Before We Were Free

J D. (United States of America)
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  1. commiserate
    feel or express sympathy or compassion
  2. crinoline
    a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing
  3. seamstress
    someone who makes or mends clothes
  4. dawdle
    hang or fall in movement, progress, development, etc.
  5. contaminate
    make impure
  6. squeamish
    easily disturbed or disgusted by unpleasant things
  7. codger
    an eccentric elderly man
  8. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  9. disarray
    untidiness, especially of clothing and appearance
  10. lech
    man with strong sexual desires
  11. wary
    marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  12. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
Created on Sat Aug 29 08:47:21 EDT 2009

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