20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Martha R. (United States of America)
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  1. agglomeration
    the act of collecting in a mass
  2. ambient
    completely enveloping
  3. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  4. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  5. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  6. conical
    relating to or resembling a cone
  7. declivity
    a downward slope or bend
  8. despotism
    dominance through threat of punishment and violence
  9. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  10. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  11. effulgence
    the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
  12. enigmatical
    not clear to the understanding
  13. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  14. excrescence
    something that bulges out or projects from its surroundings
  15. fulgurating
    sharp and piercing
  16. globule
    a small drop or ball of something
  17. horary
    relating to the hours
  18. imperious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  19. indefatigable
    showing sustained enthusiasm with unflagging vitality
  20. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  21. Infusoria
    in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter
  22. insurgent
    in opposition to a civil authority or government
  23. insurrection
    organized opposition to authority
  24. madrepore
    corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands
  25. obliquely
    not in a direct or straightforward manner
  26. pervade
    spread or diffuse through
  27. pintado
    large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
  28. promontory
    a natural elevation
  29. prophetic
    foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
  30. propitiatory
    intended to reconcile or appease
  31. resplendent
    having great beauty
  32. rivulet
    a small stream
  33. satirical
    exposing human folly to ridicule
  34. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  35. suffusion
    the process of permeating something with a substance
  36. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  37. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  38. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  39. undulation
    wavelike motion
  40. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
Created on Wed Mar 27 18:08:45 EDT 2013

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