Vocabulary Words

interjection, noun, preposition, verb

(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be. (+34 more)

noun

(by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion. (+3 more)

noun

(Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy). (+7 more)

noun

A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun. (+2 more)

noun, verb

A cause of relief or satisfaction. (+13 more)

adjective, noun

A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed (+12 more)

adverb

Easily (+2 more)

adjective, noun

A children's newspaper. (+7 more)

noun, verb

A brief interval. (+8 more)

noun, verb

A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer (+30 more)

noun

A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces. (+7 more)

verb

To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object. (+1 more)

noun, verb

(of code) To comment out (code) (+7 more)

noun, verb

An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. (+11 more)

adjective, noun

(aviation) Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights. (+4 more)

noun, verb

A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function. (+8 more)

noun, verb

(Latinism) To confound. (+22 more)

noun

Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons. (+6 more)

noun

A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols. (+2 more)

adjective, noun, verb

(grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence of the masculine and feminine categories of nouns. (+27 more)

noun

An internal sense, formerly believed to be the sense by which information from the other five senses is understood and interpreted. (+2 more)

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