Spelling/Vocabulary List #10

Bellow

verb (used without object)
1. to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
2. to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.

verb (used with object)
3. to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.
4. an act or sound of bellowing.


Blight
noun

1. Plant Pathology
a. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.
b. a disease so characterized.
2. any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the blight of the family.
3. the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay: urban blight.

verb (used with object)
4. to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops.
5. to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes.

verb (used without object)
6. to suffer blight.

Brandish

verb (used with object)
1. to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.

noun
2. a flourish or waving, as of a weapon.

Copious - adjective
1. large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
2. having or yielding an abundant supply: a copious larder; a copious harvest.
3. exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words.

Disgorge - verb (used with object)
1. to eject or throw out from the throat, mouth, or stomach; vomit forth.
2. to surrender or yield (something, especially something illicitly obtained).
3. to discharge forcefully or as a result of force.

Endeavor
verb (used without object)
1. to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive: We must constantly endeavor if we are to succeed.

verb (used with object)
2. to attempt; try: He endeavors to keep things neat in his apartment.
3. Archaic . to attempt to achieve or gain.

noun
4. a strenuous effort; attempt.

Furtive - adjective
1. taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
2. sly; shifty: a furtive manner.

Ghastly
adjective
1. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
2. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
3. terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.

adverb
4. Also, ghast·li·ly, ghast·i·ly. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
5. with a deathlike quality.

Havoc 
noun
1. great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.

verb (used with object)
2. to work havoc upon; devastate.

verb (used without object)
3. to work havoc: The fire havocked throughout the house.

Idioms
4. cry havoc, to warn of danger or disaster.
5. play havoc with,
a. to create confusion or disorder in: The wind played havoc with the papers on the desk.
b. to destroy; ruin: The bad weather played havoc with our vacation plans.

Imbecile
noun
1. Informal . a dunce; blockhead; dolt.
2. Psychology . (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a person of the second order in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50.

adjective
3. Informal . stupid; silly; absurd.
4. Usually Offensive . showing mental feebleness or incapacity.
5. Archaic . weak or feeble.

Loquacious - adjective
1. talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
2. characterized by excessive talk; wordy: easily the most loquacious play of the season.

Parlance - noun
1. a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
2. speech, especially a formal discussion or debate.
3. talk; parley.

Reticent - adjective
1. disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
2. reluctant or restrained.


Tussock - noun
a tuft or clump of growing grass or the like.

Uncouth - adjective
1. awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly: uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family.
2. strange and ungraceful in appearance or form.
3. unusual or strange.