advanced English vocabulary

diminution in the density of something, esp. air or a gas, is known as r_____________

A girl with mischievous or boyish charm is known as a g___________. (also (dated) a female street urchin.) Like Twiggy.

To make (rays of light or particles) accurately parallel, or otherwise, to accurately align (e.g. an optical or other system), is to c____________.

a fit of rage or hysterics is a c_____________.

If something is in excellent order we say it is c____________.

If something is unattractive and objectionable we say it is r____________.

A young shoot or twig of a plant, esp. one cut for grafting or rooting, is known as a s_______. This is also a word for a descendant of a notable family or one with a long lineage

I'm thinking of an adjective meaning petty or worthless. It's also a noun meaning a small coin of little value, or an insignificant person or thing. Begins with p.

The study of flags is known as v_________. h

This was originally a word for an official license by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book, but has come to refer more generally to a person's guarantee that something is of a good standard.

A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit is known as a s__________.

A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, esp. an artist or philosopher, is known as an e_________. E.g. Samuel Clarke was an e_______ of Newton.

"She conducted her performance with considerable b___" meaning vigor or vivacity of style or performance.

What's a word beginning with d that means to decapitate, other than 'decapitate'?

s__________ is care or concern for someone or something.

A s_____ was a woman in ancient times who could utter the oracles and prophecies of a god. It's also a word for a woman who is able to foretell the future.

To undergo the formation of pus; to fester, is to s____________.

o______ is otherwise known as excrement or just plain dung.

An a__________ is a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism

To e___________ normally means to deprive (something) of its essential content. But originally it meant to disembowel. in surgical contexts it still means to remove the contents of (a body organ).

A m___________ is an expert or connoisseur

j___________ is physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy

o________ literally means rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily or greasy. But it is more often used figuratively to describe something that's exaggeratedly and distastefully complimentary or obsequious. Mr Collins was as silly as he was o____________.

A v______ is an item of food : "an unlimited assortment of v_______s".

To c__________ is, literally, to convert (a river) into a navigable canal. Less literally, it is to convey (something) through a duct or channel. Most figuratively, it is to give a direction or purpose to (something) : "his strategy was to c_________ the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels".y

a_________ is the state of being different or other.

In olden times they would refer to the mouth of a river or valley as an e_____________. More often these days, to refers to the way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument. Or it could refer to the mouthpiece itself.

What's a word, beginning with s, that describes someone who is given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner?

A p__________ is a song of praise or triumph. It's also a thing that expresses enthusiastic praise : "his books are paeans to combat."

By holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action one shows oneself to be p___________. "He showed a p____________ resistance to interruptions".

An arrangement or agreement allowing conflicting parties to coexist peacefully is known as a m_______ v________. It means a way of living.

The p__________ of a speech is the bit at the end, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience.

A 1. c__________ is a dance with elaborate steps and figures. It refers specifically to an 18th-century French dance based on the contredanse. But also to any 2. q________.
Secondarily, the same word is used to refer to a formal ball, esp. one at which debutantes are presented.

1. p_______ is an adjective meaning "of or relating to digestion, esp. that in which 2. p________ is concerned"

A 1. q________ is a formal square dance popular in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, performed by four couples in a set. It was an ancestor of modern square dancing and influenced the development of the cancan. The same word also refers to a historical card game, once popular in aristocratic circles, related to 2. o_____.

If something has a strong, pleasant taste, or if it's a piece of writing or conversation that is pleasant or interesting, one might say it is s______.

When one makes small enhancing alterations to (something), one t_________ it. "she slapped on her warpaint and t___________ her hair."

The word a_________ literally refers to a ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers. It also refers to the act of washing oneself. Despite this formal origin, it is usually used in the context of comedic exaggeration: "the women performed their a_____________s."

A v_____________ is a person who is unduly anxious about their health.

'D_________' is a word that itself describes a kind of word. Specifically, it refers to a word (like 'Wiganer') used to denote a person who inhabits or is native to a particular place. More generally, it can be used to refer to someone in a salient group, e.g. 'gays'. If it's specifically about an ethnic group, the word e________ might be more precise.

A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something is a p____________ . "Vera's p_________ on friendship".

A connoisseur of wines can be referred to as an o__________.

A person's duty is also known as a person's d________. Similarly, to "pay one's d_________s" is to pay one's respects formally.

Originally, the word "t______" referred to a Russian vehicle pulled by a team of three horses abreast, or to the team of three horses required for such a vehicle. Often, these days, the term refers to a group of three people working together, esp. in an administrative or managerial capacity. It's a more bureaucratic, less oligarchal, Russian rather than Roman version of "t____________".

Literally, an e________ is something that has the quality of softening or soothing the skin. It will typically be a cream or ointment. As an adjective, and more figuratively, it refers to anything that reduces confrontation or anger; and has or attempts to have a soothing or calming effect. "The president's e_________ approach to differences".

"Mr Collins' behavior towards Lady Catherine de Bourgh was excessively w____________" meaning ingratiatingly persuasive, persistently flattering in order to get something.

Creatures like ants, bees, wasps and termites are known as e_________ creatures, meaning that a single female or caste produces the offspring and nonreproductive individuals cooperate in caring for the young.

C_________ is a method of classifying living things by shared evolutionary ancestry rather than by superficial similarity. By the early years of the 21st century, it had become the dominant way of organizing biological taxa.

The sentence “Dromaeosaurs were less c_______ than ornithomimids.” means they were less adapted for running. "Horses are endurance-oriented c_______ ungulates" means they are adapted for running long distances.

An u____________ is a hoofed typically herbivorous quadruped mammal such as a pig, cow, deer, horse, elephant, or rhinoceros. They are of a group that used to be considered a major mammalian taxon.

P___________ is the bodily movement of a motile organism in response to light, either toward the source of light ( positive p__________) or away from it ( negative p________).
The word also refers to any movement of this kind. Compare with phototropism.

To p__________ is to omit to do or mention something: "some points of conduct we advisedly p_________". It also means to abandon (a custom or continuous action) for a time : "the pleasant musical evenings were now entirely p________ed".

An a_________ is a three-syllable rhythm with the stress at the end. da-da-DUM. E.g. "understand", "on my own", "opalite". Hint: a________ is autological.

Fixed, immobile creatures like barnacles are known as s_________s.

To make a petty, unnecessary objection is to c_______.

Consider the clockwise angle between straight north and the direction to some object. That's what they call the object's a________.

Like "Schadenfreude" and "Zeitgeist", "S__________" is a German loanword. It refers to the feeling one has for the semantics of a term. "Good poets often possess stronger S_____________ than linguists, even if they know far less formal theory."

Certain auteurs deploy m_________ to seem plus intellectuel.

Unlike a fully naturalized loanword, a x______ still feels visibly foreign to native speakers. To get the idea, observe that "samurai" is a loanword, "wakizashi" is a x_______, and "katana" is in the liminal space between.

The phrase "to lose face" is a c_______ from the Mandarin Chinese expression diū liǎn.

Where a spandrel is a leftover curved, triangular gap between an arch and a rectangular frame, a p_________ is a deliberate artifice for connecting a dome to a square or rectangular base.

To c_____ means to trick or deceive, as in "do not think to c_______ your contemporaries", or to obtain by deception, as in "he was able to c________ a profit".

Identical twins start with nearly identical genomes, but over time their e__________ patterns diverge, leading to differences in disease risk, aging, appearance, and behavior. The missing word means "resulting from external rather than genetic influences".

A r___________ is a fine network or netlike structure. In zoology it refers to the second stomach of a ruminant, which has a honeycomblike structure.

The study of the microscopic structure of tissues is known as h________.

A m________ sense of humor is one that has a sharp or critical quality; biting.

