Words That End With: TORY

• a successful ending of a struggle or contest

• the aggregate of past events

• a record or narrative description of past events

• the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

• the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

• all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

• an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

• expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

• addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

• a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

• a record or narrative description of past events

• a short account of the news

• a trivial lie

• an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution

• a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs

• a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative