aesthetic
1 use
Kosmos Who includes diversity and is Nature, ... Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual, Who ...
aesthetic = sense of what is beautiful
Definition
Generally aesthetic means:related to beauty or good taste — often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful
or:
beautiful or tasteful
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 4 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 1000 |
| 1st use | Chapter 24 |
apathy
1 use
alike in their apathy
apathy = lack of interest and enthusiasm
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 23 |
arbitration
1 use
...the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
arbitration = the process of solving a disagreement with the help of an impartial referee
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| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 0 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 10 |
candid
4 uses
1 —4 uses as in:
your candid opinion
fear not, be candid
candid = honest and direct
Word Statistics
| Book | 4 uses |
| Library | 4 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 500 |
| 1st use | Chapter 13 |
capricious
7 uses
Thy unsubduedness, caprices, wilfulness
caprices = impulsive acts
Definition
Generally capricious means:impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes — especially impulsive behavior
Word Statistics
| Book | 7 uses |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 3 |
complacent
1 use
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)
Definition
Generally complacent means:contented (unworried and satisfied) — often to a fault
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 3 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 1000 |
| 1st use | Chapter 3 |
conciliatory
1 use
extoller of hate and conciliation, Extoller of armies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
conciliation = actions intended to end bad feelings or build trust
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
Definition
Generally conciliatory means:intended to end bad feelings or build trust
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 3 |
countervail
3 uses
There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
countervails = neutralizes
Definition
Generally countervail means:to counterbalance, or oppose (the effects of something)—often in such a manner that the effects being opposed are neutralized (made ineffective)
Word Statistics
| Book | 3 uses |
| Library | 0 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 23 |
credulous
2 uses
I am the credulous man
credulous = too willing to believe
Definition
Generally credulous means:gullible (being too willing to believe)
Word Statistics
| Book | 2 uses |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 21 |
diversity
5 uses
Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,
diversities = varieties
Definition
Generally diversity means:the condition of variety — especially in reference to members of a population group who are of different races or cultures
Word Statistics
| Book | 5 uses |
| Library | 4 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 1000 |
| 1st use | Chapter 23 |
emulate
2 uses
I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
emulate = imitate
Definition
Generally emulate means:imitate (copy)
Word Statistics
| Book | 2 uses |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 16 |
guile
3 uses
Forth from their masks, ... from craft and guile and...
guile = cunning (shrewd, clever) and deceitful
Definition
Generally guile means:cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful
Word Statistics
| Book | 3 uses |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 8 |
indolent
3 uses
I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
indolent = slow and lazy
Definition
Generally this sense of indolent means:lazy; disinclined to work
Word Statistics
| Book | 3 uses |
| Library | 1 use in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 3 |
novel
1 use
I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,
And yet the same old human race, the same within, without,
Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
And yet the same old human race, the same within, without,
Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
novel = new and original
Definition
Generally this sense of novel means:new and original — typically something considered good
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 3 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 100 |
| 1st use | Chapter 13 |
Othello
1 use
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,
Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
And leave its odor there.
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,
Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
And leave its odor there.
Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
Definition
Generally Othello means:Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy (c. 1604)
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 1 use in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 34 |
pious
5 uses
1 —5 uses as in:
a good, pious woman
Something far away from a puny and pious life!
pious = behaving in a highly moral or religious manner
Definition
Generally this sense of pious means:religious or highly moral
Word Statistics
| Book | 5 uses |
| Library | 2 uses in 10 avg bks |
| SAT®* | top 1000 |
| 1st use | Chapter 23 |
rectify
1 use
Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
rectified = corrected or made right
Definition
Generally this sense of rectify means:correct, fix, or make right
Word Statistics
| Book | 1 use |
| Library | 1 use in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 3 |
strata
6 uses
Densities, growth, facades,
Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,
Eidolons everlasting.
Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,
Eidolons everlasting.
strata = layers
Definition
Generally strata means:layers
or:
levels, classes, or groups into which people or other things are divided
or:
levels, classes, or groups into which people or other things are divided
Word Statistics
| Book | 6 uses |
| Library | 1 use in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 1 |
succession (2 meanings)
2 meanings, 4 uses
1 —2 uses as in:
a succession of events
The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.†
The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.†
successions = series (one group after another)
Definition
Generally this sense of succession means:series or sequence (one after another)
Word Statistics
| Book | 2 uses |
| Library | 3 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 24 |
2 —2 uses as in:
presidential line of succession
I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,†
successions = people taking over the job or position of those who were there before them
Definition
Generally this sense of succession means:replacement — especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it
Word Statistics
| Book | 2 uses |
| Library | 3 uses in 10 avg bks |
| 1st use | Chapter 2 |