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WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Mar-Apr '09 25 words

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  1. visage
    the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
  2. elucidate
    make clear and (more) comprehensible
  3. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  4. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  5. cite
    make reference to
  6. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  7. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  8. exile
    the act of expelling a person from their native land
  9. brazen
    unrestrained by convention or propriety
  10. charisma
    a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others
  11. depose
    force to leave (an office)
  12. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
  13. demeanor
    (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
  14. gall
    a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
  15. ecstatic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  16. constancy
    the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
  17. invoke
    request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
  18. crass
    (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
  19. spleen
    a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
  20. bilk
    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  21. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  22. mien
    dignified manner or conduct
  23. commiserate
    to feel or express sympathy or compassion
  24. perfidious
    tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
  25. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings