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Abhik Mitra (India)
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  1. affectation
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  2. amenity
    something that provides value, pleasure, or convenience
  3. anguish
    extreme distress of body or mind
  4. bequest
    a gift of personal property by will
  5. beset
    assail or attack on all sides
  6. blatant
    without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
  7. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  8. civility
    the act of showing regard for others
  9. condescending
    characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance
  10. contrived
    showing effects of planning or manipulation
  11. covenant
    an agreement between a god and the people
  12. culminate
    end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
  13. delude
    be dishonest with
  14. deprave
    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  15. dialectical
    relating to reasoning by the exchange of logical arguments
  16. dialectic
    a contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction
  17. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  18. discrete
    constituting a separate entity or part
  19. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  20. egalitarian
    favoring social equality
  21. emigrate
    leave one's country of residence for a new one
  22. immigrate
    come into a new country and change residency
  23. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  24. enfranchise
    grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude
  25. exalted
    of high moral or intellectual value
  26. exhort
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  27. existential
    relating to or dealing with the state of being
  28. expatriate
    a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
  29. extricate
    release from entanglement or difficulty
  30. exult
    feel extreme happiness or elation
  31. exalt
    praise, glorify, or honor
  32. fabricate
    put together out of artificial or natural components
  33. farcical
    broadly or extravagantly humorous
  34. fatalist
    someone who feels powerless to change his or her destiny
  35. felicity
    pleasing and appropriate manner or style
  36. finesse
    subtly skillful handling of a situation
  37. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  38. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  39. forsake
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  40. genteel
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
  41. glut
    supply with an excess of
  42. hapless
    unfortunate and deserving pity
  43. heyday
    the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
  44. homily
    a sermon on a moral or religious topic
  45. husbandry
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  46. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  47. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  48. incantation
    a ritual reciting of words believed to have a magical effect
  49. incensed
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  50. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  51. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  52. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  53. infatuated
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  54. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
  55. injunction
    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something
  56. inordinate
    beyond normal limits
  57. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  58. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  59. intrinsic
    belonging to a thing by its very nature
Created on Thu Jul 26 04:44:41 EDT 2012

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