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Word: hackles

Definition: hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise


More Vocab Words

::: pretext - excuse
::: revert - relapse; backslide; turn back to; return to the former owner; N. reversion
::: censorious - severely critical
::: gargoyle - waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building
::: proviso - stipulation; condition in an agreement; provision
::: putrescent - becoming putrid; putrefying
::: peripatetic - walking about from place to place (to work); moving; Ex. peripatetic school of philosophy
::: residue - remainder; balance
::: intrepid - fearless
::: enormity - hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous