Insane

Tom K.
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  1. abattoir
    a building where animals are butchered
  2. accolade
    a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
  3. addendum
    textual matter that is appended to the end of a publication
  4. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  5. alarmism
    needless warnings
  6. amicable
    characterized by friendship and good will
  7. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
  8. arbitration
    giving authoritative judgment
  9. bungle
    make a mess of, destroy, or ruin
  10. bungling
    lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
  11. buoy
    an anchored float that marks locations in a body of water
  12. canonize
    declare (a dead person) to be a saint
  13. claimant
    someone who seeks a benefit, right, title, or payment
  14. clanger
    a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
  15. commiseration
    feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
  16. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  17. cretin
    a person of subnormal intelligence
  18. curtail
    terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end
  19. depravity
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  20. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  21. disrepute
    the state of being held in low esteem
  22. emanate
    give out, as breath or an odor
  23. endowment
    natural abilities or qualities
  24. engorged
    overfull as with blood
  25. euthanasia
    the act of killing someone painlessly
  26. fatalism
    a doctrine that all events are predetermined in advance
  27. faux pas
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  28. fidelity
    the quality of being faithful
  29. foist
    force onto another
  30. fraught
    filled with or attended with
  31. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  32. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  33. imperishable
    not subject to destruction or death or decay
  34. incremental
    increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
  35. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  36. iota
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  37. lather
    the froth produced by soaps or detergents
  38. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  39. magnum opus
    a creator's greatest work of art or literature
  40. omerta
    a code of silence practiced by the Mafia
  41. opacity
    the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
  42. patrician
    a person of refined upbringing and manners
  43. pertinent
    being of striking appropriateness
  44. pivotal
    being of crucial importance
  45. posterity
    all future generations
  46. pratfall
    a tumble backward, especially for comic effect
  47. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  48. proliferation
    a rapid increase in number
  49. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  50. rancor
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  51. rancorous
    showing deep-seated resentment
  52. renal
    of or relating to the kidneys
  53. repressed
    characterized by the suppression of impulses or emotions
  54. sartorial
    of or relating to tailoring or clothing
  55. sate
    fill to contentment
  56. scupper
    drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard
  57. spry
    moving quickly and lightly
  58. stratigraphy
    the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
  59. vainglorious
    feeling self-importance
  60. vaunt
    show off
  61. witheringly
    in a withering manner
  62. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  63. exoteric
    suitable for the general public
  64. corps diplomatique
    the body of diplomatic personnel
Created on Sun Oct 30 12:05:30 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Nov 10 21:30:34 EST 2011)

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