min·is·tra·tion
Synonyms: relief, succor.
Usage: I know that from the beds of those who were past recovery, thanks have often, often gone up, in the last hour, for his patient ministration.
souse
Synonyms: soak, sop, drench, douse.
Usage: There wasn’t a steward, even, grand and remote as she was, who, at her bidding, would have hesitated to souse the Old Man himself with a plate of soup.
woe·ful
Synonyms: execrable, wretched, deplorable, miserable.
Usage: The woeful treatment of prisoners in the camps horrified the human rights workers, and they immediately began lobbying for the captives’ release.
drape
Synonyms: cloak, robe, clothe.
Usage: His body was draped in a black shawl, and his head was bandaged in white muslin, like a mummy’s.
curb
Synonyms: control, hold in, moderate, contain, check.
Usage: There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.
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