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brine |
noun |
Water saturated with salt.
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pekel |
| 🔊 2 |
bristle |
noun |
One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
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regop staan |
| 🔊 3 |
Briticism |
noun |
A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
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Briticisme |
| 🔊 4 |
brittle |
adjective |
Fragile.
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bros |
| 🔊 5 |
broach |
verb |
To mention, for the first time.
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borsspeld |
| 🔊 6 |
broadcast |
adjective |
Disseminated far and wide.
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uitsending |
| 🔊 7 |
brogue |
noun |
Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
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grove skoen |
| 🔊 8 |
brokerage |
noun |
The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
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makelaars |
| 🔊 9 |
bromine |
noun |
A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
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broom |
| 🔊 10 |
bronchitis |
noun |
Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
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brongitis |
| 🔊 11 |
bronchus |
noun |
Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
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bronchus |
| 🔊 12 |
brooch |
noun |
An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
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speld |
| 🔊 13 |
brotherhood |
noun |
Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
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broederskap |
| 🔊 14 |
browbeat |
verb |
To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
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donder |
| 🔊 15 |
brusque |
adjective |
Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
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kortaf |
| 🔊 16 |
buffoon |
noun |
A clown.
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nar |
| 🔊 17 |
buffoonery |
noun |
Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
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grappenmakerij |
| 🔊 18 |
bulbous |
adjective |
Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
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bolvormige |
| 🔊 19 |
bullock |
noun |
An ox.
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bul |
| 🔊 20 |
bulrush |
noun |
Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
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biesie |
| 🔊 21 |
bulwark |
noun |
Anything that gives security or defense.
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skans |
| 🔊 22 |
bumper |
noun |
A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
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buffer |
| 🔊 23 |
bumptious |
adjective |
Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
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aanmatigend |
| 🔊 24 |
bungle |
verb |
To execute clumsily.
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verbroddelen |
| 🔊 25 |
buoyancy |
noun |
Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
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dryfvermoë |
| 🔊 26 |
buoyant |
adjective |
Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
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lewendig |
| 🔊 27 |
bureau |
noun |
A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
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Buro |
| 🔊 28 |
bureaucracy |
noun |
Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
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burokrasie |
| 🔊 29 |
burgess |
noun |
In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
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Burgess |
| 🔊 30 |
burgher |
noun |
An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
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burger |
| 🔊 31 |
burnish |
verb |
To make brilliant or shining.
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bruin |
| 🔊 32 |
bursar |
noun |
A treasurer.
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beurshouer |
| 🔊 33 |
bustle |
verb |
To hurry.
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gewoel |
| 🔊 34 |
butt |
verb |
To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
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boude |
| 🔊 35 |
butte |
noun |
A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
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Butte |
| 🔊 36 |
buttress |
noun |
Any support or prop.
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stut |
| 🔊 37 |
by-law |
noun |
A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
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| 🔊 38 |
cabal |
noun |
A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
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kabaal |
| 🔊 39 |
cabinet |
noun |
The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
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kabinet |
| 🔊 40 |
cacophony |
noun |
A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
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kakofonie |
| 🔊 41 |
cadaverous |
adjective |
Resembling a corpse.
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kadaweragtige |
| 🔊 42 |
cadence |
noun |
Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
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kadens |
| 🔊 43 |
caitiff |
adjective |
Cowardly.
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armzalig |
| 🔊 44 |
cajole |
verb |
To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
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mooipraat |
| 🔊 45 |
cajolery |
noun |
Delusive speech.
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vleierij |
| 🔊 46 |
calculable |
adjective |
That may be estimated by reckoning.
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berekenbare |
| 🔊 47 |
calculus |
noun |
A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
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calculus |
| 🔊 48 |
callosity |
noun |
The state of being hard and insensible.
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ongevoeligheid |
| 🔊 49 |
callow |
adjective |
Without experience of the world.
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bles |
| 🔊 50 |
calorie |
noun |
Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
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kalorie |
| 🔊 51 |
calumny |
noun |
Slander.
