'Salem's Lot

Ryan (Canada)
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  1. impingement
    influencing strongly
  2. personage
    one whose actions and opinions have a strong impact
  3. exurbia
    a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia
  4. stodgy
    out of fashion; old fashioned
  5. exasperation
    actions that cause great irritation
  6. appropriation
    money set aside for a specific purpose, as by a legislature
  7. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  8. epithet
    a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
  9. forenoon
    the time period between dawn and noon
  10. grotto
    a small cave, usually with attractive features
  11. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  12. goaded
    compelled forcibly by an outside agency
  13. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  14. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  15. imperative
    some duty that is essential and urgent
  16. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  17. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  18. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  19. livid
    discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
  20. catalyst
    something that causes an important event to happen
  21. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  22. dully
    without liveliness
  23. maleficent
    harmful or evil in intent or effect
  24. languorous
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  25. repository
    a facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping
  26. expostulate
    reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
  27. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
  28. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  29. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  30. crepitate
    make a crackling sound
  31. wan
    lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
  32. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  33. primly
    in a prissy manner
  34. prissy
    exaggeratedly proper
  35. habitue
    a regular patron
  36. tamp
    press down tightly
  37. pert
    characterized by a lightly saucy or impudent quality
  38. exuberant
    joyously unrestrained
  39. trifle
    something of small importance
  40. swatch
    a sample piece of cloth
  41. iterative
    marked by repetition
  42. trundle
    move slowly or heavily
  43. abeyance
    temporary cessation or suspension
  44. maxim
    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
  45. spurn
    reject with contempt
  46. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  47. bouffant
    a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance
  48. unobtrusive
    not undesirably noticeable
  49. resplendent
    having great beauty
  50. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  51. avid
    marked by active interest and enthusiasm
  52. reproach
    express criticism towards
  53. reproof
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  54. viscid
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  55. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  56. stodgy
    excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
  57. supplication
    a humble request for help from someone in authority
  58. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  59. unabashed
    not embarrassed
Created on Tue Apr 02 09:14:22 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Apr 16 15:40:15 EDT 2013)

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