreseeing trouble.
• 2. mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange:
• ______ sounds filled the house.

Syn: preternatural, odd, weird. Ant: ordinary, natural.

• 1. easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding:
• a ______ child; a ______ disposition.
• 2. easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.
• Syn: manageable, willing, governable. Ant: stubborn.

• 1. Astron. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
• 2. humpbacked.

• Noun
• 1. (cap.) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.

• Adj.
• 2. (cap.) lacking in or hostile to culture.
• 3. smugly commonplace or conventional.

Syn: Babbitt, vulgarian, lowbrow

• Verb
• 1. to divert or amuse (oneself)
• 2. to display (oneself) in a sportive manner:
• The picnickers ______ed themselves merrily on the beach.
• 3. to divert oneself; sport.

• Noun
• 4. diversion; amusement; play; sport.

• 1. relief sculpture in which the figures project slightly from the background.

• patronage bestowed or favoritsm shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics:
• She was accused of ______ when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.

• 1. a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.
• 2. any tyrant or oppressor.
• 3. Hist. an honorary title applied to a Byzantine emperor, afterward to members of his family, and later to Byzantine vassal rulers and governors.

• 1. a nw word, meaning, usage or phrase.
• 2. the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
• 3. a new doctrine, especially a new interpretation of sacred writings.
• 4. Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker, occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics.

• 1. of or pertaining to the river Styx or to Hades.
• 2. dark or gloomy.
• 3. infernal; hellish.

• 1. to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.:
• Discord _____ed at an alarming rate.
• 2. (of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon.
• 3. to grow or become:
• He _____ed angry at the insinuation.
• Syn: extend, grow, lengthen, enlarge, dilate.

• //alt. def.
• Brit. a fit of anger; rage.

• Verb
• 1. to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.:
• Daylight _____ed, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is ______ing.
• 2. to decline in power, importance, prosperity, etc.:
• Colonialism began to ______ after World War 2.
• 3. to draw to a close; approach an end:
• Summer is ______ing.
• 4. (of the moon) to decrease periodically in the extent of its illuminated portion after the full moon.

• Noun
• 5. a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
• 6. the drawing to close of life, an era, a period, etc.
• 7. the ______ing of the moon.
• 8. a period of ______ing.

• Idiom: on the ______; decreasing, diminishing:
• The popularity of that song is on the _____.

• 1. marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, especially, in the U.S., between a bllack and a white person.
• 2. interbreeding between members of different races.
• 3. the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding.

• elation of mind or feeling, sometimes abnormal or morbid in character; rapture:
• mystical _______; euphoric ______.
• Syn: exultation, transport, euphoria, ecstasy

• 1. having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
• 2. odorous or smelling (usually followed by of):
• _____ of garlic.
• 3. suggestive; reminiscent (usually followed by of):
• verse ______ of Shakespeare.
• Syn: odorous, aromatic, odorierous.

• 1. a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
• 2. any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music:
• Tennyson's ______ for the Duke of Wellington.
• 3. a  mournful sound resembling a _____:
• the autumn wind sang the ______ of summer.
• 4. Eccles. the office of the the dead, or the funeral service as sung.

• 1. approval; commendation.
• 2. official approval or sanction.
• 3. Obs. conclusive proof.

• Noun
• 1. disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
• 2. shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this.
• Syn: disrepute, discredit, shame, obloquy, opprobrium, disgrace. Ant: credit, honor

• Adj.
• 1. marked by or attended with ____(noun form)____; discreditable; humiliating:
• an ______ retreat.
• 2. bearing or deserving ___(noun form)___; contemptible.
• Syn: degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, despicable, ignoble.

• 1. a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties.
• 2. Roman Cath. Theol. a remission of sin or of the punishment for sin, made by a priest in the sacrament of penance on the ground of authority received from Christ.
• 3. Prot. Theol. a declaration or assurance of divine forgiveness to penitent believers, made after confession of sins.

• 1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
• 2. the future state of the wicked.
• 3. hell.
• 4. utter destruction or ruin.
• 5. Obs. loss.

• haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
• Syn: arrogant, scornful. Ant: humble.

to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.

• 1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refulsal; imperative;
• a ______ command.
• 2. imperious or dictatorial.
• 3. positive or asservtive in speech, tone, manner, etc.
• 4. Law. that precludes or does not admit of debate, question, etc.:
• a ______ edict.
• decisive or final // in which a command is absolute and unconditional:
• a ______ write.
• Syn: arbitrary, dogmatic, domineering.

• 1. of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
• 2. fixed, settled, or permanent.
• Syn: proper, serious, decorous, solemn, sedate, settled, sober, composed... a colorless kind of correctness.
• a ______ and uninteresting family.

• 1. touching; in contact.
• 2. in close proximity without actually touching; near.
• 3. adjacent in time:
• ______ evnts.
• Syn: bordering, adjoining, abutting, adjacent

• 1. deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable:
• Reorganizing the files was a ______ idea.
• 2. Med. Obs. healthy; wholesome; not noxious.