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Terri J. (United States of America)
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  1. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  2. abrogate
    revoke formally
  3. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  4. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  5. antebellum
    belonging to a period before a war
  6. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  7. belie
    be in contradiction with
  8. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  9. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  10. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  11. chromosome
    a threadlike strand of DNA that carries genes
  12. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  13. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  14. circumnavigate
    travel completely around something
  15. deciduous
    shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
  16. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  17. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  18. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  19. enfranchise
    grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude
  20. epiphany
    a usually sudden insight, perception, or understanding of something
  21. equinox
    when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator
  22. euro
    the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
  23. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  24. quasar
    a starlike object that may send out radio waves
  25. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  26. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  27. reciprocal
    concerning each of two or more persons or things
  28. reparation
    something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
  29. respiration
    a single complete act of breathing in and out
  30. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  31. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  32. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  33. suffragist
    an advocate of the extension of voting rights
  34. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  35. tautology
    useless repetition
  36. taxonomy
    a classification of organisms based on similarities
  37. tectonic
    pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
  38. tempestuous
    characterized by violent emotions or behavior
  39. thermodynamics
    physics concerned with heat and other forms of energy
  40. totalitarian
    of a government with an authority exerting absolute control
  41. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  42. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  43. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  44. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  45. vortex
    a powerful circular current of water
  46. winnow
    the act of separating grain from chaff
  47. wrought
    shaped to fit by altering the contours of a pliable mass
  48. yeoman
    a free man who cultivates his own land
  49. ziggurat
    a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound
Created on Fri Nov 13 23:31:56 EST 2009

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