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Explanation, description, examples of the random words:
| 1 | Futility The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
loquaciousness; loquacity. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
to nothing; uselessness. |
| 2 | Aerographical Pertaining to aerography; aerological. |
| 3 | Duplicity Doubleness; a twofold state. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained
form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to
entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad
faith. The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers,
where one is sufficient. In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. |
| 4 | Roky Misty; foggy; cloudy. |
| 5 | Mythologist One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths. |
| 6 | Inspectorship The office of an inspector. The district embraced by an inspector's
jurisdiction. |
| 7 | Electrum Amber. An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by
the ancients. German-silver plate. See German silver, under German. |
| 8 | Grip The griffin. A small ditch or furrow. To trench; to drain. An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength
in grasping. A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of
a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic
grip. That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as,
the grip of a sword. A device for grasping or holding fast to something. To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe. |
| 9 | Traverse Lying across; being in a direction across something else;
as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Athwart; across; crosswise. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross
accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky
traverses not under his control. A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the
like. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a
church or other large building. A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse
fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the
opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words
introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without
this which follows. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing
from one place to another; a compound course. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a
transversal. A line surveyed across a plot of ground. The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any
desired direction. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles;
to obstruct; to bring to naught. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse
the habitable globe. To pass over and view; to survey carefully. To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point
in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as,
to traverse a board. To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged.
When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be
true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an
indictment or an office is to deny it. |
| 10 | Cutty A short spoon. A short tobacco pipe. A light or unchaste woman. |
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