Besiege - Blather

• BESIEGE - To surround with hostile forces, to pester.

• BESTIAL - Barbaric, like an animal.

• BESTOW - To confer.

• BETENOIRE - Thing or person that is disliked.

• BETROTH - To promise to give in marriage.

• BEVEL - A slant or inclination of a surface.

• BEVY - A company or flock ( of ladies ).

• BIBLIOPHILE - Person who collects books or is fond of books.

• BICAMERAL - Having two chambers.

• BIENNIAL - Happening once in 2 years.

• BIGOTRY - Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race or religion.

• BILIOUS - Bad-tempered, irritable.

• BILK - To cheat.

• BIVOUAC - A temporary encampment often in an unsheltered area.

• BIZZARE - Strange look.

• BLANDISHMENT - Flattery.

• BLASE - Bored, Unconcerned.

• BLASPHEMOUS - Impious.

• BLATANT - Unpleasantly loud and noisy.

• BLATHER - Chatter foolishly.

Beholden - Beseech

• BEHOLDEN - Bound in gratitude.

• BEHOOVE - Necessary.

• BELABOR - To assail verbally.

• BELATED - Out of date.

• BELEAGUER - To lay siege.

• BELLESLETTRES - Polite or elegant literature.

• BELLICOSE - Warlike.

• BELLIGERENT - Aggressive.

• BENEDICTION - Blessings.

• BENEFACTOR - Person who confers benefit.

• BENEFICENCE - Kindness, charity.

• BENEFICIARY - Recipient.

• BENEVOLENT - Characterized by kindness and concern for others.

• BENIGN - Showing gentleness, mildness.

• BENISON - Blessings.

• BEQUEATH - Endow, to leave by will.

• BERATE - To scold.

• BEREAVEMENT - Loss of death of a relative or friend.

• BERSERK - Destructively or frenetically violent.

• BESEECH - To entreat, to request earnestly.

Bard - Behemoth

• BARD - A strolling minstrel.

• BAROQUE - Elaborately and heavily ornamented.

• BARON - Member of lowest order of British nobility.

• BARRAGE - Artificial bar across the river.

• BARRISTER - Advocate in higher court.

• BARTENDER - One who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.

• BASK - Lie in the sunshine.

• BASSOON - A musical instrument.

• BASTION - A projecting part of the fortification.

• BATE - Wait anxiously.

• BATHOS - An anticlimax.

• BAUBLE - A child's plaything.

• BAWDY - Vulgar.

• BEATIFIC - Blissful.

• BECOMING - Appropriate, fitting.

• BEDIZEN - To dress gaudily.

• BEDRAGGLE - Drench, soak.

• BEFUDDLE - Confuse, muddle, baffle.

• BEGRUDGE - To envy, to grudge.

• BEHEMOTH - Huge, gigantic.

Babble - Barbarian

• BABBLE - Murmur.

• BACCHANALIAN - Drunken.

• BADGER - Harass.

• BADINAGE - Humorous.

• BAFFLE - Confuse, perplex.

• BAGATELLE - Trinket.

• BAILIWICK - Area of Interest.

• BAIT - Temptation.

• BALK - Refuse to go on, thwart.

• BALLADEER - Singer or composer of Ballads.

• BALLISTICS - The science of projectiles.

• BALLYHOO - Noisy propaganda.

• BALMY - Pleasant.

• BANAL - Trite, common place.

• BANDANNA - Silk or cotton colored handkerchief.

• BANDY - To toss back n forth.

• BANE - A deadly poison, destructive.

• BANTER - To make fun of, playful.

• BARB - Bristle.

• BARBARIAN - An uncultured person, uncivilized.

Authoritarian - Azure

• AUTHORITARIAN - Setting authority above freedom.

• AUTOCRACY - An absolute government by one person.

• AUTOMATION - Without Intelligence.

• AUTONOMOUS - Self-governing.

• AUTOPSY - Post-Mortem, examination of dead body.

• AUXILIARY - Supplementary, secondary.

• AVARICE - Greed for wealth.

• AVER - To declare positively.

• AVERSE - Disinclined.

• AVERT - To prevent.

• AVIARY - Large cage for keeping Birds.

• AVID - Greedy.

• AVOCATION - An activity in addition to regular work.

• AVOW - To declare.

• AVUNCULAR - Regarded as characteristic of an Uncle.

• AWE - Amazement.

• AWRY - Distorted, crooked.

• AXIOM - An Universally accepted principle.

• AZURE - Faint blue, sky-colored.

Asylum - Authenticate

• ASYLUM - An institute that provides care n shelter.

• ATAVISM - The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.

