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  1. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  2. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  3. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  4. coda
    the closing section of a musical composition
  5. commensurate
    corresponding in size or degree or extent
  6. complaisant
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  7. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  8. chimerical
    like a grotesque product of the imagination
  9. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  10. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  11. mountebank
    a flamboyant deceiver
  12. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  13. peculation
    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
  14. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  15. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  16. categorical
    relating to or included in a class or classes
  17. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  18. compendium
    a publication containing a variety of works
  19. continence
    voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge
  20. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  21. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
  22. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  23. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  24. existential
    relating to or dealing with the state of being
  25. equable
    not varying
  26. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  27. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  28. effete
    excessively self-indulgent, affected, or decadent
  29. dross
    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
  30. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  31. discomfit
    cause to lose one's composure
  32. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  33. gauche
    lacking social poise or refinement
  34. halcyon
    a mythical bird said to breed at the winter solstice
  35. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  36. imprecation
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
  37. incursion
    the act of entering some territory or domain
  38. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  39. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  40. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  41. inveigle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  42. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  43. juggernaut
    a massive inexorable force
  44. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  45. limpid
    clear and bright
  46. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  47. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  48. militate
    have force or influence; bring about an effect or change
  49. minatory
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  50. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  51. nostrum
    patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
  52. occult
    supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  53. overweening
    presumptuously arrogant
  54. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  55. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  56. plumb
    exactly vertical
  57. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  58. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  59. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  60. quail
    a small game bird
  61. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  62. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  63. repine
    express discontent
  64. ruse
    a deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture
  65. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  66. torpid
    in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  67. chary
    characterized by great caution
  68. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
  69. iniquitous
    characterized by injustice or wickedness
  70. esurient
    extremely hungry
  71. abrogate
    revoke formally
  72. agog
    highly excited
  73. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  74. animus
    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
  75. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  76. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  77. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  78. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  79. canny
    showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
  80. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  81. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  82. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  83. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  84. impunity
    exemption from punishment or loss
  85. sepulchre
    a chamber that is used as a grave
  86. purgatory
    a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology
  87. iniquitous
    characterized by injustice or wickedness
  88. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
  89. redoubtable
    inspiring fear
  90. macrame
    a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords
  91. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  92. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  93. virtuous
    morally excellent
  94. virtue
    the quality of doing what is right
  95. tonic
    a medicine that strengthens and invigorates
  96. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  97. illusory
    having the nature of something unreal or deceptive
  98. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  99. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  100. astringent
    tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
  101. bawdy
    humorously vulgar
  102. canon
    a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
  103. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  104. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  105. cogitate
    consider carefully and deeply
  106. comity
    a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility
  107. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
  108. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  109. condign
    fitting or appropriate and deserved
  110. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  111. conflate
    mix together different elements
  112. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  113. countermand
    cancel officially
  114. consequential
    having important effects or results
  115. construe
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
  116. continence
    voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge
  117. corollary
    an inference following from the proof of another proposition
  118. coy
    affectedly shy especially in a playful or provocative way
  119. dappled
    having spots or patches of color
  120. defray
    bear the expenses of
  121. delude
    be dishonest with
  122. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  123. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  124. dilatory
    wasting time
  125. detraction
    a petty disparagement
  126. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  127. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  128. dormer
