Words that rhyme with merritt

n 1: a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel

n 1: a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces; "ten demerits and he loses his privileges" 2: the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" [syn: demerit, fault] [ant: merit, virtue]

adj 1: fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas" 2: including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"

v 1: lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift]

n 1: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]

v 1: obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents" 2: receive from a predecessor; "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair" 3: receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"

v 1: infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up" [syn: spirit, spirit up, inspirit]

n 1: any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit" [syn: merit, virtue] [ant: demerit, fault] 2: the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded" [syn: deservingness, merit, meritoriousness] v 1: be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done" [syn: deserve, merit]

n 1: the vital principle or animating force within living things 2: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 3: a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character 4: any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings [syn: spirit, disembodied spirit] 5: the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose" [syn: emotional state, spirit] 6: the intended meaning of a communication [syn: intent, purport, spirit] 7: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness] 8: an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart" [syn: heart, spirit] v 1: infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up" [syn: spirit, spirit up, inspirit]

n 1: (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes [syn: Sanskrit, Sanskritic language]

n 1: any of the modern Indic languages 2: any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD

n 1: the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit [syn: hematocrit, haematocrit, packed cell volume] 2: a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood [syn: hematocrit, haematocrit]