The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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  1. accrue
    grow by addition
  2. American Revolution
    the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  3. anaemia
    a deficiency of red blood cells
  4. Arturo Toscanini
    Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)
  5. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  6. awe
    an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
  7. awry
    turned or twisted to one side
  8. bigot
    a prejudiced person who is intolerant of differing opinions
  9. Booker T. Washington
    United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
  10. bureau
    an administrative unit of government
  11. capitalism
    an economic system based on private ownership of assets
  12. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  13. catholic
    comprehensive or broad-minded in tastes and interests
  14. cavalcade
    a procession of people traveling by foot, horse, or vehicles
  15. colic
    acute abdominal pain, especially in infants
  16. colored
    having color or a certain color
  17. communist
    relating to socialism that abolishes private ownership
  18. Day of Judgement
    (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  19. deaf
    people who have hearing impairments
  20. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  21. dick
    someone who is a detective
  22. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  23. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  24. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  25. dope
    street names for marijuana
  26. dumb
    slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
  27. electric chair
    an instrument of execution by electrocution
  28. enunciate
    express or state clearly
  29. eugenic
    causing improvement in the offspring produced
  30. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  31. fret
    be agitated or irritated
  32. gaudy
    tastelessly showy
  33. George Washington Carver
    United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
  34. hail
    precipitation of ice pellets
  35. hookworm
    parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts
  36. hypothetical
    a conjectural possibility or circumstance
  37. inevitably
    in such a manner as could not be otherwise
  38. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  39. insolence
    the trait of being rude and impertinent
  40. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
  41. Jew
    member of a community whose traditional religion is Judaism
  42. Karl Marx
    founder of modern communism
  43. languish
    become feeble
  44. languorous
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  45. loiter
    linger, remain, or wait around for no apparent reason
  46. menace
    something that is a source of danger
  47. miry
    swampy and muddy
  48. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
  49. Mozart
    prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy
  50. Mulatto
  51. mute
    expressed without speech
  52. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  53. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  54. obscurantism
    a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
  55. oppression
    the act of subjugating by cruelty
  56. Panama hat
    a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
  57. peaked
    having or rising to a peak
  58. pellagra
    a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan
  59. prissy
    exaggeratedly proper
  60. prom
    a formal dance held for a school class
  61. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  62. queer
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  63. ROTC
    a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
  64. Russia
    a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia
  65. scimitar
    a curved saber used in Eastern countries
  66. Second Coming of Christ
    the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
  67. self-abasement
    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
  68. serf
    (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
  69. serfdom
    the state of a serf
  70. shanty
    a small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  71. soapbox
    a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
  72. soiree
    a party of people assembled in the evening
  73. specs
    optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
  74. Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system
  75. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  76. St. Lawrence River
    a North American river
  77. Stalin
    Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
  78. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  79. sty
    a pen for swine
  80. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  81. tangent
    a line that touches a curve at only one point
  82. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  83. teetotaler
    someone who abstains from drinking alcoholic beverages
  84. Thorstein Veblen
    United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929)
  85. trumped-up
    concocted with intent to deceive
  86. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
  87. vestibule
    a large entrance or reception room or area
  88. volubility
    the quality of being facile in speech and writing
  89. vouchsafe
    grant in a condescending manner
  90. warily
    in a manner marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
Created on Mon Mar 09 17:34:35 EDT 2009 (updated Sat May 29 15:24:58 EDT 2010)

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