Word origins

• SeymourA surname from Anglo-Norman.
• alterationThe act of altering or making different.
• demolitionThe process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.
• multiplyTo increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• intercourseCommunication, conversation.
• champaignOpen countryside, or an area of open countryside.
• basilA plant (Ocimum basilicum).
• ignorantUnknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
• fortressA fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
• lyonsA town in Boulder County, Colorado.
• salvageThe rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
• evangelicalPertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
• converseTo talk; to engage in conversation.
• temptationThe act of tempting.
• LesterA surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
• mailerOne who sends mail.
• grievanceSomething which causes grief.
• sentimentA general thought, feeling, or sense.
• rashActing too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
• topazA silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities.
• devotionThe act or state of devoting or being devoted; a feeling of being devoted (to something).
• buffUndyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
• orbA spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
• measurableAble to be measured.
• cousinsThe American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).
• installmentOne of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
• braceA curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• dispenserSomething or someone that dispenses things.
• tuckTo pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
• emblemA representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
• lionellion cub
• dineTo eat; to eat dinner or supper.
• LamarA habitational surname from Old French.
• multiplicationThe process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
• TysonA surname.
• JohanA female given name from Hebrew.
• etherThe medium breathed by human beings; the air.
• NevilleA surname from Old French.
• alchemyThe premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
• aromaticFragrant or spicy.
• ecstasyIntense pleasure.
• repaySynonym of pay back in all senses.
• homicideThe killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
• digestionThe process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
• vigorousPhysically strong and active.
• PaigeA southern English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Page.
• trenchA long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement.
• fableA fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
• rechargeTo charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
• deformationPhysically so.
• argentineContaining or resembling silver.
• poyA support structure.
• concordanceAgreement; accordance; consonance.
• revertOne who, or that which, reverts.
• HubertA male given name from the Germanic languages, borne by an 8th-century bishop of Liège, patron saint of hunters.
• fitchA polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
• fixationThe act of fixing.
• tediousBoring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.
• clapThe act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
• trussA bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
• penalOf or relating to punishment.
• hueA color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
• divinityThe state, position, or fact of being a god or God.
• RochelleA surname from Old French.
• diminishTo make smaller.
• tempestA storm, especially one with severe winds.
• parsleyA bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
• porousFull of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
• ulcerAn open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
• respiteA brief interval of rest or relief.
• GranvilleAn English surname from Old French.
• TelfordA road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly in the interstices.
• restitutionA process of compensation for losses.
• discontinueTo interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
• alchemistOne who practices alchemy.
• BlancheA female given name from French.
• paveTo cover something with paving slabs.
• turmoilA state of great disorder or uncertainty.
• GodfreyA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• doleDistribution; dealing; apportionment.
• GertrudeA female given name from the Germanic languages.
• skilletA large and heavy saucepan or frying pan with legs and, usually, a long handle designed for heating food in a fireplace.
• allotmentThe act of allotting.
• monarchyA government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
• indifferentAmbivalent; unconcerned; uninterested, apathetic.
• prosperTo be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
• GreeleyA surname from Old French.
• convoyOne or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
• leesThe sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
• lanierA leather thong.
• gentryBirth; condition; rank by birth.
• mysticismThe beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
• guarantyAn undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a warranty; a security.
• observanceThe practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
• druryLove, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.
• piersA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• hasteSpeed; swiftness; dispatch.
• chaplinAny of a class of bacterial proteins that form fibrils instead of a coiled structure.
• plattA marketplace.
• LeopoldA male given name from the Germanic languages. Used in the 19th century but rare today.