| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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| (adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| aggravatingly | (adverb) in an aggravating fashion | - |
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| aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
| aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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| architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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| (noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
| bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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| brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
| (noun) people who are brave | - |
| (noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
| bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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| braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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| (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
| (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
| bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| caravan | (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: van |
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| (noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: train, wagon train |
| (verb) travel in a caravan | - |
| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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| caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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| contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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| cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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| crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
| craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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| craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
| cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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| craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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| depravation | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction |
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| deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| depraved | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: perverse, perverted, reprobate |
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| depravity | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: turpitude |
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| (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction |
| engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
| engraved | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: etched, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| extravagant | (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, exuberant, overweening |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
| extravagantly | (adverb) in a wasteful manner | Synonyms: lavishly |
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| (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: lavishly, richly |
| (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: abundantly, copiously, profusely |
| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
| extraverted | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
| (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
| (noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
| (noun) death of a person | - |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
| gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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| gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| gravely | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: soberly, staidly |
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| (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, seriously, severely |
| graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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| (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
| graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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| (noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
| gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| gravid | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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| (noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
| gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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| gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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| gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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| gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
| gravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: hydrometric |
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| gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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| gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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| (noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitationally | (adverb) with respect to gravitation | - |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
| gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
| (noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
| gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
| (noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
| heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intravenously | (adverb) in an intravenous manner | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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| (noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
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| (verb) resist bravely | - |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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| photogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: rotogravure |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure |
| (noun) printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods | - |
| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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| ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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| (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: harry |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste |
| ravaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, raped, sacked |
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| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: gush |
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, spout |
| (verb) participate in an all-night techno dance party | - |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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