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tacit adj. Understood.
taciturn adj. Disinclined to conversation.
tannery n. A place where leather is tanned.
tantamount adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
taut adj. Stretched tight.
teem v. To be full to overflowing.
temerity n. Recklessness.
tempter n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
tenant n. An occupant.
tenet n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
tenor n. A settled course or manner of progress.
tentative adj. Done as an experiment.
tenure n. The term during which a thing is held.
termagant adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
terminal adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
terminus n. The final point or goal.
terse adj. Pithy.
thoroughfare n. A public street or road.
thrall n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
tilth n. Cultivation.
timbre n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
timorous adj. Lacking courage.
tincture n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
tirade n. Harangue.
topography n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
torpor n. Apathy.
torrid adj. Excessively hot.
tortious adj. Wrongful.
tractable adj. Easily led or controlled.
trajectory n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
trammel n. An impediment.
transalpine adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
transact v. To do business.
transatlantic adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
transcend v. To surpass.
transcendent adj. Surpassing.
transcontinental adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
transience n. Something that is of short duration.
transient n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
transitory adj. Existing for a short time only.
translucence n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
transmute v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
transparent adj. Easy to see through or understand.
travail n. Hard or agonizing labor.
travesty n. A grotesque imitation.
treatise n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
trebly adv. Triply.
trenchant adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
trepidation n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
trestle n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
tribune n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
triennial adj. Taking place every third year.
trinity n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
trite adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
triumvir n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
turgid adj. Swollen.
turpitude n. Depravity.
tutelage n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
tutelar adj. Protective.
twinge n. A darting momentary local pain.
tyrannical adj. Despotic.
tyro n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.