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wonderful_willotations 37 words

January 6, 2009 By William L.

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  1. animadvert
    express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark
  2. arduous
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
  3. erratum
    a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
  4. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  5. inductive reasoning
    reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
  6. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  7. pandemonium
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  8. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  9. putrescence
    the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
  10. seriatim
    in a series; one after another
  11. splanchnic
    relating to or affecting the viscera
  12. Sus scrofa
    Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
  13. sybaritic
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  14. vaticinate
    predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
  15. sempiternal
    having no known beginning and presumably no end
  16. phrenetic
    excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
  17. androgenous
    of or related to androgenesis
  18. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  19. algorithm
    a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
  20. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  21. indelible
    cannot be removed or erased
  22. acclivitous
    sloping upward
  23. symbiotic
    used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
  24. occluded
    closed off
  25. bucolic
    relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  26. pugilistic
    of or relating to pugilism or pugilists
  27. anagoge
    a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture)
  28. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  29. intrinsical
    belonging to a thing by its very nature
  30. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  31. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  32. diffidence
    lack of self-confidence
  33. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
  34. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  35. tincture
    a substances that colors metals
  36. tripartite
    involving three parties or elements
  37. perspicuity
    clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous