Chapter 25

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  1. fiscal
    involving financial matters
  2. opportunism
    taking advantage of favorable circumstances selfishly
  3. enormous
    extraordinarily large in size or extent or degree
  4. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  5. squirm
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  6. nondescript
    lacking distinct or individual characteristics
  7. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  8. convulsion
    a violent uncontrollable contraction of muscles
  9. writhe
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  10. disintegrate
    break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
  11. excruciating
    extremely painful
  12. debauchery
    a wild gathering
  13. evoke
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  14. ventricle
    a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium
  15. artery
    a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
  16. incalculable
    not capable of being computed or enumerated
  17. blasphemy
    profane language
Created on Fri Dec 02 14:54:20 EST 2011

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