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Emily M.
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  1. besot
    make someone dazed or foolish
    Besotted:
    35.
  2. calibrate
    make fine adjustments for optimal measuring
    Calibrated:
    43.
  3. hedonistic
    devoted to pleasure
    Hedonistic:
    47.
  4. commiserate
    feel or express sympathy or compassion
    Commiserated:

  5. calibrated
    marked with or divided into degrees
    Calibrated:
    43.
  6. exacerbate
    make worse
    Exacerbated
    9.
  7. bathos
    a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
    Bathos:
    17.
  8. dogmatically
    in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner
    Dogmatically:
    26.
  9. insidiously
    in a harmfully insidious manner
    Insidiously:
    29.
  10. penultimate
    next to the last
    Penultimate:
    15.
  11. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
    Cajoling
    12.
  12. wheedling
    the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
    Wheedling:
    27.
  13. visceral
    relating to or affecting the internal organs
    Visceral:
    33.
  14. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
    Placated:
    10.
  15. besotted
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
    Besotted:
    35.
  16. homily
    a sermon on a moral or religious topic
    Homilies:
    13.
  17. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
    Endemic:
    11.
  18. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
    Tenuous:
    23.
  19. hone
    sharpen with a whetstone
    Hone:
    2.
  20. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
    Tantamount:
    31.
  21. surreal
    characterized by fantastic and incongruous imagery
    Surreal:
    5.
  22. jauntily
    in a jaunty fashionable manner
    Jauntily:
    41.
  23. buffer
    protect from impact
    Buffer:
    32.
  24. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
    Innocuous:
    28.
  25. Cavalier
    a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
    Cavalier
    7.
  26. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
    Incisive
    21.
  27. harbinger
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
    Harbinger:
    16.
  28. chagrined
    feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
    Chagrined:
    24.
  29. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
    Raucous:
    39.
  30. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
    Petulant:
    34.
  31. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
    Mundane:
    46.
  32. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
    Anomaly:
    6.
  33. contraband
    distributed or sold illicitly
    Contraband
    20.
  34. extricate
    release from entanglement or difficulty
    Extricated:
    18.
  35. profusely
    in very large amounts or quantities; extremely
    Profusely:
    22.
  36. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
    Pretentious:
    42.
  37. Bohemian
    of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people
    Bohemian:
    50.
  38. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
    Affable:
    48.
  39. defer
    yield to another's wish or opinion
    Defer:
    14.
  40. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
    Salient:
    4.
  41. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
    Sonorous
    36.
  42. deftly
    in an agile manner
    Deftly
    8.
  43. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
    Chagrined:
    24.
  44. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
    Interminable:
    25.
  45. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
    Aesthetic
    45.
  46. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
    Abject:
    49.
  47. avert
    turn away or aside
    Averted:
    37.
  48. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
    Sanguine:
    30.
  49. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
    Explicit:
    3.
  50. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
    Prowess
    40.
  51. paramount
    more important than anything else; supreme
    Paramount:
    19.
  52. potent
    having or wielding force or authority
    Potent:
    44.
  53. conspicuous
    obvious to the eye or mind
    Conspicuous:
    38.
Created on Tue Oct 11 10:16:33 EDT 2011

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