Water for Elephants

Jenifer S. (United States of America)
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  1. absolution
    the act of being formally forgiven
  2. addle
    mix up or confuse
  3. agog
    highly excited
  4. akimbo
    with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
  5. apoplectic
    marked by extreme anger
  6. barrister
    a British lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law
  7. blatant
    without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
  8. cavalier
    showing a lack of concern or seriousness
  9. clangour
    a loud resonant repeating noise
  10. complacency
    the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
  11. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  12. conviviality
    a jovial nature
  13. coquette
    talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  14. cresol
    any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols
  15. crotchety
    having a difficult and contrary disposition
  16. decrepit
    worn and broken down by hard use
  17. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  18. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  19. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  20. dromedary
    a camel with a single hump
  21. eight ball
    a black pool ball bearing the number 8
  22. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  23. extraction
    taking out something
  24. fetlock
    the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
  25. First of May
    observed in many countries to celebrate the coming of spring
  26. garrote
    an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
  27. gelatinous
    thick like gelatin
  28. geriatric
    of or relating to the aged
  29. glower
    look angry or sullen as if to signal disapproval
  30. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  31. guttural
    relating to or articulated in the throat
  32. halcyon
    a mythical bird said to breed at the winter solstice
  33. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  34. interloper
    someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another
  35. jodhpurs
    flared pants ending at the calves and worn with riding boots
  36. lacerate
    cut or tear irregularly
  37. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  38. lascivious
    driven by lust
  39. masticate
    bite and grind with the teeth
  40. meddling
    the act of improperly interfering in some situation
  41. metastatic
    relating to or affected by metastasis
  42. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  43. mien
    a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor
  44. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  45. monotony
    the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety
  46. nystagmus
    involuntary movements of the eyeballs
  47. offal
    viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal
  48. panoply
    a complete and impressive array
  49. peril
    a state of danger involving risk
  50. periphery
    the outside boundary or surface of something
  51. pinion
    wing of a bird
  52. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  53. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  54. placid
    calm and free from disturbance
  55. querulous
    habitually complaining
  56. rube
    a person who is not intelligent or interested in culture
  57. rugelach
    pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings
  58. sarsaparilla
    any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves
  59. snippet
    a small piece of anything
  60. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  61. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
  62. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  63. tchotchke
    an inexpensive showy trinket
  64. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
  65. tremulous
    quivering as from weakness or fear
  66. unabashedly
    in an unabashed manner
  67. unequivocal
    admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding
  68. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  69. vagrant
    a wanderer with no established residence or means of support
  70. viscous
    having a relatively high resistance to flow
  71. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  72. vortex
    a powerful circular current of water
Created on Wed Oct 14 09:23:56 EDT 2009 (updated Wed Oct 14 09:44:07 EDT 2009)

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