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Lewis H.
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  1. vituperation
    abusive or venomous language to express blame or censure
  2. frisson
    an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  3. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  4. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  5. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  6. daedal
    complex and ingenious in design or function
  7. irenic
    conducive to peace
  8. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  9. nimiety
    a quantity much larger than is needed
  10. escalade
    an act of scaling by the use of ladders
  11. phylogeny
    evolutionary development of a species or group of organisms
  12. metaphysics
    the philosophical study of being and knowing
  13. agglutinate
    clump together, such as bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
  14. claque
    a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
  15. apostatize
    abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
  16. tergiversate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  17. rubric
    category name
  18. funicular
    relating to or operated by a cable
  19. gamin
    a boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
  20. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  21. sociopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
  22. psychosis
    severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost
  23. existential
    relating to or dealing with the state of being
  24. teleology
    a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
  25. ontology
    the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
  26. meme
    an amusing image that spreads rapidly through social media
  27. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  28. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  29. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  30. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
Created on Fri Mar 16 17:33:14 EDT 2007 (updated Tue Apr 20 09:47:09 EDT 2010)

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