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abdomen
absolutory
abstemious
accent n.
accent v.
accessory
acclimate
acetic
acoustics
acumen
address n., v.
adept
adipose
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adobe
adult
adverse
advertisement
after
again
aged adj.
aggrandizement
agile
alabaster
albino
albumen
alkali
alkaline
allopathy
ally
alma mater
almond
alpaca
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altercation
alternate n., adj.
alternate v.
amateur
amen
amenable
ampere
anchovy
anemone
animalcule
antipodes
apotheosis
apparatus
apparent
appendicitis
apricot
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apron
apropos
aquiline
arbitrament
architect
archives
arctic
area
armada
asphalt n.
aspirant
assignee
attaché
audacious
automobile
avalanche
aye (in voting)
aye (always)
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bade
balcony
ballet
banana
banquet
basalt
bas-relief
baton
bayou
been
belles-lettres
beloved part.
beloved n., adj.
beneath
bequeath
bestial
bicycle
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biography
bissextile
bitumen
bivouac
blanc-mange
blessed part.
blessed adj.
boatswain
bombast
bonbon
bon ton
boudoir
boulevard
bouquet
bourn
bovine
bravado
bravo intj.
bravo n.
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brethren
brigand
brigantine
bromide
bromine
bronchitis
brooch
brusque
buoy
burro
cadaver
calcine
calliope
calm
caloric
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camelopard
candelabrum
canine
cantata
caoutchouc
caprice
caret
carmine
caricature
casement
cayenne
cement n.
cerebrum
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cerement
certain
chagrin
chaise
chamois
chaperon
chaps (the jaws)
charlatan
chasten
chastisement
chivalric
chivalrous
chloride
chlorine
chores
clematis
coadjutor
cocaine
coffee
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cognizance
cognomen
column
comatose
combat
combatant
commandant
comparable
compensate
comrade
concentrate
condolence
conduit
confidant
confiscate
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connoisseur
conservator
conspiracy
construe
consummate v.
consummate adj.
contemplate
contumely
conversant
coop
coral
coronal
cortége
costume
coterie
courteous
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courtier
cowardice
crematory
cuirass
cuisine
curator
cylindric
cynosure
dahlia
dais
Danish
data
datum
daunt
deaf
debauchee
débris
début
débutant
decade
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decadence
décolleté
decorative
decorous
defect
deficit
demoniacal
demonstrate
dengue
dénouement
depot
deprivation
derisive
desideratum
despicable
desquamation
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devastate
devastation
diamond
digitalis
diphtheria
diphthong
discourse
disfranchise
disputable
disputant
divan
docile
dolorous
domicile
dost
doth
douche
drama
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duodenum
dynamite
dynasty
eclat
economical
ecumenical
eczema
either
eleemosynary
élite
elm
embalm
employé
employee
empyrean
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encore
enervate
enfranchise
engine
ennui
entrée
envelope
epizoötic
epoch
equable
equation
equipage
equitable
ere
err
espionage
European
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evening
every
ewe
excursion
exemplary
exorable
expletive
expurgate
exquisite
extirpate
extol
extraordinary
façade
facile
fairy
falchion
falcon
faux pas
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febrile
fiancée
figure
finale
finance
financier
flaccid
florid
flotsam
folio
forbade
forehead
fortnight
franchise n.
fraternize
fratricide
fulsome
gala
gallant (polite)
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gallant (brave)
gantlet
gape
gastritis
gauntlet (a glove)
genealogy
generic
genre
genuine
geyser
ghoul
giaour
giraffe
glacier
gladiolus
gondola
government
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granary
gratis
greasy
grimace
guano
guardian
gubernatorial
gum arabic
harass
harem
hasten
haunt
hearth
heaven
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heroine
heroism
hiccough
history
holocaust
homeopathy
homogeneous
horizon
hostile
houri
hovel
humble
humor
hygiene
hymeneal
hypocrisy
idea
ignoramus
illustrate
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imbecile
imbroglio
incisive
incomparable
indecorous
indicatory
indisputable
indissoluble
industry
inexorable
inexplicable
infinitely
inquiry
integer
integral
interesting
interpolate
interstice
inveigle
inventory
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iodide
iodine
iron
irrefutable
irremediable
irreparable
irrespirable
irrevocable
isochronous
isolate
isotherm
italic
jaundice
jaunt
jocund
jowl
juvenile
kinetoscope
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knoll
kraal
lamentable
latent
laudanum
launch
laundry
lava
learned part.
