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  1. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
    Which often involves experimenting.
  2. keen
    intense or sharp
    Others, such as Labour's Treasury team, are keener on a fiscal stimulus, with more spending and lower taxes.
    I actually wanted to put keener here & the program won't let me.

    Using keener as a noun is unique to Canada. I love how you can use it to tease someone or to proudly claim your keener status about, say, vocabulary.
  3. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
    Suddenly he becomes a police hero in somewhat dubious circumstances.
  4. susurration
    an indistinct sound, as of whispering or rustling
    A beautiful onomatopoeia.
  5. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
    Okay, I just added this one to see if I spelled it correctly above, but it's still a pretty cool word.
  6. corpus callosum
    a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres
  7. toothsome
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  8. bibliophile
    someone who loves and usually collects books
  9. azure
    bright blue in color, like a clear sky
    "Azure skies" is kind of a cliche by now, but I still like this word for the sound of it, and because it's a great Scrabble play.
  10. hydrangea
    any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea
    Those green/blue/purple flowers we'll start seeing around Vancouver soon. They're cool-looking & they have a cool name.
  11. isthmus
    a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
  12. flabbergasted
    as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
    "But—" I began, looking and feeling like a flabbergasted cat. Ayres, Harry Morgan
  13. critter
    a regional term for `creature'
  14. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  15. exactitude
    the quality of being exact
  16. whizbang
    a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion
  17. odoriferous
    emitting a smell, especially an unpleasant smell
  18. syncopated
    stressing a normally weak beat
  19. idiosyncratic
    peculiar to the individual
  20. synchronicity
    the relation that exists when things occur at the same time
  21. moreover
    in addition
  22. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  23. nonetheless
    despite anything to the contrary
  24. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
    Some even go so far as to read here an incipient Weltanschauung, a perspective and horizon of the world. Nadin, Mihai
  25. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  26. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  27. unflappable
    not easily perturbed, excited, or upset
  28. neap tide
    a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
  29. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  30. inquisitive
    given to questioning
  31. jittery
    characterized by jerky movements
  32. extraneous
    not pertinent to the matter under consideration
  33. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  34. antic
    ludicrously odd
Created on Mon Apr 22 22:59:18 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Apr 23 03:25:22 EDT 2013)

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