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| adit |
an entrance or a passage. |
| aleatory |
of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable. |
| atony |
lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness. |
| bibulous |
fond of or addicted to drink. |
| clastic |
breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts. |
| corvine |
pertaining to or resembling a crow. |
| cunctation |
delay; tardiness. |
| debouch |
to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain. |
| etiolate |
to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor. |
| fluvial |
of or pertaining to a river. |
| gnosis |
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge. |
| indurate |
to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc. |
| invidious |
offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious. |
| litotes |
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." |
| mantic |
of or pertaining to divination. |
| mercer |
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant. |
| officinal |
kept in stock by apothecaries, as a drug. |
| oscitancy |
yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping. |
| pilose |
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry. |
| pleach |
to interweave (branches, vines, etc.), as for a hedge or arbor. |
| volar |
of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. |
| votary |
a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun. |
| adit |
an entrance or a passage. |
| aleatory |
of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable. |
| atony |
lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness. |
| bibulous |
fond of or addicted to drink. |
| clastic |
breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts. |
| corvine |
pertaining to or resembling a crow. |
| cunctation |
delay; tardiness. |
| debouch |
to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain. |
| etiolate |
to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor. |
| fluvial |
of or pertaining to a river. |
| gnosis |
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge. |
| indurate |
to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc. |
| invidious |
offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious. |
| litotes |
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." |
| mantic |
of or pertaining to divination. |
| mercer |
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant. |
| officinal |
kept in stock by apothecaries, as a drug. |
| oscitancy |
yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping. |
| pilose |
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry. |
| pleach |
to interweave (branches, vines, etc.), as for a hedge or arbor. |
| volar |
of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. |
| votary |
a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun. |
