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  1. diacritical
    capable of distinguishing
  2. animadvert
    express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark
  3. rapprochement
    the reestablishing of cordial relations
  4. neologism
    a newly invented word or phrase
  5. suasion
    the act of persuading
  6. epigram
    a witty saying
  7. pleonasm
    using more words than necessary
  8. strumpet
    a woman adulterer
  9. Hyperborean
    (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
  10. empyrean
    of or relating to the sky or heavens
  11. jejune
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  12. atavistic
    characteristic of a throwback
  13. demarche
    a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs
  14. phlogiston
    a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
  15. sumptuary
    regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior
  16. shibboleth
    a favorite saying of a sect or political group
  17. Schadenfreude
    delight in another person's misfortune
  18. isomorphic
    having similar appearance but genetically different
  19. plebiscite
    a vote determining public opinion on a question
  20. hedonic
    devoted to pleasure
  21. profligacy
    the trait of spending extravagantly
  22. obduracy
    resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible
  23. recrudescence
    a return of something after a period of abatement
  24. animalism
    the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
  25. cacoethes
    an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
  26. vellicate
    (archaic) touch a body part lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
  27. lissom
    moving and bending with ease
  28. peroration
    the concluding section of a rhetorical address
Created on Sat Nov 05 10:53:21 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Jan 19 14:13:19 EST 2012)

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