Real Dictionary

a book printed by Johannes Gutenberg: thought by some to be the first book printed from movable type
a dance performed by one person; dance solo
a decorative glass made in a mold in which powdered glass of various hues is mixed, blended, and fused
a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot
a friend to the last degree
a judge of elegance or matters of taste
a liturgical prayer for recitation at the beginning of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur asking that all unfulfilled vows to God be nullified and all transgressions forgiven
a modern style of French cooking that emphasizes the use of the finest and freshest ingredients simply and imaginatively prepared, often with fresh herbs, the artful arrangement and presentation of food, and the use of reduced stocks in place of flour-thi
a philanthropist
a philosophical work in Latin (1620) by Francis Bacon, presenting an inductive method for scientific and philosophical inquiry
a short running step
a simple walking step in which the whole foot is put down softly on the ground
a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other
a tidbit
a variant reading
after death
after me, the deluge (attributed to Louis XV, adapted from après nous le déluge “after us the deluge,” credited to Madame de Pompadour: said in reference to signs of the approaching Revolution)
always faithful: motto of the U.S. Marine Corps
always ready: motto of the U.S. Coast Guard
an acceptable person, esp. a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited
an incorrigible child, as one whose behavior is embarrassing
an indispensable condition; requisite
as (stated or shown) below: used in a book, text, etc
as a sign of respect (usually describing an honorary college or university degree)
at or to which; the end toward which something tends
at the present time
bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive
classical source: a passage commonly cited to illustrate or explain a subject or word
cooked on a skewer
Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns
divine law
down with
father of his country
first edition
for one's country
from the founding of the city (Rome, ab. 753 b. c.)
good evening
guardian of a place
hail to victory: a salute used by the Nazis
here lies (often used to begin epitaphs on tombstones)
homesickness
I came, I saw, I conquered
in being; in actuality; in actual existence (contrasted with in posse)
in the future
let the welfare of the people be the supreme law: a motto of Missouri
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: motto of the French Revolution
look for the woman: advice offered facetiously in any situation, esp. one of doubt or mystery
Mexican Americans collectively
never despair
not disclosed
note well; take notice
noting an artist, architect, or the like, not competing or not qualified to compete for the prizes in an exhibit or competition
on the threshold; at the outset
please; if you please
secret of secrets
see above (used esp. to refer a reader to parts of a text)
see after or further (used esp. to refer a reader to parts of a text)
see before (used esp. to refer a reader to parts of a text)
see below (used esp. to refer a reader to parts of a text)
see you soon; goodbye; so long
son of nobody; bastard
strange to say; marvelous to relate
temporarily; for the time being
the back of the page
the final argument of kings (a resort to arms): motto engraved on the cannon of Louis XIV
the golden mean
the highest or chief good
the necessary changes having been made
the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise
the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu
the sorrowful mother
the subspecies of the genus Homo in which modern humans are classified
the wine of a particular region, usually available only in the region where the wine is made; local wine
through my fault; my fault (used as an acknowledgment of one's responsibility)
time, devourer of all things
to pray
to, toward, or at the end
two-track; an oblique movement of a horse in which the forehand and hindquarters move on two distinct parallel tracks and the body is maintained uniformly in the direction of the movement
under the word or heading
until we meet again; good-bye for the present
with full, round voice
abbreviation: the imaginary number √̅－1
abbreviation: the theoretical intrinsic rate of increase of a population, equivalent to the difference between the birth and death rates divided by the number of individuals in the population
adjective: absent
adjective: alone; by oneself (used formerly in stage directions)
adjective: always the same
adjective: and husband (used chiefly in legal abstracts of title)
adjective: appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason
adjective: black; noting the black numbers in roulette
adjective: blameless in life; innocent
adjective: bottled
adjective: calling oneself thus; self-styled
adjective: cooked and served in a wrapping of foil or oiled paper
adjective: cut to stand straight in an even row on top, often as a crew cut
adjective: dead
adjective: dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a man or boy
adjective: dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl
adjective: easily the first or best
adjective: eighth
adjective: ever upward: motto of New York State
adjective: extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable
adjective: fierce
adjective: first among equals
adjective: former: used esp. in reference to a retired officeholder
adjective: from, or in pursuance of, a vow
adjective: garnished
adjective: having experience or practical knowledge of a thing; expert; versed
adjective: in bad faith; not genuine
adjective: in dishabille; not fully or carefully dressed
adjective: intimate; cozy
adjective: irrational or foolish
adjective: just in time
adjective: misunderstood; misapprehended
adjective: more lasting than bronze
adjective: mortally ill
adjective: not of sound mind
adjective: noting any odd number, esp. in roulette
adjective: of another kind
adjective: of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique
adjective: of no legal force
adjective: of the faith: a phrase used in the Roman Catholic Church to qualify certain teachings as being divinely revealed, belief in them therefore being obligatory
adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the norteamericano
adjective: of, pertaining to, or characterized by concepts of art, society, etc., associated with the end of the 19th century
adjective: placed at the intersection of four numbers so as to share in any that wins
adjective: prepared for all things
adjective: prepared in mind and resources: motto of South Carolina
adjective: ready for either alternative
adjective: real; authentic; genuine
adjective: religious; devout; pious
adjective: religious; observant
adjective: sad; sorrowful; melancholy
adjective: sane; of sound mind
adjective: smoked
adjective: steamed
adjective: ten
adjective: welcome
adjective: whether willing or not; willy-nilly
adjective: written in a major key; major
adjective: written in a minor key; minor
adverb: according to custom
adverb: according to fact; actually
adverb: all of a sudden; unexpectedly; suddenly
adverb: among other persons
adverb: among other things
adverb: and all this (or that) sort of thing
adverb: and wife (used chiefly in its abbreviated form, in legal abstracts of title)
adverb: anew; afresh; again; from the beginning
adverb: apropos of nothing; with reference to nothing in particular
adverb: as a friend
adverb: as a whole
adverb: as much as suffices; enough
adverb: as much as this; to this extent
adverb: at bottom or to the bottom; thoroughly; in reality; fundamentally
adverb: at full length
adverb: at great cost or expense
adverb: at no time; never: from the fact that the Greeks did not reckon dates by calends
adverb: at or in the beginning; at first
adverb: at or toward the back; from behind; in the rear
adverb: at pleasure; at will
adverb: at the right moment
adverb: because of this
adverb: by divine law
adverb: by human law
adverb: by one's own volition; on one's own initiative
adverb: by plane (used esp. as a designation on matter to be sent by airmail)
adverb: by that name
adverb: by that very fact
adverb: by the entire extent of the heavens; diametrically
adverb: by the grace of God
adverb: by the law itself; by operation of law
adverb: by the month
adverb: by virtue and arms: motto of Mississippi
adverb: by virtue of law
adverb: carelessly; recklessly
adverb: during life
adverb: for a still stronger reason; even more certain; all the more
adverb: for an unforeseen need or contingency
adverb: for girls and boys
adverb: for glory
adverb: for life
adverb: for memory (used in diplomacy to recall rights that have lapsed for a long time)
adverb: for merit
adverb: for the greater glory of God: motto of the Jesuits
adverb: for, among, or composed of three persons collectively (usually used following the word it modifies)
adverb: forever
adverb: from the beginning
adverb: from the heart; sincerely
adverb: from the most remote antiquity
adverb: from the outside
adverb: from the very beginning; from the source or origin
adverb: grievously; fatally
adverb: here and there: used in bibliographic references to indicate that the writer has drawn upon material scattered throughout the source cited
adverb: in a certain year of one's age
adverb: in a vacuum
adverb: in absence
adverb: in all; completely; entirely; wholly
adverb: in body; in substance
adverb: in conclusion; finally
adverb: in extremity
adverb: in one's own right
adverb: in or according to the old-fashioned manner or style
adverb: in or by few words; with brevity
adverb: in or with the family; at home
adverb: in order to please the mob
adverb: in ordinary language; not written or sent in code or cipher
adverb: in place; in the proper place
adverb: in succession; in a series or set
adverb: in the manner of the ancients
adverb: in the open air
adverb: in the same book, chapter, page, etc
adverb: in transit; on the way
adverb: no one contradicting; unanimously
adverb: no one dissenting; unanimously
adverb: now
adverb: of one's own accord: used of certain documents issued by the pope without counsel from others
adverb: on or to the left-hand side
adverb: out of the depths (of sorrow, despair, etc.)
