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David Klass's Firestorm (Caretaker Trilogy, book 1) 113 words

February 5, 2010 By Michael F. (Brooklyn, NY)Top 10 Word Lister

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  1. abyss
    a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
  2. allude
    make a more or less disguised reference to
  3. amber
    a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
  4. amenities
    things that make you comfortable and at ease
  5. amenity
    pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
  6. arduous
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
  7. articulate
    express or state clearly
  8. artifice
    a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
  9. aura
    a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding 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
    physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
  13. bouillabaisse
    highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs
  14. buffet
    a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
  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 such as arthropods and turtles
  18. cardioid
    an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle
  19. causality
    the relation between causes and effects
  20. cetacean
    large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
  21. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
  22. claustrophobic
    suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places
  23. cognizant
    (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
  24. compatriot
    a person from your own country
  25. condescend
    behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
  26. condescending
    (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
  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 to give prominence to the person on it
  31. debacle
    a sudden and violent collapse
  32. debilitate
    make weak
  33. debilitating
    impairing the strength and vitality
  34. derisive
    abusing vocally; 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 (breath or an odor)
  42. endow
    give qualities or abilities to
  43. Epiphany
    twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus
  44. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  45. exude
    release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
  46. ferocious
    marked by extreme and violent energy
  47. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  48. founder
    a person who founds or establishes some institution
  49. foundering
    (of a ship) sinking
  50. galvanic
    pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action
  51. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
  52. hermitage
    the abode of a hermit
  53. hypocritical
    professing feelings or virtues one does not have
  54. ignominious
    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  55. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  56. inclement
    (of weather or climate) severe
  57. ineluctably
    by necessity
  58. inexorably
    in an inexorable manner
  59. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  60. initiator
    a person who initiates a course of action
  61. inquisitive
    inquiring or appearing to inquire
  62. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what actually 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 (as among thieves)
  69. lucky
    having or bringing good fortune
  70. maelstrom
    a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
  71. marlinespike
    a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing)
  72. melodrama
    an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
  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 musk
  80. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  81. obeisance
    bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
  82. ornithologist
    a zoologist who studies birds
  83. palatable
    acceptable to the taste or mind
  84. palpable
    capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
  85. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  86. pinnacle
    (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower
  87. pizzicato
    with a light plucking staccato sound
  88. precariously
    in a precarious manner
  89. pretentious
    making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
  90. primeval
    having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
  91. primordial
    having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
  92. prophesy
    predict or reveal through, or 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 the goal of finding something or somebody
  96. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
  97. reveille
    a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise
  98. rive
    tear or be torn violently
  99. rotund
    spherical in shape
  100. rumination
    a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
  101. salient
    having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
  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 produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
  105. solipsism
    (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
  106. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
  107. sustenance
    the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
  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; sometimes used as an intensifier
  112. vaporized
    converted into a gas or vapor
  113. vulnerability
    the state of being vulnerable or exposed