Word origins

• booksellerA person engaged in the business of selling books.
• webberAn animal that creates webs, such as a spider.
• platterA tray for serving foods.
• chamberlainA senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber, especially in the United Kingdom and in Denmark.
• brewsterA unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.
• croftAn enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
• pageantAn elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
• morallyIn terms of morals or ethics.
• reptileA (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
• nestleTo settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
• imperfectNot perfect.
• disguiseMaterial (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
• eleventhThe ordinal form of the number eleven.
• songbookA book containing songs.
• hepaticOf or relating to the liver.
• kindredDistant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
• condemnTo strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
• hueA color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
• invocationThe act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
• nineteenThe cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
• swollenProtuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
• scatterTo (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• stewardA person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
• smackA distinct flavor, especially if slight.
• holinessThe state or condition of being holy.
• comprehendTo understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
• cloakA long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
• pamphletA small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.
• clipperAnything or anyone that clips.
• brayOf an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
• chokeTo be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
• halterA bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
• roarTo make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
• packerA person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
• amidstIn the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
• gallImpudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
• oblivionThe state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
• gravyA dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
• inheritTo receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest, usually after the previous owner's death.
• sprinkleTo cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
• beforehandAt an earlier or preceding time.
• watcherSomeone who observes something closely for professional reasons, such as an analyst or pundit.
• palateA part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
• incontinenceLack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
• masculineOf or pertaining to the male gender.
• constableOne holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
• toppingWonderful.
• chillingBecoming cold.
• newcomerOne who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
• scorpionAny of the order Scorpiones of arachnids related to spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting at the end.
• rascalA dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.
• dizzyExperiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
• ransomMoney paid for the freeing of a hostage.
• twelfthThe ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
• daggerA stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
• thornA modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
• preambleA short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
• solicitTo persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
• spoilTo strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.
• granteeThe person to whom something is granted.
• trappingAn instance of ensnaring something or someone.
• platingAn act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
• inventTo design a new process or mechanism.
• eagerlyIn an eager manner.
• reformationAn improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
• hypocrisyThe contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.
• bunA small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
• palsyComplete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
• bearerOne who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
• dizzinessThe state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.
• pickleA cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• unevenOf a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
• pluralityThe state of being plural.
• WarringtonA town, borough, and unitary authority in Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6088).
• adventurousInclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
• confluenceThe act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
• yellingThe act of producing a yell.
• troughA long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
• quadrantOne of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
• AntiochAncient name of Antakya: a city in southeastern Turkey, formerly the capital of the ancient Seleucid Empire and the Crusader Principality of Antioch and a major port of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
• harrowA device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
• recklessCareless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
• saucerA small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
• dreamerOne who dreams.
• subpoenaA writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.
• spectacleAn exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
• waiterA male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.
• oddlyIn a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
• nutshellThe shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
• arrogantHaving excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
• thriftThe characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
• temperedHaving a specified disposition or temper.
• solitudeAloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
• destroyerThat which destroys something.
• weaklyFrail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
• parsleyA bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
• hostilityThe state of being hostile.
• culverA dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
• browThe bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
• chantTo sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.