Helen Fenton

Agora: Definition and part of speech

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Agora

  1. n. An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agony: Definition and part of speech

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Agony

  1. n. The last struggle of life; death struggle.
  2. n. Violent contest or striving.
  3. n. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
  4. n. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agonize: Definition and part of speech

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Agonize

  1. v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
  2. v. i. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
  3. v. i. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.