    a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof
  129. dotage
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
  130. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  131. seraphic
    having a sweet nature befitting an angel
  132. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  133. exult
    feel extreme happiness or elation
  134. drivel
    saliva spilling from the mouth
  135. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  136. edify
    make understand
  137. enjoin
    give instructions to or direct somebody to do something
  138. ensconce
    fix firmly
  139. entreat
    ask for or request earnestly
  140. epicure
    a person who takes great pleasure in fine food and drink
  141. execrate
    curse or declare to be evil or anathema
  142. exegesis
    an explanation or critical interpretation
  143. explicate
    elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
  144. expostulation
    an exclamation of protest, opposition, or criticism
  145. filigree
    delicate and intricate ornamentation
  146. flair
    a natural talent
  147. foil
    hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
  148. halcyon
    a mythical bird said to breed at the winter solstice
  149. insolence
    the trait of being rude and impertinent
  150. incontinent
    lacking restraint or self-control
  151. indite
    produce a literary work
  152. jaundiced
    affected by yellowing of the skin
  153. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  154. junket
    dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  155. ken
    range of what one can know or understand
  156. kismet
    fate or fortune
  157. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  158. laity
    members of a religious community who are not clergy
  159. lampoon
    ridicule with satire
  160. larder
    a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  161. leaven
    a substance used to produce fermentation in dough
  162. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  163. ligneous
    consisting of or resembling wood
  164. lionize
    assign great social importance to
  165. listless
    lacking zest or vivacity
  166. litany
    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
  167. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  168. litotes
    understatement for rhetorical effect
  169. loll
    be lazy or idle
  170. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  171. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  172. madrigal
    an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
  173. malaise
    a feeling of mild sickness or depression
  174. manifesto
    a public declaration of intentions
  175. matriculate
    enroll as a student
  176. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  177. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  178. mealymouthed
    hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly
  179. menagerie
    a collection of live animals for study or display
  180. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  181. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  182. mincing
    affectedly dainty or refined
  183. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  184. modulate
    fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
  185. morbid
    suggesting the horror of death and decay
  186. moribund
    being on the point of death
  187. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
  188. mulct
    money extracted as a penalty
  189. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  190. musty
    covered with or smelling of mold
  191. narcissist
    someone who is excessively self-centered
  192. niggardly
    petty or reluctant in giving or spending
  193. opulence
    wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
  194. pall
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
  195. patina
    a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
  196. perdition
    the place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment
  197. plumb
    exactly vertical
  198. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  199. posterity
    all future generations
  200. postulate
    maintain or assert
  201. poultice
    a medical dressing spread on a cloth and applied to the skin
  202. practicable
    capable of being done with means at hand
  203. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  204. precipitous
    extremely steep
  205. prefatory
    serving as an introduction or preface
  206. recumbent
    lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
  207. recrimination
    mutual accusations
  208. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  209. ratiocination
    the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning
  210. quip
    a witty saying
  211. quirk
    a strange attitude or habit
  212. redress
    make reparations or amends for
  213. rejoinder
    a quick reply to a question or remark
  214. remonstrance
    the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
  215. respite
    a pause from doing something
  216. rescind
    cancel officially
  217. retiring
    of a person who has held and relinquished a position
  218. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  219. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  220. rostrum
    a platform raised above the surrounding level
  221. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  222. scruple
    an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
  223. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  224. sere
    having lost all moisture
  225. sniveling
    whining in a tearful manner
  226. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  227. staid
    characterized by dignity and propriety
  228. stilted
    artificially formal or stiff
  229. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  230. sultry
    attractive and suggesting hidden passion
  231. suppliant
    humbly entreating
  232. supplicate
    ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
  233. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  234. unconscionable
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  235. ungainly
    lacking grace in movement or posture
  236. unguent
    preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing
  237. wangle
    accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
  238. welter
    a confused multitude of things
  239. winsome
    charming in a childlike or naive way
  240. vindicate
    show to be right by providing justification or proof
  241. vitiate
    make imperfect
  242. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
  243. vagrant
    a wanderer with no established residence or means of support
  244. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  245. transfigure
    completely change the nature or appearance of
  246. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  247. querulous
    habitually complaining
  248. torrid
    characterized by intense emotion
  249. tithe
    a levy of one tenth of something
  250. titillate
    stimulate or excite
  251. titter
    laugh nervously
  252. temerity
    fearless daring
  253. temporal
    of or relating to or limited by time
  254. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  255. prelate
    a senior clergyman and dignitary