If something is f_________ it has or shows the symptoms of a fever : e.g. a f________ illness. It can also mean that it has or shows a great deal of nervous excitement or energy : e.g. a f_________ imagination.

If a gas or vapor is especially foul-smelling and noxious, we say it is m_________.

A person who responsive to and in harmony with their environment, in such a way that their affect is appropriate to the given situation, we say they are culturally s________. we would use the same word to describe a psychiatric condition or psychological process that is consistent with other aspects of an individual's personality and belief system. It historically described something relating to or denoting the lively and responsive type of temperament that was considered liable to manic-depressive psychosis. See also cyclothymia .

S________ is composure or coolness under trying circumstances. Especially if it's excessive.

A_________ is the inability to feel pleasure.

A j__________ is a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; or a list of woes. It refers in particular to a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in poetry, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

Something is v_________ if it is of or relating to a vestibule, particularly that of the inner ear, or more generally to the sense of balance.

A l_________ person is one who looks or sounds sad and dismal.

A v_______ is someone who has made vows of dedication to religious service, e.g. a monk or nun. It also refers to a devoted follower, adherent, or advocate of someone or something. "he was a v_______ of John Keats".

A c________ is a boy kept for homosexual practices.

An a____ X is a downright X.

One a____ something if one wrongly claims it as a right.

Faultfinding nit-picky people are ipso facto c____.

To be broad minded is to be c____ in ones views.

To be broad minded is to be c____ in ones views.

To be stubbornly disobedient is to be c____.

To be d______ is to be fearless.

Loud clothes and rough manners mark someone as d____

An e____ entity is one that shines brightly.

If one cuts out or omits something then one e____ it.

E____ means even tempered.

To be e____ is to be pleasant sounding.

To e____ on a subject is to dwell on it.

To e____ is to rebuke or deter through argument.

F____ ground is plowed but unseeded.

To f____ is to congratulate.

A f___ is a chain of flowers or ribbons.

F____ people are whimsically eccentric, unworldly.

A peevish, irritable person is one who is f____.

To f___ is to send forth denunciation.

A g____ person is talkative and keeps rambling on.

To g___ is to eat gluttonously.

A reddish color or to be hopeful is called s______.

Something oily or greasy is called u_____.

Q______ means ordered or commonplace

J________ means bland or watery."

C____________ means dealing with twilight.

To teach by browbeating is to i______.

An u_________ is a soft greasy or viscous substance used as an ointment or for lubrication.

Jan's speech was p______. His writing was p_______. Hs arguments descended into p_______, and that same p________ made meetings interminable

Tina shows great dedication and diligence. Truly she is s__________.

If it has a low neckline then it is d__________.

Something that is very small in size or amount is e__________.

to b____ is to obtain or withhold money from (someone) by deceit or without justification

The word a_________ literally means that it is sharp, dry, puckering, or tightening to the taste or skin. But figuratively it means severe, sharp, biting, unsentimental, or cutting in tone.

Something is S________ if it is extremely dark, gloomy, infernal and characteristic of the underworld. It literally means relating to the S___ River

a_______ is the fear of heights

A_________ is a word that has shifted in meaning from medically soothing to intellectually or emotionally non-threatening.

A_______ means eagle-like, especially in reference to a curved or hooked nose.

An a_______ is a gully or narrow channel formed by rainwater

B__________ means drunken, riotously celebratory or devoted to intoxicated revelry or sensual excess. It comes from B__________, the Roman equivalent of Dionysus.

B_______ means to dress or decorate in a showy, vulgar, excessively ornate way, usually with a sense of tasteless over-adornment. “The lobby of Trump Tower was b_________ with gold trim and velvet.”

To c______ is to make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)

C________ means hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered;

C________ means “covered with or possessing c______” i.e. tiny hairlike structures.

Two people are c_______ if they lived at the same time as one another.

C____________ (literally, of the same blood) is an adjective that describes those who have a common ancestor

The word y___ refers to a twisting or oscillation of a moving ship or aircraft around a vertical axis.

A c________ is a projecting molding on building (usually above columns or pillars);

A c______ is an artificial channel for water. For example a drain crossing under a road is a c________.

L_________ means perfectly clear, transparent, lucid, serene in clarity.

This word beginning with d means to embezzle or misappropriate funds. In an older, rarer usage, it simply means to subtract.

To d________ is to provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; or simply pay

To d------- is to amuse or divert.

To e_______ is to rub out; remove the surface of. In a social setting it means to withdraw one’s ego or presence from notice.

An e__________ is a noxious or harmful smell

To be e_________ is to be praising or eulogistic.

To e_______ is to provide with some quality; to endow

To e______ is to show clearly

To e_________ is to make amends for (a sin)

The word f_________ is similar in meaning to astroturfed or contrived. It means that it is produced artificially as opposed to natural and genuine.

F________, or speech and expression, means ardent; zealous or volcanic, suggesting a kind of overheated intensity or emotional temperature bordering on excess. "Ian Paisley's f_____ anti-Catholic rhetoric."

To f_______ is to bear fruit; produce fruit

"G______" comes from Middle English and literally means “say against.” The past tense is g_______.

'H_________' originally referred to the mystical/alchemical tradition associated with Hermes Trismegistus. It referred to magical or occult teachings so obscure and secretive as to be effectively sealed off from outsiders. It metaphorically came to mean intellectually sealed off. And now it also refers to containers that are tightly sealed so as to exclude the surrounding air.

H________ means wintry; wintery; of or like winter. It relates to the Roman word for Ireland.

H____ means white with age.

H_________ means encouraging action through earnest advice or admonition. When used of language, it is to be contrasted with language that is meant to describe.

Something is i_________ if it is formed through volcanic heat and molten rock.

A person without money is i____________.

The word 'i_____________' captures not just persistence, but persistence that becomes socially exhausting or tactically unwise, like Morrie Kessler in Goodfellas, who i_______s Jimmy to the point that Jimmy just has him whacked.

Especially when compared with the ant, the grasshopper from the fable was notoriously i______________. In other words he was thriftless; not providing for the future.

An i____________ person is not (as it may sound) someone who is native, but rather someone who is poor.

To i________ is to compose, e.g. a verse. Not to be confused with i______, which is to formally charge (someone) with a crime.

Something that is i___________ is irresistible and not to be escaped or avoided. It is stronger and more metaphysical than merely “inevitable”, connoting fate, destiny.

i______________ means unwholesome or not healthful. E.g. a filthy bar down a mephitic street, bedizened in stained finery, in which Falstaff seeks libations, importunes tavern girls, gourmandizes capons, and discourses with fervid self-regard.

H___________ means subject to external controls and impositions, lacking independence. It is, in effect, the antonym of a____________.

To inveigle is to coax, lure or trick someone into doing something through flattery, charm, or deception. It is a close synonym of w_______.

A comparison is i__________ if it is unfair or socially poisonous, and would tend to create ill will or envy.

J_________ means given to or having a tendency of joking. It connotes cultivated wit or lightly teasing banter.

J________ means merry.

L____________ means producing tears; tearful

To l________ is to add l__________ to; i.e. to cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven. Yeast is a l_________ or __________ing agent.

L________ (of music) means played smoothly. “The cellist played the passage in a warm legato style.”It is the opposite of s________.

L___________ means 'like wood'.

To l______ is to draw; outline or describe

To l______ is to gallop slowly.

To m_______ is to soften, mortify or disintegrate by soaking in liquid. In ascetic religious contexts: “to m________ the flesh” meant to subject oneself to bodily hardship or self-denial.

m___________ means spotted or stained, quite unlike the soul of the Virgin Mary.

A m____________ person or speech is boastful and pompous

A word beginning with m that means inappropriate. “His jocose remark at the funeral was deeply m__________.”

