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Molly W. (United States of America)
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  1. ace
    a playing card in a deck having a single pip on its face
  2. antsy
    nervous and unable to relax
  3. beat
    hit repeatedly
  4. buck
    mature male of certain mammals, especially deer or antelope
  5. bug
    general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
  6. chicken
    a domestic bird bred for meat or eggs
  7. chow
    informal terms for a meal
  8. egghead
    an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
  9. hand
    the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  10. kid
    young goat
  11. lousy
    very bad
  12. nuke
    the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
  13. nuts
    informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  14. plastic
    synthetic material that can be molded into objects
  15. pretty
    pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
  16. tightwad
    a miserly person
  17. tough
    substantially made or constructed
  18. tricky
    having concealed difficulty
  19. two-faced
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
  20. update
    modernize
  21. white lie
    an unimportant lie
Created on Sat Jul 10 18:07:01 EDT 2010

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