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Victoria R.
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  1. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  2. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  3. vitiate
    make imperfect
  4. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  5. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  6. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  7. betoken
    be a signal for or a symptom of
  8. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  9. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  10. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  11. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  12. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  13. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  14. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  15. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
  16. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
  17. conceited
    having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  18. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  19. ruddy
    inclined to a healthy reddish color
  20. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  21. jaunt
    a journey taken for pleasure
  22. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  23. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  24. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  25. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  26. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  27. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  28. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  29. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  30. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  31. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  32. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
  33. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  34. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  35. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  36. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  37. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  38. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  39. propensity
    a natural inclination
  40. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  41. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  42. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  43. dapper
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  44. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  45. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  46. dapper
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  47. augur
    predict from an omen
  48. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  49. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  50. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  51. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  52. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  53. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  54. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  55. impetus
    a force that makes something happen
Created on Mon Jan 16 09:43:40 EST 2012 (updated Mon Jan 23 13:35:27 EST 2012)

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