| allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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| alleged | (adjective) declared but not proved | - |
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| (adjective) doubtful or suspect | Synonyms: so-called, supposed |
| allegedly | (adverb) according to what has been alleged | - |
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| allegement | (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegation |
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| aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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| beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
| (noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
| cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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| (noun) a funeral procession | - |
| degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
| degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
| (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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| eisegesis | (noun) personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas | - |
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| exegesis | (noun) an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) | - |
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| exegete | (noun) a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts) | - |
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| exegetic | (adjective) relating to exegesis | Synonyms: exegetical |
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| exegetical | (adjective) relating to exegesis | Synonyms: exegetic |
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| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| hegemon | (noun) a leading or paramount power | - |
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| hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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| integer | (noun) any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero | Synonyms: whole number |
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| jaeger | (noun) rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey | - |
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| legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| liege | (adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service | - |
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| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| (noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
| liegeman | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, vassal |
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| megestrol | (noun) a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma | Synonyms: megestrol acetate |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| protege | (noun) a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career | - |
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| protegee | (noun) a woman protege | - |
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| regency | (noun) the office of a regent | - |
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| (noun) the period of time during which a regent governs | - |
| regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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| (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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| (noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
| (noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
| (noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
| regent | (adjective) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler | - |
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| (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
| regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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| renege | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: revoke |
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| (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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| shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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| shmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: schmegegge |
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| siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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| solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
| spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| squeegee | (noun) T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows) | - |
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| (verb) wipe with a squeegee | - |
| underprivileged | (adjective) lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society | - |
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| unregenerate | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerated |
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| (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, stubborn |
| (adjective) unrepentant and incapable of being reformed | Synonyms: unreformable |
| unregenerated | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerate |
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| vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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| (noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
| vegetal | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetational, vegetative |
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| (adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetative |
| vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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| vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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| vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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| (verb) propagate asexually | - |
| (verb) grow like a plant | - |
| (verb) produce vegetation | - |
| (verb) establish vegetation on | - |
| (verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
| (verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |
| vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
| (noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
| (noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
| vegetational | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetative |
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| vegetative | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetive |
| (adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetal |
| (adjective) relating to involuntary bodily functions | - |
| vegetive | (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetative |
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| vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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