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Lucy P. (United States of America)
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  1. bandy
    discuss lightly
  2. importunate
    making persistent or urgent requests
  3. flagitious
    extremely wicked, deeply criminal
  4. pulchritudinous
    having great physical beauty
  5. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  6. bibulous
    given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
  7. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  8. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  9. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  10. legerdemain
    an illusory feat
  11. esurient
    extremely hungry
  12. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  13. opalescent
    having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
  14. bandy
    discuss lightly
  15. valedictory
    a farewell oration
  16. premonitory
    warning of future misfortune
  17. refulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  18. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  19. inebriated
    stupefied or excited by a chemical substance
  20. comeuppance
    a usually negative outcome or fate that is well deserved
  21. bungalow
    a small house with a single story
  22. incorporeal
    without material form or substance
  23. asperity
    harshness of manner
  24. celibate
    abstaining from sexual intercourse
  25. vehemence
    intensity or forcefulness of expression
  26. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  27. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  28. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  29. antithetical
    sharply contrasted in character or purpose
  30. livid
    furiously angry
  31. iconoclastic
    characterized by attack on established beliefs
Created on Wed Feb 22 16:55:38 EST 2012 (updated Wed Feb 22 18:06:21 EST 2012)

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