Word origins

• joinerA maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
• procureTo acquire or obtain.
• arroganceThe state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.
• bleakWithout color; pale; pallid.
• fieldworkWork done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office).
• WinslowA town and civil parish with a town council in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7728).
• lessenTo make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• grangerA member of the Grange, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers.
• antiquityAncient times; faraway history; former ages.
• zealThe fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
• blamingThe act of accusing or assigning culpability to.
• sphinxA creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
• ceremonialOf, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony.
• stangA forked ritual staff.
• commendTo congratulate or reward.
• descendTo pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
• bolsterA large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
• maliceIntention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
• syllableA unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
• painfullyIn a painful manner; as if in pain.
• sweatingThe production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
• funnelA utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
• gentA gentleman.
• thirstyNeeding to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
• latheTo invite; bid; ask.
• virgilSynonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
• summertimeThe period or season of summer.
• cleopatraA woman of great seductive beauty.
• undecidedOpen and not yet settled or determined.
• bylawA local custom or law of a settlement or district.
• epiphanyAn illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
• melancholyBlack bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
• hindLocated at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
• squireA shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
• acheTo suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
• counterfeitFalse, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• yokeA bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; two draught animals connected by such a yoke; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
• sweetnessThe condition of tasting sugary or tasting as if sugary, from either sugar or another sweet-tasting substance.
• crookA bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• rearingAct of raising young.
• staleNo longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
• cogA tooth on a gear.
• incarnationAn incarnate being or form.
• fourteenthThe ordinal form of the number fourteen.
• gaspTo draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
• hummelHummel figurine
• hapA person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
• unequalNot the same.
• stalkingThe act of going stealthily.
• hasteSpeed; swiftness; dispatch.
• rhetoricalPart of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
• simmerTo cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
• vertA green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
• waterwayA body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
• bainReady; willing.
• AubreyAn English patronymic surname.
• siltMud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
• cherishTo treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
• undeadNot dead; alive.
• berthA place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
• lintClinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
• TuscanOf, from or relating to Tuscany, Italy.
• roamTo wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
• cataractA (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.
• middayNoon; twelve o'clock during the day.
• innateInborn; existing or having existed since birth.
• sunbeamA ray of sunlight; especially, a demarcated, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight (as revealed by, for example, its diffraction among dust particles).
• impairTo weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• stunTo incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
• goblinTraditionally, a supernatural being of folklore, typically small and grotesque or misshapen, that commonly haunts dark places, often mischievous or malevolent; a type of evil elf, sprite, or demon.
• ceeThe name of the Latin script letter C/c.
• SewardA surname.
• accuseTo find fault with, blame, censure.
• doggyA dog, especially a small one.
• hurdleAn artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
• lewA French gold coin circulated in 15th-century Scotland.
• treyA playing card or die with the rank of three.
• primateA mammal of the order Primates, comprising of apes (including humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
• willinglyOf one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
• revisitTo visit again.
• cuckooAny of various birds, of the family Cuculidae within the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
• whitingA fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
• fangA long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
• nettingSomething that acts as, or looks like, a net.
• hermitageA house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
• broodThe young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
• azureThe clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
• compelTo drive together, round up.
• sniffTo make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something; to smell (something).
• negligentCareless or inattentive.
• woeGreat sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
• unwindTo separate (something that is wound up)
• crotchThe ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
• hostessA female host.
• weepTo cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
• bestandTo stand by or near; stand around.
• westwardLying toward the west.
• sinnerA person who, by one particular action, has sinned.
• ergoConsequently, therefore, or thus.
• craftySkillful at deceiving others.