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denisse A.
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  1. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  2. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  3. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  4. transgression
    the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
  5. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  6. blare
    make a loud noise
  7. corpulent
    excessively large
  8. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  9. rotund
    spherical in shape
  10. homely
    lacking in physical beauty or proportion
  11. frowzy
    negligent of neatness especially in dress and person
  12. slovenly
    negligent of neatness especially in dress and person
  13. cadge
    obtain or seek to obtain by wheedling
  14. quagmire
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  15. pulchritudinous
    having great physical beauty
  16. svelte
    being of delicate or slender build
  17. lanky
    tall and thin and having long slender limbs
  18. froward
    habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  19. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  20. eponym
    the person for whom something is named
  21. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  22. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
  23. palindrome
    a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
  24. spoonerism
    transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
  25. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
Created on Thu May 17 16:46:18 EDT 2007

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