Word origins

• subjectLikely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
• registerA formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
• analysisDecomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
• individualA person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• editorA person who edits or makes changes to documents.
• academicBelonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
• externalOutside of something; on the exterior.
• ultimateFinal; last in a series.
• robTo steal from, especially using force or violence.
• BulgariaA country in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia.
• warrenA system of burrows in which rabbits or other animals live.
• murrayA Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
• AlbanyScotland north of the River Forth.
• expenditureAct of expending or paying out.
• LithuaniaA country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Lithuania. Capital: Vilnius.
• coordinateOf the same rank; equal.
• cognitiveRelating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
• opticsThe physics of light and vision: basic optical science.
• uriA canton of Switzerland.
• rotaryCapable of rotation.
• brutalSavagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
• legendaryOf or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
• sedanAn enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.
• collateralParallel, in the same vein, side by side.
• simultaneousHappening at the same moment.
• correspondentCorresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
• endorseTo express support or approval, especially officially or publicly.
• radialArranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to, a common centre.
• tractionThe act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.
• CumbriaA Brittonic kingdom in the Old North, also known as Strathclyde.
• nasalOf or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
• cultivationTillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
• piracyRobbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
• duelArranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
• affidavitA signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.
• characterizeTo depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).
• secretarialPertaining to a secretary.
• heterogeneousDiverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
• homogeneousOf the same kind; alike, similar.
• ubiquitousBeing everywhere at once: omnipresent.
• quarantineA period of 40 days, particularly
• BarringtonA village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
• primalBeing the first in time or in history.
• CyrillicDenoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system.
• quantifyTo assign a quantity to.
• affectiveRelating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
• cosmologyThe study of the physical universe, its structure, dynamics, origin and evolution, and fate.
• cultivateTo grow plants, notably crops.
• botanicOf or pertaining to botany.
• sporadic(of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
• elixirA liquid which converts lead to gold.
• archdioceseA diocese administered by an archbishop.
• morayAny of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
• brantAny of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
• actuateTo activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
• dislocationThe act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
• AlsaceA cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.
• GaliciaA former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
• gamutA (normally) complete range.
• peruseTo examine or consider with care.
• DiracA surname from French.
• amalgamationThe process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
• cottaA surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
• necessitateTo make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
• viscountA member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
• opiateRelating to, resembling, or containing opium.
• decadenceWith a negative connotation: the process of declining from a state of moral virtue, prosperity, etc., to a worse state; decay, deterioration; also, the bad state which has been reached; (countable) an instance of this.
• antimonyA chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.
• triangulationA technique in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry; (countable) an instance of the use of this technique.
• incisiveIntelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
• marcasiteThe orthorhombic form of iron disulfide, FeS₂, occurring as yellow crystals.
• tarantulaAny of the large, hairy, mostly New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
• transformativeThat causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
• PaduaA province of Veneto, Italy.
• picaA disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
• divergeTo run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
• tracheaA thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi.
• hermeticPertaining to the ancient Greek Olympian god Hermes.
• theosophyAny doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible.
• quintessenceA thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.
• omniscientHaving total knowledge.
• duodenumThe first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.
• pulsatilePulsating; that pulses; pulsatory.
• SlavonicOf, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.
• sagittalRelating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
• ThunA city and municipality of Bern canton, Switzerland.
• caliphateMonarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.
• DabneyA surname from Norman.
• parentheticalUsing, containing, or within parenthesis.
• PetryA surname.
• bifurcatedDivided into two branches.
• manseTo excommunicate; curse.
• catenaA series of related items.
• pleuraEach of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
• camembertA soft, creamy cheese from France made from cow's milk.
• hierarchOne who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
• illusiveSubject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
• StyriaA southeastern state of Austria, with its capital in Graz.
• HeloiseA female given name from French.
• crokerBurlap.