correspondence | n. similarity or analogy; communication by the exchange of letters |
countercharge | n. a retaliatory charge; a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser |
countryman | n. a man from your own country; a man who lives in the country and has country ways |
courier | n. person who carries a message |
crevice | n. gap; a long narrow opening |
criticize | v. find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws |
crusader | n. a warrior who engages in a holy war; a disputant who advocates reform |
cryptic | a. having hidden meaning; mystifying; using code or cipher |
cull | v. pick out from others; weed out; remove rejected members or parts from |
culmination | n. a final climactic stage; the decisive moment in a novel or play; a concluding action |
culpable | a. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious |
curiosity | n. a strong desire to know or learn something |
curriculum | n. the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college; program |
decadence | n. process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline; falling off or away; decay |
deceptive | a. misleading, likely or attempting to deceive; fraudulent |
defer | v. delay till later; put off; hold back to a later time |
defiled | a. morally blemished; stained or impure |
definition | n. clarity of outline; concise explanation |
delegate | n. person authorized to act as representative for another; deputy |
depository | n. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping |
derogatory | a. expressing low opinion; disparaging; belittling |
desolation | n. sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned; an event that results in total destruction; the state of being decayed or destroyed |
detestable | a. offensive to the mind; unequivocally detestable |
dilettante | a. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish |
diligent | a. assiduous; industrious; hard working |
dire | a. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; causing fear or dread or terror |
dirge | n. a piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; funeral hymn |
disastrous | a. extremely bad; terrible; dreadful |
disciple | n. follower; adherent; person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others |
disconcert | v. confuse; frustrate by throwing into disorder; embarrass |
disdainfully | ad. without respect; in a disdainful manner; in a proud and domineering manner |
disingenuous | a. giving a false appearance of frankness; not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating |
disparage | v. belittle; speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; reduce in esteem or rank |
disperse | v. move away from each other; cause to separate; cause to become widely known |
distinction | n. excellence or eminence; note or mark of difference |
distinguished | a. prominent; celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements |
dividend | n. sum of money to be divided and distributed; share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage |
dolefully | ad. with sadness; in a sorrowful manner |
dominant | a. major; most important, powerful, or influential; outweighing |
dormitory | n. a college or university building for student living; a large bedroom where several people sleep |
dragnet | n. a series of actions that are done by the police in order to catch criminals |
earnest | n. seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness |
echolocation | n. determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it |
ecstasy | n. intense joy or delight; any overpowering emotion |
egalitarian | n. a person who believes in the equality of all people |
eke | v. supplement with great effort; add to; augment |
electrify | v. excite suddenly and intensely; charge a conductor with electricity; equip for use with electricity |
eliminate | v. completely remove or get rid of; abolish; rule out |
embargo | n. ban on commerce or other activity |
embroidery | n. elaboration by the use of decorative detail; ornamentation of fabric with needlework |
embroil | v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action |
emphatically | ad. without question and beyond doubt |
ennui | n. feeling of being bored by something tedious |
enormous | a. very great in size, extent, number, or degrees; huge; massive |
enrapture | v. please intensely; fill with great delight or joy |
enumerate | v. list each one; mention one by one |
enunciate | v. speak distinctly; state or set forth precisely or systematically; pronounce; articulate |
equitation | n. the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements |
era | n. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods |
essential | a. necessary; critical; vital; constituting or being part of the essence of something |
estimation | n. the respect with which a person is held; an approximate calculation of quantity; a judgment of the qualities |
etched | a. cut or impressed into a surface |
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