| ADVERTENT | • advertent adj. Attentive. • advertent adj. Not inadvertent; intentional. • ADVERTENT adj. attentive, heedful. |
| BREVETTED | • brevetted v. Simple past tense and past participle of brevet. • BREVET v. to confer an honorary military rank upon. |
| CORVETTED | • corvetted n. Simple past tense and past participle of corvet. • CORVET v. of a horse, to act friskily. |
| CURVETTED | • curvetted v. Simple past tense and past participle of curvet. • CURVET v. to leap, frisk. |
| DETECTIVE | • detective n. (Law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator. • detective n. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public. • detective adj. Employed in detecting. |
| DEVASTATE | • devastate v. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of… • devastate v. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions. • devastate v. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of… |
| DEVOUTEST | • devoutest adj. Superlative form of devout: most devout. • DEVOUT adj. pious. |
| ESTIVATED | • estivated v. Simple past tense and past participle of estivate. • ESTIVATE v. to spend the summer in a torpid state, also AESTIVATE. |
| LEVITATED | • levitated v. Simple past tense and past participle of levitate. • LEVITATE v. to rise and float in the air. |
| VEDUTISTE | • vedutiste n. Alternative form of vedutista (“landscape painter”). • VEDUTISTA n. (Italian) a painter of vedute, panoramic views of towns. |
| VEGETATED | • vegetated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vegetate. • vegetated adj. On which vegetation is growing. • VEGETATE v. to live an inactive or dull life. |
| VENDETTAS | • vendettas n. Plural of vendetta. • VENDETTA n. (Italian) a blood feud between two families. |
| VIDEOTEXT | • videotext n. Alternative form of videotex. • VIDEOTEXT n. a system used to display information on a television screen, also VIDEOTEX. |
| VIGNETTED | • vignetted v. Simple past tense and past participle of vignette. • VIGNETTE v. to make a vignette of. |