Sirocco 

(noun)

Other forms: siroccos

Definition: 1. a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and 

affecting parts of southern Europe.

2. a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, 

occurringin the same regions.

Syn: sandstorm, hot, dry  Ant: cold, moist

Analogy: wind : sirocco

Highhanded

(adj.)

Other forms: highhandedly, highhandedness

Definition: 

1. condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary

2. using power or authority without considering the feelings of others

^{Syn: authoritarian, overbearing}

^{Ant: democratic}

Analogy: highhanded : government

Recur

(verb)

^{Other froms: recurred, recurring, recurringly}

Definition:

^{1. to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.}

2. to return to the mind

3. to come up again for consideration, as a question

Syn: reapear, persist

Ant: halt, stop

Analogy: recur : déjà vu

Larder

(noun)

Other forms: none

Definition: 

1. a room or place where food is kept; pantry.

2. a supply of food

Syn: pantry, groceries

Ant: closet

Analogy: larder : kitchen

Fervent

(adj.)

Other forms: fervently, ferventness, nonfervent, nonfervently, nonferventness

Definition:

1. having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling,

enthusiasm

2. hot; burning; glowing

Ant: calm

Syn: ecstatic, impassioned

Analogy: happy : fervent

Elicit

(verb)

Other forms: elicitation, elicitor, nonelicited, unelicited

Definition:

1.to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke

2.to call forth or draw out

Ant: hide supress

Syn: bring out, evoke

Analogy: elicit : preach

Aureole

(noun)

Other forms: none

Definition: 

1. a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in there presentation of a sacred personage.

2. any encircling ring of light or color; halo

Ant: square

Syn: halo, circle

Analogy: aureole : angel

Steadfast

(adj.)

Other forms: steadfastly, steadfastness, oversteadfast, oversteadfastly

Definition:

1. fixed in direction; steadily directed

2. firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person

Ant: afraid, disloyal, pliable 

Syn: relentless, faithful, dedicated

Analogy: lawyer : steadfast

Authorize

(verb)

Other forms: authorizable, authorizer, deauthorize, deauthorized

Definition: 

1. to give authority of official power to.

2. to give authority for; formally sanction

Ant: reject, refuse

Syn: empower, enable

Analogy: President : authorize

Abyss

(noun)

Other forms: abyssinia, abyssinian

Definition: 

1. a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm

2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite

Ant: ending

Syn: depth, infinate

Analogy: abyss : black hole

Profound

(adj., noun)

Other forms: profoundly, profoundness, unprofound, unprofoundly

Definition:

1. penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge;

having deep insight or understanding

2. depth; abyss

Ant: light, open

Syn: deep, intellegent

Analogy: abyss : profound

Siphon

(noun, verb)

Other forms: siphonal, siphonic, siphonless, siphonlike

Definition:

1. a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a  liquid from one container into another.

2. to convey, draw, or pass through or as if through a siphon

Ant: none

Syn: drain, funnel, channel

Analogy: siphon : suction

Torchbearer

(noun)

Other forms: none

Definition:

1. a person who carries a ceremonial torch

2. a person who carries a torch

Ant: none

Syn: none

Analogy: torch : torchbearer

Impassioned

(adj.,verb)

Other forms: impassionedly, impassionedness, unimpassioned

Definition:

1. filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate

2. filled with or showing great emotion

Ant: dispassionate, apathetic

Syn: fierce, passionate

Analogy: participant : impassioned

Foment

(verb)

Other forms: fomenter, unfomented

Definition:

1. promote the growth ordevelopment of

2. to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (thesurface of the body)

Ant: discourage, bring down

Syn: incite, encourage

Analogy: help : foment

Beeline

(noun)

Other forms: beelined

Definition:

1. a direct route traveled quickly

2. a straight line between two places

Ant: long, around

Syn: shortcut, direct

Analogy: beeline : racer

Pensive

(adj.)

Other forms: pensively, pensiveness, overpensive

Definition:

1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by somesadness

Ant: uncaring, ignorant

Syn: thoughtful, dreamy

Analogy: pensive : lover

Exult

(verb)

Other forms: exultingly, self-exulting

Definition:

1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; behighly elated or jubilant

2. show or feel elation or jubilation, especially as the result of a success

Ant: be sad, mourn

Syn: rejoice, celebrate 

Analogy: happy : exult

Cavil

(verb, noun)

Other forms: caviler, cavilingly, outcavil

Definition:

1. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily

2. to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections

3. a trivial and annoying objection

Ant: necessary

Syn: unnecessary

Analogy: cavil : important

Uproarious

(adj.)

Other forms:

Definition:

1. characterized by or in a state of uproar

2. very funny, as a person or situation

3. very loud, as sounds or utterances

Ant: quiet, unfunny

Syn: noisy, wild

Analogy: crazy : uproarous

Brood

(noun, verb, adj.)

Other forms: broodless, unbrooded

Definition:

1. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of off spring or young

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

3. kept for breeding

Ant: mamal

Syn: offspring

Analogy: bird : brood

Hinterland

(noun)

Other forms: none

Definition:

1. the remote or less developed parts of a country

2. the land lying behind a coastal region

Ant: metropolis

Syn: outback

Analogy: town : hinterland

Prim

(adj., verb, noun)

Other forms: primly, primness, unprimmes

Definition:

1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior

2. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way

3. to make prim, as in appearance

Ant: untidy, informal

Syn: tidy, uncluttered

Analogy: organized : prim 

Trample

(verb, noun)

Other forms:

Definition:

1. to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp

2. to tread heavily, roughly, or crushingly

3. to tread heavily, roughly, or carelessly on or over

Ant: orderly, calmly

Syn: crush hurt

Analogy: injure : trample

Sluice

(noun, verb)

Other forms: sluicelike, undersluice, unsluiced

Definition:

1. an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate  (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.

2. to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice

Ant: flood, drown

Syn: channel, flume

Analogy: squirt : sluice