adverb: point for point
adverb: sincerely yours
adverb: so throughout: used esp. as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited
adverb: so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim
adverb: that is to say
adverb: that is to say; namely (used esp. to introduce examples, details, etc
adverb: the name having been changed
adverb: to or toward the bottom; thoroughly; fully
adverb: to that which is alive
adverb: to the city (Rome) and the world: the form of address of papal bulls
adverb: to the fullest extent; literally
adverb: to the right
adverb: tomorrow; in the (indefinite) future
adverb: with all one's might
adverb: with an even mind; with composure
adverb: with equal pace or progress; side by side
adverb: with full authority
adverb: with just so many words; in these words
adverb: with pleasure
adverb: with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus
adverb: with what spirit or intention?
adverb: within the walls, as of a city
adverb: word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words
adverb: yes
auxiliary verb: we cannot
conjunction: and
interjection: “Behold the man!”: the words with which Pilate presented Christ, crowned with thorns, to his accusers. John 19:5
interjection: (used after a person has sneezed or as a toast.)
interjection: (used as an exclamation of astonishment, dismay, or anger)
interjection: alas; oh
interjection: attention
interjection: enough; stop
interjection: good night
interjection: good-bye
interjection: good; all right
interjection: hello; goodbye; so long; see you later
interjection: I am present
interjection: in the name of Allah
interjection: let's go; hurry up
interjection: make haste slowly
interjection: not at all
interjection: peace (used as a word of greeting or farewell)
interjection: so much the better
interjection: thank you
interjection: thank you very much
interjection: thanks to God
interjection: thou too: a retort by one charged with a crime accusing an opponent who has brought the charges of a similar crime
interjection: to your health
interjection: to your health (used as a toast)
intransitive verb: he (or she) flourished: used to indicate the period during which a person flourished, esp. when the exact birth and death dates are unknown
intransitive verb: he died; she died
intransitive verb: he speaks; she speaks
noun
noun: a 15th-century English ballad describing the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases
noun: a bacterium used in genetically altered form in the biological control of budworms, gypsy moth larvae, Japanese beetles, and other insect pests
noun: a ballad (1819) by Keats
noun: a ballad opera (1728) with text by John Gay and music arranged by John Pepusch
noun: a ballet (1870) by Délibes
noun: a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky
noun: a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky
noun: a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker
noun: a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky
noun: a bargain
noun: a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win
noun: a biography (1791) by James Boswell
noun: a bistro or small café
noun: a blessing or benediction, usually recited according to a traditional formula
noun: a blessing recited over a cup of wine or over bread on the Sabbath or on a festival
noun: a body of Ashkenazic-oriented commentaries on the Shulhan Arukh, written by the Polish Talmudic scholar Moses Isserles (c1520–72) and incorporated by him into the code
noun: a book of philosophical observations (1854) by Thoreau
noun: a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman
noun: a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
noun: a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton
noun: a booth or hut roofed with branches, built against or near a house or synagogue and used during the Jewish festival of Sukkoth as a temporary dining or living area
noun: a boss; employer
noun: a British luxury liner that sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April, 1912, with a loss of 1517 lives
noun: a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin
noun: a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others
noun: a Buddha who rules over paradise, enjoying endless and infinite bliss
noun: a bull
noun: a bullring
noun: a businessman
noun: a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed
noun: a cantor of a synagogue
noun: a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times
noun: a chanson de geste (c1100) relating Roland's brave deeds and death at Roncesvalles and Charlemagne's revenge
noun: a chivalric romance in verse (1590–96) by Edmund Spenser
noun: a Christmas tree
noun: a citizen or inhabitant of the U.S., esp. as distinguished from the peoples of Spanish-speaking America
noun: a code of maritime law compiled in the Middle Ages: it drew upon ancient law and has influenced modern law
noun: a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac
noun: a collection (1779–81), by Samuel Johnson, of biographical and critical essays on 52 English poets
noun: a collection (a. d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome
noun: a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio
noun: a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius
noun: a collection of fables, many concerning former lives of the Buddha
noun: a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest
noun: a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil; Eclogues
noun: a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound
noun: a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce
noun: a comedy (1594–95?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1594–95) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1595?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1602?) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1610) by Ben Jonson
noun: a comedy (1611) by Shakespeare
noun: a comedy (1666) by Molière
noun: a comedy (1695) by William Congreve
noun: a comedy (1707) by George Farquhar
noun: a comedy (1773) by Oliver Goldsmith
noun: a comedy (1836) by Gogol
noun: a comedy (1892) by Oscar Wilde
noun: a comedy (1895) by Oscar Wilde
noun: a comedy (1898) by G. B. Shaw
noun: a comedy (1902) by Sir James M. Barrie
noun: a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw
noun: a comedy (1905) by G. B. Shaw
noun: a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw
noun: a comedy (1933) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a comedy (411 b. c.) by Aristophanes
noun: a comedy (414 b. c.) by Aristophanes
noun: a comedy (423 b. c.) by Aristophanes
noun: a comedy (424 b.c.) by Aristophanes
noun: a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus
noun: a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment
noun: a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve
noun: a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
noun: a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
noun: a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais
noun: a comic opera (1866) by Bedřich Smetana
noun: a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism
noun: a compilation and translation of French Arthurian romances by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton in 1485
noun: a compilation of the discourses, maxims, and aphorisms of Confucius, dating from the 4th century b.c.
