| abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
| (adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
| accept | (verb) consider or hold as true | - |
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| (verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: live with, swallow |
| (verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal | - |
| (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: consent, go for |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: have, take |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: assume, bear, take over |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: admit, take, take on |
| (verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: take |
| adapt | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: accommodate |
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| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adjust, conform |
| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| apt | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, pertinent |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, minded, tending |
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: clever |
| (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: liable |
| attempt | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attack |
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: break, ruin, smash |
| coapt | (verb) fit tightly and fasten | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: conglutinate |
| concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
| contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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| (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
| (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
| corrupt | (adjective) lacking in integrity | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: crooked |
| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupted |
| (adjective) touched by rot or decay | Synonyms: tainted |
| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: spoil |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| crypt | (noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) | - |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| equipt | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipped |
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| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| etanercept | (noun) a genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF; it is injected twice a week in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Enbrel |
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| eucalypt | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalyptus, eucalyptus tree |
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| except | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: demur |
| excerpt | (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerption, extract, selection |
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| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
| exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| inapt | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inept |
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| incorrupt | (adjective) free of corruption or immorality | - |
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| (adjective) not decayed | Synonyms: undecomposed |
| inept | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: feckless |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt |
| (adjective) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse | Synonyms: tactless |
| intercept | (noun) the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis | - |
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| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interrupt | (noun) a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out | - |
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| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| kempt | (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: tidy |
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| kept | (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unbroken |
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| manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
| nonexempt | (adjective) (of persons) not exempt from an obligation or liability | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) subject to taxation | Synonyms: taxable |
| nympholept | (noun) a person seized by nympholepsy | - |
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| opt | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, prefer |
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| percept | (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: perception, perceptual experience |
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| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| precept | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, teaching |
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| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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| (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prompt | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway |
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| (adjective) according to schedule or without delay; on time | - |
| (adjective) ready and willing or quick to act | - |
| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command | Synonyms: command prompt |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| rapt | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped |
| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| receipt | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: reception |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made | - |
| (verb) mark or stamp as paid | - |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| script | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, playscript |
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| (noun) a particular orthography or writing system | - |
| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, handwriting |
| (verb) write a script for | - |
| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| sept | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry |
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| subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
| superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
| swept | (adjective) possessing sweep | - |
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| tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
| (verb) try presumptuously | - |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) try to seduce | - |
| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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| typescript | (noun) typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript | - |
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| unkempt | (adjective) not neatly combed | - |
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| (adjective) not properly maintained or cared for | - |
| unkept | (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: broken |
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| unswept | (adjective) not swept or having sweep | - |
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| (adjective) not having been swept | - |
| windswept | (adjective) open to or swept by wind | - |
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