PERRINE’S LIT FULL DICTION

Adhere

to stick to

Affable

friendly

Afterdeck

the part of the ships deck near the rear.

Amenities

a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.

Appraising

judging

Ardent

very enthusiastic, impassioned

Astrakhan

loosely curled fur made from the skins of young lambs

Avid

enthusiastic; extremely interested

Baronial

belonging or relating to a baron or barons; suitable for a baron

Bluffs

steep riverbank or cliff

Borsch

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation

Braggart

someone who boasts

Brevity

shortness

Brier

a tobacco pipe//thorny stem

Cartridge

a case that holds a bullet, primer powder, and gunpowder

Constitute

To make up; be the parts of

Contrivance

a plan or scheme

Conventional

usual

Cosmopolite

a person at ease in any part of the world and/or knowledgeable in many subjects

Crags

a steep, rugged rock

Cultivated

Refined or cultured in manner

Debacle

a complete failure; a total collapse

Deplorable

Deeply regrettable; unfortunate

Derive

To take or receive from a source

Disarming

(adj.) charming, tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion

Discerned

perceive or recognize (something)

Diverting

amusing, entertaining

Doggedly

persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious

Droll

amusingly odd

Fanciful

imaginary

Feudal

relating to the feudal system of the medival period

Foeman

an enemy in war

Grisly

frightful, horrible, ghastly

Haversack

Cloth bag used by soldiers to carry rations and food

Hogshead

large barrel

Ill-founded

not based on facts or truth

Imperative

absolutely necessary

Imprudent

not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash

Indolently

lazily; idly

Invariably

always; without changing

Knouter

someone who beats criminals with a leather whip, or knout

Lacerated

mangled, jagged, torn

Leering

look or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way

Marred

damaged; disfigured

Mirage

optical illusion

Opiate

a narcotic used to cause sleep or bring relief from pain

Palatial château

a mansion as luxurious as a palace

Palpable

capable of being touched or felt

Precariously

unsteadily; insecurely

Precursors

A person or thing that precede others of the same kind

Quarry

prey

Refractory

stubbornly resistant to authority or control

Rowels

small wheels with spurs that horseback riders wear on their heels

Sallow

Of a sickly, pale-yellowish complexion

Scruples

a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

Self renewal

the process of renewing oneself or itself.

Sensuous

appealing to the senses, especially aesthetically

Snuff box

a small ornamental box for holding snuff.

Solicitously

in a concerned manner

Surmounted

overcame great difficulty

Tartar

hardened plaque

Tedium

dullness; monotony; boredom

Twoscore

forty

Unimpeachable

unquestionable; beyond doubt

Veer

(v.) to change direction or course suddenly

Vigor

physical strength and good health

Vitality

the state of being strong and active; energy

Arbitrary

(adj.) unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness

Bauble

a small, useless trinket

Birching

whipping someone using the stripped branch of a tree

Bracken

a large coarse fern

Buck

male goat

Bwana

a boss or master

Comparatively

relatively

Conceive

To come up with, imagine

contemptuously

scornfully

Contrived

artificial; labored

Conversely

introducing a statement or idea which reverses one that has just been made or referred to.

Conviction

strong belief

Crude

not carefully or expertly made

Cuckholdry

Males mate with a female who is already paired with a mate and produce offspring

Culminating

reach a climax or point of highest development

Embitters

angry or resentful at having been treated unfairly.

Enamelled

coat or decorate with a hard exterior

Flank

side of the body between the ribs and hips

Four-letter man

a high school or college athlete who has earned varsity letters in four different sports

Fronds

leaves of ferns

Fruitful

bringing forth much; productive

Furnishes

supply someone with (something); give (something) to someone

Gassing

talking about unimportant things

Gimlet

gin and lime juice

Gore

(of an animal) to wound a person or another animal with a horn or tusk

Impala

African antelope; large antelope

Improbable

not likely

Indelibly

permanently

Inquest

an investigation; an inquiry

Kipper

a male salmon in the spawning season.

Laddybuck

(In reference to a book) Young boy or spirited youth

Memsahib

A term of respect for a married European woman

Orchard

a place where fruit trees grow