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  1. adjure
    command solemnly
  2. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  3. artisan
    a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
  4. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  5. bathetic
    very sentimental or emotional
  6. betoken
    be a signal for or a symptom of
  7. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  8. bode
    indicate by signs
  9. buoyant
    tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
  10. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  11. chasten
    censure severely
  12. citizenry
    the body of citizens of a state or country
  13. comestible
    suitable for use as food
  14. concatenation
    the act of linking together as in a series or chain
  15. conflate
    mix together different elements
  16. contention
    the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  17. deft
    skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
  18. delinquency
    nonpayment of a debt when due
  19. deprive
    take away
  20. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
  21. discernible
    perceptible by the senses or intellect
  22. disenchanted
    disappointed or let down
  23. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  24. enrapture
    hold spellbound
  25. ethologist
    a scientist who studies animal behavior
  26. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  27. forbid
    command against
  28. futile
    producing no result or effect
  29. gentry
    the most powerful members of a society
  30. Goethe
    German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar
  31. hegemony
    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
  32. hoary
    having gray or white hair as with age
  33. illicit
    contrary to accepted morality or convention
  34. impunity
    exemption from punishment or loss
  35. incorporeal
    without material form or substance
  36. juvenile
    of or relating to children or young people
  37. knit
    make by needlework with interlacing yarn
  38. maven
    one who is very skilled in or knowledgeable about a field
  39. menagerie
    the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
  40. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  41. minatory
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  42. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  43. nettle
    plant having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation
  44. parry
    impede the movement of
  45. pasquinade
    a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style
  46. perforce
    by necessity
  47. picayune
    small and of little importance
  48. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  49. procure
    get by special effort
  50. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  51. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  52. reap
    get or derive
  53. reenact
    enact again
  54. reminiscent
    serving to bring to mind
  55. render
    give or supply
  56. revile
    spread negative information about
  57. stifle
    impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
  58. subjugation
    forced submission to control by others
  59. subservience
    being something that is useful in carrying out a plan
  60. taffeta
    a crisp, smooth, lustrous fabric
  61. tenor
    the adult male singing voice above baritone
  62. twig
    a small branch or division of a branch
  63. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
  64. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  65. vitiate
    make imperfect
  66. equator
    an imaginary line around the Earth forming a great circle
  67. spinner
    someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
  68. averse
    strongly opposed
  69. averse
    strongly opposed
  70. emancipate
    free from slavery or servitude
  71. couch
    an upholstered seat for more than one person
  72. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
  73. bereavement
    state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
Created on Tue Jul 31 00:59:29 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Aug 16 02:14:29 EDT 2012)

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