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Hiaason "Sick Puppy" 122 words

September 30, 2007 By Bosse B.

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  1. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  2. manila
    a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp
  3. frat house
    a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity
  4. gregarious
    instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  5. vector
    a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
  6. pup tent
    a wedge-shaped tent; usually without a floor or windows
  7. acrid
    strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"
  8. bristly
    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  9. taxidermy
    the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
  10. shingles
    eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
  11. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  12. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  13. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  14. abrasion
    erosion by friction
  15. odoriferous
    emitting an odor
  16. vanquish
    come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  17. truncheon
    a short stout club used primarily by policemen
  18. camo
    fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
  19. mesh
    an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
  20. duffel
    a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings
  21. bank
    sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
  22. prowl
    move about in or as if in a predatory manner
  23. bilious
    relating to or containing bile
  24. bobble
    make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  25. jittery
    characterized by jerky movements
  26. halting
    disabled in the feet or legs
  27. illicit
    contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention
  28. hack
    cut away
  29. stellate
    arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
  30. backhoe
    an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
  31. dweeb
    an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  32. furtive
    secret and sly or sordid
  33. bovine
    any of various members of the genus Bos
  34. pullulate
    produce buds, branches, or germinate
  35. frond
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
  36. escrow
    a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
  37. lacerate
    cut or tear irregularly
  38. tarpon
    large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
  39. deadbeat
    someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
  40. panhandle
    beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money
  41. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  42. cagey
    characterized by great caution and wariness
  43. pedigree
    the descendants of one individual
  44. burnish
    polish and make shiny
  45. droopy
    hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
  46. forbearing
    showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment
  47. jamb
    upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
  48. wrench
    a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
  49. dais
    a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
  50. gyp
    deprive of by deceit
  51. sap
    a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
  52. tine
    prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
  53. burble
    flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
  54. hive
    a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
  55. pelt
    the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  56. chowder
    a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes
  57. venison
    meat from a deer used as food
  58. woozy
    having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
  59. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
  60. shimmy
    an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
  61. fender
    a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
  62. teeter
    move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
  63. thrum
    sound the strings of (a string instrument)
  64. canine
    any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
  65. rivet
    heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together
  66. halitosis
    offensive breath
  67. wanly
    in a weak or pale or languid manner
  68. fer-de-lance
    large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
  69. disembowel
    remove the entrails of
  70. snide
    expressive of contempt
  71. truss
    (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
  72. mooch
    ask for and get free; be a parasite
  73. skitter
    to move about or proceed hurriedly
  74. harrow
    a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
  75. harrowing
    extremely painful
  76. stultify
    deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
  77. gadfly
    any of various large flies that annoy livestock
  78. gavel
    a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
  79. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  80. plodding
    (of movement) slow and laborious
  81. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  82. gripe
    complain
  83. lush
    produced or growing in extreme abundance
  84. ungulate
    any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
  85. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  86. lacerated
    irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn
  87. hull
    dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
  88. miff
    a state of irritation or annoyance
  89. disheveled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
  90. rend
    tear or be torn violently
  91. abut
    lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
  92. flake
    a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
  93. dredge
    a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
  94. estuary
    the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
  95. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  96. curio
    something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
  97. dainty
    something considered choice to eat
  98. credenza
    a kind of sideboard or buffet
  99. trolling
    angling by drawing a baited line through the water
  100. poised
    marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
  101. oafish
    ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  102. grouper
    usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
  103. stooge
    a victim of ridicule or pranks
  104. glib
    artfully persuasive in speech
  105. perky
    characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
  106. discomfiture
    anxious embarrassment
  107. tinsel
    a thread with glittering metal foil attached
  108. withers
    the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
  109. jugular
    relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat
  110. toot
    a blast of a horn
  111. skank
    a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
  112. tethered
    confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain
  113. skid
    one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
  114. barnacled
  115. teeming
    abundantly filled with especially living things
  116. sweltering
    excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
  117. hoary
    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  118. whorl
    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  119. bawdy
    humorously vulgar
  120. pesky
    causing irritation or annoyance
  121. contrition
    sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  122. abetment
    the verbal act of urging on