To m_________ is to emancipate or free from slavery or bondage.

m_________ means flashy; tawdry; attractive on the surface but of no real value.

'M______' pertains to a (typically quiet or restrained) threat or menace. More intentionally threatening than 'ominous'.

A word that means 'swimming'. “The bird’s n________ was surprisingly graceful.”

'N_______' doesn't mean loud. It means foul-smelling, disgusting, offensive, harmful or morally corrupting.

A futile action may still possess courage, dignity, tragic grandeur and existential meaning. Think of the Battle of Thermopylae or Captain Ahab. But a n________ is silly in its futility, laughably ineffective, and unworthy of consideration or response. Where 'futile' can still sustain tragedy, 'n_________' tends toward anticlimax.

'O________' unsurprisingly means 'giving off an odor'.

An irritatingly persistent bellboy might be importunate, obsequious, wheedling, or overattentive, but he would not be o__________. For that, his helpfulness would have to be self-important, marked by meddling procedural zeal or exhibiting petty authority.

'O______' means bony, or made of bone. "He had an o_____ physique."

'O____________' means conceited beyond proper bounds. Its morphology carries the spurious suggestion that you can w___ just the right amount, but someone who is o__________ is doing it too much.

To p_________ is to relieve or lessen the severity of something, especially without eliminating the underlying cause.

P_________ means transparently clear, crystal clear, easy to understand, lucid in a refined or luminous way. Where 'limpid' feels aqueous, 'p________' feels crystalline.

To p__________ is to make a journey. The associated falcon is known for its wandering.

One who is p___________ holds tenaciously to an action. They are stubborn and persistent.

'P_________' means pertaining to the P______, who became known not just for paying scrupulous attention to tradition; but for being self-righteous; hypocritical.

P__________ means calm and unexcitable. Like the mucus, it is not easily moved.

A p________ bird or horse is marked by being mottled or spotted in different colors (esp. in black
and white).

'P__________' means 'pertaining to fishing'.

To p______ is to talk idly; speak foolishly; boast idly.

A p_______ is a church dignitary; E.g. and especially a bishop or an abbot. It connotes clerical grandeur.

Something that's p_________ is favorable; auspicious; advantageous; fortunate.

If it's p________ then it has or causes lustful desires and thoughts; it arouses immoderate sexual desire.

Someone who's quixotic is idealistic but impractical. The word is usually affectionate rather than purely contemptuous. A quixotic person is misguided, perhaps, but often admirable in moral aspiration or imaginative courage.

A r_______ person is not merely handsome. He looks as though he has gambled, seduced, dueled, lied charmingly and escaped consequences through charisma. Think Lord Byron or the Scarlet Pimpernel. He is attractive precisely because propriety does not fully contain him.

'R_________ refers to the process of logical reasoning, deliberate deduction and methodical thinking.

While u_______ always means disentangle, r______ can mean entangle or disentangle.

'R__________' means abstruse; not easily understood; profound or secret

As an adjective, r_______ means cowardly, dishonorable, traitorous or faithless to duty or allegiance. As a noun, it refers to a person who is such.

'R________' means odorous; fragrant; suggestive (of an odor); E.g. r________ of onions/mystery

'R____________' means formidable; causing fear

Something that is r_________ is effulgent; brilliant; brightly shining; gleaming.

To r_______ is to fret; to complain; be annoyed.

To r_________ is to make return for; to repay; to reciprocate; to revenge. Think about love.

R______ humor is marked by vulgarity and lewdness. It's wanton and profane.

A r_________ is a following; an entourage; attendants

If something is r________, it is ornate and highly decorated.

R________ means both rosy and optimistic.

To r_______ is to banish to the country. That which is r________ is confined to the country

S_______ means lascivious or lustful.

S______ means dry, withered, parched or lifeless from age or drought.

"S________" means prophetic; oracular, particularly of a woman.

'S_______' means stellar or astral, relating to the stars, or determined by the stars rather than the sun.

'S_______' means twisting or winding; bending in and out. But it also means not morally honest.

A s________ is an artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water (with a gate to regulate the flow).

'S________' means half asleep, drowsy.

'S_________' means resonant; producing a full deep sound; producing sound.

A s________ voice is one that's extremely loud. It's rooted in the character S______, a loud herald in the Iliad.

A person with a s______ demeanor is dull and impassive, showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected.

'S________' as an adjective simply describes something subordinate or lower-ranking. It means junior, subordinate, under higher authority.

As a noun, it historically refers to a junior officer.

In critical theory, it refers to a structurally marginalized person or group.

To s________ is to separate, split, divide, rend apart and separate violently or decisively.

Something is s________ if it is entreating; beseeching.

To t________ is to gain time as by postponing an action; avoid committing oneself.

Something that is t_______ is capable of being stretched; of maintaining tension.

To t______ is to slander, malign, defame, or falsely represent someone in a damaging way.

A body part is t______ if it is swollen or distended. A person is being t______ if he is being bombastic and pompous.

The French adjective "f________" (literally, "end of the century") connotes a late civilizational spiritual decadence: the ennui, eroticized corruption and spiritual exhaustion of Charles Baudelaire; the cultivated artifice, theatricality and anti-bourgeois wit of Oscar Wilde; the pathological refinement, hedonistic withdrawal and esoteric fascination of Joris-Karl Huysmans, and perhaps even the sexual mysticism, Nietzschean self-deification, and ritualized occultism of Aleister Crowley.

"Eyes Wide Shut is f___________Vienna translated into late-capitalist Manhattan through Kubrick's cold lens."

That which is t________ is protective; pertaining to a guardianship.

“The old professor became a kind of t________ presence in the young writer’s life.”

“Under the t_______ gaze of the cathedral saints, the procession advanced through the square.”

A t______ is a beginner, a novice.

An u_________ person is one who makes no attempt to change their bad practices.

That which is u__________ is unaccustomed or unusual. "He arrived with u________ punctuality."

An u__________ man is overly devoted tohis wife. It connotes excessive attentiveness, submissiveness, or devotion carried beyond proper masculine independence,

A w________ soul is charming in a childlike way. He is agreeable; gracious and engaging.

A y____ is a strong desire, longing or urge.

A z________ is a soft gentle breeze, especially a mild west wind. It comes from Z____________, the ancient Greek personification of the west wind.

A____ means supplying nourishment

Anything that is a____ provides a warning"

A____ behavior is capricious or eccentric.

An a____ tale has dubious authenticity.

An a____ remark is well put."

B___ people are addicted to drink.

A substance is b____ if it is somewhat saline.

Cautious and sparing people are both thought of as c___. It suggests prudent reserve rather than fear.

A resolute person might be described as d__________.

Something that relates to paradise is called e________.

Something o_________ pertains to the back of the head

That which is p________ attaches to the wall of a cavity"

The a______ of something is its summit, its utmost limit.

An a__________ is a secretary.

The a__________ is the point of orbit nearest the Earth.

An a___________ is a name.

The a______ of a group is its jargon.

B_________ is playful repartee.

B__________ is enticing action or speech. It is rarely innocent. It suggests someone is trying to soften resistance, seduce, entice or gain advantage through pleasing language.

B______ is sentimentality. As opposed to genuine p________.

To falsely smear is to commit c____

A hoax or false rumor is also known as a c____

Dishonest, specious reasoning is known as c____

Conversation may be described as c____

A c____________ is something that results in embarrassment.

The center of attraction is the c___________ of all eyes.

Idling and flirting both count as engaging in d___________.

The state of no longer being used is d___________.

The leader of a group is its d________.

When one receives high praise one receives e__________.

A hodgepodge is also called a f________.

The g________ of an accusation is its most serious part.

Q_________ means the nature of something.

An u_________ is an ointment, salve or soft medicinal substance applied to the skin.

