Pretty Words

  • Abrade
  • To Wear Away the Surface or Some Part of by Friction.

  • Acquit
  • To Free or Clear from Accusation.

  • Ado
  • Unnecessary Activity or Ceremony.

  • Adroit
  • Having Skill in the Use of Bodily or Mental Powers.

  • Aerial
  • Pertaining to or like the Air.

  • Affix
  • To Fasten.

  • Aghast
  • Struck with Terror and Amazement.

  • Alder
  • Any Shrub or Small Tree of the Oak Family.

  • Allege
  • To Assert to Be True, Especially in a Formal Manner

  • Altar
  • Any Raised Place or Incense Burned.

  • Annals
  • A Record of Events in Chronological Order, Year-By-Year.

  • Antecede
  • To Precede.

  • Antic
  • A Grotesque, Ludicrous, or Fantastic Action.

  • Apex
  • The Highest Point (As of a Mountain).

  • Aqueous
  • Pertaining to or Containing Water.

  • Ardent
  • Burning with Passion.

  • Arid
  • Very Dry.

  • Artful
  • Characterized by Craft or Cunning.

  • Attest
  • To Certify as Accurate, Genuine or True.

  • Auburn
  • Reddish-Brown Usually Said of the Hair.

  • Augur
  • To Predict.

  • Avidity
  • Greediness.

  • Awaken
  • To Arouse (Emotion, Interest, Etc.)

  • Baffle
  • To Foil or Frustrate.

  • Baleful
  • Malignant.

  • Banal
  • Commonplace.

  • Bask
  • To Make Warm by Genial Heat.

  • Bawl
  • To Proclaim by Outcry.

  • Beau
  • A Boyfriend or Male Admirer.

  • Bedaub
  • To Smear Over, as with Something Oily or Sticky.

  • Befog
  • To Confuse.

  • Beget
  • To Produce by the Sexual Act.

  • Bestial
  • Of or like an Animal or Animals.

  • Biped
  • An Animal Having Two Feet.

  • Blatant
  • Noisily or Offensively Loud or Clamorous.

  • Blithe
  • Joyous.

  • Bosom
  • The Upper Front of the Thorax of a Human Being

  • Brethren
  • Members of the Brotherhood

  • Bursar
  • A Person Who Manages the Financial Affairs of a College

  • Canine
  • Characteristic of a Dog.

  • Canto
  • One of the Divisions of an Extended Poem.

  • Chasm
  • A Yawning Hollow, as in the Earth’s Surface.

  • Cipher
  • A Secret or Disguised Way of Writing; A Code.

  • Comport
  • To Conduct or Behave Oneself.

  • Concur
  • To Agree.

  • Constrict
  • To Bind.

  • Copious
  • Plentiful.

  • Crass
  • Course or Thick in Nature or Structure.

  • Deceit
  • Falsehood.

  • Decoy
  • Anything That Allures or Temptation.

  • Deify
  • To Regard or Worship as a God.

  • Deluge
  • Overwhelmed with a Flood or Water.

  • Detrude
  • To Push Down Forcibly.

  • Diabolic
  • Characteristic of the Devil.

  • Diurnal
  • Daily.

  • Divulge
  • Tell or Make Known

  • Docile
  • Easy to Manage or Influence.

  • Educe
  • Bring Out or Develop (Something Latent or Potential).

  • Effuse
  • To Pour Forth.

  • Elegy
  • A Lyric Poem Lamenting the Dead.

  • Endue
  • To Endow with Some Quality, Usually Spiritual.

  • Engrave
  • To Cut or Carve in or upon Some Surface.

  • Enrage
  • To Infuriate.

  • Epitome
  • A Simplified Representation.

  • Espy
  • To Keep a Close Watch.

  • Evert
  • To Turn Upside Down.

  • Evince
  • To Make Manifest or Evident.

  • Excel
  • To Be Superior or Distinguished.

  • Exert
  • To Make an Effort.

  • Extant
  • Still Existing and Known.

  • Fancier
  • While Having a Taste for or Interest in Special Objects.

  • Fervor
  • Ardor or Intensity of Feeling.

  • Flimsy
  • Thin and Weak.

  • Florid
  • Having a Red or Flushed Complexion.

  • Forte
  • A Strong Point.

  • Foursome
  • Consisting of Four.

  • Frizz
  • To Give the Crinkled Fluffy Appearance to Something.

  • Furbish
  • To Restore Brightness or Beauty To.

  • Germane
  • Relevant.

  • Hexagon
  • A Figure with Six Angles.

  • Hoard
  • To Gather and Store Away for the Sake of Accumulation.

  • Hustle
  • To Move with Haste and Promptness.

  • Hydrous
  • Watery.

  • Idiom
  • The Use of Words Peculiar to a Particular Language.

  • Illusive
  • Deceptive.

  • Induct
  • To Bring In.

  • Inept
  • Not Fit or Suitable.

  • Infirm
  • Lacking in Bodily or Mental Strength.

  • Infuse
  • To Instill, Introduce, or Inculcate

  • Inlet
  • A Small Body of Water Leading into a Larger One.

  • Jocose
  • Done or Made in Jest.

  • Jovial
  • Merry.

  • Kernel
  • A Grain or Seed.

  • Latent
  • Dormant.

  • Lave
  • To Wash or Bathe.

  • Licit
  • Lawful.

  • Lingo
  • Language.

  • Liquefy
  • Convert into a Liquid or into Liquid Form.

  • Lode
  • A Vein of Metal Ore in the Earth.

  • Lucid
  • Mentally Sound.

  • Lune
  • The Moon.

  • Matrix
  • That Which Contains and Gives Shape

  • Mimic
  • To Imitate the Speech or Actions Of.

  • Minion
  • A Servile Favorite.

  • Misty
  • Filled or Abounding with Fog or Mist.

  • Muffle
  • To Deaden the Sound of Something

  • Mutiny
  • Rebellion against Lawful or Constituted Authority.

  • Natal
  • Pertaining to One’s Birth.

  • Nausea
  • And Affection of the Stomach Producing Dizziness.

  • Nettle
  • To Excite Sensations of Uneasiness or Displeasure.

  • Nomad
  • Having No Fixed Abode.

  • Nomic
  • Usual or Customary.

  • Nurture
  • The Process of Fostering or Promoting Growth.

  • Onset
  • An Assault, Especially of Troops, upon an Enemy

  • Onus
  • A Burden or Responsibility.

  • Orate
  • To Deliver an Elaborate or Formal Public Speech.

  • Pall
  • To Make Dull by Satiety.

  • Patter
  • To Mumble Something over and Over.

  • Perfidy
  • The State of Being Deceitful and Untrustworthy.

  • Pervade
  • To Pass or Spread through Every Part.

  • Phonic
  • Pertaining to the Nature of Sound.

  • Pillage
  • Open Robbery as in War.

  • Plea
  • Arguments to Obtain Some Desired Action.

  • Polar
  • Pertaining to the Poles of a Sphere

  • Portend
  • To Indicate as Being about to Happen

  • Posit
  • To Present in an Orderly Manner.

  • Posse
  • A Force of Men.

  • Probe
  • To Search through and Through.

  • Prolix
  • Verbose.

  • Prosaic
  • Unimaginative.

  • Protract
  • To Prolong.

  • Psychic
  • Pertaining to the Mind or Soul.

  • Puerile
  • Childish.

  • Purl
  • To Cause to Whirl, as in an Eddy.

  • Purloin
  • To Steal.

  • Quietus
  • A Silencing Suppressing or Ending.

  • Rabid
  • Affected by Rabies.

  • Racy
  • Exciting or Exhilarating to the Mind.

  • Rapt
  • Enraptured.

  • Ravine
  • A Deep Gorge or Hollow

  • Rebuff
  • Unexpected Rejection of Advances or Approaches.

  • Reck
  • To Have a Care or Thought For.

  • Refute
  • To Prove to Be Wrong.

  • Rend
  • To Split or Tear Apart or in Pieces by Violence.

  • Retort
  • Retaliatory Speech.

  • Revere
  • To Regard with Worshipful Veneration.

  • Ripplet
  • A Small Ripple, as of Water.

  • Robust
  • Characterized by Great Strength and Durability.

  • Rotund
  • Round Form Fullness or Plumpness.

  • Ruth
  • A Feeling of Pity, Distress, or Grief.

  • Sassy
  • Distinctively Smart and Stylish.

  • Scythe
  • A Long Curved Blade for Mowing, Reaping, Etc.

  • Senile
  • Peculiar to or Proceeding from the Weakness

  • Shriek
  • A Sharp, Shrill Outcry or Scream

  • Slothful
  • Lazy.

  • Solace
  • Comfort in Grief, Trouble, or Calamity.

  • Solar
  • Pertaining to the Sun.

  • Stellar
  • Pertaining to the Stars.

  • Superb
  • Sumptuously Elegant.

  • Teem
  • To Be Full, Overflowing with Something.

  • Thermal
  • Pertaining to Heat and Temperature.

  • Torpor
  • A State of Physical or Mental Inactivity; Lethargy.

  • Travail
  • Hard or Agonizing Labor.

  • Unify
  • To Cause to Be One.

  • Unison
  • A Condition of Perfect Agreement and Accord.

  • Upturn
  • To Throw into Confusion.

  • Usurp
  • To Take Possession of by Force.

  • Vale
  • Level or Low Land between Hills.

  • Venal
  • Mercenary, Corrupt.

  • Virtu
  • Rare, Curious, or Aesthetic Quality.

  • Visage
  • The Face, Countenance, or Look of a Person.

  • Vista
  • A View.

  • Vitiate
  • Spoil or Impair the Quality or Efficiency Of.

  • Vivify
  • Make More Lively or Engaging; Enliven.

  • Volant
  • Flying or Able to Fly.

  • Votary
  • Consecrated by a Vow or Promise.

  • Wane
  • To Diminish in Size and Brilliancy.

  • Whet
  • To Make More Keen or Eager.

  • Wreak
  • To Inflict as Revenge or Punishment.

  • Wrest
  • Pool or Force Away by Violence Twisting or Wringing.

  • Zephyr
  • A Soft, Gentle Wind.