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Elizabeth A. (United States of America)
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  1. nob
    informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
  2. toff
    informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
  3. chivy
    annoy continually or chronically
  4. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  5. rum
    liquor distilled from fermented molasses
  6. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  7. basilisk
    a serpent able to kill with its breath or glance
  8. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  9. polyglot
    a person who speaks more than one language
  10. elide
    omit or strike out
  11. frond
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
  12. biddable
    willing to carry out the wishes of another without protest
  13. roister
    celebrate or enjoy something in a noisy or wild way
  14. frisson
    an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  15. fission
    reproduction of a unicellular organism by cell division
  16. solecism
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  17. plangent
    loud and resounding, often in a mournful way
Created on Fri Jan 08 22:05:00 EST 2010 (updated Fri Jan 08 22:15:58 EST 2010)

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