FAHRENHEIT (MY DICTION)

Adders

a small venomous Eurasian snake

amino acids

organic compounds that act as the building blocks of proteins

Areaway

A sunken area affording access, air, and light to a basement door or window.

Bestial

savage; brutal

Burnt-corked

blackened; charred

Centrifuge

machine that separates substances by whirling them

Chock

as completely as possible

Contrasedative (noun)

a drug that has an exciting, stimulating, anxiety or stressful effect on the person.

Coveralls

plastic garment designed to cover the body from the chest down to the upper thigh

Custodians

People who are in possession of, or who are otherwise charged with safeguarding classified information

Dictum

A formal or authoritative statement

Dike

A protective wall that controls or holds back water

Equate

to treat as the same or equivalent

Flue

an outlet for smoke or heat

Gilt

young female pig that has not farrowed

Imperceptibly

very slight, gradual, or subtle

Minstrel

A musician, singer, or poet

Multifaceted

having many facets or aspects

Nozzle

a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged

Odious

extremely unpleasant; repulsive

Olfactory

relating to the sense of smell

proboscis

a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Procaine

local anesthetic

Proclivities

natural tendencies

Pulverized

Reduced to powder

Quibble

to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details

Rollick

act or behave in a jovial and exuberant fashion.

Sauterne

a delicate, sweet white wine

Sherry

a fortified wine originally and mainly from southern Spain, often drunk as an aperitif.

Stolid

unemotional; lacking sensitivity

Stratum

layer

Swell

increase in size or volume

Tamped

packed down

Tatters

torn pieces; shreds

Theremin

an early electronic instrument

Thereon

on or following from the thing just mentioned

Thimble

a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing

Titillation

excitement, stimulation, often superficial

Torrent

a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid

Waft

pass or cause to pass easily or gently through or as if through the air

Whiffed

get a brief or faint smell of

Beatific

blissfully happy

Chaff

worthless matter

Contemptible

deserving contempt; despicable

Darkling

Blindly

Dispersing

scattering; disappearing

Distilled

purified or concentrated

Dwindled

reduced in number or amount

Enameled

given a glassy covering or protective coating

Filigree

delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork

fly-leaf

a blank page at the beginning or end of a book

Gaseous

Light and unsubstantial.

Gnat

Any of various small biting flies.

Harlequin

buffoon; clown

Insidious

intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous

invigorated

filled with energy or vitality

Jowled

loose flesh about the jaw or throat

Latrine

toilet

Loam

A mixture of gravel, sand, silt, clay, and organic matter

Moor

To hold in place with ropes or anchors

Patronage

the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.

Perspiring

sweating; one way in which the body excretes excess water

Phosphorescent

giving off light without heat

Praetorian

resembling the Roman imperial bodyguard

Pries

investigates

Probing

searching or investigating

Profusion

an abundance or large quantity of something

Serenity

the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled

Sieve

a utensil for sifting or straining

subaudible

barely able to be heard

Suffused

gradually spread through or over

Tittered

A nervous giggle

Trotting

moving quickly without running

upflailing (adj)

Waving arms sporadically in the air.

Vantage

a place or position affording a good view of something

Verbiage

overabundance of words

Welter

turmoil; bewildering jumble

Asbestos

a fireproof material

Belch

to burp

Bombardier

A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.

Bombardment

an attack by dropping bombs

Burrs

a prickly seed pond that sticks to clothing or fur

Cadence

Rhythmic rise and fall

Cardamom

the aromatic seeds of a plant of the ginger family, used as a spice and also medicinally

Cloves

the dried flower bud of a tropical tree used whole or ground as a spice

Convolutions

the folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain

Floured

sprinkle (something, especially a work surface or cooking utensil) with a thin layer of flour.

Gout

hereditary metabolic disease that is a form of acute arthritis, characterized by excessive uric acid in the blood and around the joints

Hayloft

(noun) a pan of a barn that is high up and used for storing dried grass that is used for feeding animals.

Juggernaut

(n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Processions

groups moving along or forward

Ragweed

flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae

Rap

strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

Raveled

untangle or unravel something or to confuse and complicate (verb)

Shagged

exhausted

Sieve

a utensil for sifting or straining

Soldering

when workers deliberately slow their pace or restrict their work output

Spittle

saliva, spit

Squanders

wastes in a reckless or foolish manner

Steamshovel

Steam powered digging machine