David Klass's Firestorm (Caretaker Trilogy, book 1)

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  1. abyss
    a bottomless gulf or pit
  2. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  3. amber
    a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin
  4. amenities
    things that make you comfortable and at ease
  5. amenity
    something that provides value, pleasure, or convenience
  6. arduous
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
  7. articulate
    express or state clearly
  8. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  9. aura
    distinctive but intangible quality around a person or thing
  10. behemoth
    someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  11. beneficence
    the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
  12. book
    an object consisting of a number of pages bound together
  13. bouillabaisse
    a tomato-based soup or stew with several kinds of fish or shellfish
  14. buffet
    piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room
  15. buffeted
    pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
  16. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  17. carapace
    hard outer covering or case of certain organisms
  18. cardioid
    an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle
  19. causality
    the relation between reasons and effects
  20. cetacean
    large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs
  21. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
  22. claustrophobic
    abnormally afraid of closed-in places
  23. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  24. compatriot
    a person from your own country
  25. condescend
    behave in a patronizing manner
  26. condescending
    characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance
  27. contraband
    distributed or sold illicitly
  28. converge
    be adjacent or come together
  29. corporeal
    having material or physical form or substance
  30. dais
    a platform raised above the surrounding level
  31. debacle
    a sudden and complete disaster
  32. debilitate
    make weak
  33. debilitating
    impairing strength and vitality
  34. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
  35. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  36. desiccated
    thoroughly dried out
  37. despoiler
    someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
  38. dingy
    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  39. dissolvent
    a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
  40. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  41. emanate
    give out, as breath or an odor
  42. endow
    give qualities or abilities to
  43. Epiphany
    twelve days after Christmas
  44. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  45. exude
    release in drops or small quantities
  46. ferocious
    marked by extreme and violent energy
  47. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  48. founder
    a person who establishes some institution
  49. foundering
    (of a ship) sinking
  50. galvanic
    pertaining to electric current by chemical action
  51. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
  52. hermitage
    the abode of a recluse
  53. hypocritical
    professing feelings or virtues one does not have
  54. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  55. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  56. inclement
    severe, of weather
  57. ineluctably
    by necessity
  58. inexorably
    in a manner impervious to change or persuasion
  59. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  60. initiator
    a person who starts a course of action
  61. inquisitive
    given to questioning
  62. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  63. irreparably
    in an irreparable manner or to an irreparable degree
  64. jubilant
    full of high-spirited delight
  65. kooky
    informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  66. ledger
    a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
  67. leviathan
    the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  68. lingo
    a characteristic language of a particular group
  69. lucky
    having or bringing good fortune
  70. maelstrom
    a powerful circular current of water
  71. marlinespike
    a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)
  72. melodrama
    a story with characters behaving in an extreme emotional way
  73. menagerie
    a collection of live animals for study or display
  74. metaphorically
    in a metaphorical manner
  75. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
  76. momentum
    the product of a body's mass and its velocity
  77. monomaniacal
    obsessed with a single subject or idea
  78. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  79. musky
    resembling the smell of a deer secretion or odorous perfume
  80. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  81. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
  82. ornithologist
    a zoologist who studies feathered animals
  83. palatable
    acceptable to the taste or mind
  84. palpable
    capable of being perceived
  85. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  86. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  87. pizzicato
    with a light plucking staccato sound
  88. precariously
    in a manner affording no ease or reassurance
  89. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  90. primeval
    having existed from the beginning
  91. primordial
    having existed from the beginning
  92. prophesy
    predict or reveal, as if through divine inspiration
  93. pulverize
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
  94. ravenous
    extremely hungry
  95. reconnoiter
    explore, often with a goal of finding something or somebody
  96. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
  97. reveille
    a signal, usually a bugle call, to get up in the morning
  98. rive
    tear or be torn violently
  99. rotund
    spherical in shape
  100. rumination
    a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
  101. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  102. seamount
    an underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor
  103. sham
    something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
  104. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
  105. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
  106. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  107. sustenance
    the act of providing a means of subsistence or survival
  108. sycophantic
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  109. uncannily
    in an uncanny manner
  110. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
  111. unmitigated
    not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity
  112. vaporized
    converted into a gas or vapor
  113. vulnerability
    the state of being exposed to harm
Created on Fri Feb 05 16:29:28 EST 2010 (updated Fri Feb 05 16:29:35 EST 2010)

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