docile, dormant, egocentric

Deanna M. (United States of America)
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  1. docile
    easily handled or managed
  2. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  3. egocentric
    limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
  4. eradicate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  5. famished
    extremely hungry
  6. frugal
    avoiding waste
  7. haughty
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  8. hostile
    characterized by enmity or ill will
  9. hypertension
    a disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high
  10. implausible
    highly imaginative but unlikely
  11. innate
    present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
  12. ridicule
    language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
  13. salvage
    rescuing a ship or its crew from a shipwreck or a fire
  14. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  15. terse
    brief and to the point
Created on Fri Feb 26 14:28:43 EST 2010 (updated Fri Feb 26 14:36:33 EST 2010)

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