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  1. rectitude
    righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
  2. bathetic
    very sentimental or emotional
  3. natty
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  4. legerdemain
    an illusory feat
  5. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  6. mettle
    the courage to carry on
  7. staid
    characterized by dignity and propriety
  8. cornice
    the topmost projecting part of an entablature
  9. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  10. staunch
    firm and dependable especially in loyalty
  11. celerity
    a rate that is rapid
  12. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  13. bathetic
    very sentimental or emotional
  14. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  15. cavort
    play boisterously
  16. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  17. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
  18. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  19. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
Created on Thu Jan 10 03:41:36 EST 2013 (updated Fri Jan 11 07:27:37 EST 2013)

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