Sirocco

noun

   1. A hot wind, often dusty or rainy, blowing from North         Africa across the Mediterranean to southern Europe.

   The sirocco blows at regular intervals during May through       September.

High-handed

(High-handedly, High-handedness)

adjective

   1. Using power or authority without considering the             feelings of others.

   They oppose this cruel and high-handed takeover.

   Synonyms: imperious   Antonyms: modest

Recur

 (Recurring, recurred, recurrence, recurrent)

verb

   1. To occur again (event, experience, etc.)

   2. To return to mind (thought, image, etc.)

   3. To go back in speech or thought

   The idea kept on recurring.

   Synonyms: reoccur   Antonyms: halt

Larder

noun

   1. A room or cupboard for storing food; a pantry.

   2. A supply of food.

   But in a land so rich of game, they could easily restock      their larder.

   Synonyms: imperious   Antonyms: modest

Fervent

 (Fervently, Ferventness, Nonfervent, Nonfervently, Nonferventness, fervor)

adjective

   1. Having or showing  great warmth or intensity of spirit,       feeling, enthusiasm, etc.

   2. Hot; burning; glowing

   A fervent admirer.

   Synonyms: passionate   Antonyms: indifferent

Elicit

 (Elicitation, Elicitor, Nonelicited, Unelicited)

verb

   1. To draw or bring forth or out 

   2. To evoke

   The new show will elicit a lot of laughter.

   Synonyms: extract   Antonyms: give

Steadfast

adjective

   1. Fixed in a direction

   2. Firm in purpose, resolution, faith, etc. as a person

   3. Firmly established

   A steadfast friend

 Synonyms: unswerving   Antonyms: yielding

Authorize

 (Authorization, Authorized, Authorizing)

verb

   1. To give official power to

   2. To formally sanction

   Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.

   Synonyms: license   Antonyms: deny

Aureole

noun

   1. Any encircling ring or light or color

   2. A zone or altered rock around a igneous intrusion

   3. Halo

   The image or an angel was presented with an auleole.

 Synonyms: aura

Abyss

(Abysmal)

noun

   1. A deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity

   2. Anything profound or infinite

   the abyss of time

   Synonyms: void

Foment

(fomenter,fomented)

verb

   1. To investigate

   2. To promote the growth of

   3. To apply warm water, medicated liquid, ointments, etc.

   To foment trouble

   Synonyms: arouse   Antonyms: deter

Siphon

noun, verb

   1. (n.) A uneven conduit used to move a liquid from one         container to another

   2. (n.) A projecting tubing common in mollusks

   3. (v.) To draw or pass

   To siphon money from one account to the other

   Synonyms: funnel    Antonyms: replace

Torchbearer

noun

   1. One who carries a torch

   2. The leader of a campaign, movement, etc. 

   The torchbearer of democracy

Impassionated

(Impassionatedness, impassionatedly)

adjective

   1. Filled with intense feeling, passion

   The fans impassionatedly cheered him on

   Synonyms: ardent   Antonyms: dull

Profound

 (Profoundly, Profoundness)

adjective

   1. Penetrating into to the depths of one's being, subjects       or thought, knowledge, or what is obvious.

   a profound thinker

   Synonyms: philosophical   Antonyms: ignorant

Beeline

noun

   1. A direct pasth or route traveled quickly

   They made a beeline for the best seats

   Synonyms: shortcut 

Pensive

(Overpensiveness, Pensively)

adjective

   1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

   2. Expressing or revealing thoughtfulness

   a pensive mood

   Synonyms: meditative  Antonyms: thoughtless

Exult

(Exultant, Exultation)

verb

   1. To show or feel lively or triumpant joy

   They exulted over their victory

   Synonyms: delight   Antonyms: grieve

Cavil

(caviler, outcavil)

noun,verb

   1. (v.) To find fault unnecessarily

   2. (v.) To oppose by irrelevent objections

   3. (n.) A annoying or trivial objections or the objections       themselves

   He finds something to cavil everything I say

   Synonyms: carp   Antonyms: to support

Uproarious

(Uproariously, Uproariousness)

adjective

   1. Very loud, funny, etc.

   2. Characterized by state of uproar

   3. Confused and noisy

   an uproarious crowd

   Synonyms: tumultuous   Antonyms: calm

Hinterland

noun

   1. An area or sphere of influence unoccupied interior           claimed by the state possessing the coast

   2. An inland area supplying goods to a port

   The hinterlands are foreign to city dwellers

   Synonyms: metropolis   Antonyms: outback

Brood

 (Broodless, Unbrooded)

noun, verb, adjective

   1. (n.) A family of offspring

   2. (v.) To sit upon eggs waiting to hatch, as a bird

   3. (adj.) Kept for breeding

   4. (v.) To think or worry persistently on a subject or to       dwell on a subject

a brood hen

 Synonyms: litter  Antonyms: parent

Prim

 (Primly, Primness)

verb, adjective

   1. (adj.) Formally precise and proper

   2. (v.) To draw up the mouth in a precise way

   a prim host

   Synonyms: formal   Antonyms: flexible

Trample

 (Trampling, Trampled)

verb, noun

   1. To tread noisily, harshly, crushingly, heavily, etc.

   2. The act of trampling

   3. To domineer harshly over

   To  trample law and order

   Synonyms: crush   Antonyms: aid

Sluice

 (Undersluice, Sluicelike)

noun, verb

   1. (n.) An artificial channel for conduction water, often            a drain for surplus water. 

   2. (n.) The body of water held back by a sluice gate

   3. (v.) To drain or cleanse

   a sluice drained away any extra water

   Synonyms: flush