Alphabet "T" | Dictionary Words - Class 6 PDF Download

100 Words Starting with "T"

1. tacit: implied by or inferred from actions or statements
   The sentiment here is not tacit, but communicable and overt.
2. taciturn: habitually reserved and uncommunicative
   He is of a reserved, taciturn habit, somewhat surly: not talkative even in his cups.
3. tactful: having a sense of what is considerate in dealing with others
   Lady Ruth went back to her guests, and with the effortless ease of long training, she became once more the gracious and tactful hostess.
4. tactile: of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch
   Researchers are promoting magnetic interfaces for touch screens, which will make operating the touch screen more tactile and reduce excessive tapping.
5. taint: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
   The industry, though, hasn’t disclosed what chemicals are used, raising concerns about tainted drinking water supplies and a call for peer-reviewed studies on the effects.
6. talisman: a trinket thought to be a magical protection against evil
   Tiny prayer wheels are now a popular car ornament, a talisman to ward off accidents.
7. tangential: of superficial relevance if any
   It is terrific fun, but its relation to the theme remains tangential at best.
8. tangible: perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch
   It has the capacity to change tangible, hard realities through no more than airy nothings, mere gauzy thoughts.
9. tantalizing: arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable
   For long, monotonous months she had been struggling against just such cravings, impossible of realization, and therefore all the more tantalizing.
10. tantamount: being essentially equal to something
    "But keeping rabbits cooped up alone in hutches of the type sold by these big retail chains is just tantamount to cruelty."
11. taper: diminish gradually
    The snow tapered off after the field was cleared for warmups, but it picked back up toward halftime and kept falling with the mercury.
12. tariff: a government tax on imports or exports
    South Korea is dropping a long list of tariffs under the agreement, including stiff taxes on U.S. agricultural goods.
13. taunt: harass with persistent criticism or carping
    Verbal harassment refers to teasing, taunting, or insulting someone.
14. taut: pulled or drawn tight
    The stay wires were tightened by turn buckles till they were taut as fiddle strings, assuring stability of the wings.
15. tautological: characterized by unnecessary repetition
    The expression sounds trite and tautological; but it needs emphasis.
16. tawdry: tastelessly showy
    A cheap ornament spoils a handsome costume, better none at all; too many ornaments, even if good, look tawdry.
17. tedious: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    The journey was long and tedious, day after day passing with but few incidents to change the monotony of our progress.
18. temerity: fearless daring
    He was confident that he had the backing of the men, and in that confidence grew bold with reckless temerity.
19. temperament: your usual mood
    His bringing up was left to an uncle who had neither understanding nor sympathy for his dreamy and wayward temperament.
20. temporal: of this earth or world
    There was not room in Italy for two universal rulers, both holding of God, even though one ruled spiritual things and the other temporal.
21. temporize: draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
    I dare say you have often observed this disposition to temporize, or to procrastinate, in people who are labouring under any very poignant sorrow.
22. tenable: based on sound reasoning or evidence
    "Then you allow his position to be more tenable and reasonable than yours?"
23. tenacity: persistent determination
    Constancy, persistence, dogged tenacity is certainly the striking feature of Jacob’s character.
24. tenet: a religious doctrine proclaimed as true without proof
    Mr. Malik, who does not drink, decided that trading so-called pub securities would violate tenets of his faith.
25. tentative: hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
    Here and there, passages of solid, compelling music making were marred by tentative, uncertain moments.
26. tenuous: lacking substance or significance
    Watching Belasco's short play in London in 1900, Puccini reportedly was deeply moved — despite his tenuous grasp of the English language.
27. tenure: the term during which some position is held
    Mr. Marshall's career as Chief Justice extended through a period of more than thirty-four years, which is the longest judicial tenure recorded in history.
28. terminal: station where vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
    Workers prepare flower orders in the American Airlines cargo terminal at Kennedy International Airport.
29. termination: the act of ending something
    This sight made us forget our fatigues, and we hurried on, with fond anticipations of finding a speedy termination to all our sufferings.
30. terminology: a system of words used to name things in a discipline
    This building was known, in monastic terminology, as the “Lavabo.”
31. terrain: a piece of ground having specific characteristics
    Most inhabitants were farmers struggling to coax crops out of the steep and rocky terrain.
32. terrestrial: operating or living or growing on land
    On land, habitat loss takes away much-needed space for large, terrestrial animals.
