English Words & Origins
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Clue: To give a signal to, by nod or gesture
Clue: Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving
Clue: A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature
Clue: To make old or out of date
Clue: A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information
Clue: Escape
Clue: Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth
Clue: The science of poetical forms
Clue: The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current
Clue: Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle
Clue: That can not be altered or varied
Clue: That which is agreeable to a fine taste
Clue: A mule-driver
Clue: To increase in range or scope
Clue: Pregnancy
Clue: An elementary reading-book for children
Clue: To pollute
Clue: Ingenuous
Clue: To change in nature, substance, or form
Clue: A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt
Clue: an outpouring
Clue: A vehement or loud cry or clamor
Clue: One who earns his bread by manual labor
Clue: An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication
Clue: Premeditation
Clue: The quality of being grand or admirably great
Clue: A very wide-angled photographic lens
Clue: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity
Clue: Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness
Clue: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses
Clue: One’s line of ancestors
Clue: Easily broken
Clue: Sleeplessness
Clue: Well-balanced
Clue: Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession
Clue: An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment
Clue: The prevalent way or fashion
Clue: A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature
Clue: Profound devotion
Clue: Animal
Clue: Not fit or suitable
Clue: Exact
Clue: The quality of frankness or outspokenness
Clue: The galaxy
Clue: To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin
Clue: Thoughtless
Clue: One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class
Clue: A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb
Clue: To bring to ruin
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