English Words & Origins
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Clue: Female supremacy
Clue: A ripple
Clue: An ancestor
Clue: Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic
Clue: To spend
Clue: Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system
Clue: Surmise
Clue: To utter in simple or childish talk
Clue: High in station, merit, or esteem
Clue: Abounding in irregular bends or turns
Clue: A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine
Clue: Farthest from the front
Clue: A print made by printing from stone
Clue: To praise in words or song
Clue: A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation
Clue: Of vast size or strength
Clue: A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines
Clue: To disseminate
Clue: A winding motion
Clue: A prominence
Clue: One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors
Clue: Having no fixed abode
Clue: To harass with persistent demands or entreaties
Clue: A young swan
Clue: An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface
Clue: The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain
Clue: Pertaining to war or military operations
Clue: Not easily roused to feeling or action
Clue: A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer
Clue: Shining
Clue: Unchanging and tedious
Clue: To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense)
Clue: Occurring or made at intervals of three months
Clue: Of or pertaining to the city of Paris
Clue: The office of a guardian
Clue: Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed
Clue: An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside
Clue: White or glowing with heat
Clue: Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color
Clue: Akin
Clue: A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein
Clue: To become or cause to become withered or dry
Clue: Indefinitely extensive
Clue: Not essential under the circumstances
Clue: To keep clear of
Clue: Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard
Clue: The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc
Clue: To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law
Clue: Fashionable
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