Dolphins' WODs

Tushar G (India)
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  1. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  2. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  3. factotum
    a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
  4. eleemosynary
    generous in assistance to the poor
  5. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  6. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
  7. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  8. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  9. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  10. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  11. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  12. sequester
    keep away from others
  13. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  14. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  15. humdrum
    tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
  16. remonstrance
    the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
  17. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
  18. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  19. garish
    tastelessly showy
  20. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  21. natty
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  22. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  23. renegade
    someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
  24. infernal
    characteristic of or resembling Hell
  25. pulchritude
    physical beauty, especially of a woman
  26. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  27. pillage
    steal goods; take as spoils
  28. preponderance
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
  29. pasquinade
    a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style
  30. attrition
    the act of rubbing together
  31. hoary
    having gray or white hair as with age
  32. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  33. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  34. foreboding
    a feeling of evil to come
  35. limn
    make a portrait of
  36. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  37. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  38. prostrate
    stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
  39. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  40. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  41. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  42. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  43. winnow
    the act of separating grain from chaff
  44. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
Created on Thu Oct 04 08:27:48 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Oct 11 12:52:36 EDT 2012)

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