A substance or material such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
Cunning; tending toward indirect dealings; crafty.
To turn aside or away.
Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
The quality of being brief in duration.
A binary compound of bromine and some other element or radical.
(chiefly in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
A non-genuine article; a fake.
To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
To praise; to make high.
Prognostication; presage
A person who advocates an ideology, especially as an official or preeminent advocate.
A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
(grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
A repeating decimal.
One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue.
To leave out or exclude.
To adorn; to honour.
Trashy, trivial, of little value.
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.
A warning of a future event; an omen.
To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
To summarize or repeat in concise form.