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  1. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  2. cauterize
    burn, sear, or freeze using a hot iron or electric current
  3. expunge
    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  4. recondite
    difficult to understand
  5. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  6. despoil
    plunder or steal goods
  7. redact
    formulate in a particular style or language
  8. peregrination
    traveling or wandering around
  9. prestidigitation
    manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
  10. peroration
    the concluding section of a rhetorical address
  11. herpetologist
    a scientist who studies reptiles and amphibians
  12. superannuation
    the act of discharging someone because of age
  13. senescence
    the property characteristic of old age
  14. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
  15. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  16. catholic
    comprehensive or broad-minded in tastes and interests
  17. prerogative
    a right reserved exclusively by a person or group
  18. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  19. temerity
    fearless daring
  20. indemnity
    protection against future loss
  21. countermand
    cancel officially
  22. consummate
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  23. abrogate
    revoke formally
  24. admonish
    scold or reprimand; take to task
  25. remunerate
    make payment to; compensate
  26. cachinnation
    loud convulsive laughter
  27. exiguous
    extremely scanty
  28. puissance
    power to influence or coerce
  29. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  30. desiccant
    a substance that promotes drying
  31. paean
    a hymn of praise
  32. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  33. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  34. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  35. nostrum
    patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
  36. wanderlust
    very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
  37. Stygian
    dark and dismal as of the river in Hades
  38. repine
    express discontent
  39. inveterate
    habitual
  40. ruddy
    inclined to a healthy reddish color
  41. fell
    cause to go down by or as if by delivering a blow
  42. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Created on Sun Aug 30 13:56:03 EDT 2009 (updated Thu Sep 10 02:16:05 EDT 2009)

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