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or being; hence a nonentity is no thing or nothing. Often applied to a person or thing which counts for little or nothing.
9. Plus means more. Literally, a person is nonplused when he can do no more, or go no further; puzzled, confounded, embarrassed.
(It seems unnecessary to append definitions or illustrations to other words of the above list.)
#per# = through, thoroughly, by.
1. per ambul ate, walk 2. per ceive, take 3. per cent, hundred 4. per col ate, filter 5. per enni al, year 6. per fect, make 7. per for ate, bore 8. per form, form 9. per fume, smoke 10. per mit, let go 11. per plex, entangle 12. per secute, follow 13. per sist, stand 14. per vade, go 15. per vert, turn 16. per vi ous, way
1. To walk through or over. He got out of bed and perambulated the room for some minutes.
2. To take or obtain knowledge through the senses. To take with a thorough mental grasp; to understand.
3. By the hundred.
4. To pass through; as, a filter or strainer.
5. Lasting through the year, or through many years.
6. Thoroughly made; finished in every part; without blemish or defect.
7. To bore through; to make holes in; to pierce.
8. To form thoroughly; to execute, accomplish, or carry out.
9. "To perfume means literally to smoke thoroughly. Hence to impregnate or fill with scent or odor."--Kennedy.
10. By this permit we may go through the factory.
11. To entangle thoroughly. "Love with doubts perplexes still the mind."
12. To follow with persistence or thoroughness. To follow close after; specifically to afflict or harass on account of adherence to a particular creed. The early Christians suffered persecution.
13. To take a thorough stand; to continue steadily in some state or course of action; especially in spite of opposition.
14. To go through; to spread throughout the whole.
15. To turn in another direction; to turn thoroughly from a former course. "Blessings unused pervert into a waste."
16. Having a way through. "---- to have their way free and pervious to all places."
#clud, clus# = shut.
1. close 2. clos et, little 3. con clude, together 4. dis close, un 5. en close, in 6. ex elude, out 7. exclus ion, act of 8. in clude, within 9. pre clude, before 10. re cluse, back 11. se clude, aside 12. se clus ion, state of being
1. To shut.
2. A small side room in which, clothing and other articles are kept shut away from view.
3. To bring to an end. Literally to shut in or together (obsolete); as, "The body of Christ was concluded in the grave."
4. To un-shut; to open or uncover; to make known.
9. To put an obstacle before, or in the way of, in order to shut out; to prevent or hinder.
10. One who is shut up (or has shut himself back) from the world or public view.
11. To shut off or keep apart or aside, as from company or society.
#cor, cord# = heart.
1. core 2. cordial, relating to 3. con cord, with 4. cord ate, shaped 5. dis cord, apart 6. discord ant, being 7. re cord, again 8. cour age, having
1. The heart or innermost part of a thing; as the core of an apple.
2. Relating to the heart; hearty, sincere.
3. Heart with heart; hence unity of sentiment or harmony. "Love quarrels oft in concord end."
4. Heart shaped; as a cordate leaf.
5. Heart apart from heart; hence disagreement or want of harmony.
6. State of being out of harmony.
7. Record; through the Latin recordari, to remember (or know again). To get by heart; hence to register; to write or inscribe an authentic account of.
8. Having heart; hence bravery, calmness, firmness. (The heart is accounted the seat of bravery; hence the derivative sense of courage.)
#corpus, corpor# = body.
1. corpse 2. corps (pronounce core) 3. corpor al, relating to 4. corpu lent, full of 5. incorpor ate, make 6. corpus cle, small 7. corset 8. habeas corpus. You may have
1. The body only; hence a dead body.
2. A body of soldiers.
3. Relating to the body; as corporal punishment.
4. A corpulent person is fleshy; literally full of body.
5. To make into a body in the legal sense, so that a number of individuals may transact business legally as one person.
6. A small body; a minute particle.
7. In the middle ages, a close-fitting body garment, having sleeves and skirt.
8. Literally, you may have the body. A writ requiring the body of a person restrained of liberty to be brought into court that the lawfulness of the restraint may be investigated.
#cura, curo# = care.
1. cure 2. curable, capable of 3. curate, one who 4. curi ous, full of 5. mani cure, hand 6. ac cur ate, to 7. pro cure, for 8. se cure, aside
1. To take care of; to restore to health.
2. Capable of being cured or restored by