A Whole New Mind

Shinji S. (Japan)
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  1. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
    audacious
  2. masterful
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  3. provoking
    causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
  4. gargantuan
    of great mass; huge and bulky
  5. wrought
    shaped to fit by altering the contours of a pliable mass
  6. topsy-turvy
    in utter disorder
  7. disturb
    trouble deeply
  8. exhilarate
    fill with sublime emotion
  9. xenophobic
    having abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners
  10. screed
    a long, tedious rant
  11. rail
    a horizontal bar, usually of wood or metal
  12. pursue
    follow in an effort to capture
  13. cornerstone
    the basic or fundamental part on which something depends
  14. buzz
    the sound of rapid vibration
  15. treatise
    a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
  16. predominantly
    much greater in number or influence
  17. adjust
    alter or regulate so as to conform to a standard
  18. androgynous
    having both male and female characteristics
  19. crank
    rotate with a crank
  20. caregiver
    a person responsible for attending to the needs of a child
  21. console
    give moral or emotional strength to
  22. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  23. linear
    involving a single dimension
  24. reap
    get or derive
  25. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  26. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  27. aptitude
    inherent ability
  28. reductive
    characterizing something in an overly simplistic way
  29. reduce
    make smaller
  30. deploy
    place troops or weapons in battle formation
  31. subtlety
    the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
  32. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  33. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  34. encapsulate
    enclose in or as if in a small container
  35. hemisphere
    half of a round, three-dimensional shape
  36. sequential
    in regular succession without gaps
  37. caricature
    a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect
  38. enlist
    join the military
  39. halve
    divide by two; divide into halves
  40. frivolous
    not serious in content, attitude, or behavior
  41. mark off
    set boundaries to and delimit
  42. stuffed
    filled with something
  43. garage sale
    an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises
  44. electrode
    a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit
  45. swaddle
    wrap very tightly in cloth, as a baby
  46. crinkly
    uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
  47. rustle
    make a dry crackling sound
  48. muzzle
    forward projecting part of the head of certain animals
  49. squirm
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  50. adhesive
    tending to stick to firmly
  51. smack
    a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
  52. resonance
    the characteristic of having a loud deep sound
  53. hollow out
    remove the interior of
  54. cleave
    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
  55. clump
    a grouping of a number of similar things
  56. guinea
    a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings
  57. blotch
    an irregularly shaped spot
  58. dyslexia
    impaired ability to learn to read
  59. contraption
    a small mechanical device or tool
  60. provide
    give something useful or necessary to
  61. think
    judge or regard; look upon; judge
Created on Sat Dec 26 00:08:48 EST 2009 (updated Wed Jan 06 03:55:35 EST 2010)

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