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Miss Snapper (United States of America)
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  1. rhodomontade
    vain and empty boasting
  2. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
  3. farrago
    a motley assortment of things
  4. chary
    characterized by great caution
  5. stertorous
    having a heavy snoring sound
  6. odalisque
    a woman slave in a harem
  7. seraglio
    a harem
  8. gestalt
    a whole that cannot be described as a sum of its parts
  9. flexuous
    having turns or windings
  10. testator
    a person who makes a will
  11. amain
    at full speed; with great haste
  12. espial
    the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
  13. squib
    firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
  14. umbrageous
    filled with shade
  15. sympatric
    occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas
  16. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  17. benighted
    lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
  18. inanition
    exhaustion resulting from lack of food
  19. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  20. scoria
    the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
  21. Hyperborean
    (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
  22. calcine
    heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
  23. Hibernia
    an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
  24. congener
    a whole of the same kind or category as another
  25. whortleberry
    erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
  26. eyas
    an unfledged or nestling hawk
  27. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  28. mimetic
    exhibiting or characterized by imitation
  29. Titian
    old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)
  30. pullulation
    asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
Created on Tue Apr 23 00:07:27 EDT 2013 (updated Fri May 24 03:00:23 EDT 2013)

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