The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
Part 8 out of 8
SPI'RITUAL, _a._ that which regards divinity; that which regards the
soul; not temporal
SPLE'NDID, _a._ showy; magnificent; pompous
STABI'LITY, _s._ steadiness; strength to stand
STA'GNANT, _a._ motionless; still
STA'GNATE, _v.a._ lie motionless; have no stream
STA'NDARD, _s._ an ensign in war; a settled rate
STA'RLING, _s._ a bird that may be taught to whistle, and articulate
words
STA'TESMAN, _s._ a politician; one employed in public affairs
STA'TION, _v.a._ place in a certain post or place
STA'TUE, _s._ an image; solid representation of any living being
STA'TURE, _s._ the height of any animal
STE'RIL, _a._ barren; unfruitful
STO'IC, _s._ an ancient philosopher of a particular sect, that met under
the _Stoa_ or portico of the temple
STO'ICAL, _a._ pertaining to the Stoics
STRA'TAGEM, _s._ an artifice in war; a trick by which some advantage is
gained
STRU'CTURE, _s._ building; form
STRU'GGLE, _v.n._ labour; strive; contend
STU'DENT, _s._ a bookish man; a scholar
STUPE'NDOUS, _a._ wonderful; amazing; astonishing
STU'PIFY, _v.a._ make stupid; deprive of sensibility
SUB-DIVI'DE, _v.a._ to divide a part into more parts
SUBDIVI'SION, _s._ the act of subdividing; the parts distinguished by a
second division
SUBDU'E, _v.a._ crush; oppress; conquer; tame
SUB'JECT, _s._ one who lives under the dominion of another; that on
which any operation is performed
SUBME'RGE, _v.a._ to put under water; to drown
SUBMI'SSIVE, _a._ humble
SU'BSEQUENT, _a._ following in train
SUBSI'STENCE, _s._ competence; means of supporting life; inherence in
something else
SU'BSTANCE, _s._ something real, not imaginary; wealth; means of life
S'UBSTITUTE, _s._ one placed by another to act with delegated power
SUBTERRA'NEOUS, _a._ living under the earth
SUBVE'RSION, _s._ overthrow; ruin
SU'CCEED, _v.a._ follow; prosper
SUCCE'SSFUL, _a._ prosperous; happy; fortunate
SUCCE'SSION, _s._ a series of persons or things following one another; a
lineage
SU'CCOUR, _s._ aid; assistance; help in distress
SU'CCULENT, _a._ juicy; moist
SU'DDEN, _a._ coming unexpectedly; hasty; violent
SU'FFER, _v.a._ bear; undergo; endure; permit
SUFFI'CE, _v.n._ be enough; be sufficient; be equal to the end, or
purpose
SUFFI'CE, _v.a._ afford; supply; satisfy
SUFFI'CIENT, _a._ equal to any end or purpose
SU'LLY, _v.a._ spoil; tarnish; dirty; spot
SU'LTRY, _a._ hot and close
SU'MMON, _v.a._ call up; raise; admonish to appear
SU'MPTUOUS, _a._ costly; expensive; splendid
SUPE'RB, _a._ grand; pompous; lofty; magnificent
SUPERINCU'MBENT, _a._ lying on the top of something else
SUPERINDU'CE, _v.a._ bring in as an addition to something else
SUPERINTE'NDENCE, _s._ superior care; the act of overseeing with
authority
SUPERINTEN'DENT, _s._ one who overlooks others authoritatively
SUPE'RIOR, _a._ higher; greater in dignity or excellence; preferable;
upper
SUPERIO'RITY, _s._ pre-eminence; the quality of being greater or higher
than another
SUPERSE'DE, _v.a._ make void by superior power
SUPERSTI'TIOUS, _a._ full of idle fancies or scruples with regard to
religion
SUPPLY', _v.n._ fill up a deficiency; yield; afford; accommodate;
furnish
SUPPLY', _s._ relief of want; cure of deficiencies
SUPPO'RT, _s._ act or power of sustaining; prop
SUPPO'RT, _v.a._ sustain; prop; endure
SUPPO'SE, _v.a._ admit without proof; imagine
SU'RFACE, _s._ superficies; outside