A p_______ is a plastic made of repeating chemical units.

The t_______ is that part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair.

o_________ is strong public criticism or verbal abuse

An o________ is an Old World bird related to the starlings that feeds on fruit and insects, the male typically having bright yellow and black plumage.

A s______ is a length of thread or yarn, loosely coiled and knotted

A d________ is a jeweled circlet worn as a symbol of sovereignty, more delicate than a crown. "Even barbarian kings wear crowns. But elven kings wear d______s."

'S________' means luxurious self-indulgence, voluptuous ease, and devotion to sensual comfort and pleasure. A person who so indulges is known as a s________. People will describe them as s__________.

A d________ is a three-dimensional scene with modeled figures against a painted background.

An a________ is a sharp upslope of a hill. Seen from the top, it's a d_______.

An a___________ is a critical remark. Accordingly, to animadvert is comment critically with disapproval.

A___________ are subordinate possessions. Things attached to or associated with something larger.

A b________ is a blessing, benediction or expression of good wishes.

A b________ is a temporary encampment, especially improvised or lacking full permanent camp infrastructure. There might be tents, but it connotes soldiers sleeping rough.

A b_______ is a rich, patterned fabric. It can also be an adjective, "b________ curtains".

A c_______ is a glass serving vessel for drinks, simpler and more utilitarian than a decanter.

A c_______ is the classical equivalent of a concept album. It literally means "something sung", but it has parts and movements. However, it is not as long, as monumental, as public, or as epic as an o_______, which is itself not as theatrical as an opera.

The shell on the back of a turtle, snail or crab is known as a c______.

A c______ is a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played.

A c_____ is a musical keyboard, but evoking an age long before synthesizers. Powdered wigs, not jazz clubs.

In music, a c____ is the ending section that resolves or rounds off the composition after the main structure is complete. But the word is now widely used metaphorically:

“The scandal was a grim c____ to his career.”
“Their final conversation served as a quiet c____ to the friendship.”

A c_______ is a formal agreement, treaty, or compact, especially between the Vatican and a state. It has a very diplomatic, ecclesiastical, and juridical flavor — more solemn and institutional than an agreement, deal or pact.

A d______ is a window projecting upright from roof.

E______ is fluid, pus, protein-rich liquid, or other material that has seeped out of tissue or blood vessels usually because of inflammation, infection, injury or pathological processes. to be contrasted with t________, which is thinner fluid emitted mainly by pressure imbalance rather than inflammation, e.g. where a liquid that is normally present accumulates through a malfunction in pumping and pressure.

An e_______ is a substance that causes vomiting.

An e________ is compensation, salary, profit, fees, or benefits arising from office, employment, or position.

A f________, in a Dickensian workplace, is a kind of utility player, jack of all trades, gopher/fixer cum handyman.

F_______ refers to delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork.

“The chalice was decorated with silver f_______.”

A f___ is a flat mass of floating ice

A f___ is a shallow place in a river or stream where one can cross on foot, horseback, or by vehicle.

A f_______ is a pirate, raider, mercenary adventurer or lawless plunderer operating for personal gain. The word f________ originally referred to such armed adventurers in the Caribbean before taking on its modern political meaning.

In classical architecture, the e________ is the entire horizontal structure resting atop the columns. It is divided into three main layers:

a_______ = the bottom beam directly resting on the columns.
f_____ = the middle horizontal band, often decorated with sculpture or reliefs.
c______ = the top projecting molding that crowns and overhangs the structure.

A f______ is a large leaf, especially one that is divided, feathery or spreading, as in e.g. ferns, palms, cycads, seaweed.

A g____ is a ridge or fold, especially on the surface of the brain. It can also be used more generally for spiral or curved anatomical structures, but the cerebral sense is by far the most common. The gaps between the folds are called s_____.

H______ are the hairs on the back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's h_____ rise

A h______ is one who studies reptiles and amphibians.