  256. preponderance
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
  257. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
  258. prophylactic
    preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
  259. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  260. proscenium
    the part of a stage between the curtain and the orchestra
  261. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  262. putative
    purported
  263. actuate
    put in motion
  264. apropos
    of a suitable, fitting, or pertinent nature
  265. balk
    refuse to proceed or comply
  266. bent
    stooped (used of the back and knees)
  267. bevy
    a flock of birds
  268. canto
    a major division of a long poem
  269. chaff
    material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem
  270. cognate
    related by blood
  271. dingy
    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  272. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  273. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  274. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  275. earthy
    of or consisting of or resembling the soil
  276. eminent
    standing above others in quality or position
  277. expedient
    appropriate to a purpose
  278. expunge
    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  279. factitious
    not produced by natural forces; artificial or fake
  280. fitful
    occurring in spells and often abruptly
  281. flinch
    draw back, as with fear or pain
  282. gall
    a digestive juice secreted by the liver
  283. germinal
    containing seeds of later development
  284. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  285. imbue
    spread or diffuse through
  286. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  287. indiscriminate
    failing to make or recognize distinctions
  288. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  289. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  290. limbo
    in Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent souls
  291. maul
    injure badly
  292. nihilist
    someone who rejects all theories of morality
  293. nirvana
    the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation
  294. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  295. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  296. pharisaical
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  297. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  298. prolific
    intellectually productive
  299. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  300. reprobation
    severe disapproval
  301. repugnance
    intense aversion
  302. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  303. revile
    spread negative information about
  304. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  305. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  306. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  307. scruple
    an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
  308. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  309. scurrilous
    expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
  310. scurvy
    a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid
  311. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  312. solstice
    when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator
  313. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  314. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  315. stipend
    a sum of money allotted on a regular basis
  316. stodgy
    excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
  317. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  318. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  319. subaltern
    British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
  320. sublimate
    change directly from a solid into a vapor without melting
  321. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  322. supererogatory
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  323. swarthy
    naturally having skin of a dark color
  324. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  325. syllogism
    reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
  326. tarry
    leave slowly and hesitantly
  327. tessellated
    decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone
  328. transport
    move something or somebody around
  329. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  330. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  331. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  332. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  333. unconscionable
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  334. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  335. verve
    an energetic style
  336. vitiate
    make imperfect
  337. waggish
    witty or joking
  338. whit
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  339. wry
    humorously sarcastic or mocking
  340. xenophobia
    a fear of foreigners or strangers
  341. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  342. yen
    the basic unit of money in Japan
  343. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  344. autonomic
    relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system
  345. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  346. accoutre
    provide with military equipment
  347. amnesia
    partial or total loss of memory
  348. bauble
    cheap showy jewelry or ornament
  349. cabal
    a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
  350. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
  351. cavil
    raise trivial objections
  352. expostulation
    an exclamation of protest, opposition, or criticism
  353. retribution
    a justly deserved penalty
  354. reprise
    a repetition of a short musical passage
  355. scrimshaw
    a carving on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc.
  356. ratiocinate
    reason methodologically and logically
  357. wanton
    a lewd or immoral person
  358. disenchanted
    disappointed or let down
  359. iconography
    the system or use of familiar images as symbols
  360. epistle
    a specially long, formal letter
  361. cur
    an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
  362. poltroon
    an abject coward
  363. rapprochement
    the reestablishing of cordial relations
  364. cephalic
    of or relating to the head
  365. inflammable
    easily ignited
  366. impend
    be imminent or about to happen
  367. skein
    coils of worsted yarn
  368. sumptuary
    regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior
  369. greisen
    a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica
  370. coke
    carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
  371. periphrastic
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  372. forfend
    prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
  373. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  374. objurgate
    censure severely
  375. ersatz
    an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
  376. obliquity
    the quality of being deliberately vague or deceptive
  377. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  378. hidebound
    stubbornly inflexible and narrow-minded
  379. high-handed
    given to haughty disregard of others
  380. embroil