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laster |
| 🔊 52 |
Calvinism |
noun |
The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
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Calvinisme |
| 🔊 53 |
came |
noun |
A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
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kom |
| 🔊 54 |
cameo |
noun |
Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
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cameo |
| 🔊 55 |
campaign |
noun |
A complete series of connected military operations.
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veldtog |
| 🔊 56 |
canary |
adjective |
Of a bright but delicate yellow.
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Kanariese |
| 🔊 57 |
candid |
adjective |
Straightforward.
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openhartige |
| 🔊 58 |
candor |
noun |
The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
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eerlikheid |
| 🔊 59 |
canine |
adjective |
Characteristic of a dog.
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honde |
| 🔊 60 |
canon |
noun |
Any rule or law.
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kanon |
| 🔊 61 |
cant |
verb |
To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
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cant |
| 🔊 62 |
cantata |
noun |
A choral composition.
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kantate |
| 🔊 63 |
canto |
noun |
One of the divisions of an extended poem.
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canto |
| 🔊 64 |
cantonment |
noun |
The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
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inkwartiering |
| 🔊 65 |
capacious |
adjective |
Roomy.
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ruim |
| 🔊 66 |
capillary |
noun |
A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
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kapillêre |
| 🔊 67 |
capitulate |
verb |
To surrender or stipulate terms.
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kapituleer |
| 🔊 68 |
caprice |
noun |
A whim.
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grille |
| 🔊 69 |
caption |
noun |
A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
|
opskrif |
| 🔊 70 |
captious |
adjective |
Hypercritical.
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captious |
| 🔊 71 |
captivate |
verb |
To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
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boei |
| 🔊 72 |
carcass |
noun |
The dead body of an animal.
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karkas |
| 🔊 73 |
cardiac |
adjective |
Pertaining to the heart.
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kardiale |
| 🔊 74 |
cardinal |
adjective |
Of prime or special importance.
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kardinale |
| 🔊 75 |
caret |
noun |
A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
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kappie |
| 🔊 76 |
caricature |
noun |
a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
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karikatuur |
| 🔊 77 |
carnage |
noun |
Massacre.
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slagting |
| 🔊 78 |
carnal |
adjective |
Sensual.
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vleeslike |
| 🔊 79 |
carnivorous |
adjective |
Eating or living on flesh.
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vleisetende |
| 🔊 80 |
carouse |
verb |
To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
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zwelgerij |
| 🔊 81 |
carrion |
noun |
Dead and putrefying flesh.
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aas |
| 🔊 82 |
cartilage |
noun |
An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
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kraakbeen |
| 🔊 83 |
cartridge |
noun |
A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
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patroon |
| 🔊 84 |
caste |
noun |
The division of society on artificial grounds.
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kaste |
| 🔊 85 |
castigate |
verb |
To punish.
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gispen |
| 🔊 86 |
casual |
adjective |
Accidental, by chance.
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gemaklik |
| 🔊 87 |
casualty |
noun |
A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
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ongevalle |
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cat-o-nine-tails |
noun |
An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
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| 🔊 89 |
cataclysm |
noun |
Any overwhelming flood of water.
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ramp |
| 🔊 90 |
cataract |
noun |
Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
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katarak |
| 🔊 91 |
catastrophe |
noun |
Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
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katastrofe |
| 🔊 92 |
cathode |
noun |
The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
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katode |
| 🔊 93 |
Catholicism |
noun |
The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Katolisisme |
| 🔊 94 |
catholicity |
noun |
Universal prevalence or acceptance.
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katolisiteit |
| 🔊 95 |
caucus |
noun |
A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
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koukus |
| 🔊 96 |
causal |
adjective |
Indicating or expressing a cause.
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oorsaaklike |
| 🔊 97 |
caustic |
adjective |
Sarcastic and severe.
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bytende |
| 🔊 98 |
cauterize |
verb |
To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
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toeschroeien |
| 🔊 99 |
cede |
verb |
To pass title to.
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sedeer |
| 🔊 100 |
censor |
noun |
An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
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censor |
| 🔊 101 |
censorious |
adjective |
Judging severely or harshly.
