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  1. abase
    cause to feel shame
    This is a test
  2. admonishment
    a firm rebuke
  3. ameliorate
    make better
  4. analgesic
    capable of relieving pain
  5. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  6. ascendant
    tending or directed upward
  7. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  8. attendant
    a person who is present and participates in a meeting
  9. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  10. banter
    light teasing repartee
  11. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
  12. bereavement
    state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
  13. calamity
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  14. callous
    emotionally hardened
  15. compromise
    an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
  16. conscientiousness
    the trait of being painstaking and careful
  17. dispersion
    spreading widely or driving off
  18. duress
    compulsory force or threat
  19. elixir
    a substance believed to cure all ills
  20. emphatic
    spoken with particular stress
  21. enkephalin
    an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere
  22. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  23. exhort
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  24. feigning
    pretending with intention to deceive
  25. foist
    force onto another
  26. glib
    artfully persuasive in speech
  27. grievous
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
  28. impertinent
    improperly forward or bold
  29. incendiary
    capable of causing fires or catching fire spontaneously
  30. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  31. indignant
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  32. infelicitous
    not appropriate in application; defective
  33. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  34. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  35. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
  36. Litany
    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
  37. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  38. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  39. paradoxical
    seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
  40. pedantry
    an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
  41. perennial
    lasting an indefinitely long time
  42. reconnoiter
    explore, often with a goal of finding something or somebody
  43. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  44. reprisal
    a retaliatory action against an enemy
  45. retinue
    the group following and attending to some important person
  46. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  47. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  48. sovereign
    a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
  49. subversive
    in opposition to an established system or government
  50. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  51. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  52. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
  53. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  54. despondency
    feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Created on Sat Sep 26 02:25:49 EDT 2009 (updated Tue Oct 19 19:09:13 EDT 2010)

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