noun: a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it
noun: a cookie or cracker
noun: a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, esp. a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes; muslin
noun: a count
noun: a count: a title of nobility in Germany, Austria, and Sweden, equivalent in rank to an English earl
noun: a countess
noun: a currency exchange
noun: a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women's and the men's sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues
noun: a custodian or guardian of morals; censor
noun: a custom house; customs
noun: a customs officer or official
noun: a cutlet or chop
noun: a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
noun: a dance (1944) choreographed by Martha Graham, with musical score by Aaron Copland
noun: a dandified or effeminate man
noun: a decorative figure, usually bearing an inscription, that is hung on the eastern wall in Jewish homes or synagogues to indicate the direction to face in prayer
noun: a decree of the senate of ancient Rome
noun: a diary kept by Samuel Pepys from January 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669, in which are recorded his impressions of contemporary London life, the life of the court, and the administration of the navy
noun: a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education
noun: a dining room
noun: a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire
noun: a director of a theatrical or cinematic production
noun: a disputatious exchange, sometimes of a slapstick nature, between the chorus and the characters, or among the characters themselves, usually following the parodos and preceding the agon
noun: a double meaning; ambiguity
noun: a drama (1596–97?) by Shakespeare
noun: a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare
noun: a drama (1612–13?) by Shakespeare
noun: a drama (1636) by Corneille
noun: a drama (1941) by Federico García Lorca
noun: a drama (413?b.c.) by Euripides
noun: a drama (429?b.c.) by Euripides
noun: a drama in blank verse (1678) by Dryden
noun: a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley
noun: a drama in verse (1935) by Maxwell Anderson
noun: a dramatic poem (1835) by Robert Browning, based on the life of the Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493?–1541)
noun: a drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a meal to aid the digestion
noun: a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd
noun: a farm, country estate, or other rural retreat maintained by a wealthy owner as a facility for rest and recreation
noun: a fashion; manner; style
noun: a female cook or chef
noun: a female folk healer
noun: a female friend
noun: a female shop assistant; shopgirl
noun: a fiancé or bridegroom
noun: a fiancée or bride
noun: a fine or noble gesture, often futile or only for effect
noun: a first attempt
noun: a folk healer or medicine man who uses herbs or hallucinogenic plants, magic, and spiritualism to treat illness, induce visions, impart traditional wisdom, etc
noun: a food forbidden for use by Jews during the festival of Passover, esp. a baked food, as bread or cake, made with leaven or a leavening agent
noun: a foreman or supervisor
noun: a former copper or bronze coin of France issued from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, the 10th part of a franc, equal in value to 10 centimes
noun: a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus
noun: a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region
noun: a free translation (first published in 1859) by Edward FitzGerald of a group of quatrains by the Persian poet Omar Khayyám
noun: a friend, esp. a male friend
noun: a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat
noun: a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains
noun: a genus of bright-red sponges of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe, used in experiments on the dissociation and reintegration of sponge cells
noun: a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar
noun: a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
noun: a genus of extinct anthropoid ape of the Oligocene Period known from remains found in Egypt
noun: a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived
noun: a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor
noun: a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan
noun: a genus of flagellate algae comprising the chilomonads
noun: a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa
noun: a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles
noun: a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid
noun: a genus of freshwater, ameboid protozoa that secrete a hard, umbrellalike shell having a single opening through which the pseudopodia extend
noun: a genus of giant clams inhabiting reefs in the South Pacific, attaining a diameter of 4 ft. (1.2 m) or more, and weighing over 500 lb. (227 kg)
noun: a genus of green freshwater protozoans having a reddish eyespot and a single flagellum, found esp. in stagnant waters
noun: a genus of hominids of eastern Africa, assumed from a number of now lost skull fragments to have been a form of archaic Homo: no longer in technical use
noun: a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx
noun: a genus of rod-shaped bacteria that are pathogenic for plants
noun: a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil
noun: a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials
noun: a genus of tiny, freshwater crustaceans having a transparent body, used in biological research and as food for tropical fish
noun: a girl or woman who is not Jewish
noun: a goblin; demon; spirit
noun: a godfather
noun: a good female friend
noun: a good friend
noun: a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses
noun: a gratuity; tip
noun: a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris
noun: a Greek statue of Venus in marble, c200 b.c., found in 1820 on Melos and now in the Louvre, Paris
noun: a green baby lima bean
noun: a group of artists active in Germany, esp. in or near Munich, during the early 20th century, whose works were characterized by the use of Fauve color and forms distorted for structural or emotive purposes
noun: a group of Dutch artists of the early 20th century whose theories and works influenced the development of contemporary architecture and applied arts
noun: a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians
noun: a hairdresser
noun: a handkerchief
noun: a harvest; crop
noun: a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc
noun: a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper
noun: a historical novel (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
noun: a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper
noun: a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper
noun: a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
noun: a historical novel (1859) by Dickens
noun: a historical novel (1880) by Lew Wallace
noun: a history in six volumes (1776–88) by Edward Gibbon
noun: a horse used in battle; charger
noun: a hospital
noun: a Jewish celebration in honor of the Sabbath that takes place on Friday evening or Saturday afternoon and usually includes a program of songs, a lecture, and refreshments
noun: a Jewish council offering advice on or having authority over certain community affairs
noun: a Jewish fellowship, esp. an informal one that meets regularly for discussion or prayer
noun: a Jewish prayer book designed for use chiefly on days other than festivals and holy days; a daily prayer book
noun: a Jewish prayer book designed for use on festivals and holy days
noun: a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance
noun: a Jewish village or small-town community in eastern Europe
noun: a judge in a Jewish religious court
noun: a kidney bean
noun: a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting
noun: a large cask for maturing, storing, and transporting wine
noun: a lark
noun: a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy
noun: a Latin hymn in honor of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven
noun: a Latin hymn on the Day of Judgment, commonly sung in a Requiem Mass
noun: a legal document, executed by a rabbi or Jewish court of law, dissolving the marriage bond between husband and wife
noun: a library
noun: a little song; ditty
noun: a liturgical prayer consisting of all or part of Psalms 113–118, recited on Passover, Shavuoth, Sukkoth, Hanukkah, and Rosh Hodesh
noun: a liturgical prayer of varying form that is incorporated into the third blessing of the Amidah during the repetition of this prayer by the cantor
noun: a liturgical prayer or hymn expressing the faith of Israel in God, often sung in unison usually at the close of a service
noun: a liturgical prayer or hymn expressing the faith of Israel in God, usually sung responsively by the cantor and congregation at the close of the evening service on the Sabbath and festivals
noun: a liturgical prayer that is recited in standing position at each of the three daily services and consists of three opening blessings, three closing blessings, and one intermediate blessing on the Sabbath and holy days and 13 intermediate blessings on othe
noun: a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God
noun: a local festival or fair in Spain or Spanish America, usually held in honor of a patron saint
noun: a long covered wagon for carrying baggage, goods, military supplies, etc.; a van or tumbril
noun: a long narrative poem (1928) by Stephen Vincent Benét, about the U.S. Civil War
noun: a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy
noun: a loose-fitting blouse for women
noun: a love song
noun: a lover; suitor
noun: a luncheon or light meal, esp. one at which eggs, meat, etc., are served
noun: a machine gun
noun: a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy
noun: a maid-servant
noun: a main road; highway
noun: a male cook or chef
noun: a man
noun: a man of the world; a sophisticate
noun: a man who is a hairdresser
noun: a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980
noun: a married woman; a wife
noun: a meanspirited know-it-all
noun: a member of a criminal organization or syndicate who serves as an adviser to the leader
noun: a member of the German people, esp. one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe
noun: a member of the Italian national police force, organized as a military unit and charged with maintaining public security and order as well as assisting local police
noun: a memoir (1933) by Gertrude Stein
noun: a metrical narrative, esp. in medieval French literature
noun: a Mexican packsaddle formed of stuffed leather cushions
noun: a Middle High German epic of c1200, related to the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga and telling of the life of Siegfried, his marriage to Kriemhild, his wooing of Brunhild on behalf of Gunther, his murder by Hagen, and the revenge of Kriemhild
noun: a midwife
noun: a minor official of a synagogue, having limited ceremonial or administrative functions
noun: a misunderstanding; mistake
noun: a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by enslaved Israelites in Egypt
noun: a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope
noun: a monochrome painting executed in ink
noun: a mosque
noun: a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete
noun: a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner
noun: a narrative poem (1593) by Shakespeare
noun: a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare
noun: a narrative poem (1812, 1816, 1818) by Byron
noun: a narrative poem (1820) by John Keats
noun: a narrative poem (1847) by Longfellow
noun: a narrative poem (1927) by Robinson Jeffers
noun: a narrative style of painting developed from the 12th to the 14th century, characterized chiefly by continuous illustrations often executed on long scrolls
noun: a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico
noun: a new wave, trend, movement, phase, etc., esp. in an art form
noun: a newly poor person
noun: a notice posted in a public place; poster
noun: a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life
noun: a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe
noun: a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost
noun: a novel (1749) by Henry Fielding
noun: a novel (1759–67) by Laurence Sterne
noun: a novel (1766) by Goldsmith
noun: a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe
noun: a novel (1811) by Jane Austen
noun: a novel (1813) by Jane Austen (written 1796–97)
noun: a novel (1815) by Jane Austen
noun: a novel (1818) by Jane Austen
noun: a novel (1819) by Sir Walter Scott
noun: a novel (1821) by Sir Walter Scott
noun: a novel (1831) by Victor Hugo
noun: a novel (1832) by Stendhal
noun: a novel (1838) by Dickens
noun: a novel (1839) by Stendhal
noun: a novel (1840–41) by Dickens
noun: a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père
noun: a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë
noun: a novel (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
noun: a novel (1847) by Herman Melville
noun: a novel (1848) and play (1852) by Alexandre Dumas fils
noun: a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens
noun: a novel (1851) by Herman Melville
noun: a novel (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
noun: a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens
noun: a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope
noun: a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
noun: a novel (1859) by George Eliot
noun: a novel (1861) by Charles Dickens
noun: a novel (1861) by George Eliot
noun: a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy
noun: a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo
noun: a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky
noun: a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
noun: a novel (1870) by Jules Verne
noun: a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot
noun: a novel (1871) by Dostoevsky
noun: a novel (1871) by Louisa May Alcott
noun: a novel (1875–76) by Leo Tolstoy
noun: a novel (1876) by Mark Twain
noun: a novel (1877) by Henry James
noun: a novel (1878) by Thomas Hardy
noun: a novel (1880) by Dostoevsky
noun: a novel (1881) by Henry James
noun: a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson
noun: a novel (1884) by Mark Twain
noun: a novel (1886) by Henry James
noun: a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
noun: a novel (1886) by Thomas Hardy
noun: a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei
noun: a novel (1889) by Mark Twain
noun: a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy
noun: a novel (1895) by Stephen Crane
noun: a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy
noun: a novel (1897) by H. G. Wells
noun: a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling
noun: a novel (1899) by Frank Norris
noun: a novel (1900) by Joseph Conrad
noun: a novel (1900) by Theodore Dreiser
noun: a novel (1901) by George Barr McCutcheon about the romantic and melodramatic adventures of military and courtly figures in the fictional kingdom of Graustark
noun: a novel (1902) by Henry James
noun: a novel (1903) by Henry James
noun: a novel (1903) by Jack London
noun: a novel (1903) by Samuel Butler
noun: a novel (1904) by Joseph Conrad
noun: a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair
noun: a novel (1911) by Edith Wharton
noun: a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust
noun: a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
noun: a novel (1914) by André Gide
noun: a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
noun: a novel (1916) by James Joyce
noun: a novel (1918) by Willa Cather
noun: a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham
noun: a novel (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
noun: a novel (1920) by Edith Wharton
noun: a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce
noun: a novel (1924) by E. M. Forster
noun: a novel (1924) by Thomas Mann
noun: a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
noun: a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka
noun: a novel (1925) by Sinclair Lewis
noun: a novel (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
noun: a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
noun: a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka
noun: a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse
noun: a novel (1927) by Sinclair Lewis
noun: a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder
noun: a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf
noun: a novel (1928) by D. H. Lawrence
noun: a novel (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque
noun: a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
noun: a novel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe
noun: a novel (1929) by William Faulkner
noun: a novel (1932) by William Faulkner
noun: a novel (1933) by André Malraux
noun: a novel (1933) by Nathanael West
noun: a novel (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
noun: a novel (1934) by John O'Hara
noun: a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck
noun: a novel (1935) by Thomas Wolfe
noun: a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
noun: a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck
noun: a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck
noun: a novel (1940) by Carson McCullers
noun: a novel (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
noun: a novel (1940) by Richard Wright
noun: a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe
noun: a novel (1942) by Albert Camus
noun: a novel (1946) and play (1950) by Carson McCullers
noun: a novel (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
noun: a novel (1947) by Albert Camus
noun: a novel (1948) by Norman Mailer
noun: a novel (1948) by William Faulkner
noun: a novel (1951) by J. D. Salinger
noun: a novel (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
noun: a novel (1954) by William Golding
noun: a novel (1957) by Albert Camus
noun: a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak
noun: a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs
noun: a novel (1960) by Harper Lee
noun: a novel (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut
noun: a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath
noun: a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo
noun: a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison
noun: a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow
noun: a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann
noun: a novella (1924) by Herman Melville
noun: a painting (1548) by Tintoretto
noun: a painting (1642) by Rembrandt
noun: a painting (1653) by Rembrandt
noun: a painting (1871) by James McNeill Whistler
noun: a painting (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh
noun: a painting (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
noun: a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne
noun: a painting (1907) by Pablo Picasso
noun: a painting (1912) by Marcel Duchamp
noun: a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe
noun: a painting (1930) by Edward Hopper
noun: a painting (1930) by Grant Wood
noun: a painting (1931) by Salvador Dali
noun: a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso
noun: a painting, statue, or other representation of Christ crowned with thorns
noun: a pamphlet (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: first statement of the principles of modern communism
noun: a Parashah chanted or read on the Sabbath
noun: a peaceful person
noun: a peasant or farmer
noun: a person certified by a rabbi or Jewish court of law to slaughter animals for food in the manner prescribed by Jewish law
noun: a person from the same town, geographical area, region, etc., as another; compatriot
noun: a person of great wit or intellect
noun: a person of outstanding virtue and piety
noun: a person under monastic vows
noun: a person who has a fixed income, as from lands or bonds
noun: a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country
noun: a person who is willingly or blindly the tool of another person
noun: a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche
noun: a person who supports or works toward political independence, esp. one supporting radical changes in an existing government or from an existing system of government
noun: a person, esp. a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs
noun: a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans
noun: a personal or private diary
noun: a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine
noun: a philosophical novel (1759) by Voltaire
noun: a philosophical treatise (1621) by Robert Burton
noun: a philosophical work (1781) by Immanuel Kant
noun: a philosophical work (a. d.523?) by Boethius
noun: a philosophical work in poetic form (1883) by Friedrich Nietzsche
noun: a picaresque novel (1715–35) by Le Sage
noun: a piece of parsley, celery, or similar green vegetable that is dipped in salt water and eaten at the Seder meal on Passover
noun: a pimp; mack
noun: a pl. of Sefer Torah
noun: a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue
noun: a play (1553?) by Nicholas Udall: the earliest known English comedy
noun: a play (1825) by Pushkin
noun: a play (1867) by Henrik Ibsen
noun: a play (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
noun: a play (1881) by Henrik Ibsen
noun: a play (1888) by Strindberg
noun: a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen
noun: a play (1892) by Ibsen
noun: a play (1897) by Anton Chekhov
noun: a play (1901) by Anton Chekhov
noun: a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki
noun: a play (1904) by Chekhov
noun: a play (1920) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1921) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
noun: a play (1923) by G. B. Shaw
noun: a play (1923) by Sutton Vane
noun: a play (1924) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1924) by Sean O'Casey
noun: a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman
noun: a play (1938) by Jean Giraudoux
noun: a play (1938) by Robert E. Sherwood
noun: a play (1938) by Thornton Wilder
noun: a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman
noun: a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder
noun: a play (1945) by Jean-Paul Sartre
noun: a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams
noun: a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1947) by Tennessee Williams
noun: a play (1949) by Arthur Miller
noun: a play (1952) by Samuel Beckett
noun: a play (1955) by Tennessee Williams
noun: a play (1956) by Eugene O'Neill
noun: a play (1962) by Edward Albee
noun: a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust
noun: a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot
noun: a poem (1612) by John Donne
noun: a poem (1632) by John Milton
noun: a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers
noun: a poem (1750) by Thomas Gray
noun: a poem (1807) by Wordsworth
noun: a poem (1819) by Keats
noun: a poem (1820) by Shelley
noun: a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War
noun: a poem (1855) by Robert Browning
noun: a poem (1876) by Mallarmé: source of Debussy's musical composition Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune (1892–94)
noun: a poem (1893) by W. B. Yeats
noun: a poem (1898) by Oscar Wilde
noun: a poem (1917) by T. S. Eliot
noun: a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot
noun: a poem (1923) by Robert Frost
noun: a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens
noun: a poem (c320 b.c.) by Ch'ü Yüan
noun: a poetic fragment (1797) by Coleridge
noun: a point between two extremes; the golden mean
noun: a political satire (1945) by George Orwell
noun: a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover
noun: a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci
noun: a position in which a skier leans forward but keeps the heels in contact with the skis
noun: a position or attitude resolved upon or taken in advance
noun: a pot, esp. an earthen pot for holding water, cooking, etc
noun: a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary
noun: a private hunting preserve
noun: a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism
noun: a programmatic symphony (1830–31) in five movements by Hector Berlioz
noun: a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human
noun: a prose satire (1509) by Erasmus, written in Latin and directed against theologians and church dignitaries
noun: a public square or plaza, esp. in the center of a city or town
noun: a publication giving statistical information on European royalty
noun: a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance
noun: a raspberry
noun: a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties
noun: a rectangular piece of cloth with fringes at the four corners and a hole in the center for the head, worn under the clothes by Orthodox Jewish males
noun: a red liberty cap, worn by extremists during the French Revolution
noun: a refreshment, as a soft drink
noun: a religious autobiography (1864) of Cardinal John Henry Newman
noun: a religious ceremony, observed by Jews at the conclusion of the Sabbath or a festival, that consists of blessings over wine, spices, and the light of a candle
noun: a report of a transaction or proceedings
noun: a revolutionary workers' anthem, first sung in France in 1871
noun: a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue
noun: a ritual bath to which Orthodox Jews are traditionally required to go on certain occasions, as before the Sabbath and after each menstrual period, to cleanse and purify themselves
noun: a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl
noun: a Romani man
noun: a Romani woman
noun: a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare
noun: a romantic novel (1774) in epistolary form by Goethe
noun: a sacred book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believed by members of the church to be an abridgment by a prophet (Mormon) of a record of certain ancient peoples in America, written on golden plates, and discovered and translated (1827–
noun: a Sanskrit drama written in the 6th century or earlier by Kalidasa
noun: a satiric comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare
noun: a satiric comedy (1907) by John Millington Synge
noun: a satirical comedy (1945) by Jean Giraudoux
noun: a satirical comedy (422 b.c.) by Aristophanes
noun: a satirical novel (1872) by Samuel Butler
noun: a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days
noun: a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution
noun: a series of mythological tales or legends in verse (a.d. 7–8) by Ovid
noun: a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth
noun: a series of poems by Tennyson, based on Arthurian legend
noun: a series of poems in three books (1? b.c) by Ovid
noun: a shed or other above-ground building where a winemaker stores wine in casks
noun: a short novel (1881) by Henry James
noun: a short novel (1884) by Leo Tolstoy
noun: a short novel (1898) by Henry James
noun: a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad
noun: a short story (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
noun: a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe
noun: a short story (1865) by Mark Twain
noun: a short story (1900) by Mark Twain
noun: a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka
noun: a short story (1936) by Ernest Hemingway
noun: a skullcap worn, esp. during prayer and religious study, by Jewish males, esp. those adhering to Orthodox or Conservative tradition; yarmulke
noun: a slip of the tongue
noun: a slope or hillside with vineyards
noun: a smuggler of Mexican workers into the U.S.
noun: a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven
noun: a song
noun: a song cycle (1827) by Franz Schubert, consisting of 24 songs set to poems of Wilhelm Müller
noun: a sonnet sequence (1850) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
noun: a species of rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine of humans and other animals, sometimes pathogenic
noun: a story (1843) by Dickens
noun: a story for children (1865) by Lewis Carroll
noun: a story for children (1871) by Lewis Carroll: the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
noun: a strawberry
noun: a street urinal for public use, esp. one enclosed by a low wall, screen, or the like
noun: a study (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville of American political institutions
noun: a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music
noun: a swastika, esp. that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich
noun: a symphony (1949) by Leonard Bernstein
noun: a symphony (1962) by Dimitri Dimitrievich Shostakovich
noun: a synagogue
noun: a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker
noun: a tavern selling pulque
noun: a teacher in a Jewish school
noun: a teacher in a Jewish school, esp. a heder
noun: a three-part drama (Part 1, 1591–92; Part 2, 1590?; Part 3, 1590?) by Shakespeare
noun: a three-part tragedy (1931) by Eugene O'Neill, including Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted
noun: a title of respect corresponding to Mr.
