Taciturn: who does not talk much
Example: [He’s a reserved, taciturn person]
Tack: A small sharp-pointed nail.
Tact: consideration, sensitivity, thoughtfulness
Example: [Unfortunately, he lacked the tact and diplomacy which his position demanded]
Tactful: sensitive
Example: [Mentioning his baldness wasn’t very tactful]
Tactic: policy, strategy, method, maneuver, system
Example: [Their first tactic would probably be to push us off, one by one]
Tactician: strategist, someone who uses the best methods in order to achieve specific goals, maneuverer
Example: [A leader of men rather than a tactician or strategist, he played on the enthusiasm of his soldiers by example rather than precept]
Tactics: Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
Tactile: tangible
Example: [a tactile quality]
Tainted: corrupt contaminated
Example: [His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal]
Talisman: an object supposed to bring good luck
Example: [wear the talisman to ward off the evil]
Talon: claw of an animal
Example: [the hawk’s talons]
Tangency: The state of touching.
Tangent: line or curve that touches but does not cut through another line or curve
Example: [There is a tangent line at each point]
Tangential: beside the point, irrelevant, divergent, erratic, extraneous, peripheral
Example: [a tangential point]
Tangible: Perceptible by touch.
Tanner: a craftsman who converts skins and hides into leather by treating them with acid
Example: [He settled in Sturbridge, as a farmer, also carrying on his trade of tanner and currier]
Tannery: A place where leather is tanned.
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Tantalize: tease
Example: [This produces layer upon layer of complexity, going from sweetness to tartness in a single sip that will tantalize the taste buds]
Tantamount: equivalent
Example: [His refusal to answer was tantamount to an admission of guilt]
Tantrum: attack of uncontrollable bad temper
Example: [she threw tantrums]
Taper: candle
Tapestry: A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle designed for ornamental hangings.
Tarantula: venomous spider
Example: [we need an antitoxin to counteract the bite of the tarantula]
Tariff: levy, tax, rate
Example: [an electricity tariff]
Tarn: small lake
Tarnish: damage, harm, stain, corrupt, spoil, rust, oxidize, corrode, discolor, blemish
Example: [to tarnish a brand]
Tarry: linger
Tatterdemalion: ragged fellow
Taurine: bull-like
Taut: stretched tight
Example: [A sport climber will keep falling until he is past the last quickdraw he’s clipped into and all the slack in the rope is taut]
Tautological: repetitious
Example: [The tautologists explore the implications of tautological statements, which they claim contain pure truth]
Tautology: unnecessary use of synonyms in a single phrase
Example: [Redundancy and tautology are undesirable, and a sign of less than careful writing]
Tawdry: cheap gaudy
Example: [he won a few tawdry trinkets at the village fair]
Taxation: tax system, tax income
Example: [Prominent businessmen, business organizations and tax experts feared the depressing effect of heavy taxation on the country]
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Taxidermy: The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
Technic: Technical.
Technicality: small point, minor detail, triviality
Example: [to get into the technicalities of something]
Technique: Manner of performance.
Technography: The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
Technology: The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
Tedium: weariness boredom
Example: [radio will help overcome the tedium]
Teem: To be full to overflowing.
Teleology: belief that a final purpose or design exists for the presence of individual beings or of the universe itself
Example: [the questions propounded by teleology have long been debated in religious and scientific circles]
Telepathy: sixth sense, mind-reading, communication of thoughts or mental images from one person to another without using speech, writing, or any other normal sensory channels, intuition
Example: [to communicate with other people by telepathy]
Telephony: The art or process of communicating by telephone.
Telescope: To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
Telltale: disclosing, showing something, someone who gossips, revealing, person who reveals secrets
Example: [There in the glass was that fatal, telltale white precipitate. He listened for the puff of a motor or some other telltale sound that would prove the correctness of his theory]
Temerarious: rash
Example: [mountain climbing is temerarious]
Temerity: boldness
Example: [She had the temerity to call me a liar]
Temper: tone down, moderate, toughen steel or restrain
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