Collection 3: The Clan of One-Breasted Women

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  1. align
    bring into proper or desirable coordination correlation
  2. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  3. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  4. eerie
    suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  5. McCarthyism
    unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty
  6. rampant
    occurring or increasing in an unrestrained way
  7. Dwight D. Eisenhower
    United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
  8. compensation
    something given or received as payment or reparation
  9. manifest
    reveal its presence or make an appearance
  10. smolder
    burn slowly and without a flame
  11. treason
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  12. genealogy
    the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
  13. apparition
    a ghostly appearing figure
  14. apprehend
    take into police custody
  15. gesture
    something done as an indication of intention
Created on Thu Jul 10 11:59:08 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:31:00 EDT 2014)

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