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  1. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  2. don
    a teacher or tutor, especially at Cambridge or Oxford
  3. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  4. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  5. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  6. acre
    a unit of area used in English-speaking countries
  7. acrid
    strong and sharp, as a taste or smell
  8. ace
    a playing card in a deck having a single pip on its face
  9. acedia
    apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue
  10. evoke
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  11. scorch
    burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  12. pyramid
    a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides
  13. kinetic energy
    the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of motion
  14. potential energy
    energy stored by a body or system by virtue of its position
  15. force
    influence that results in motion, stress, etc. when applied
  16. work
    activity directed toward making or doing something
  17. energy
    forceful exertion
  18. divine
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  19. international
    concerning or belonging to two or more countries
  20. enthusiasm
    a feeling of excitement
  21. adopt
    take into one's family
  22. clergyman
    a male religious leader, especially a Christian one
  23. spiritual
    lacking material body or form or substance
  24. clergy
    the entire class of religious officials
  25. pilgrimage
    a journey to a sacred place
  26. haunted
    inhabited by or as if by apparitions
  27. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  28. graph
    a visual representation of the relations between quantities
  29. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  30. dance
    taking a series of rhythmical steps in time to music
  31. music
    an artistic form of auditory communication
  32. muse
    reflect deeply on a subject
  33. vocabulary
    a language user's knowledge of words
  34. mailsorter
    a sorter for sorting mail according to the address
  35. vivacious
    vigorous and animated
  36. virtue
    the quality of doing what is right
  37. infamous
    known widely and usually unfavorably
  38. laser-guided bomb
    a smart bomb that seeks the laser light reflected off of the target and uses it to correct its descent
  39. editing
    putting something into acceptable form
  40. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  41. ma
    informal terms for a mother
  42. mo
    an indefinitely short time
  43. moot
    of no legal significance, as having been previously decided
  44. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  45. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  46. chivalry
    the medieval principles governing knightly conduct
  47. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
  48. duckling
    young duck
  49. legend
    a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
  50. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  51. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  52. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  53. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  54. democracy
    the orientation of those who favor government by the people
  55. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  56. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  57. gorgeous
    dazzlingly beautiful
  58. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  59. iron
    a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element
  60. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
  61. keen
    intense or sharp
  62. love
    a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
  63. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  64. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  65. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  66. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  67. qabala
    an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret
  68. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  69. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  70. slang
    informal language that is inappropriate for formal occasions
  71. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  72. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  73. vague
    lacking clarity or distinctness
  74. weird
    strikingly odd or unusual
  75. fish ball
    well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs
  76. freak
    a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
  77. xenophobic
    having abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners
  78. yield
    give or supply
  79. zoology
    the branch of biology that studies animals
  80. cosmology
    metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe
  81. pilot
    someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
  82. lawyer
    a professional person authorized for legal practice
  83. engineer
    a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve problems
  84. computer virus
    a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
  85. virus
    infectious agent that replicates itself within living hosts
  86. astronomer
    a physicist who studies celestial bodies and the universe
  87. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  88. extinct
    no longer in existence
  89. active
    characterized by energetic movement
  90. god
    any supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
Created on Sun Jan 08 04:57:30 EST 2012 (updated Sun Jan 08 05:26:41 EST 2012)

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