shoot
wax
develop
raise
prosper
gooden
flourish
mend
build
augment
boom
come on
improvement
burgeon
growability
pregrown
grow like a weed
accelerate
bush out
ingrow
-tropism
growable
accrescent
rocket up
bud
thrive
get up
growthful
expedite
gather
gain
grow up
seed
incubate
rise
accrue
work up
progress
ingrowth
efflorescent
run
kindle
multiply
fastgrowing
flourishingly
upbuild
-trophy
enlarge
advance
growthless
shoot up
embiggen
outgrow
grow
strengthen
development
balloon
proliferate
freshling
mushroom
overgrow
grow over
buildout
waxen
growingly
spring
supergrowth
expandingness
-physis
get ahead
readvancement
enhance
fly out
to age
expandingly
culture
bulk
making
growth
growing
get on
shooting
progression
expand
evolve
knit
cultivate
pregrown
growable
accrescent
growthful
efflorescent
fastgrowing
growthless
freshling
waxen
shooting
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growingly
expandingly
improvement
growability
wax
ingrowth
development
buildout
supergrowth
expandingness
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making
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growing
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wax
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raise
prosper
gooden
flourish
mend
build
augment
boom
come on
burgeon
grow like a weed
accelerate
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bud
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get up
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gain
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seed
incubate
rise
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mushroom
overgrow
grow over
spring
get ahead
enhance
fly out
to age
culture
bulk
get on
expand
evolve
knit
cultivate
verb
- To grow; to advance.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
verb
- To grow.
- To defeat utterly.
- To move from low tide to high tide.
- To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
noun
- The process of growing.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
- The phonograph record format for music.
adj
verb
- To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- To progress through a sequence of stages.
- To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- To place one's pieces actively.
- To change with a specific direction, progress.
- To create.
- To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
verb
- To bring up; to grow.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
verb
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- To thrive or grow well.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
noun
verb
- develop and grow
- make by combining materials and parts
- form or accumulate steadily
- build or establish something abstract
- improve the cleansing action of
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- give form to, according to a plan
- be engaged in building
- found or ground
- bolster or strengthen
noun
verb
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
intj
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
noun
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
verb
- To progress, to develop.
- Elaboration of come (in the sense of move towards the speaker or other focus), emphasising motion or progress, or conveying a nuance of familiarity or encouragement.
- To encounter, discover; to come upon.
- To be broadcast (through a device), or (of a broadcast) to begin playing.
- To appear on a stage or in a performance.
- To activate; to turn on.
- To enter the playing field.
- To show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions.
- To get one's period, start menstruating.
intj
noun
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- Something which is improved
- Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- Grow; increase.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
verb
verb
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To criticise.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
verb
- increase or develop
- obtain
- win something through one's efforts
- derive a benefit from
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- rise in rate or price
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- increase (one's body weight)
noun
verb
- To grow to maturity.
- To produce seed.
- To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
noun
- A fragment of coral.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- A precursor.
- An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- Any small seed-like fruit.
- Semen.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- Race; generation; birth.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
verb
- To develop.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- To develop.
- To expedite.
- To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- To improve; to become better or more complete.
noun
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
noun
verb
- To have growth or development.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
adj
suffix
verb
- To grow larger.
- To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- To make (something) larger.
verb
- develop further
- move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- increase or raise
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- cause to move forward
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- develop in a positive way
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- pay in advance
- move forward
- rise in rate or price
adj
noun
verb
- To grow strong or stronger.
- To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- To augment; to improve; to intensify.
noun
- The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- The building of such a project.
- Something which has developed.
- The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
verb
- To increase or expand rapidly.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
verb
noun
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
verb
- To grow taller or longer.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
noun
verb
noun
- a particular society at a particular time and place
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
- the raising of plants or animals
verb
- To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- To put or hold in bulk.
- To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
adj
noun
- A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- The major part of something.
- Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- Dietary fibre.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- Any huge body or structure.
adj
noun
noun
- Development, increase, evolution.
- A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- chord progression
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
verb
- grow vigorously
- extend in one or more directions
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- expand the influence of
verb
- To come into being; develop.
- To change; transform.
- Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
- Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause something to change or transform.
verb
- To grow together.
- To combine from various elements.
- To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
- To join closely and firmly together.
- To heal following a fracture.
- To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
noun
English words for 'To grow; to advance.'
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rainy weather
a commentator.
(not) anything
defection
member of parliament
imperishable
frivolity
chaste
to knit.
destructive
named for the city in North Carolina.
come on!
parsimonious
effeminate
disregarding
cowardly.
an idiot
violently
complicated
dull.