2009-05-11_engl

octavian D. (Spain)
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  1. tapping
    the sound of light blow or knock
  2. cane
    a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
  3. due
    that which is deserved or owed
  4. mortgage
    a conveyance of property as security for repaying a loan
  5. utterance
    the use of spoken sounds for auditory communication
  6. utter
    without qualification
  7. threshold
    the starting point for a new state or experience
  8. reverberation
    a remote or indirect consequence of some action
  9. convolution
    the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
  10. prosodic
    of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
  11. juncture
    the shape or manner in which things come together
  12. watermark
    distinguishing design impressed on paper during manufacture
  13. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  14. liveness
    the property of being animated
  15. aliveness
    the property of being animated
  16. replay
    play again
  17. glottal
    of or relating to or produced by the glottis
  18. glottis
    the vocal apparatus of the larynx
  19. decay
    the organic phenomenon of rotting
  20. envelop
    enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
  21. outline
    the line that appears to bound an object
  22. ford
    cross a river where it's shallow
  23. stumble
    miss a step and fall or nearly fall
  24. claw
    sharp curved horny process on the toe of some animals
  25. hairy
    having or covered with hair
  26. pinkish
    of a light shade of red
  27. pigtail
    a plait of braided hair
  28. stealthily
    in a manner marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  29. snot
    nasal mucus
  30. leak
    enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
  31. decoy
    something used to lure fish or other animals
  32. mallard
    wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended
  33. bonce
    an informal term for a human head
  34. nut
    usually large hard-shelled seed
  35. attend
    be present
  36. doorman
    someone who guards an entrance
  37. follow up
    increase the effectiveness or success of by further action
  38. spoof
    a humorous imitation of another work or style of work
  39. counterpart
    a person or thing having the same function as another
  40. deterministic
    following inevitably from previous causes or actions
  41. get into
    to come or go into
Created on Mon May 11 06:17:01 EDT 2009 (updated Thu May 21 06:52:52 EDT 2009)

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