• ATELIER - Workshop, artist studio.

• ATHWART - Side to side, transversely.

• ATONE - Repent.

• ATROCIOUS - Very Bad, unpleasant.

• ATROCITY - Heinous act, wicked act.

• ATROPHY - Waste away.

• ATTACHE - A person appointed to an ambassador's staff.

• ATTENUATE - To reduce in strength.

• ATTEST - To testify, bear witness.

• ATTRIBUTE - Assign.

• ATTRITION - Wearing down.

• AUDACIOUS - Bold.

• AUGMENT - To increase.

• AUGURY - Divination.

• AUGUST - Grand, Majestic.

• AUSCULTATION - The act of listening to internal organ sounds.

• AUSTERE - Without luxury. eg. austere life.

• AUTHENTICATE - To prove genuine.

Ascribe - Asunder

• ASCRIBE - To attribute to a cause.

• ASININE - Absurd.

• ASKANCE - Sideways.

• ASKEW - Crooked, awry.

• ASPERITY - Harshness of manner.

• ASPERSION - Damaging remark, slander.

• ASPIRE - Desire.

• ASSAIL - To attack.

• ASSAY - An analysis.

• ASSENT - To express agreement.

• ASSESSMENT - Appraisal.

• ASSIDUOUS - Hard-working.

• ASSIMILATE - Digest.

• ASSUAGE - To soften, mitigate.

• ASTEROID - Small planets that revolve around Sun between the orbit Mars and Jupiter.

• ASTIGMATISM - A defect in an eye.

• ASTRAL - Belonging to stars.

• ASTRINGENT - Acidic, caustic.

• ASTUTE - Intelligent, shrewd.

• ASUNDER - Into separate parts n pieces.
  

Archetype - Ascetic

• ARCHETYPE - Original pattern.

• ARCHIPELAGO - Group of Islands.

• ARCHIVES - Repository of public records.

• ARCHIVIST - Person who maintains archives.

• ARDUOUS - Laborious, Hard work.

• ARID - Dry, barren.

• ARMADA - Fleet of warships.

• AROMATIC - Fragrant.

• ARRAIGN - Indictment.

• ARRANT - Notorious.

• ARRAY - Order, arrangement.

• ARREARS - Unpaid debt.

• ARROGATE - To claim for oneself.

• ARROYO - Dry watercourse.

• ARTICULATE - To speak clearly n distinctly.

• ARTIFACTS - Object shaped by human craft.

• ARTIFICE - Machination.

• ASCENDANCY - Dominating influence.

• ASCERTAIN - Verify, certify.

• ASCETIC - Person who lives life of austerity.
  

Appellation - Archaic

• APPELLATION - Name attached to a particular person.

• APPEND - To attach, to add.

• APPOSITE - To the purpose.

• APPRAISE - To estimate the worth.

• APPREHEND - To arrest.

• APPRISE - To inform.

• APPROBATION - An act of support or endorsement.

• APPROPRIATE - Proper, suitable.

• APPURTENANCES - Accessory.

• APROPOS - In reference to/with.

• AQUILINE - Hooked like eagle's beak.

• ARABLE - Land fit for ploughing.

• ARBITER - Person who has absolute control.

• ARBITRARY - Capricious, Not bound by rules.

• ARBITRATE - Negotiate, intervene.

• ARBITRATOR - Person appointed to settle dispute.

• ARCADE - Archway, Covered passageway lined with shops.

• ARCANE - Secret.

• ARCHAEOLOGY - Study of human antiquities, discovered by excavation.

• ARCHAIC - Old-fashioned.

Antithesis - Appease

• ANTITHESIS - Thesis opposing another.

• APATHETIC - Unconcerned.

• APERTURE - An Opening or Hole.

• APEX - Summit.

• APHASIA - Inability to express thought in words.

• APHORISM - Adage, Pithy saying.

• APIARY - Place where bees are kept.

• APLOMB - Self-possession.

• APOCALYPTIC - Prophetic of disaster.

• APOCRYPHAL - Fictitious.

• APOGEE - Farthest point on orbit.

• APOPLEXY - Sudden loss of sensation and motion.

• APOSTATE - Person who has abandoned his religion.

• APOSTLE - The 12 disciples of Jesus.

• APOTHECARY - A druggist.

• APOTHEGM - Pithy saying, adage.

• APOTHEOSIS - Glorification.

• APPALL - To Horrify.

• APPARITION - Ghost.

• APPEASE - Pacify.

Anathema - Antipathy

• ANATHEMA - Abhorrence.

• ANCILLARY - Auxiliary.