learned adj.
legend
legged
leisure
lenient
lever
lichen
livelong
long-lived
lullaby
lyceum
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maintenance
malaria
mall (a walk)
mandamus
maniacal
maritime
massacre
massage
matrix
matron
mausoleum
memoir
meningitis
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mercantile
microscopy
miniature
mirage
mischievous
mistletoe
molecule
monomania
morphine
museum
mustache
naïve
naïveté
nape
national
negligee
neither
nephew
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nepotism
news
niche
nicotine
nominative
nuisance
obeisance
obese
obesity
obligatory
oblique
obscenity
occult
octavo
office
often
ogle
olden
oleomargarine
onerous
only
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onyx
opponent
orchestra
orchid
ordeal
orthoepy
oxide
pageant
panorama
pantomime
papier-maché
parent
paresis
parietal
parse
patent
pathos
patriot
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patriotic
patron
patronage
pecan
pedagogical
pedagogy
peremptory
perfect v.
perfect adj.
perfume n.
perfume v.
peritonitis
permit n.
permit v.
petal
phaeton
phalanx
pharmaceutic
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philanthropic
phosphorus
phthisis
pianoforte
piquant
placard
plait
platinum
plebeian
porcelain
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portrait
prairie
precedence
precedent n.
precedent adj.
precise
predecessor
preface n. and v.
prelate
prelude n.
presentation
prestige
pretense
pretext
pretty
pristine
probity
process
produce n.
profile
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programme or program
progress n.
promenade
pro rata
protégé
protestation
provocative
provost
prussic
psalms
puerile
put v.
pyramidal
pyrites
pyrotechnics
quadrille
quagmire
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quarrel
quay
query
quinine
qui vive
radish
raillery
rapine
raspberry
rather
ration
rational
rationale
recess
recluse
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recondite
reconnoissance
reconnoiter
recourse
recreant
recreate (to refresh)
re-create (to create anew)
refuse n.
refutable
régime
relaxation
remediable
renaissance
rendezvous
reparable
repartee
repertoire
reptile
reputable
requiem
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research
resource
respirable
respite n. and v.
résumé
retch
retrocede
retrograde
revocable
revolt
rise n.
rise v.
robust
romance
root
route
routine
sacrament
sacrifice n.
sacrifice v.
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sacrificable
sacrilege
sacristy
sagacious
said
saline
salivary
sanguine
sarsaparilla
satin
satire
satrap
satyr
saucy
saunter
scallop
scenic
schedule
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seismic
senile
sepulcher
sergeant
servile
sesame
sew
sheik
shekel
shew
shewn
shone
silhouette
simile
simultaneous
sinecure
sirup or syrup
skein
slake
sleek
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sloth
slough (a mire)
slough (to cast off)
sobriquet
soften
soirée
solder
solecism
sonorous
soot
soporific
sough
souvenir
sovereign
spheroid
spinach or spinage
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spirit
splenetic
squalid
squalor
stalwart
stanch
status
stereopticon
stereoscope
stereotype
stolid
strategic
stratum
strew
strychnine
student
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suave
suavity
subsidence
subtile (thin)
subtle (sly)
suffice
suite
superfluous
supple
survey n.
survey v.
suture
swath
sword
syllabic
synod
syringe
systole
tapis
tassel
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taunt
tedious
telegraphy
temperament
tenacious
tenet
tepid
tête-à-tête
thyme
tiara
tiny
tirade
to
tomato
tortoise
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towards
trachea
transparent
travel
traveler
traverse n., a., v.
