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Amit K.
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  1. abet
    assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
  2. covet
    wish, long, or crave for
  3. despoil
    plunder or steal goods
  4. bedaub
    spread or daub (a surface)
  5. heed
    careful attention
  6. augur
    predict from an omen
  7. annihilate
    kill in large numbers
  8. consummate
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  9. supplant
    take the place or move into the position of
  10. expeditious
    marked by speed and efficiency
  11. dank
    unpleasantly cool and humid
  12. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  13. whence
    from what place, source, or cause
  14. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  15. rhapsodize
    say with great enthusiasm
  16. palter
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  17. laconic
    brief and to the point
  18. notional
    being of the nature of a notion or general idea
  19. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  20. reprehensible
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  21. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  22. recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
  23. abdication
    the act of giving up power
  24. supposition
    the cognitive process of conjecturing
  25. abase
    cause to feel shame
  26. appraising
    exercising or involving careful evaluations
  27. extol
    praise, glorify, or honor
  28. tardy
    after the expected or usual time
  29. pompous
    puffed up with vanity
  30. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  31. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  32. coddle
    cook in nearly boiling water
  33. excoriate
    express strong disapproval of
  34. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  35. ostracise
    expel from a community or group
  36. bonhomie
    a disposition to be friendly and approachable
  37. browbeat
    discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner
  38. demagoguery
    political rhetoric appealing to popular prejudice or emotion
  39. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  40. idolatry
    the worship of objects or images as gods
  41. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  42. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  43. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  44. solicitude
    a feeling of excessive concern
  45. decadent
    relating to indulgence in something pleasurable
  46. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  47. imminent
    close in time; about to occur
  48. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  49. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  50. reconnoiter
    explore, often with a goal of finding something or somebody
  51. galvanize
    stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock
  52. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  53. entrap
    catch in or as if in a snare
  54. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  55. dubitable
    open to doubt or suspicion
  56. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  57. axiomatic
    evident without proof or argument
  58. snub
    refuse to acknowledge
  59. slight
    small in quantity or degree
  60. despoil
    plunder or steal goods
  61. propound
    put forward, as of an idea
  62. hallow
    render holy by means of religious rites
  63. incensed
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  64. melancholic
    characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  65. approving
    expressing or manifesting praise or approval
  66. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Created on Sun Sep 30 16:57:03 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Oct 15 06:12:37 EDT 2012)

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