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vitterig |
| 🔊 102 |
census |
noun |
An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
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sensus |
| 🔊 103 |
centenary |
adjective |
Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
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eeufees |
| 🔊 104 |
centiliter |
noun |
A hundredth of a liter.
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centiliter |
| 🔊 105 |
centimeter |
noun |
A length of one hundredth of a meter.
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sentimeter |
| 🔊 106 |
centurion |
noun |
A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
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Centurion |
| 🔊 107 |
cereal |
adjective |
Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
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graan |
| 🔊 108 |
ceremonial |
adjective |
Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
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seremoniële |
| 🔊 109 |
ceremonious |
adjective |
Observant of ritual.
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statig |
| 🔊 110 |
cessation |
noun |
Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
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staking |
| 🔊 111 |
cession |
noun |
Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
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sessie |
| 🔊 112 |
chagrin |
noun |
Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
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hartseer |
| 🔊 113 |
chameleon |
adjective |
Changeable in appearance.
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verkleurmannetjie |
| 🔊 114 |
chancery |
noun |
A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
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Chancery |
| 🔊 115 |
chaos |
noun |
Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
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chaos |
| 🔊 116 |
characteristic |
noun |
A distinctive feature.
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kenmerkende |
| 🔊 117 |
characterize |
verb |
To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
|
kenmerk |
| 🔊 118 |
charlatan |
noun |
A quack.
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charlatan |
| 🔊 119 |
chasm |
noun |
A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
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kloof |
| 🔊 120 |
chasten |
verb |
To purify by affliction.
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tugtig |
| 🔊 121 |
chastise |
verb |
To subject to punitive measures.
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kasty |
| 🔊 122 |
chastity |
noun |
Sexual or moral purity.
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kuisheid |
| 🔊 123 |
chateau |
noun |
A castle or manor-house.
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kasteel |
| 🔊 124 |
chattel |
noun |
Any article of personal property.
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besitting |
| 🔊 125 |
check |
verb |
To hold back.
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tjek |
| 🔊 126 |
chiffon |
noun |
A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
|
chiffon |
| 🔊 127 |
chivalry |
noun |
The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
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ridders |
| 🔊 128 |
cholera |
noun |
An acute epidemic disease.
|
cholera |
| 🔊 129 |
choleric |
adjective |
Easily provoked to anger.
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prikkelbaar |
| 🔊 130 |
choral |
adjective |
Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
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koor |
| 🔊 131 |
Christ |
noun |
A title of Jesus
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Christus |
| 🔊 132 |
christen |
verb |
To name in baptism.
|
Christen |
| 🔊 133 |
chromatic |
adjective |
Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
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chromatiese |
| 🔊 134 |
chronology |
noun |
The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
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chronologie |
| 🔊 135 |
chronometer |
noun |
A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
|
chronometer |
| 🔊 136 |
cipher |
verb |
To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
|
cipher |
| 🔊 137 |
circulate |
verb |
To disseminate.
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sirkuleer |
| 🔊 138 |
circumference |
noun |
The boundary-line of a circle.
|
omtrek |
| 🔊 139 |
circumlocution |
noun |
Indirect or roundabout expression.
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woord rivier |
| 🔊 140 |
circumnavigate |
verb |
To sail quite around.
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atmosfeer |
| 🔊 141 |
circumscribe |
verb |
To confine within bounds.
|
omskryf |
| 🔊 142 |
circumspect |
adjective |
Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
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versigtiger |
| 🔊 143 |
citadel |
noun |
Any strong fortress.
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vesting |
| 🔊 144 |
cite |
verb |
To refer to specifically.
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noem |
| 🔊 145 |
claimant |
noun |
One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
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eiser |
| 🔊 146 |
clairvoyance |
noun |
Intuitive sagacity or perception.
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heldersiendheid |
| 🔊 147 |
clan |
noun |
A tribe.
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clan |
| 🔊 148 |
clandestine |
adjective |
Surreptitious.
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klandestiene |
| 🔊 149 |
clangor |
noun |
Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
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gekletter |
| 🔊 150 |
clarify |
verb |
To render intelligible.