noun: a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton
noun: a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being
noun: a tragedy (1606–07?) by Shakespeare
noun: a tragedy (1606?) by Shakespeare
noun: a tragedy (1608?) by Shakespeare
noun: a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster
noun: a tragedy (1667) by Racine
noun: a tragedy (408?b.c.) by Euripides
noun: a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides
noun: a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus
noun: a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles
noun: a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus
noun: a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus
noun: a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare
noun: a tragedy by Sophocles, written toward the end of his life and produced posthumously in 401? b.c.
noun: a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America
noun: a treatise (1859) by Charles Darwin setting forth his theory of evolution
noun: a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
noun: a trilogy of novels (1939) by John Dos Passos, consisting of The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money
noun: a trilogy of short novels (1939) by Katherine Anne Porter
noun: a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides
noun: a triweekly periodical (1709–11) written, edited, and published by Richard Steele with the collaboration of Joseph Addison
noun: a tube or drinking straw with a strainer at one end, esp. for drinking maté
noun: a U.S. battleship blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898: this incident stimulated popular support in the U.S. for the Spanish-American War
noun: a union, association, or society
noun: a verse drama (1935) by T. S. Eliot
noun: a verse play (1948) by Christopher Fry
noun: a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia
noun: a voice and nothing more
noun: a volume of poems (1892) by Rudyard Kipling, including Gunga Din, Danny Deever, and Mandalay
noun: a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman
noun: a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads
noun: a white robe used by Jews, esp. Orthodox Jews, as a ceremonial garment for men and as a burial shroud for both sexes: worn during worship on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, by a bridegroom during the wedding ceremony, and by the leader of the Seder on Passo
noun: a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband
noun: a wine vat
noun: a winemaker
noun: a wise and learned person; sage
noun: a woman belonging to a religious order, congregation, etc
noun: a woman who cares for children, esp. on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother
noun: a woman who is a hairdresser
noun: a woman who makes or composes a pastiche
noun: a woman; wife; lady
noun: a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based
noun: a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque
noun: a written authorization or order to pay a specified sum of money to a specified person; bill of exchange
noun: a year or period of travel, esp. following one's schooling and before practicing a profession
noun: a yell; shout
noun: agreement of the people
noun: air force
noun: an 18th-century Chinese novel by Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in, completed by Kao E, in 120 chapters
noun: an accomplished fact; a thing already done
noun: an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids
noun: an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
noun: an almanac (1732–58) written and published by Benjamin Franklin
noun: an altarpiece (1510?–15?) painted by Matthias Grünewald
noun: an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame
noun: an American 44- gun frigate, famous for its exploits in the War of 1812 and popularly called “Old Ironsides”
noun: an American film (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith
noun: an American film (1941), directed by and starring Orson Welles
noun: an American of Mexican parentage, esp. one who has adopted U.S. customs and attitudes; an Americanized Mexican
noun: an amorous glance; ogle
noun: an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations
noun: an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
noun: an architecturally treated fountain or cistern
noun: an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board
noun: an assertion without proof
noun: an assistant, esp. to a chef
noun: an attitude of haughty aloofness; cold superiority
noun: an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews
noun: an autobiographical narrative (1883) by Mark Twain
noun: an autobiographical work (1822) by Thomas De Quincey
noun: an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare
noun: an edible snail
noun: an embrace, used in greeting someone
noun: an English alliterative poem of unknown authorship, dating from the 14th century
noun: an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence
noun: an engraving (1513) by Albrecht Dürer
noun: an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan
noun: an epic poem (1667) by John Milton
noun: an epic poem (1671) by John Milton
noun: an extinct genus comprising the chain corals
noun: an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate
noun: an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors
noun: an extinct genus of ratite birds, best known from the Pleistocene Epoch of Madagascar, having massive legs and rudimentary wings, and growing to a height of 8 ft. (2.4 m)
noun: an extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago
noun: an extinct species of early hominid whose fossil remains were discovered in Ethiopia and have been dated at between 3.5 and 4 million years of age
noun: an extinct species of gracile hominid, formerly known as Plesianthropus transvaalensis, that lived in southern Africa about three million years ago
noun: an extinct species of large-toothed bipedal hominid that lived in southern Africa c1.5–2 million years ago: formerly classified as the genus Paranthropus
noun: an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face
noun: an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans
noun: an extinct species of very rugged, large-toothed bipedal hominid, formerly known as Zinjanthropus boisei, that lived in eastern Africa one to two million years ago
noun: an eyeglass or a pair of eyeglasses
noun: an Icelandic saga of the late 13th century, concerning the family of the Volsungs, the theft of the cursed treasure of Andvari, the adventures of Sigurd, his wooing of Brynhild, his enchantment and marriage to Gudrun, and his eventual murder
noun: an improviser, esp. a person who extemporizes verse
noun: an informal preliminary conference
noun: an inn or hotel
noun: an inn or restaurant
noun: an inn, esp. one in the countryside
noun: an inspector appointed by a board of Orthodox rabbis to guard against any violation of the Jewish dietary laws in food processing plants, meat markets, etc., where food presumed to be kosher is prepared or served for public consumption
noun: an officer of the revenue service
noun: an official in the synagogue, as a cantor, who reads the weekly portion of the Torah
noun: an opera (1762), with music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck
noun: an opera (1767) by Christoph Willibald Gluck
noun: an opera (1786) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
noun: an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
noun: an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
noun: an opera (1805) by Ludwig van Beethoven
noun: an opera (1833) by Gaetano Donizetti
noun: an opera (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor
noun: an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi
noun: an opera (1866) by Ambroise Thomas
noun: an opera (1874) by Johann Strauss, Jr
noun: an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet
noun: an opera (1883) by Léo Delibes
noun: an opera (1884) by Jules Massenet
noun: an opera (1887) with music by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare's Othello
noun: an opera (1890) by Pietro Mascagni
noun: an opera (1892) by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
noun: an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini
noun: an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini
noun: an opera (1900) by Gustave Charpentier
noun: an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini
noun: an opera (1905) by Manuel de Falla
noun: an opera (1910) by Giacomo Puccini
noun: an opera (1926) by Zoltán Kodály
noun: an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin
noun: an operetta (1879) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
noun: an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
noun: an oratorio (1801) by Franz Joseph Haydn
noun: an outsider; foreigner
noun: an overture, op. 26, composed in 1832 by Felix Mendelssohn
noun: an overturning; convulsion; turmoil
noun: an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design
noun: an uncompleted sequence of tales by Chaucer, written for the most part after 1387
noun: an uncouth person; lowlife
noun: an unmarried woman
noun: any foot covering, as a shoe or boot; footwear
noun: any of certain associations of students formed to promote patriotism, Christian conduct, and liberal ideas but now primarily social fraternities
noun: any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided
noun: any of the collection of 613 commandments or precepts in the Bible and additional ones of rabbinic origin that relate chiefly to the religious and moral conduct of Jews
noun: anything of little value; junk; garbage
noun: assiduity in anticipating or catering to the pleasures of others
noun: atmosphere; ambiance
noun: beer
noun: being; existence
noun: blackmail
noun: boy; child
noun: brother
noun: bullfight; corrida
noun: Central Europe
noun: charity
noun: charity or the giving of charity
noun: chicken
noun: coffee with cream
noun: company
noun: comrade (used as a term of address especially by Communists)
noun: conscientiousness in one's dealings with others
noun: crayfish
noun: crisis
noun: dear; sweetheart: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl
noun: display of cordiality
noun: drawing or design: a term used during the 16th and 17th centuries to designate the formal discipline required for the representation of the ideal form of an object in the visual arts, esp. as expressed in the linear structure of a work of art
noun: duke
noun: either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (Elder Edda or Poetic Edda) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends
noun: embarrassment of riches; confusing overabundance
noun: enlightenment
noun: equality
noun: father
noun: freedom; independence
noun: friend; comrade; companion
noun: God; the Lord
noun: gourmet
noun: hazan
noun: hispanism, esp. as directed toward political objectives
noun: husband (used chiefly in the legal phrase et vir)
noun: I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts (I fear treacherous persons even when they appear to be friendly). Vergil's Aeneid: 2:49
noun: it is allowed
noun: juice; gravy
noun: language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue)
noun: law of nations; international law
noun: leader
noun: leader; chief; boss
noun: letter of credit
noun: liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast day
noun: love of one's country; patriotism
noun: lunch; luncheon
noun: madness; insanity
noun: mastery; skill
noun: meditation on the name of Amida
noun: Mister (used as a title of respect)
noun: mother
noun: my dear
noun: native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests
noun: newness; novelty
noun: one who has disappeared: used, esp. in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression
noun: ornamental wrought-iron work
noun: our sea, esp. the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans
noun: people of the world; leaders in society; fashionable people
noun: perfume
noun: piece; morsel
noun: pride in one's heritage as a Mexican-American
noun: rabbinical approval of meats and other foods that comply with the ritual requirements of Jewish dietary laws, usually issued in the form of an endorsing mark or stamp on the products so approved
noun: rear guard
noun: refined taste; educated palate
noun: revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts
noun: sauerkraut
noun: self-esteem; self-respect
noun: shohet
noun: sincerity
noun: son: sometimes used after a name with the meaning of Jr., as in Dumas fils
noun: sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism
noun: soup
noun: sparkling wine; champagne
noun: street level; ground floor
noun: strength; force; power
noun: strong anti-American sentiment
noun: Sukkoth
noun: sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence
noun: symphonic poem, op. 26, composed in 1899 by Jean Sibelius
noun: tea
noun: testicles
noun: the act or practice of bringing secularized Jews closer to Judaism, esp. Orthodox Judaism, as through seminars, meetings, and religious rituals
noun: the Amidah, consisting of 19 blessings, recited on days other than the Sabbath and holy days
noun: the ancient nobility, esp. of the ancien régime
noun: the autobiography (1925–27) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest
noun: the bond of matrimony
noun: the Book of Psalms
noun: the chapter house of a cathedral
noun: the civil code of France, enacted in 1804 and officially designated in 1807
noun: the concluding section of the portion of the Torah chanted or read in a Jewish service on the Sabbath and festivals
noun: the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments
noun: the day before a Jewish holiday or the Jewish Sabbath
noun: the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language
noun: the edible starchy root of Psoralea esculenta, a leguminous plant of central North America; breadroot
noun: the end of the 19th century
noun: the eternal feminine
noun: the exact, appropriate word
noun: the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; the Pentateuch
noun: the flagship of John Paul Jones
noun: the forced exile of Jews, esp. from countries where they were most persecuted
noun: the formal contract in a Jewish religious marriage that includes specific financial protection for the wife in the event that the husband dies or divorces her
noun: the French national anthem, written in 1792 by Rouget de Lisle
noun: the genus comprising the day lilies
noun: the genus to which the now-discredited Piltdown man was assigned
noun: the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood
noun: the Hagiographa
noun: the heart
noun: the Jewish religious service marking the conclusion of Yom Kippur
noun: the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth
noun: the Jewish service for commemorating the dead, held on Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzereth, the second day of Shavuoth, and the last day of Passover
noun: the last of the three prescribed Sabbath meals, taken after Minhah and before the evening service
noun: the last resort or the final resource
noun: the leading male dancer in a ballet company
noun: the legislature of certain states in Germany
noun: the linguistic system shared by the members of a community (contrasted with parole)
noun: the liturgical book, used by bishops, containing regulations and prescriptions that are authoritative in matters not covered in the missal or other service books
noun: the Marseillaise
noun: the most severe form of excommunication, formerly used by rabbis in sentencing wrongdoers, usually for an indefinite period of time
noun: the name of the American B-29 bomber, piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945
noun: the national anthem of Israel
noun: the number 3
noun: the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age
noun: the number seven
noun: the numbers 1 to 18 in roulette
noun: the official authority in Israel for the commemoration of the Holocaust and its victims
noun: the official newspaper of the Communist party in the U.S.S. R.
