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  1. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  2. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  3. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  4. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  5. lionize
    assign great social importance to
  6. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  7. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  8. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  9. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  10. motility
    ability to move spontaneously and independently
  11. multifarious
    having many aspects
  12. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  13. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  14. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  15. nexus
    the means of connection between things linked in series
  16. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
  17. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  18. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  19. ossify
    become bony
  20. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  21. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  22. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  23. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  24. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  25. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  26. peregrine
    a powerful falcon formerly used in falconry
  27. petrous
    resembling stone in hardness
  28. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  29. pillory
    a wooden instrument of punishment on a post
  30. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  31. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  32. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  33. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  34. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  35. proselytize
    convert or try to convert someone to another religion
  36. protuberance
    something that bulges out or projects from its surroundings
  37. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  38. raffish
    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputability
  39. ramify
    have or develop complicating consequences
  40. rampant
    occurring or increasing in an unrestrained way
  41. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  42. recidivism
    habitual relapse into crime
  43. recreant
    having deserted a cause or principle
  44. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  45. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  46. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  47. rubric
    category name
  48. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  49. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  50. saucy
    improperly forward or bold
Created on Wed Oct 24 06:46:38 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Nov 06 05:39:21 EST 2012)

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