Word Mastery for Ivy League Vocabulary

take the initiative and go on the offensive

the lowest female singing voice

a historian who writes annals

before noon

a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat

the number of which a given number is the logarithm

a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response

a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response

a bright green fabric napped to resemble felt

a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers

turn a rope around something in order to secure it

an endowed church office giving income to its holder

get up on the back of

a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

the main stem of a tree

the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

a slope or hillside

waves breaking on the shore

a thick and heavy shoe

adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation

a cowardly and despicable person

any experience that causes intense suffering

move toward, travel toward

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

a whip with nine knotted cords

an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records

having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible

someone who works in a coal mine

a stock or supply of foods

someone who confesses

obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination

a small crown

office used by the accountants of a business

a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey

uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure

a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation

detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure

a substance for cleaning the teeth

a person who testifies or gives a deposition

a logician skilled in dialectic

distinguishing characteristics

two successive letters

not in agreement

refusing to attend services of the Church of England

any of various infectious viral diseases of animals

levy a distress on

imprisonment (especially for a long time)

electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world

(of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region

a brand of fine English porcelain

turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward

something that bulges out or projects from its surroundings

in a fluent manner

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four

the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings

the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark

the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel

surrendered as a penalty

a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it

silk-producing gland of insects or spiders

negligent of neatness especially in dress and person

a French policeman

serving to express or indicate possession

someone who cuts flat glass to size

having the shape of a sphere or ball

an infantryman equipped with grenades

a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings

the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

bother persistently with trivial complaints

German philosopher (1776-1841)

trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality

narrow-minded about cherished opinions

(chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing

of or relating to the intima

allow to enter; grant entry to

the act of sharing in the activities of a group

difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts

a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in

a girl or young woman who is unmarried

an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)

a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland

Irish word for a lake

surface with macadam

the mother of Jesus

a great raja

the childhood of a girl

a trap for catching trespassers

made of fermented honey and water

assistance in time of difficulty

(Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year

cautionary advice about something imminent

the quantity that can be held in the mouth

socially disoriented

an inhabitant of Normandy

the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides

a short amusing opera

being or denoting a numerical order in a series

a stabilizer for a canoe

having the relationship of friends or pals

(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)

able to be passed or traversed or crossed

liable to sin

the peers of a kingdom considered as a group

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

the study of physical features of the earth's surface

cover with planks

a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

the office or station of a prelate

religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress

flow in a circular current, of liquids

marked by richness and fullness of flavor

(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place

having branches

merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly

exercising power or authority

shaken into waves or undulations as by wind

a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

resembling or having the qualities of soap

a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points

a man of rank in the ancient regime

involving or derived from the senses

keep away from others

a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid

coins collectively

be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry

the number to be subtracted from the minuend

something clearly established

the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong

a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business

aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting growth

of or pertaining to a wrong committed against another

providing protective supervision

on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)

the act of selling goods for a living

any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

a large stringed instrument

objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)

a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron

with wings extended in a flying position

small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency