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James S. (United States of America)
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  1. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  2. abrogate
    revoke formally
  3. aesthete
    one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art
  4. aggress
    take the initiative and go on the offensive
  5. amortize
    pay off a debt by making periodic payments
  6. animadversion
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  7. apogee
    the farthest point in an orbit around the Earth
  8. apostate
    not faithful to religion or party or cause
  9. apse
    a projecting semicircular section of a building
  10. atavistic
    characteristic of a throwback
  11. bailiwick
    one's particular area of interest or branch of knowledge
  12. beatify
    make blessedly happy
  13. bedaub
    spread or daub (a surface)
  14. bequest
    a gift of personal property by will
  15. besotted
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  16. bilge
    where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
  17. bilious
    relating to a digestive juice secreted by the liver
  18. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  19. bumptious
    offensively self-assertive
  20. cabal
    a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
  21. cadge
    obtain or seek to obtain by wheedling
  22. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  23. cant
    a slope in the turn of a road or track
  24. cavil
    raise trivial objections
  25. churl
    a crude or uncouth person lacking culture or refinement
  26. cipher
    a secret method of writing
  27. coda
    the closing section of a musical composition
  28. comestible
    suitable for use as food
  29. comport
    behave in a certain manner
  30. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  31. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  32. defenestration
    the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
  33. descry
    catch sight of
  34. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  35. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  36. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
  37. dilatory
    wasting time
  38. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  39. dint
    force or effort
  40. discomfit
    cause to lose one's composure
  41. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  42. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  43. docent
    a lecturer or teacher at some universities
  44. ecumenical
    concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
  45. educe
    construe a meaning or elicit a principle
  46. effete
    excessively self-indulgent, affected, or decadent
  47. egress
    the act or means of going out
  48. emolument
    compensation received by virtue of holding an office
  49. epicure
    a person who takes great pleasure in fine food and drink
  50. eponym
    the person for whom something is named
  51. equable
    not varying
  52. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  53. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  54. evince
    give expression to
  55. excoriate
    express strong disapproval of
  56. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  57. expatiate
    add details to clarify an idea
  58. expostulate
    reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
  59. factious
    dissenting with the majority opinion
  60. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  61. fascicle
    an installment of a printed work
  62. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  63. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  64. fecund
    capable of producing offspring or vegetation
  65. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  66. foment
    try to stir up
  67. fop
    a man who is overly concerned with his dress and appearance
  68. forbearance
    a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  69. ford
    cross a river where it's shallow
  70. forestall
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  71. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
  72. frieze
    an ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band
  73. gainsay
    take exception to
  74. gamut
    a complete extent or range
  75. gewgaw
    cheap showy jewelry, ornament, or decoration
  76. gourmand
    a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
  77. grandiloquence
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  78. immolate
    kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire
  79. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  80. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  81. importunate
    making persistent or urgent requests
  82. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  83. impute
    attribute or credit to
  84. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  85. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  86. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  87. interdict
    command against
  88. internecine
    within a group or organization
  89. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  90. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  91. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  92. jocose
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  93. juggernaut
    a massive inexorable force
  94. junket
    dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  95. junta
    a group of officers who rule a country after seizing power
  96. kowtow
    bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
  97. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  98. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  99. leviathan
    the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  100. lien
    the right to take and hold the property of a debtor
  101. ligature
    the act of tying or binding things together
  102. more
    greater in size or amount or extent or degree
  103. livery
    a uniform, especially worn by servants and chauffeurs
  104. lodestone
    a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically
  105. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  106. mendacious
    given to lying
  107. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  108. missive
    a written message addressed to a person or organization
  109. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  110. nexus
    the means of connection between things linked in series
  111. nice
    pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
  112. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  113. obtrude
    push to thrust outward
  114. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  115. obverse
    the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
  116. obviate
    do away with
  117. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  118. overweening
    presumptuously arrogant
  119. paladin
    someone who fights for a cause
  120. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  121. palpate
    examine (a body part) by tactual exploration
  122. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  123. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  124. pedant
    a person who is preoccupied with rules and learning
  125. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  126. penultimate
    next to the last
  127. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  128. peregrinate
    travel around, through, or over, especially on foot
  129. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  130. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  131. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  132. perseveration
    the act of continuing or repeating
  133. original
    preceding all others in time
  134. persnickety
    characterized by excessive attention to trivial details
  135. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
  136. petrous
    resembling stone in hardness
  137. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  138. pith
    spongelike central cylinder of the stems of flowering plants
  139. plenary
    full in all respects
  140. polyglot
    a person who speaks more than one language
  141. precatory
    expressing entreaty or supplication
  142. precept
    a rule of personal conduct
  143. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  144. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  145. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  146. promulgate
    state or announce
  147. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  148. propitiate
    make peace with
  149. protuberant
    curving, jutting, or bulging outward
  150. provenance
    where something originated or started
  151. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  152. prurient
    characterized by lust
  153. putrefaction
    the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
  154. purvey
    supply with provisions
  155. raffish
    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputability
  156. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  157. recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
  158. redoubtable
    inspiring fear
  159. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  160. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  161. remunerate
    make payment to; compensate
  162. repast
    the food served and eaten at one time
  163. restive
    in a very tense state
  164. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  165. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  166. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  167. scurvy
    a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid
  168. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  169. septic
    of or relating to or caused by the process of decay
  170. simian
    relating to or resembling an ape or a monkey
  171. sinuous
    curved or curving in and out
  172. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  173. solvent
    capable of meeting financial obligations
  174. somatic
    characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
  175. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  176. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  177. suborn
    incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
  178. subrogate
    substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured
  179. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  180. supernumerary
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  181. syllogism
    reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
  182. sylvan
    relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
  183. syncopate
    modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat
  184. tamp
    press down tightly
  185. tautology
    useless repetition
  186. toothsome
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  187. torpid
    in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  188. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  189. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  190. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
  191. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  192. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  193. uncouth
    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  194. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  195. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  196. vagary
    an unexpected and inexplicable change in something
  197. vainglory
    outspoken conceit
  198. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  199. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
  200. venous
    of or contained in or performing the function of the veins
  201. vernal
    suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  202. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  203. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  204. viscid
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  205. vitriol
    abusive or venomous language to express blame or censure
  206. vitiate
    make imperfect
  207. vituperate
    spread negative information about
  208. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  209. wag
    a movement from side to side
  210. welter
    a confused multitude of things
  211. wend
    direct one's course or way
  212. yon
    distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)
  213. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
  214. zephyr
    a slight wind
Created on Fri Jun 19 16:56:51 EDT 2009 (updated Mon Jun 22 19:49:35 EDT 2009)

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