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Tanjib Mahmud (Bangladesh)
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  1. trough
    a long narrow shallow receptacle
  2. buxom
    healthily plump and vigorous
  3. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  4. trounce
    beat severely with a whip or rod
  5. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  6. daub
    an unskillful painting
  7. curt
    brief and to the point
  8. disillusion
    the act of freeing from false belief
  9. seething
    in constant agitation
  10. prelate
    a senior clergyman and dignitary
  11. rankle
    make resentful or angry
  12. decadence
    the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
  13. overture
    orchestral music at the beginning of an opera or musical
  14. rote
    memorization by repetition
  15. debauchery
    a wild gathering
  16. stump
    the base part that remains after a tree has been felled
  17. tactless
    lacking what is considerate in dealing with others
  18. farfetched
    highly imaginative but unlikely
  19. corpulent
    excessively large
  20. cachinnate
    laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way
  21. portal
    a grand and imposing entrance
  22. rostrum
    a platform raised above the surrounding level
  23. flagitious
    extremely wicked, deeply criminal
  24. ingratiating
    capable of winning favor
  25. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  26. graze
    feed as in a meadow or pasture
  27. as the crow flies
    by the shortest and most direct route
  28. infelicitous
    not appropriate in application; defective
  29. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  30. anthropomorphism
    the representation of objects as having human form
  31. truffle
    a highly prized edible subterranean fungus
  32. pivot
    axis consisting of a shaft supporting something that turns
  33. plumage
    the covering of feathers on a bird
  34. atrophy
    a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  35. deluge
    a heavy rain
  36. harrowing
    causing extreme distress
Created on Wed Apr 24 13:23:11 EDT 2013 (updated Tue May 20 04:20:42 EDT 2014)

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