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Biography of Oscar Wilde by: Thomas Wright
How Reading Defined The Life of Oscar Wilde
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  1. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  2. protean
    taking on different forms
  3. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  4. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  5. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  6. philistine
    a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
  7. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  8. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  9. coterie
    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  10. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  11. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  12. epigram
    a witty saying
  13. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  14. proclaim
    declare formally
  15. declaim
    recite in a skilled and formal way
  16. lofty
    of imposing height; especially standing out above others
  17. magus
    a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians
  18. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  19. extempore
    with little or no preparation or forethought
  20. aside
    on or to one side
  21. precis
    a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument
Created on Thu Jan 14 15:32:05 EST 2010 (updated Fri Jan 15 00:11:13 EST 2010)

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