high muckamuck, panjandrum

Tung P.
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  1. high muckamuck
    an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
  2. panjandrum
    an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
  3. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  4. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  5. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  6. heraldry
    the study, design, and classification of coats of arms
  7. genealogy
    the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
  8. prevaricator
    a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
  9. raconteur
    a person skilled in telling anecdotes
  10. pilferer
    a thief who steals without using violence
  11. frivolous
    not serious in content, attitude, or behavior
  12. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  13. tergiversate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  14. cardiovascular
    of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels
  15. epiphany
    a usually sudden insight, perception, or understanding of something
  16. drudgery
    hard, monotonous, routine work
  17. condescend
    behave in a patronizing manner
  18. primogeniture
    right of inheritance belonging exclusively to the eldest son
  19. periphery
    the outside boundary or surface of something
  20. creole
    a mother tongue created by contact between two languages
  21. anoint
    administer an oil or ointment to, often ceremonially
  22. pasturage
    succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land
  23. pompous
    puffed up with vanity
  24. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  25. mesolithic
    of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age
  26. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
  27. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  28. overbearing
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  29. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  30. argot
    a characteristic language of a particular group
  31. semantic
    of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
  32. portmanteau
    a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
  33. morpheme
    the smallest meaningful language unit
  34. haphazard
    dependent upon or characterized by chance
  35. vertebrate
    animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton
  36. cartilaginous
    of or relating to strong, flexible connective tissue
  37. gristly
    difficult to chew
  38. cuticle
    hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
  39. epidermal
    of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula
  40. pore
    any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid
  41. arthropod
    invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body
  42. cranium
    the part of the skull that encloses the brain
  43. friable
    easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
  44. silt
    mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
  45. rout
    an overwhelming defeat
  46. pandemonium
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  47. sinistral
    of or on the left
  48. dextral
    preferring to use right foot or hand or eye
  49. frazzle
    exhaust physically or emotionally
  50. wiry
    lean but strong
  51. stringy
    consisting of or containing string or strings
  52. pasty
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive
Created on Sun Jul 15 09:53:21 EDT 2007

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