A | B |
ANATHEMA | A person or thing detested or loathed; a formal curse involving divine punishment, excommunication. |
CAESURAS | A break, interruption; a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. |
EPITHET | A characterizing word or phrase associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name. |
EXEMPLARY | Serving as a model or pattern; worthy of imitation. |
FERVENT | Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc. ; ardent |
FOUNDLING | An infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian |
IMPERVIOUS | Not permitting penetration or passage; incapable of being affected, injured, influenced |
LOATHSOME | Causing hatred or disgust, repulsive |
MERCENARY | A soldier hired to serve in a foreign army; working or acting merely for money |
MYRIAD | (n) A very great number of persons or things (adj) Of an indefinitely great number |
NEMESIS | A long-standing rival; an archenemy |
PAGAN | (N) A person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; a heathen (Adj) Relating to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim |
RANCOR | Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-lasting |
REPARATION | The making of amends for a wrong one has done |
RESONATE | To resound; to amplify vocal sound; to produce a positive feeling |
SOLACE | A feeling of ease from grief or trouble |
STEADFAST | Firmly fixed in place; not subject to change |
VALOROUS | Courageous, valiant, brave |
WANTON | Deliberate and unprovoked; having no concern for the rights, feeling, or safety of others |
WRITHING | Twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body |