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Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die 44 words

February 5, 2010 By Michael F. (Brooklyn, NY)Top 10 Word Lister
Some of the most challenging vocabulary words from Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die

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  1. archangel
    an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy
  2. astir
    on the move
  3. boar
    an uncastrated male hog
  4. bracken
    large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  5. capstan
    a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
  6. carcass
    the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
  7. comely
    according with custom or propriety
  8. crowbar
    a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  9. curdle
    turn from a liquid to a solid mass
  10. dapple
    a small contrasting part of something
  11. desecrate
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
  12. farrow
    the production of a litter of pigs
  13. fester
    ripen and generate pus
  14. frill
    ornamental objects of no great value
  15. geld
    cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
  16. gelding
    castrated male horse
  17. goiter
    abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet
  18. gullet
    the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  19. gumption
    fortitude and determination
  20. hanker
    desire strongly or persistently
  21. heave
    move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
  22. litter
    rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
  23. mirthful
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  24. mite
    any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
  25. noun
    a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
  26. ornery
    having a difficult and contrary disposition
  27. passel
    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  28. purchase
    obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
  29. quern
    a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
  30. rabies
    an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
  31. render
    give or supply
  32. rile
    cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  33. runt
    disparaging terms for small people
  34. scrawny
    being very thin
  35. sire
    male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
  36. sow
    place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
  37. stone
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  38. stud
    an upright in house framing
  39. sumac
    a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus)
  40. tomfoolery
    foolish or senseless behavior
  41. tribulation
    an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
  42. udder
    mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
  43. yoke
    support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
  44. yonder
    distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)