    force into some kind of situation or course of action
  381. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  382. felicitous
    exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
  383. nurturant
    providing physical and emotional care and nourishment
  384. cloture
    a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
  385. sacristy
    a room in a church where religious objects are stored
  386. modality
    the manner or style in which something is done
  387. presentist
    a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time
  388. blanch
    turn pale, as if in fear
  389. miscegenation
    marriage or reproduction by people of different races
  390. syncopate
    modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat
  391. diluvial
    of or connected with a deluge
  392. meritorious
    deserving reward or praise
  393. temerity
    fearless daring
  394. jejune
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  395. acarpous
    producing no fruit
  396. arrant
    complete and without qualification
  397. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  398. baneful
    evil or sinister
  399. bilge
    where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
  400. broach
    bring up a topic for discussion
  401. spurious
    plausible but false
  402. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  403. cadenza
    a solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music
  404. hybrid
    the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock
  405. presuppose
    take for granted or as a given
  406. firebrand
    a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning
  407. backslider
    someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
  408. hypertrophy
    abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
  409. prig
    a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  410. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  411. brilliance
    the quality of being extremely bright or glittering
  412. pratfall
    a tumble backward, especially for comic effect
  413. mulish
    unreasonably stubborn or rigid
  414. apish
    being or given to servile imitation
  415. shrewish
    continually complaining or faultfinding
  416. off-Broadway
    low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan
  417. epigraph
    a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
  418. catch
    take hold of so as to seize or stop the motion of
  419. terse
    brief and to the point
  420. tactful
    having a sense of what is considerate in dealing with others
  421. reformation
    improvement in the condition of institutions or practices
  422. recompense
    make payment to
  423. uproarious
    uncontrollably noisy
  424. glint
    a momentary flash of light
  425. potboiler
    a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
  426. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
  427. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  428. pliant
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  429. blackguard
    someone who is morally reprehensible
  430. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
  431. litigant
    a party to a lawsuit
  432. recreant
    having deserted a cause or principle
  433. proselyte
    a new convert, especially to a religion
  434. dislogistic
    expressing disapproval
  435. confute
    prove to be false
  436. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  437. terrace
    usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
  438. fanciful
    indulging in or influenced by the imagination
  439. sermon
    an address of a religious nature
  440. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  441. rhinestone
    an imitation jewel made from crystal, glass, or paste
  442. infirm
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  443. strut
    walk in a proud, confident way
  444. boggle
    overcome with amazement
  445. tractability
    the trait of being easily persuaded
  446. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  447. indefatigably
    with indefatigable energy
  448. bilk
    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  449. graft
    tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient
  450. epiphyte
    a plant that grows harmlessly on another
  451. percipient
    characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
  452. pedigreed
    having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
  453. sprightly
    full of spirit and vitality
  454. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  455. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  456. retinue
    the group following and attending to some important person
  457. steer
    be a guiding or motivating force or drive
  458. rectory
    housing that a church provides for its clergy
  459. parson
    someone authorized to conduct religious worship
  460. vicar
    a Catholic priest who acts for a higher-ranking clergyman
  461. votary
    a priest or priestess in a non-Christian religion or cult
  462. cleric
    a religious leader or other person in religious orders
  463. refectory
    a communal dining-hall, usually in a monastery
  464. gyration
    the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
  465. prognosticate
    make a prediction about; tell in advance
  466. discernment
    the cognitive condition of someone who understands
  467. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  468. aesthete
    one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art
  469. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  470. amortize
    pay off a debt by making periodic payments
  471. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  472. hymn
    a song of praise, especially a religious song
  473. rite
    any customary observance or practice
  474. dynamo
    a coil that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet
  475. curmudgeon
    an irascible, cantankerous person full of stubborn ideas
  476. reductionism
    a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
  477. stenographer
    someone skilled in the transcription of speech
  478. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  479. Negritude
    an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
  480. vocalization
    the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
  481. typology
    classification according to general category or kind
  482. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  483. frippery
    something of little value or significance
  484. vice
    a specific form of evildoing
  485. enormity
    the quality of extreme wickedness
  486. purloin
    make off with belongings of others
  487. nugatory
    of no real value
  488. rustle
    make a dry crackling sound
  489. rearguard
    a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a military body
  490. volatilized
    converted into a gas or vapor
  491. adamantine
    consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
  492. leviathan
    the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  493. wraith
    a ghostly figure, especially one seen shortly before death
  494. shrewd
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Created on Sun Oct 18 19:56:30 EDT 2009 (updated Thu Dec 31 20:00:49 EST 2009)

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