treble
tremor
tribune
trio
tripartite
troche
trochee
troth
truculent
truths
tuberose
turquoise
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tuxedo
tyranny
ultimatum
umbilicus
umbrella
unprecedented
unwary
usurp
vaccinate
vaccine
vagary
valet
varioloid
vase
vehemence
vehement
venison
veratrine
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verdigris
vermicelli
vignette
vindicatory
violin
virile
virulence
virulent
vis-a-vis
viscount
visor
vivacious
vizier
volatile
wainscot
warrior
wary
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weapon
wont
wound
yew
yolk
youths
zenith
zodiacal
zoölogy
zymotic
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
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Acapulco
Aconcagua
Adriatic
Ægean
Afghanistan
Albuquerque
Altai
Altamaha
Antarctic
Antilles
Appalachian
Aral
Ararat
Arctic
Arequipa
Argentina
Argentine
Aryan
Asia
Atoll
Avon
Azores
Bahia
Baikal
Balearic
Balkan
Barbados
Baton Rouge
Beaufort
Benares
Bengal
Ben-Nevis
Bering (strait)
Boer
Bogota
Boise (city)
Bolivar
Bolivia
Bombay
Bosporus
Brahmaputra
Brazos
Bucharest
Budapest
Buddha
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Buenos Ayres
Butte
Cairo
Calais
Canton
Cape Breton
Caracas
Cardenas
Caribbean
Caucasian
Caucasus
Cavite
Cayenne
Cebu
Celebes
Ceylon
Chautauqua
Cheviot
Cheyenne
Chimborazo
Cienfuegos
Colorado
Costa Rica
Cracow
Des Moines
Dnieper
Dniester
Donegal
Dubuque
Dundee
Dwina
Edinburgh
Elbe
Elbruz
Elburz
Euphrates
European
Fezzan
Fiji
Filipino
Fiord or Fjord
Galveston
Garonne
Genoa
Ghent
Gila
Gloucester
Gobi
Granada
Greenwich
Guadalajara
Guam
Guatemala
Guayaquil
Guiana
Haiti or Hayti
Havre
Hawaii
Henlopen
Herculaneum
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Himalaya
Hindustan
Houston (Tex.)
Illimani
Iowa
Irkutsk
Java
Joliet (city)
Jungfrau
Kamchatka
Kashmir
Khartum
Kilauea
Kilimanjaro
Kronstadt
Ladoga
Ladrones
La Guaira
Lancaster
Laramie
Leicester
Leipsic
Leyden or Leiden
Lima
Lipari
Lisle
Lofoden
Louisville
Louvre
Lucerne
Luzon
Mackinac
Madrid
Malay
Manitoba
Maracaibo
Marmora
Mendocino
Milan
Mohave
Montana
Mont Blanc
Monterey
Moscow
Munich
Navajo
Negritos
Neuse
Nevada
Newfoundland
New Orleans
Nice
Niger
Ogeechee
Okefinokee
Oklahoma
Oneida
Oporto
Orizaba
Oswego
Ozark
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Palermo
Palestine
Pampas
Panama
Pará
Paraguay
Pasig
Passaic
Pedee
Pekin
Peking
Peru
Philippine
Pierre
Pompeii
Popocatepetl
Port Said
Poughkeepsie
Prussia
Pueblo
Pyrenees
Quito
Racine
Rainier
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande
Roanoke
Rochester
Russia
Saginaw
Sahara
Saint Augustine
Saint Gothard
Saint Louis
San Diego
San Joaquin
San Jose
Santa Fé
Santiago
Santos
Sault Sainte Marie
Seine
Seoul
Shoshone
Sierra Madre
Sierra Nevada
Sioux
Steppes
Strasburg
Stuttgart
Sudan
Suez
Sumatra
Syracuse
Tahlequah
Tahoe
Tanganyika
Tchad
Teheran
Tehuantepec
Terre Haute
Thames
Tien-Tsin
Tierra del Fuego
Titicaca
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Tocantins
Tokyo
Transvaal
Triest
Tripoli
Tucson
Tuskegee
Uruguay
Valparaiso
Venezuela
Venice
Vienna (Aus.)
Vistula
Vladivostok
Willamette
Worcester
Yazoo
Yenisei
Yokohama
Yosemite
Zambezi
Zante
Zurich
Zuyder Zee
BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES
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Æschines
Æschylus
Agassiz
Agesilaus
Alaric
Alcibiades
Alcott
Ali Pasha
Ampère
André
Anne
Anthony
Apelles
Archimedes
Aristides
Ayllon, de
Bach
Balfour
Balzac
Bartholdi
Beaconsfield
Blücher
Boadicea
Boleyn, Anne
Bolingbroke
Bowdoin
Buchanan
Burleigh
Cabot
Cambyses
Carlisle
Cartier
Cleopatra
C[oe]ur de Lion
Coleridge
Colfax
Coligni or Coligny
Constantine
Corneille
Cuvier
Disraeli
Doré
Dumas
Duquesne
Eiffel
Encke
Eric
Estaing, d'
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Farragut
Faust
Flammarion
Froebel
Froude
Galileo
Gama, da
Garibaldi
Gauss
Geikie
Goethe
Gounod
Grouchy
Guelph
Guizot
Gustavus
Gutenberg
Haeckel
Halstead
Hastings
Hegel
Hemans
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Houston, Sam
Joliet
Joule
Kaulbach
Lancaster
Lannes
Laplace
La Salle
Liddell
Liebig
Linnæus
Liszt
L'Ouverture
Maria Theresa
Marquette
Miltiades
Mirabeau
Moltke
Montagu
Montcalm
Montesquieu
Mosby
Moultrie
Mühlbach
Müller
Murat
Murillo
Ney
Oersted
Ohm
Pecci (Leo XIII)
Pestalozzi
Pinzon
Pizarro
Powhatan
Pythagoras
Réaumur
Reclus
Ribault or Ribaut
Richelieu
Rienzi
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Robespierre
Roosevelt
Rousseau
Schiller
Schopenhauer
Schurz
Secchi
Semiramis
Sigourney
Soult
Spinoza
Strabo
Stuyvesant
Thales
Titian
Tocqueville
Vasco da Gama
Vespasian
Vespucci
Warwick
Worcester
MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES
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Achilles
Adonis
Æneas
Æneid
Æsculapius
Alcestis
Alcyone
Amphion
Anchises
Aphrodite
Ascanius
Astyanax
Calliope
Cerberus
Charon
Chronos
Clio
Clytæmnestra
Dædalus
Dardanus
Delphi
Diana
Diomed
Euterpe
Ganymede
Hades
Hebe
Hecate
Hecuba
Hyades
Iphigenia
Isis
Laocoon
Lares
Lethe
Melpomene
Menelaus
Milo
Nemesis
Niobe
Orion
Osiris
Pegasus
Penates
Pleiades
Psyche
Saturn
Serapis
Telemachus
Terpsichore
Ulysses
Uranus
Zeus
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The weight of authority is for ȧ-sĕt´ĭk, though ȧ-sē´tĭk would distinguish this word from another word, ascetic, of different meaning.
[2] This expression has become thoroughly anglicized.
[3] There is a very close balance in the pronunciation of this word. Perry, Knowles, Cull, Goodrich, and Fyfe prefer ē´k[+o]-n[+o]m´ĭ-kal, while Cooley and Ayres prefer ĕk´[+o]-nŏm´ĭ-kal.
[4] For the pronunciation ī´thẽr and nī´thẽr there is no authority, either of analogy or of the best speakers. It is an affectation, and, in this country, a copy of a second-rate British affectation.—Richard Grant White.
[5] There is no more authority for prō´grŭm than there is for tĕl´[+e]-grŭm. Both are wrong
[6] By the authority of the President himself.