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Robert K. (United Kingdom)
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  1. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
    Doesn't it sound lovely? Speaks of nobility and chivalry:-) Makes me feel like bowing to a lady and draping my coat over a puddle that she may pass by safely!
  2. derisory
    incongruous and inviting ridicule
    Has an elegance about it despite its negativity.
  3. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
    Attention to detail. Oddly something I was thinking about this morning as Visual Thesaurus made it their word of the day. Psychic or what?!
  4. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
    Gosh that's a nice one too:-)
  5. porcine
    relating to pigs or swine
    I did a song on pigs "http://www.phoeniximago.com/pigs" about the time Visual Thesaurus dropped this word in my inbox so this word has special meaning for me.
  6. hussar
    a member of a European light cavalry unit
  7. capstan
    a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
Created on Sat Jan 09 20:06:28 EST 2010 (updated Tue Feb 23 10:43:55 EST 2010)

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