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  1. edacity
    excessive desire to eat
  2. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  3. esurient
    extremely hungry
  4. jeremiad
    a long and mournful complaint
  5. philippic
    a speech of violent denunciation
  6. tergiversate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  7. asperity
    harshness of manner
  8. gracile
    slender and graceful
  9. catenulate
    having a chainlike form
  10. defalcation
    a sum of money owned by someone else that is misused
  11. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  12. preterite
    a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
  13. etiolate
    make weak by stunting the growth or development of
  14. sempiternal
    having no known beginning and presumably no end
  15. devoir
    formal expression of respect
  16. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  17. anomic
    socially disoriented
  18. dendroid
    resembling a tree in form and branching structure
  19. extricate
    release from entanglement or difficulty
  20. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  21. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  22. austral
    of the south or coming from the south
  23. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  24. bacchanalian
    used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  25. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  26. persnickety
    characterized by excessive attention to trivial details
  27. limen
    the smallest detectable sensation
  28. dudgeon
    a feeling of intense righteous anger
  29. epigram
    a witty saying
  30. proscribe
    command against
  31. poltroon
    an abject coward
  32. intussusception
    the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
  33. pauperization
    the act of making someone poor
  34. exiguous
    extremely scanty
  35. privation
    the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights
  36. parochial
    relating to or supported by or located in a parish
  37. halcyon
    a mythical bird said to breed at the winter solstice
  38. bilk
    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  39. nugatory
    of no real value
  40. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  41. raconteur
    a person skilled in telling anecdotes
  42. sciolist
    an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
  43. pabulum
    any substance that can be used as food
  44. remunerate
    make payment to; compensate
  45. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  46. hirsute
    having or covered with hair
  47. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  48. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  49. chortle
    a soft partly suppressed laugh
  50. treacly
    overly sweet
  51. cloying
    overly sweet
  52. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  53. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  54. ambuscade
    the act of hiding and waiting to make a surprise attack
  55. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
Created on Mon Jul 16 14:14:33 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Aug 17 18:04:19 EDT 2014)

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