Word origins

• formularyA list of formulas; a collection of set forms to be followed, especially in religious belief.
• irrevocableUnable to be retracted or reversed; final.
• invalidateTo make invalid (especially in to contract law)
• calamityAn event resulting in great loss.
• navigableCapable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
• unifyCause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.
• visceralOf or relating to, made up of, or positioned among or within, the viscera (“internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities”).
• tiburonA shark; now specifically, Sphyrna tiburo or Negaprion brevirostris.
• carnationoriginally, Dianthus caryophyllus
• mutinyAn organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
• rencontreA chance or unexpected meeting or encounter.
• commotionA state of turbulent motion.
• agrarianOf, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
• garbFashion, style of dressing oneself up.
• evadeTo get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
• apogeeThe point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
• dismantleTo take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
• recitationThe act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
• desistTo cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
• tacitImplied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
• excisionThe removal of some text during editing.
• paraphraseA restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
• epilogueA short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play
• impossibilitySomething that is impossible.
• contraventionThe act of contravening (a rule, regulation, law, or order) or of not fulfilling (an obligation, promise, or agreement).
• disperseTo scatter in different directions.
• luteA fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
• rosetteAn element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
• justifiableThat can be justified.
• confineTo have a common boundary with; to border on.
• declarativeServing to declare; having the quality of a declaration.
• virulenceThe state of being virulent.
• ejectionThe act of ejecting.
• mohairYarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials.
• grotesqueDistorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
• sequestrationThe process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
• procrastinationThe act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
• foyFaith, allegiance.
• idiomA manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
• volleyThe simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
• marmaladeA kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit.
• adorationAn act of religious worship.
• compulsionAn irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
• retractTo pull (something) back or back inside.
• exorcistA person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a practitioner in exorcism to force out evil spirits or demons from a living being.
• detractTo take away; to withdraw or remove.
• routA group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
• ployA tactic, strategy, or scheme.
• monasticOf or relating to monasteries or monks.
• quartileAny of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
• pronounA part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
• retrogradeDirected or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
• impurityThe condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
• monologueA long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
• cutlassA short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
• legerLight; slender, slim; trivial.
• incomprehensibleImpossible or very difficult to understand.
• polityOrganizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
• pontoonA flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.
• veritableTrue; genuine.
• posterityAll the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
• insidiousCausing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
• moustacheA growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
• infractionA minor offence, petty crime.
• displaceTo put out of place; to disarrange.
• isletA small island.
• distributiveRelating to distribution.
• caskA large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
• impulsiveHaving the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
• veerTo let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
• martingaleA piece of harness used on a horse to keep it from raising its head above a desired point.
• inseparableUnable to be separated; bound together permanently.
• juristAn expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.
• hematiteAn iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃: iron(III) oxide.
• cornetA musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
• catapultA device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.
• chardAn edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
• ineptNot able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
• cadeabandoned by its mother and reared by hand
• impartialityThe quality of being impartial; fairness.
• palpableCapable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
• mediocrityThe condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
• contentmentThe state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
• politicOf or relating to polity, or civil government; political.
• aristocracyThe nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
• inflexibleNot flexible; not capable of bending or being bent.
• heredityHereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
• sensualityThe state of being sensual or sensuous.
• parallaxAn apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.
• sedentaryNot moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
• exterminationThe act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
• transpositionThe act or process of transposing or interchanging.
• inciteTo call into action.
• violA stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
• gazelleAn antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
• minionA loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
• regenerativeThat serves to regenerate.
• repulsiveTending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
• amputationsurgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
• lackeyA footman, a liveried male servant.