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David B. (United States of America)
vicissitude
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  1. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  2. otherworldly
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  3. transmundane
    existing or extending beyond the physical world
  4. fey
    suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
  5. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  6. resplendent
    having great beauty
  7. bonny
    very pleasing to the eye
  8. splendiferous
    extraordinarily grand or impressive
  9. pulchritudinous
    having great physical beauty
  10. surly
    unfriendly and inclined toward anger or irritation
  11. scrofulous
    afflicted with scrofula
  12. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  13. banality
    a trite or obvious remark
  14. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
Created on Sun Dec 13 01:04:18 EST 2009 (updated Sun Dec 13 01:14:13 EST 2009)

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