Vocabulary Words

noun, verb

A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order. (+11 more)

noun

A peace officer and member of a police force, i.e. policeman or policewoman.

noun

A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.

noun

A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis. (+5 more)

noun

A female police officer.

noun, verb

(now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. (+22 more)

noun

A sufferer from poliomyelitis. (+1 more)

noun, verb

A substance used to polish. (+15 more)

adjective, verb

Smooth, polished, burnished. (+4 more)

adverb

In a polite manner

noun

The quality of being polite.

adjective, noun

(of a person) Interested in politics. (+6 more)

adverb

In a political manner (+1 more)

noun

A politically active or interested person. (+3 more)

noun, verb

(plural) One's political stands and opinions. (+6 more)

noun

A politically organized unit (+2 more)

noun

A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

adjective, verb

Polluted (+7 more)

noun

Moral or spiritual corruption (+7 more)

noun

A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal. (+5 more)

noun, verb

An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. (+9 more)

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