• ANDIRONS - Iron rods to support end of logs in fire.

• ANIMADVERT - To take note.

• ANIMATED - Lively.

• ANIMOSITY - Strong dislike.

• ANNALS - Yearbooks.

• ANNEAL - Heat n Cool to toughen.

• ANNIHILATE - To put out of existence.

• ANNOTATE - To make Notes.

• ANNUL - Abolish, Cancel.

• ANODYNE - Medicine that allays pain.

• ANOINT - To smear with oil.

• ANOMALOUS - Irregular.

• ANONYMOUS - Lacking name.

• ANTAGONISTIC - Hostile, unfriendly.

• ANTECEDE - To go before in time.

• ANTEDILUVIAN - Old-fashioned.

• ANTHROPOID - Manlike.

• ANTIPATHY - Dislike.

Amend - Anarchist

• AMEND - To correct.

• AMIABLE - Friendly.

• AMICABLE - In friendly spirit.

• AMIGO - A friend or comrade.

• AMISS - Astray, wrongly.

• AMITY - Goodwill, friendly relation.

• AMNESIA - Loss of memory.

• AMNESTY - General pardon.

• AMORAL - Lacking Moral.

• AMOROUS - Strongly attracted to love.

• AMPUTATE - To cut off.

• AMUCK - Attacking anyone in its path.

• AMULET - A charm worn to ward off evil.

• ANACHRONISM - Something out of place and time.

• ANAEMIA - A pathological deficiency in the oxygen-carrying component of the blood.
  

• ANAESTHETIC - Substance Which produces insensibility to pain.

• ANAESTHETIST - Specialist in administration of anaesthetics.

• ANALGESIC - Causing insensibility to pain.

• ANALOGY - Resemblance of relations.

• ANARCHIST - An advocate of or a participant in anarchism.

Alliteration - amenable

• ALLITERATION - The recurrence of same initial sounds in words.

• ALLUDE - To refer without explicit mention.

• ALLURE - Entice, attract.

• ALLUVIAL - Soil deposited by rivers.

• ALOFT - On the top.

• ALOOF - Detached.

• ALTERCATION - Argument.

• ALTRUISM - Benevolence.

• ALTRUISTIC - Unselfish, regard for other people.

• ALUMNA - A former student or pupil.

• AMATEUR - A novice.

• AMALGAMATE - Combine to form one structure.

• AMAZON - Female warrior.

• AMBIDEXTROUS - Able to use both hands equally well.

• AMBIENCE - Surrounding Environment.

• AMBIGUOUS - Doubtful, having more than one possible meaning.

• AMBLE - To walk.

• AMELIORATE - To make better.

• AMEN - So let it be. ( Said at the End of prayer).

• AMENABLE - Agreeable.

Aggravate - Alleviate

• AGGRAVATE - To increase the gravity.

• AGHAST - Shocked.

• AGILE - Nimble, quick.

• AGILITY - Nimbleness.

• AGITATION - Turmoil, tumult.

• AGNOSTIC - who believes its impossible to know whether GOD exists.

• AGRARIAN - Pertaining to land, agriculture.

• ALACRITY - Promptness, eagerness.

• ALBEIT - Although.

• ALBINO - person with abnormal white skin and pink iris.

• ALCHEMY - Medieval chemistry.

• ALGA - The seaweeds and related plants.

• ALIAS - Assumed name.

• ALIBI - To make an excuse for oneself.

• ALIENATE - To become unfriendly or hostile.

• ALIMENTARY - Providing nourishment.

• ALIMONY - Allowance made to spouse after divorce.

• ALLAY - To calm, to alleviate.

• ALLEGORY - Symbol.

• ALLEVIATE - To mitigate, calm.

Aerialist - Aggregate

• AERIALIST - Trapeze artist, tightrope walker.

• AESTHETE - One who professes to have special appreciation of beauty.

• AESTHETIC - Artistic, exquisite.

• AESTHETICIAN - Person devoted to aesthetics.

• AESTIVAL - Pertaining to summer.

• AESTIVATE - Sleep during summer ( certain animals ).

• AFICIONADO - Fan of sport.

• AFFABLE - Friendly.

• AFFECT - To influence.

• AFFIDAVIT - Written declaration on Oath.

• AFFILIATE - To attach as a member or branch.

• AFFINITY - Attraction.

• AFFIRMATION - Assertion.

• AFFLUENCE - Abundance.

• AFFRAY - Brawl, fight.

• AGAPE - Very surprised.

• AGENDA - List of things to be done.

• AGGLOMERATION - Collection.

• AGGRANDIZE - Augment, increase.

• AGGREGATE - To gather into mass, Total.