S'URPLUS, _s._ overplus; what remains when use is satisfied
SURROU'ND, _v.a._ environ; encompass; enclose on all sides
SURVE'Y, _v.a._ view as examining; measure and estimate land; overlook
SUSCE'PTIBLE, _a._ capable of anything
SUSPI'CION, _s._ the act of suspecting; imagination of something ill
without proof
SWA'LLOW, _v.n._ take down the throat; take in
SY'CAMORE, _s._ a tree
SY'COPHANT, _s._ tale-bearer
SY'MMETRY, _s._ adaptation of parts to each other; proportion; harmony
SY'MPHONY, _s._ harmony of mingled sounds
SY'NAGOGUE, _s._ a Jewish place of worship
SY'STEM, _s._ any combination of many things acting together
SYSTEMA'TIC, _a._ methodical; written or formed with regular
subordination of one part to another
TA'BLET, _s._ a small level surface; a surface written on or painted
TA'BULAR, _a._ set in the form of tables or synopses
TA'CTICS, _s._ the art of ranging men on the field of battle
TA'FFETA, _s._ a thin silk
TA'NKARD, _s._ a large vessel with a cover for strong drink
TA'PER, _v.n._ grow gradually smaller
TA'TTOO, _v.a._ mark by staining on the skin
TA'WDRY, _a._ meanly showy; showy without elegance
TA'XATION, _s._ the act of loading with taxes; accusation
TE'CHNICAL, _a._ belonging to the arts; not in common or popular use
TE'LESCOPE, _s._ a long glass by which distant objects are viewed
TEA'CHER, _s._ one who teaches; an instructor
TE'MPERANCE, _s._ moderation in meat and drink; free from ardent passion
TE'MPERATE, _a._ moderate in meat and drink; free from ardent passion;
not excessive
TE'MPERATURE, _s._ constitution of nature; degree of any qualities;
moderation
TE'MPLE, _s._ a place appropriated to acts of religion; the upper part
of the sides of the head
TE'MPORAL, _a._ measured by time secular; not spiritual
TEMPTA'TION, _s._ the act of tempting
TENA'CITY, _s._ adhesion of one part to another
TE'NDENCY, _s._ direction or course toward any place, object, inference,
or result
TE'NDER, _a._ soft; sensible; delicate; gentle; mild; young; weak, as
_tender_ age
TE'NDRIL, _s._ the clasp of a vine or other climbing plant
TE'NEMENT, _s._ anything held by a tenant
TENU'ITY, _s._ thinness; smallness; poverty
TE'RMINATE, _v.n._ have an end; be limited; end
TERMINA'TION, _s._ the end
TERRE'STRIAL, _a._ earthly
TE'RRIBLE, _a._ dreadful; formidable; causing fear
TE'RRIER, _s._ a kind of dog
TE'RRITORY, _s._ land; country
TE'RROR, _s._ fear communicated; fear received; the cause of fear
TE'XTURE, _s._ the act of weaving; a web; a thing woven; combination of
parts
THE'REFORE, _ad._ for this reason; consequently
THOU'SAND, _a._ or _s._ the number of ten hundred
TIDE, _s._ time; alternate ebb and flow of the sea
TI'MID, _a._ fearful; wanting courage
TI'MOROUS, _a._ fearful; terrified; susceptible of fear; capable of
being frightened
TI'TLE, _s._ a general head comprising particulars; an appellation of
honour; claim of right; the first page of a book, telling its name,
and generally its subject
TO'CSIN, _s._ an alarm-bell
TO'RPID, _a._ motionless; sluggish
TO'RTURE, _s._ torments judicially inflicted; pain by which guilt is
punished, or confession extorted
TO'RTURE, _v.a._ punish with tortures; torment
TOUR, _s._ (pronounced _toor_) a journey for pleasure
TOU'RIST, _s._ one who travels for pleasure
TO'WARD, _prep._ in a direction to; near to
TOW'ER, _s._ high building; fortress; an elevation
TRADI'TIONAL, _a._ delivered by tradition