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verduidelik |
| 🔊 151 |
clarion |
noun |
A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
|
Clarion |
| 🔊 152 |
classify |
verb |
To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
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klassifiseer |
| 🔊 153 |
clearance |
noun |
A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
|
klaring |
| 🔊 154 |
clemency |
noun |
Mercy.
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genade |
| 🔊 155 |
clement |
adjective |
Compassionate.
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Clement |
| 🔊 156 |
close-hauled |
adjective |
Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
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| 🔊 157 |
clothier |
noun |
One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
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lake |
| 🔊 158 |
clumsy |
adjective |
Awkward of movement.
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onbeholpe |
| 🔊 159 |
coagulant |
adjective |
Producing coagulation.
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coagulant |
| 🔊 160 |
coagulate |
verb |
To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
|
koaguleer |
| 🔊 161 |
coalescence |
noun |
The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
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samesmelting |
| 🔊 162 |
coalition |
noun |
Combination in a body or mass.
|
koalisie |
| 🔊 163 |
coddle |
verb |
To treat as a baby or an invalid.
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koester |
| 🔊 164 |
codicil |
noun |
A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
|
kodisil |
| 🔊 165 |
coerce |
verb |
To force.
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dwing |
| 🔊 166 |
coercion |
noun |
Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
|
dwang |
| 🔊 167 |
coercive |
adjective |
Serving or tending to force.
|
dwang |
| 🔊 168 |
cogent |
adjective |
Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
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oortuigende |
| 🔊 169 |
cognate |
adjective |
Akin.
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verwante |
| 🔊 170 |
cognizant |
adjective |
Taking notice.
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bewus |
| 🔊 171 |
cohere |
verb |
To stick together.
|
saamhang |
| 🔊 172 |
cohesion |
noun |
Consistency.
|
samehorigheid |
| 🔊 173 |
cohesive |
adjective |
Having the property of consistency.
|
samehangende |
| 🔊 174 |
coincide |
verb |
To correspond.
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saamval |
| 🔊 175 |
coincidence |
noun |
A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
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toeval |
| 🔊 176 |
coincident |
adjective |
Taking place at the same time.
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samevallende |
| 🔊 177 |
collaborate |
verb |
To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
|
saamwerk |
| 🔊 178 |
collapse |
verb |
To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
|
inval |
| 🔊 179 |
collapsible |
adjective |
That may or can collapse.
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opvoubare |
| 🔊 180 |
colleague |
noun |
An associate in professional employment.
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kollega |
| 🔊 181 |
collective |
adjective |
Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
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kollektiewe |
| 🔊 182 |
collector |
noun |
One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
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versamelaar |
| 🔊 183 |
collegian |
noun |
A college student.
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student van college |
| 🔊 184 |
collide |
verb |
To meet and strike violently.
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bots |
| 🔊 185 |
collier |
noun |
One who works in a coal-mine.
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Collier |
| 🔊 186 |
collision |
noun |
Violent contact.
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botsing |
| 🔊 187 |
colloquial |
adjective |
Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
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volksmond |
| 🔊 188 |
colloquialism |
noun |
Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
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colloquialism |
| 🔊 189 |
colloquy |
noun |
Conversation.
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Colloqium |
| 🔊 190 |
collusion |
noun |
A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
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Samespanning |
| 🔊 191 |
colossus |
noun |
Any strikingly great person or object.
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kolos |
| 🔊 192 |
comely |
adjective |
Handsome.
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lieflik |
| 🔊 193 |
comestible |
adjective |
Fit to be eaten.
|
eetbare |
| 🔊 194 |
comical |
adjective |
Funny.
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komiese |
| 🔊 195 |
commemorate |
verb |
To serve as a remembrance of.
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herdenk |
| 🔊 196 |
commentary |
noun |
A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
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kommentaar |
| 🔊 197 |
commingle |
verb |
To blend.
|
commingle |
| 🔊 198 |
commission |
verb |
To empower.
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kommissie |
| 🔊 199 |
commitment |
noun |
The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
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verbintenis |
| 🔊 200 |
committal |
noun |
The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
|
verwysing |