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  1. bourgeois
    being of the property-owning class
    There is a well-known incident in one of Moliere's plays, where the author makes the hero express unbounded delight on being told that he had been talking prose during the whole of his life [Le bourgeois gentilhomme].
  2. saunter
    walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
  3. escarpment
    a long steep slope at the edge of a plateau or ridge
  4. outcropping
    part of a rock formation that juts above surrounding land
  5. cynically
    with cynicism; in a cynical manner
  6. premonitory
    warning of future misfortune
  7. gyre
    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
Created on Mon Feb 04 09:45:19 EST 2013 (updated Tue Feb 05 09:16:31 EST 2013)

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