TRA'GEDY, _s._ any mournful or dreadful event
TRA'GIC, _a._ mournful, calamitous
TRA'GI-CO'MEDY, _s._ a drama compounded of merry and serious things
TRAIN, _v.a._ draw along; entice; educate
TRA'NQUIL, _a._ quiet; peaceful
TRANQUI'LLITY, _a._ quietness; peace; freedom from trouble or annoyance
TRANSA'CT, _v.a._ manage; negotiate; perform
TRANSA'CTION, _s._ negotiation; management
TRA'NSIENT, _a._ short; momentary
TRANSI'TION, _s._ removal; passage from one to another; change
TRANSMI'T, _v.a._ send from one place to another
TRANSPA'RENT, _a._ clear; translucent
TRA'VEL, _s._ journey; labour; toil
TRA'VEL, _v.n._ make travels; move; go
TRA'VERSE, _v.a._ to cross; to lay athwart; to cross by way of
opposition; to wander over
TREA'CHEROUS, _a._ faithless; guilty of deserting or betraying
TREA'CHERY, _s._ perfidy; breach of faith
TREA'SURER, _s._ one who has the care of money; one who has the charge
of treasure
TRE'LLIS, _s._ a structure of iron, wood, or osier, the parts crossing
each other like a lattice
TREME'NDOUS, _a._ dreadful; horrible
TRE'MOUR, _s._ the state of trembling or quivering
TRE'MULOUS, _a._ trembling; fearful; quivering
TREPIDA'TION, _s._ fear; terror; hurry; confused haste; terrified flight
TRI'ANGLE, _s._ a figure of three angles
TRIBU'NAL, _s._ the seat of a judge; a court of justice
TRI'BUTE, _s._ payment in acknowledgment; subjection
TRI'PLE, _a._ threefold; treble
TRI'UMPH, _s._ victory; conquest
TRIU'MPHANT, _a._ victorious; celebrating a victory
TRO'PHY, _s._ something shown or treasured up in proof of victory
TRO'UBLE, _v.n._ disturb; afflict; tease; disorder
TRU'NCATE, _v.a._ maim; cut short
TRU'NNIONS, _s._ the knobs or bunchings of a gun, that bear it on the
checks of a carriage
TUBE, _s._ a pipe; a long hollow body
TU'BULAR, _a._ resembling a pipe or trunk
TUMU'LTUOUS, _a._ uproarious; noisy
TU'NIC, _s._ part of the Roman dress, natural covering; tunicle
TU'NNEL, _s._ funnel; shaft of a chimney; passage underground
TU'RBAN, _s._ the covering worn by the Turks on their heads
TU'RPITUDE, _s._ shamefulness; baseness
TY'RANNY, _s._ severity; rigour
TY'RANT, _s._ an absolute monarch governing imperiously; a cruel and
severe master; an oppressor
U'LTIMATE, _a._ intended as the last resort
UNABA'TED, _part._ not lessened in force or intensity
UNACCOU'NTABLE, _a._ not explicable; not to be solved by reason; not
subject
UNA'LTERABLE, _a._ unchangeable; immutable
UNAPRROA'CHED, _a._ inaccessible
UNAWA'RE, _ad._ unexpectedly; without thought
UNCE'RTAINTY, _s._ want of certainty; inaccuracy
UNCHA'NGEABLE, _a._ not subject to variation
UNCO'MFORTABLE, _a._ affording no comfort; gloomy
UNCU'LTIVATED, _a._ not instructed; uncivilised
UNDAU'NTED, _a._ unsubdued by fear; not depressed
UNDERGO', _v.a._ suffer; sustain; support
UNDERMI'NE, _v.a._ to excavate under
UNDIMI'NISHED, _a._ not to be lessened; incapable of being lessened
UNDISCO'VERED, _a._ not seen; not found out
UNDISTI'NGUISHABLE, _a._ not to be distinguished
UNFO'RTUNATE, _a._ unsuccessful; unprosperous
U'NIFORM, _a._ conforming to one rule; similar to itself
UNIFO'RMITY, _s._ conforming to one pattern
UNINHA'BITABLE, _a._ unfit to be inhabited
UNINI'TIATED, _part._ ignorant of; not conversant with
UNIVE'RSAL, _s._ the whole
U'NIVERSE, _s._ the general system of things
UNJU'STIFIABLE, _a._ not to be defended
UNMO'ULTED, _part._ unchanged in feather
UNPA'LATEABLE, _a._ nauseous, disgusting
UNRETA'LIATED, _part._ unreturned, applied to injuries
UNSA'Y, _v.a._ retract; deny what has been said
UNSUCCE'SSFUL, _a._ not having the wished event
UNSWA'THE, _v.a._ unbandage
UNVI'TIATED, _part._ pure; not defiled
UNWIE'LDY, _a._ unmanageable; not easily moving, or moved
URGE, _v.a._ press; incite; provoke; solicit
U'SHER, _s._ an under-teacher; one whose business it is to introduce
strangers, or walk before a person of high rank
UTE'NSIL, _s._ an instrument for any use, such as the vessels of the
kitchen, or tools of a trade
VALE'RIAN, _s._ a plant
VA'LLEY, _s._ low ground; a hollow between two hills
VA'LUABLE, _a._ precious; worthy
VA'LUE, _s._ price; worth; rate
VAN, _s._ the front of an army; the first line
VANI'LLA, _s._ a plant, the fruit of which is used to scent chocolate
VA'NISH, _v.n._ lose perceptible existence; disappear; be lost; pass
away
VA'RIANCE, _s._ discord; disagreement
VA'RIEGATE, _v.a._ diversify; stain with different colours
VA'RIOUS, _a._ different; several; diversified
VA'RY, _v.a._ change; change to something else
VA'TICAN, _s._ the palace of the Pope at Rome
VEGETA'TION, _s._ the power of producing the growth of plants
VEGETA'TIVE, _a._ having the power to produce growth in plants
VE'HICLE, _s._ a conveyance
VE'NERABLE, _a._ old; to be treated with reverence
VE'NISON, _s._ game; the flesh of deer
VENTILA'TION, _s._ the act of fanning
VENTILA'TOR, _s._ an instrument contrived to supply close places with
fresh air
VE'NTURE, _v.n._ dare; run hazard; engage in
VE'RIFY, _v.n._ justify against the charge of falsehood; confirm; to
prove true
VE'RILY, _ad._ in truth; certainly
VE'SSEL, _s._ any capacity; anything containing; the containing parts of
an animal body
VESU'VIUS, _s._ a burning mountain near Naples
VICI'NITY, _s._ nearness; state of being near
VICI'SSITUDE, _s._ regular change; revolution
VI'CTIM, _s._ sacrifice; something destroyed
VI'CTORY, _s._ conquest; triumph
VI'GIL, _s._ watch; a fast kept before a holiday
VI'GOROUS, _a._ full of strength and life
VI'GOROUSLY, _ad._ energetically; forcibly; with force; without weakness
VI'LLAGE, _s._ a small collection of houses
VI'NDICATE, _v.a._ justify; clear; assert; revenge
VI'NTAGE, _s._ the produce of the vine for the year; the time in which
grapes are gathered
VI'OLATION, _s._ infringement of a law
VI'OLENT, _a._ forcible; unseasonably vehement
VI'PER, _s._ a serpent; anything mischievous
VI'PERINE, _a._ belonging to a viper
VI'RULENT, _a._ poisonous; venomous; poisoned in the mind; malignant
VI'SIBLE, _a._ perceptible by the eye; apparent
VI'SION, _s._ sight; the faculty of seeing; the act of seeing; a
supernatural appearance; a spectre; a phantom; a dream; something
shown in a dream
VI'SUAL, _a._ using the power of sight
VI'TIATE, _v.a._ deprave; spoil; make less pure
VOLCA'NO, _s._ a burning mountain
VO'TARY, _s._ one devoted, as by a vow, to any particular service,
worship, study, or state of life
VU'LTURE, _s._ a large bird of prey
WA'NTONLY, _ad._ sportively; carelessly
WEA'PON, _s._ an instrument of offence; something with which one is
armed to hurt another
WI'LDERNESS, _s._ a desert
WI'STFUL, _a._ attentive; earnest; full of thought
WO'NDERFUL, _a._ admirable; strange; astonishing
WO'RSHIP, _v.a._ adore; honour; venerate
ZEST, _s._ relish
ZOOLO'GICAL, _a._ that which relates to animals
THE END.
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