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Andres B. (Colombia)
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  1. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  2. abscond
    run away, often taking something or somebody along
  3. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  4. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  5. bolster
    support and strengthen
  6. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  7. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  8. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  9. crescendo
    a gradual increase in loudness
  10. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  11. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  12. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  13. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  14. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  15. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  16. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  17. disabuse
    free somebody from an erroneous belief
  18. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  19. dupe
    fool or hoax
  20. fawn
    a young deer
  21. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  22. frugality
    prudence in avoiding waste
  23. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  24. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  25. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  26. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  27. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  28. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  29. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  30. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  31. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  32. laconic
    brief and to the point
  33. lavish
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  34. malinger
    avoid responsibilities and duties, often by faking illness
  35. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  36. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  37. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  38. obviate
    do away with
  39. occlude
    block passage through
  40. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  41. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  42. perfidious
    tending to betray
  43. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  44. plethora
    extreme excess
  45. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  46. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  47. pungent
    strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell
  48. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  49. rarefy
    lessen the density or solidity of
  50. soporific
    inducing sleep
  51. specious
    plausible but false
  52. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  53. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  54. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  55. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
Created on Fri May 01 14:21:40 EDT 2009 (updated Fri May 01 14:43:20 EDT 2009)

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