Words List

To commit, especially a crime.

To scold or rebuke someone harshly.

Full of threatening or harmful influences; having a sinister or malign nature.

Excessively sentimental or emotionally overreactive, often to the point of being foolish; characterized by tearful or weak emotions.

To crouch, especially in fear or shame.

To fall forward, as if having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.

Easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding.

Approval or commendation; a positive judgment or favorable opinion.

A strong feeling of hostility, hatred, or ill will towards someone; a state of deep-seated animosity or antagonism.

Strikingly bold or brilliant; showy.

A tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference.

Capable of being extended or shaped through hammering or pressure from rollers.

A bitter and sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism; repeated verbal assaults or condemnations directed towards someone or something.

In astronomy, nadir refers to the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.

Not sincere or honest; lacking in openness and straightforwardness; giving a false appearance of honesty.

Intense warmth of emotion or passion; a strong and fervent enthusiasm or eagerness.

To remove or force something out of a particular place.

A batter cake with a gridlike pattern of deep indentations on each side, created by the design on the hinged parts of a metal appliance called a waffle iron, in which the cake is baked.

Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

To recover from sickness or exhaustion and regain health or strength.

The quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; persistence.

Lacking the ability to feel or perceive; without sensation; unconscious, typically as a result of a forceful impact.

Characterized by opposition or contrast; relating to or involving the direct opposite.

To speak rapidly, indistinctly, incoherently, or nonsensically; to chatter.

The consistent practice of telling the truth in speech or statements; truthfulness.

To force someone to do something against their will, using threats, intimidation, or authority, and often without considering what the individual wants.

Having very little importance; trivial; insignificant.

To criticize someone or something in a harmful and disrespectful way, damaging their reputation or character.

Something created with the intention to deceive or defraud others. The Piltdown man, for example, was a scientific hoax.

A garment worn around the neck for warmth.