The Illustrated London Reading Book Part 75

TRA'VEL, _s._ journey; labour; toil

TRA'VEL, _v.n._ make travels; move; go

TRA'VERSE, _v.a._ to cross; to lay athwart; to cross by way of opposition; to wander over

TREA'CHEROUS, _a._ faithless; guilty of deserting or betraying

TREA'CHERY, _s._ perfidy; breach of faith

TREA'SURER, _s._ one who has the care of money; one who has the charge of treasure

TRE'LLIS, _s._ a structure of iron, wood, or osier, the parts crossing each other like a lattice

TREME'NDOUS, _a._ dreadful; horrible

TRE'MOUR, _s._ the state of trembling or quivering

TRE'MULOUS, _a._ trembling; fearful; quivering

TREPIDA'TION, _s._ fear; terror; hurry; confused haste; terrified flight

TRI'ANGLE, _s._ a figure of three angles

TRIBU'NAL, _s._ the seat of a judge; a court of justice

TRI'BUTE, _s._ payment in acknowledgment; subjection

TRI'PLE, _a._ threefold; treble

TRI'UMPH, _s._ victory; conquest

TRIU'MPHANT, _a._ victorious; celebrating a victory

TRO'PHY, _s._ something shown or treasured up in proof of victory

TRO'UBLE, _v.n._ disturb; afflict; tease; disorder

TRU'NCATE, _v.a._ maim; cut short

TRU'NNIONS, _s._ the k.n.o.bs or bunchings of a gun, that bear it on the checks of a carriage

TUBE, _s._ a pipe; a long hollow body

TU'BULAR, _a._ resembling a pipe or trunk

TUMU'LTUOUS, _a._ uproarious; noisy

TU'NIC, _s._ part of the Roman dress, natural covering; tunicle

TU'NNEL, _s._ funnel; shaft of a chimney; pa.s.sage underground

TU'RBAN, _s._ the covering worn by the Turks on their heads

TU'RPITUDE, _s._ shamefulness; baseness

TY'RANNY, _s._ severity; rigour

TY'RANT, _s._ an absolute monarch governing imperiously; a cruel and severe master; an oppressor

U'LTIMATE, _a._ intended as the last resort

UNABA'TED, _part._ not lessened in force or intensity

UNACCOU'NTABLE, _a._ not explicable; not to be solved by reason; not subject

UNA'LTERABLE, _a._ unchangeable; immutable

UNAPRROA'CHED, _a._ inaccessible

UNAWA'RE, _ad._ unexpectedly; without thought

UNCE'RTAINTY, _s._ want of certainty; inaccuracy

UNCHA'NGEABLE, _a._ not subject to variation

UNCO'MFORTABLE, _a._ affording no comfort; gloomy

UNCU'LTIVATED, _a._ not instructed; uncivilised

UNDAU'NTED, _a._ unsubdued by fear; not depressed

UNDERGO', _v.a._ suffer; sustain; support

UNDERMI'NE, _v.a._ to excavate under

UNDIMI'NISHED, _a._ not to be lessened; incapable of being lessened

UNDISCO'VERED, _a._ not seen; not found out

UNDISTI'NGUISHABLE, _a._ not to be distinguished

UNFO'RTUNATE, _a._ unsuccessful; unprosperous

U'NIFORM, _a._ conforming to one rule; similar to itself

UNIFO'RMITY, _s._ conforming to one pattern