Vocabulary Words

adjective, noun

(by extension) Any of various extant and extinct big cats, especially the mountain lion. (+7 more)

noun, verb

(by extension) The projecting rim of an open container (+23 more)

adjective, noun

(of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy. (+13 more)

noun, verb

(in the plural) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments. (+42 more)

noun, verb

An instance of listening. (+5 more)

noun

(chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event (+3 more)

noun

A measure of volume equivalent to a litre. (+1 more)

adjective, noun

(epigraphy) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter. (+16 more)

adverb

(degree, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect (+7 more)

adjective

Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing. (+4 more)

noun

(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject. (+3 more)

noun, verb

(collective) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. (+15 more)

adjective, adverb, noun, pronoun

(also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place. (+19 more)

adjective, adverb, noun, verb

(circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched. (+55 more)

adjective, adverb, noun

(of beer) Fizzy (+17 more)

adjective, noun

A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. (+4 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income (+35 more)

noun

A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.

noun, verb

(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle (+39 more)

noun, verb

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking. (+5 more)

noun, verb

A lonnen. (+5 more)

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