AARON Antonyms

• congenital absence of an arm or leg

• (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel

• gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation

• a Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols; he was persecuted for rebuking Ahab and Jezebel (king and queen of Israel); he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (circa 9th century BC)

• someone who plays the harp

• English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)

• a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

• a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

• United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

• the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)

• a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

• the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)

• the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)

• United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)

• United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)

• writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)

• (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament

• a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads

• a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri

• a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle

• a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high)

• United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)

• A lady's maid.

• Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

• English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)