Category: general

23 entries.

• Anathemanoun— Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
• Bailiwicknoun— One's sphere of operations or particular area of interest.
• Canonicaladjective— Recognized as authoritative, standard, or officially accepted.
• Chasmnoun— A deep gap or fissure; figuratively, a profound division.
• Contemporaneousadjective— Existing or occurring in the same period of time.
• Egressverb— The action of going out or exiting; an exit or way out.
• Emblematicadjective— Serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept; symbolic.
• Ensconcednoun— establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.
• Extraneousadjective— Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
• Incipientadjective— In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop.
• Indicianoun— Signs, indications, or distinguishing marks.
• Indisposedadjective— Slightly unwell.
• Modicumnoun— A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered desirable or valuable.
• Moribundadjective— At the point of death.
• Nascentadjective— Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
• Obviateverb— to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary.
• Panaceanoun— A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
• Propagateverb— Spread and promote an idea, theory, etc. widely.
• Propitiousadjective— Favorable or likely to lead to success.
• Sojournnoun— A temporary stay somewhere; to stay briefly in a place.
• Superfluousadjective— Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.
• Tertiaryadjective— Third in order or level.
• Watershednoun— An event or period marking a turning point in a course of action or state of affairs.