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A Whole New Mind 61 words

December 26, 2009 By Shinji S. (Tokyo 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 or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
  6. topsy-turvy
    in utter disorder
  7. disturb
    move deeply
  8. exhilarate
    fill with sublime emotion
  9. xenophobic
    suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign
  10. screed
    a long monotonous harangue
  11. rail
    a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
  12. pursue
    follow in or as if in pursuit
  13. cornerstone
    a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
  14. buzz
    sound of rapid vibration
  15. treatise
    a formal exposition
  16. predominantly
    much greater in number or influence
  17. adjust
    alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
  18. androgynous
    having both male and female characteristics
  19. crank
    rotate with a crank
  20. caregiver
    a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult
  21. console
    give moral or emotional strength to
  22. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  23. linear
    of or in or along or relating to a line; 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
    characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment
  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 (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  33. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  34. encapsulate
    enclose in a capsule or other small container
  35. hemisphere
    half of a sphere
  36. sequential
    in regular succession without gaps
  37. caricature
    a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
  38. enlist
    join the military
  39. halve
    divide by two; divide into halves
  40. frivolous
    not serious in content or 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 in swaddling clothes
  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; includes the jaws and nose
  49. squirm
    to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
  50. adhesive
    tending to adhere
  51. smack
    a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
  52. resonance
    having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
  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 device or control that is very useful for a particular job
  60. provide
    give something useful or necessary to
  61. think
    judge or regard; look upon; judge