Adjunct - Aeon

• ADJUNCT - Sub-ordinate.

• ADJURE - Command.

• ADJUTANT - A officer who assists superior officers by communicating orders.

• ADMONISH - To warn.

• ADNAUSEAM - To the point producing disgust.

• ADOBE - Sun-dried brick.

• ADORE - To worship, to love.

• ADORN - To decorate.

• ADROIT - Skillful.

• ADULATION - Praise.

• ADULTERATE - To debase by mixing substance.

• ADVENT - Arrival.

• ADVENTITIOUS - Additional.

• ADVERSARY - Enemy.

• ADVERSE - Opposed, unfavourable/unfavorable.

• ADVERSITY - Hardship, poverty.

• ADVERT - To refer, to turn one's attention.

• ADVOCATE - Lawyer.

• AEGIS - Shield, Patronage.

• AEON - Eternity.

Acme - Adjudicate

• ACME - Summit, highest point.

• ACOUSTICS - Related to sound, the sense of hearing.

• ACQUIESCENT - Accept without protest.

• ACQUIT - Declare not guilty, to free.

• ACRID - Pungent.

• ACRIMONIOUS - bitterness of language.

• ACRONYM - A word formed from the initial letters of other words.

• ACTUARIAL - Statistical techniques.

• ACTUATE - Motivate.

• ACUMEN - Shrewdness.

• ADAGE - Proverb, saying.

• ADAMANT - Hard, inflexible.

• ADAPT - Make oneself suitable.

• ADDLE - Muddle,confuse.

• ADDUCE - To bring forward, to cite.

• ADEPT - An expert, skilled.

• ADHERE - To stick.

• ADHESIVE - Sticky substance, glue.

• ADIPOSE - Of fat. eg. adipose tissue.

• ADJUDICATE - To act as judge.

Abut - Acknowledge

• ABUT - Lean upon, to adjoin.

• ABYSMAL - unfathomable

• ABYSS - Hole so deep that it seems to have no bottom

• ACCEDE - To agree

• ACCESSORY - Thing useful but not essential.

• ACCLIMATE - Accustom to new Climate.

• ACCLIVITY - Upward slope.

• ACCOLADE - Award, praise or honour/honor.

• ACCOMPANY - To associate, to join.

• ACCOMPLICE - Person who help in committing crime.

• ACCOMPLISH - Succeed.

• ACCORD - Agree.

• ACCOST - To approach and speak first.

• ACCOUTRE - Equip or dress up.

• ACCRETION - Continued growth.

• ACCRUE - Accumulate.

• ACERBITY - Bitterness.

• ACIDULOUS - Caustic.

• ACKNOWLEDGE - Express gratitude or thanks.

Abjure - Abstruse

• ABJURE - To give up on Oath.

• ABLUTION - Religious washing during ceremonies.

• ABNEGATION - Self-denial.

• ABOLISH - To put an end.

• ABOLITIONIST - Person who favours/favors abolition of a practice.

• ABOMINABLE - Detestable.

• ABOMINATE - To hate, to detest.

• ABORIGINE - Native inhabitant.

• ABORTIVE - Futile, unsuccessful.

• ABRADE - To wear away.

• ABRIDGE - To shorten.

• ABROGATE - To annul, to put an end.

• ABSCESS - Pus in the cavity.

• ABSCOND - To run away, escape.

• ABSOLVE - Acquit from crime,blame, to discharge.

• ABSTAIN - To refrain.

• ABSTEMIOUS - Characterized by self denial, as in the use of drink, food.

• ABSTINENCE - To restrain.

• ABSTRACT - Summary.

• ABSTRUSE - Confuse, difficult to understand.

Aaronic - Abject

1. AARONIC - Pertaining to Priesthood.

1. ASSVOGEL - South African Vulture.

1. ABACA - A Plantain grown in Philippine Islands.

1. ABACK - Taken by surprise.

1. ABADDON - Hell

1. ABANDON - To give up.

1. ABASE - To Humiliate, degrade.

1. ABASH - Embarrass.

1. ABATE - to subside.

1. ABBEY - A convent under an abbot or abbess.

1. ABBOT - Man head of monastery or abbey.

1. ABBREVIATE - To shorten.

1. ABDICATE - To give up or renounce.

1. ABDUCT - Kidnap.

1. ABERRATION - Deviation from normal behaviour/behavior.

1. ABETTOR - Partner in crime.

1. ABEYANCE - Suspended, inactivity.

1. ABHOR - Hate,detest.

1. ABHORRENT - Hateful, disgust.

1. ABJECT - Wretched poverty