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Tarry (v)
to delay; dawdle
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Tatty (adj)
worn and shabby
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Tautological (adj)
needlessley repetitious
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Teetotalism (n)
practice of abstaining totally from alcoholic drinks
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Temerity (n)
boldness; rashness
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Tempestuous (adj)
stormy; impassioned; violent
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Temproize (v)
act of evasively gaining time; avoid commiting oneself
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Tendentious (adj)
having an aim; biased; designed to furhter a cause
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Tensile (adj)
capable of being stretched
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Tenuous (adj)
thin; rare; slim
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Terse (adj)
concise; abrupt; pithy
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Tesselated (adj)
inlaid, mosaic
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Testator (n)
maker of a will
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Thrall (n)
slave; bondage
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Threadbare (adj)
worn through til the threads show; shabby and poor
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Tiller (n)
handle used to move a boat rudder
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Timbre (n)
quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument
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Timorous (adj)
fearful; demonstrating fear
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Tipple (v)
to drink (alcoholic beverages) frequently
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Tonsure (n)
shaving of the head, especially by person entering religious orders
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Touchstone (n)
stone used to test the fitness of gold alloys; criterion
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Tract (n)
pamphlet; a region of indefinate size
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Tractable (adj)
docile; easily managed
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Traduce (v)
to expose to slander
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Transmute (v)
to change; to convert to something different
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Transport (n)
strong emotion
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Travial (n)
painful physical or mental labor; drudgery; torment
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Treatise (n)
article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly
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Trite (adj)
hackneyed; commonplace
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Troth (n)
a pledge of good faith, esp in betrothal
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Truculence (adj)
aggressiveness; ferocity
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Tumid (adj)
swollen; pompous; bombastic
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Tumult (n)
commotion; riot; noise
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Turbid (adj)
muddy; having the sediment disturbed
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Tureen (n)
deep dish for serving soup
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Tutelage (n)
gaurdianship; training
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Tutelary (adj)
protective; pertaining to a gaurdianship
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Ubiquitous (adj)
omnipresent
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Unassailable (adj)
not subject to question; not open to attack
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Unassuaged (adj)
unsatisfied; not soothed
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Uncanny (adj)
strange; mysterious
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Uncouth (adj)
outlandish; clumsy; boorish
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Unction (n)
the act of annointing with oil
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Unctuous (adj)
oily; bland
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Undermine (v)
to weaken; sap
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Unerringly (adv)
infallibly
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Unexceptionable (adj
not offering any basis for criticism; entirely acceptable
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Unfrock (adj)
to strip a priest or minister of church authority
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Ungainly (adj)
awkward; clumsy; unwieldy
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Unrequited (adj)
not reciprocated
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Unseemly (adj)
unbecoming; indecent; in poor taste
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untenable (adj)
indefensiable; not able to be maintained
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Untoward (adj)
unfortunate or unlucky; adverse; unexpected
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Untrammeled (adj)
without limits or restrictions
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Unwonted (adj)
unaccustomed
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Urbane (adj)
suave; refined; elegant
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Urchin (n)
mischievous child
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Uxorious (adj)
excessively devoted to ones wife
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Vacuous (adj)
empty; lacking in ideas; stupid
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Vagrant (adj)
stray; random
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Vainglorious (adj)
boastful
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Valedictory (adj)
pertaining to farewell
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Vangaurd (n)
forerunners; advance forces
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Vapid (adj)
dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless
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Vassal (n)
in feudelism, one who held land of a superior lord
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Vaunted (adj)
boasted; bragged; highly publicized
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Vegetate (v)
to live in a monotonous way
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Vehement (adj)
forceful; intensely emotional; with marked vigor
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