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  1. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  2. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  3. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  4. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  5. apex
    the highest point of something
  6. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  7. cacophonous
    having an unpleasant sound
  8. callow
    young and inexperienced
  9. celerity
    a rate that is rapid
  10. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  11. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  12. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  13. extraneous
    not belonging to that in which it is contained
  14. fallible
    wanting in moral strength, courage, or will
  15. fetter
    a shackle for the ankles or feet
  16. goad
    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
  17. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  18. immutable
    not subject or susceptible to change or variation
  19. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  20. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  21. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  22. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  23. intrinsic
    belonging to a thing by its very nature
  24. juxtapose
    place side by side
  25. kinetic
    relating to the motion of material bodies and their forces
  26. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  27. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  28. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  29. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  30. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  31. multifarious
    having many aspects
  32. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  33. parochial
    relating to or supported by or located in a parish
  34. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  35. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  36. primordial
    having existed from the beginning
  37. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  38. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  39. remuneration
    paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
  40. soporific
    inducing sleep
  41. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  42. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  43. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  44. temerity
    fearless daring
  45. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  46. unkempt
    not properly maintained or cared for
  47. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  48. wan
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  49. whet
    sharpen by rubbing
  50. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  51. writhe
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  52. zenith
    the highest point of something
Created on Sun Dec 02 22:02:41 EST 2012 (updated Sun Dec 02 22:11:55 EST 2012)

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