33. territory: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
    The war was just a few months old, and the entire Michigan territory had fallen into British hands.
34. terse: brief and to the point
    While she stared at him, he uttered the short, terse command: “Hands up!”
35. tertiary: coming third in position
    The plan divides roadways into three major categories: arterial, secondary and tertiary.
36. tessellated: decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone
    Passing from one pavilion to another over tessellated pavements, we enter apartments rich in mosaics and all manner of precious stones.
37. theocracy: a political unit governed by a deity
    For in theocracies, to the social evil of the offence is added the impiety committed against the Deity and his representative on earth.
38. theology: the rational and systematic study of religion
    He had read widely in theology — Saint Augustine and Nietzsche and Reinhold Niebuhr — but he had no formal religious training.
39. thermal: relating to or associated with heat
    The great masses of concrete act as a thermal sink, absorbing heat during the molten days and then radiating warmth at night.
40. thespian: of or relating to drama
    True to her thespian inheritance, she played Olivia in Twelfth Night on a student tour of the Highlands and Islands.
41. threshold: the entrance for passing through a room or building
    The words are hardly out of her mouth when the door opens and somebody appears upon the threshold.
42. thrifty: mindful of the future in spending money
    He was managing clerk in some mercantile house, and, being a thrifty soul, invested all his spare cash instead of spending it.
43. thrive: grow vigorously
    A naturally outgoing person, Irenstein learned quickly and his dating life began to thrive.
44. throes: violent pangs of suffering
    He suffered rheumatism in its most acute form, so the coastguard explained between his throes.
45. throng: a large gathering of people
    Visitors flocked to Fredericksburg and long before the beginning thousands had gathered, sidewalks, steps and porches were crowded with merry throngs in carnival mood.
46. throttle: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
    Cora slowed down her engine by means of a throttle control that extended up near the wheel.
47. thrust: push forcefully
    I cried angrily, thrusting back those who pressed on me most closely.
48. thwart: hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
    Efforts to learn more were thwarted in January 2007, when the camera channel used by Hubble to acquire the image stopped working.
49. tirade: a speech of violent denunciation
    It is an angry, sometimes abusive, but overall articulate and heartfelt tirade about growing up in Gaza.
50. toady: a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
    It bored him, and he was no toady to waste his time fawning upon possible patrons.
51. toil: work hard
    Taking his stone axe he toiled all day until the tree was felled.
52. token: a disk that can be used in designated slot machines
    It works on a similar principle as casino chips, or, more directly, arcade tokens.
53. tome: a large and scholarly book
    This seems like a particularly troubling trend for academia, where digital books are slowly overtaking the heavy tomes I used to lug around.
54. topography: the configuration of a surface and its features
    They land in a lush green jungle whose topography seems to resemble no known place on Earth.
55. torpid: slow and apathetic
    His energies are suspended, his senses become numbed and torpid—in short, he feels as one who goes to sleep in a snow-storm.
56. torpor: inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of energy
    Notwithstanding my nervous apprehension, a sleep more like the torpor of lethargy than natural slumber, fell on me at once.
57. torque: a twisting force
    Those photons produce very small amounts of torque that can slow the rotation or speed it up.
58. torrential: relating to or resulting from the action of a downpour
    Torrential rains killed at least six people in Genoa on Friday, in the worst flooding the port city has seen in years, officials said.
59. torrid: extremely hot 
    Days dragged on; days of torrid, relentless heat.
60. torso: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
    Her dresses were fitted not only at the waist, but along the torso by a long and pointed bodice stiffened with wood, steel, or whalebone.
61. totalitarian: of a system in which the state regulates every realm of life
    Suppression of art and ideas is something that happens in totalitarian regimes, not this country, he added.
62. tout: advertise in strongly positive terms
    Shock jock Howard Stern, however, didn't hold back at a news conference in New York touting his own new TV gig.
63. tract: an extended area of land
    One tract of the mallee scrub, shared between Victoria and South Australia, covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles.
64. tractable: easily managed
    By a three months' School course stubborn horses may be made tractable, dangerous horses rendered comparatively safe, uncomfortable brutes easy and reliable.
65. traduce: speak unfavorably about
    One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.
66. trajectory: the path followed by an object moving through space
    Losing altitude, they hurtled on a sloping trajectory toward Washington.