noun: the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945
noun: the period (1871–1914) between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, characterized by relative peacefulness in Western Europe and by marked advances and productivity in the arts, literature, technology, etc
noun: the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France
noun: the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth
noun: the political and social system of France before the revolution of 1789
noun: the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim
noun: the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy
noun: the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986
noun: the Prophets, being the second of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament
noun: the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning
noun: the religious service celebrated by Jews in addition to and immediately after the morning service on the Sabbath and festivals
noun: the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral an
noun: the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition
noun: the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609
noun: the signified
noun: the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law
noun: the sofa upon which the king of France sat when holding formal sessions of the parliament
noun: the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time
noun: the star of the north: motto of Minnesota
noun: the state; republic; commonwealth
noun: the Symphony No. 6 in F major (1807–08) by Ludwig van Beethoven
noun: the Symphony No. 94 in G major (1791) by Franz Josef Haydn
noun: the third symphony (1804) in E♭, opus 55, by Beethoven
noun: the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, comprising the Law or Torah, the Prophets or Neviim, and the Hagiographa or Ketuvim, taken as a whole
noun: the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel
noun: the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945
noun: the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered surface ship, a guided-missile cruiser launched in 1959
noun: the use of folk medicine, esp. as practiced by a curandero
noun: the utmost extremity
noun: the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting
noun: the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole
noun: the world; people; society
noun: tomorrow; the (indefinite) future
noun: too much of a good thing
noun: truth
noun: truth; truthfulness
noun: unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness
noun: waltz
noun: war
noun: wealthy, stylish, sophisticated young people
noun: wife (used chiefly in the legal phrase et uxor)
noun: wild strawberry
noun: without constraint or embarrassment; free and easy
plural noun: a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil
plural noun: a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke
plural noun: a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer
plural noun: a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling
plural noun: marvels; miracles
plural noun: news
plural noun: soldiers assigned to a dangerous post
plural noun: the Pseudo-Isidorian documents; the collection of documents of the 9th century a.d. that consist chiefly of the Decretals, attributed to Isidore, archbishop of Seville, a.d.600–36, and that were rejected as spurious in the 15th century
plural noun: the very words; verbatim
plural noun: traditional religious songs that are sung by Jews during the evening meal on Friday and the afternoon meal on Saturday
plural noun: trifles
preposition: at or in the home of; with
preposition: for
preposition: from which; following from: used as a point of departure, as for an idea or plan
preposition: otherwise called; alias
preposition: to the; at the; with the
sentence substitute: a conventional greeting, meaning “ peace to you”: used in reply to the greeting shalom aleichem
sentence substitute: a new order of the ages (is born): motto on the reverse of the great seal of the United States (adapted from Vergil's Eclogues IV:5)
sentence substitute: after this, therefore because of it: a formula designating an error in logic that accepts as a cause something that merely occurred earlier in time
sentence substitute: all right; fine
sentence substitute: all things change, and we change with them
sentence substitute: and you, Brutus!: alleged dying words of Julius Caesar uttered as his friend Brutus stabbed him
sentence substitute: as He was with our fathers, may God be with us (motto of Boston)
sentence substitute: behold the sign (or proof)
sentence substitute: by the sword she seeks quiet peace under liberty: motto of Massachusetts
sentence substitute: either a Caesar or nothing; all or nothing
sentence substitute: for whose benefit?
sentence substitute: gently in manner, firmly in action
sentence substitute: German is spoken (here)
sentence substitute: God (be) with you
sentence substitute: God and my right: motto on the royal arms of England
sentence substitute: God enriches: motto of Arizona
sentence substitute: God keep you
sentence substitute: God wills (it): cry of the Crusaders
sentence substitute: gold and silver: motto of Montana
sentence substitute: he himself said it
sentence substitute: he who transplanted (it) sustains (it): motto of Connecticut
sentence substitute: here and everywhere
sentence substitute: here rests in peace: a phrase used on tombstones before the name of the deceased
sentence substitute: how's it going?; how are you?
sentence substitute: I serve: traditional motto of the Prince of Wales
sentence substitute: I shall rise again
sentence substitute: I sustain the wings: motto of the U.S. Air Force
sentence substitute: if you are seeking a pleasant peninsula, look around you: motto of Michigan
sentence substitute: in this sign shalt thou conquer: motto used by Constantine the Great, from his vision, before battle, of a cross bearing these words
sentence substitute: in wine there is truth
sentence substitute: it grows as it goes: motto of the state of New Mexico
sentence substitute: it is art to conceal art; true art conceals the means by which it is achieved
sentence substitute: it is not pleasing
sentence substitute: it will go on
sentence substitute: justice to all: motto of the District of Columbia
sentence substitute: know thyself
sentence substitute: leisure with dignity
sentence substitute: let military power be subject to civil authority: motto of Wyoming
sentence substitute: let the people rule: motto of Arkansas
sentence substitute: let there be justice though the heavens fall
sentence substitute: let there be light
sentence substitute: Long live the king!
sentence substitute: Master, guide us: motto of the city of London
sentence substitute: may he or she rest in peace
sentence substitute: may she live forever: motto of Idaho
sentence substitute: mountaineers (are) always free: motto of West Virginia
sentence substitute: nature makes no leap
sentence substitute: no one attacks me with impunity: motto of Scotland
sentence substitute: nothing is created from nothing
sentence substitute: nothing without the divine will: motto of Colorado
sentence substitute: O times! O customs!
sentence substitute: other times, other customs
sentence substitute: peace be with you
sentence substitute: peace to you: a conventional Jewish greeting, the reply being aleichem shalom
sentence substitute: pray for us
sentence substitute: seize the day; enjoy the present, as opposed to placing all hope in the future
sentence substitute: shamed be the person who thinks evil of it: motto of the Order of the Garter
sentence substitute: She flies with her own wings (motto of Oregon)
sentence substitute: so much the worse
sentence substitute: Spanish is spoken here
sentence substitute: such is war
sentence substitute: sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country
sentence substitute: that is different
sentence substitute: the descent to hell is easy; it is easy to take the downward path. Vergil, Aeneid, 6:126
sentence substitute: the end crowns the work
sentence substitute: the gods have deemed otherwise
sentence substitute: the life of the land is maintained by righteousness: motto of Hawaii
sentence substitute: the times change and we change with them
sentence substitute: the useful with the pleasurable
sentence substitute: the voice of the people (is) the voice of God
sentence substitute: there is no disputing about tastes
sentence substitute: Thou art That (the statement, in the Upanishads, that Atman is identical with Brahman)
sentence substitute: thus always to tyrants (motto of the State of Virginia)
sentence substitute: time flies
sentence substitute: to be rather than to seem: motto of North Carolina
sentence substitute: to each his own; to each what rightfully belongs to him
sentence substitute: to err is human
sentence substitute: to understand all is to forgive all
sentence substitute: to work is to pray
sentence substitute: truth conquers all things
sentence substitute: truth is great and will prevail
sentence substitute: until we see each other again; good-bye for the present
sentence substitute: we who are about to die salute you: said by Roman gladiators to the emperor
sentence substitute: what will be, will be
sentence substitute: which was to be done
sentence substitute: which was to be shown or demonstrated
sentence substitute: while I breathe, I hope: a motto of South Carolina
sentence substitute: while we are alive, let us live
sentence substitute: who shall separate (us)?
sentence substitute: woe to the vanquished
sentence substitute: work conquers all: motto of Oklahoma
symbol: carrying capacity
symbol: dextrorotatory; dextro- (distinguished from l-)
symbol: having a configuration resembling the dextrorotatory isomer of glyceraldehyde: always printed as a small capital, roman character (distinguished from l-)
symbol: having a configuration resembling the levorotatory isomer of glyceraldehyde: printed as a small capital, roman character (distinguished from d-)
symbol: isotopic spin
symbol: levorotatory; levo- (distinguished from d-)
symbol for: kinetic energy
transitive verb: he invented it; she invented it
verb: he drew (this); she drew (this)
verb: he made (it); she made (it): formerly used on works of art after the name of the artist
verb: he or she painted (it): formerly used on paintings as part of the artist's signature
verb: he printed or engraved (this); she printed or engraved (this)
verb: he supervised (this); she supervised (this)
verb: I direct: motto of Maine
verb: I will defend: motto on the coat of arms of Michigan
verb: to wonder at nothing
verb:imperative: see (used esp. to refer a reader to parts of a text)