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  1. wary
    marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  2. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  3. congeal
    solidify, thicken, or come together
  4. fissure
    a long narrow depression in a surface
  5. kin
    a person related to another or others
  6. sorrow
    an emotion of great sadness associated with loss
  7. chiding
    rebuking a person harshly
  8. biased
    favoring one person or side over another
  9. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  10. perjure
    make oneself guilty of telling untruths in a court of law
  11. concealment
    the condition of being hidden
  12. provoke
    provide the needed stimulus for
  13. contemplate
    think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
  14. collateral
    accompanying; following as a consequence
  15. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
  16. foreboding
    a feeling of evil to come
  17. lacerated
    irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn
  18. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  19. vain
    having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  20. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  21. saguaro
    extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit
  22. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  23. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  24. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  25. pendulum
    an apparatus in which an object is mounted to swing freely
  26. abrade
    rub hard or scrub
  27. barren
    completely wanting or lacking
  28. gnaw
    bite or chew on with the teeth
  29. debris
    the remains of something that has been destroyed
  30. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
  31. escarpment
    a long steep slope at the edge of a plateau or ridge
Created on Wed Oct 10 10:15:58 EDT 2012

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