67. tranquility: a state of peace and quiet
    Lifelong fisherman Jay Cassell, deputy editor of Field & Stream magazine, treasures lakeside vacations for the peace and tranquility only one can offer.
68. transcendental: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
    That she should have wanted to captivate Mr. Traffick,—she with her high ideas of some transcendental, more than human, hero!
69. transcribe: write out, as from speech or notes
    Hastily procuring pen and ink, he bade Sir Walter sing it over again while he transcribed the words to paper.
70. transfixed: having your attention held as though by a spell
    To say that I was transfixed, speechless, fascinated to intoxication by the spell of this marvellous development is no exaggeration.
71. transgression: the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
    Vietnamese state media prior to the trial reported prosecutors as saying that Mr. Dinh's transgressions represent a "particularly serious violation of national security."
72. transient: lasting a very short time
    Smokers, on the other hand, had wildly transient populations, with species moving in and out—which opened up real estate for the bad bugs.
73. transitory: lasting a very short time
    Positive reviews are blissful but strangely transitory, forgotten within hours.
74. translucent: allowing light to pass through diffusely
    It is usually translucent, becoming nearly transparent on immersion in water.
75. transparent: able to be seen through with clarity
    In looking at any object through a perfectly transparent medium, such as plate glass, we do not perceive any alteration in the real colours.
76. transpire: come about, happen, or occur
    So let’s inaugurate things around here by continuing a hallowed Technologizer tradition: making collective predictions about what will transpire at an upcoming Apple event.
77. travail: use of physical or mental energy; hard work
    Through an anguish of travail Canada has worked out an excellent system of self-government.
78. traverse: travel across
    It had taken them four days to traverse just 25 miles.
79. travesty: a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
    As any comic writer will tell you, one person's humorous homage can easily be another's disrespectful travesty.
80. treachery: an act of deliberate betrayal
    By this fatal step Ashburnham incurred the unmerited charge of treachery and disloyalty.
81. tread: a step in walking or running
    He went out; they could hear his slow, careful tread on each of the slippery stairs.
82. treason: an act of deliberate betrayal
    He was accused of disloyalty and treason, with the greatest heat, everywhere.
83. treatise: a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
    I purchased the requisite study guides — intimidating, densely worded treatises on gastroenterology, cardiology, geriatrics, hematology and all the specialty areas of internal medicine.
84. trek: journey on foot, especially in the mountains
    In the mountains, Mr. Sherpa can spend months trekking over glaciers and negotiating ice falls and treacherous crevasses at nosebleed heights.
85. tremulous: quivering as from weakness or fear
    Only his tremulous voice and shaking hand betrayed suffering.
86. trenchant: having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
    The trenchant blade of his intellect is still keen.
87. trepidation: a feeling of alarm or dread
    No sign of trepidation or alarm, save the sudden stiffening of her form, was betrayed.
88. tribulation: an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
    The students have described their personal trials, tribulations and emotional turmoil in my writing class.
89. tribunal: an assembly to conduct judicial business
    "The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and certain inferior tribunals."
90. trifling: not worth considering
    Everything, in fact, was well thought over, and as was subsequently proved, the mistakes that did occur were few and trifling.
91. trilogy: a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject
    Mr. Tucker never finished the third book of what was supposed to be his Stalin trilogy.
92. triumvirate: a group of three people responsible for civil authority
    Well, all three teams in the Epstein management triumvirate are struggling.
93. troglodyte: a primitive person who lived in a cave
    The original cave man, the troglodyte, may have got his that way.
94. truculent: defiantly aggressive
    Now he turned to behold a huge cock ostrich bearing down upon him with hostility and aggressiveness writ large all over its truculent personality.
95. truism: an obvious statement of fact
    They cannot hurt us more than we can be hurt—an obvious truism but one which is often overlooked.
96. truncate: make shorter as if by cutting off
    “Health care provider” came into vogue as the catchall phrase and was quickly truncated to just “provider.”
97. tumult: a state of commotion and noise and confusion
    A scene of confusion and tumult arose in the office, lasting several moments.
98. turpitude: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
    The cities were berated as hubs of moral turpitude, decadence and greed.
99. tutelage: teaching pupils individually
    The Falcons have even hired mixed martial arts instructors for off-season tutelage in wrestling, boxing and kickboxing.
100. tyranny: dominance through threat of punishment and violence
     Alexander Lebedev sees his newspapers as vital forces against tyranny, oppression and corruption.