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  1. vitrification
    a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified
  2. etymon
    a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
    the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor ‰€œheart,‰€ which is the etymon of English cordial
  3. putrefy
    decay with an offensive smell
  4. hegemony
    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
  5. fulminate
    cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  6. recondite
    difficult to understand
  7. gerontocracy
    a political system governed by old people
    Political system governed by old men
  8. recondite
    difficult to understand
    adjectiven1.ndealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.n2.nbeyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.n3.nlittle known; obscure: a recondite fact.
  9. baneful
    evil or sinister
  10. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
Created on Sun Jun 28 05:00:12 EDT 2009 (updated Fri Apr 02 04:51:43 EDT 2010)

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