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  1. awkwardly
    in a clumsy manner
  2. alluring
    highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
  3. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  4. psychedelic
    producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings
  5. debauchery
    a wild gathering
  6. murmuring
    making a low continuous indistinct sound
  7. subdued
    restrained in style or quality
  8. miraculously
    in a miraculous manner
  9. irrelevant
    having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
  10. chronicler
    someone who records past events in the order that they occurred
  11. glamorous
    having an air of allure, romance and excitement
  12. inextricably
    in a manner incapable of being disentangled or untied
  13. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  14. dismissible
    subject to dismissal
  15. preposterously
    so as to arouse or deserve laughter
  16. ratty
    of or characteristic of rats
  17. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  18. sparge
    scatter with liquid; wet lightly
  19. quad
    a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
  20. avenge
    take action in return for a perceived wrong
  21. dote
    shower with love; show excessive affection for
  22. tortoiseshell
    the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles
  23. exacerbate
    make worse
  24. ailment
    an often persistent bodily disorder or disease
  25. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  26. chronologically
    with respect to chronology
  27. futile
    producing no result or effect
Created on Tue Oct 25 01:23:35 EDT 2011

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