Barchester Towers Word Search
A free Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1857) word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on characters, settings, and objects from the book, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Written by Anthony Trollope · First published 1857 · Novel.
Words to find: BARCHESTER, ARCHDEACON, PROUDIE, MYLET, ARABIN, SLOPE, MANTLE, WENCH, CHURCHILL, CHAPEL, FREDERICK, JULIANA.
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Barchester Towers word list, defined
- ARCHDEACON /ˌɑːrtʃˈdiːkən/ · noun
- A senior clergyman in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and some other Christian churches who ranks below a bishop and is responsible for the administration of a diocese or a subdivision of it called an archdeaconry. Related: deacon, cleric, ecclesiastic, churchman.
- ARABIN /ˈær.ə.bɪn/ · noun
- A carbohydrate (a pentose sugar) obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of gum arabic; also known as arabinose. Related: arabinose, gum arabic, acacia gum.
- SLOPE /sloʊp/ · noun; verb
- As a noun, a slope is an inclined surface or a stretch of land that rises or falls at an angle; it can also refer to the degree of steepness of such a surface. As a verb, slope means to incline or lean at an angle, or to descend or rise gradually. Related: incline, gradient, gradient, hill.
- MANTLE /ˈmæntəl/ · noun and verb
- As a noun, a mantle is a cloak or other covering, especially one worn over the shoulders and fastened around the neck; it can also mean a covering or layer, such as the region beneath Earth's crust. As a verb, to mantle something means to cover or conceal it. Related: cloak, cape, cover, covering.
- WENCH /wɛntʃ/ · verb; also noun
- Chiefly archaic, to whine or complain. As a dated noun, it can mean a girl or young woman and, in older disparaging usage, a woman regarded as sexually promiscuous or of low social status. Related: complain, whine, grumble, gripe.
- CHAPEL /ˈtʃæpəl/ · noun
- A chapel is a small building or room used for Christian worship, typically one that is separate from a main church or attached to a larger institution such as a school, hospital, prison, or private residence. It also denotes a place of worship belonging to a Nonconformist denomination such as Methodists or Baptists, especially in British usage. Related: church, sanctuary, shrine, oratory.
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