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Angelica G. (United States of America)
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  1. nonplus
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  2. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  3. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  4. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  5. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  6. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  7. bibulous
    given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
  8. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  9. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  10. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  11. shibboleth
    a favorite saying of a sect or political group
  12. rarefied
    of high moral or intellectual value
  13. spurious
    plausible but false
  14. requiem
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  15. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  16. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  17. ingenue
    an artless innocent young girl
  18. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  19. seamy
    morally degraded
  20. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  21. cloying
    overly sweet
  22. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  23. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  24. adjure
    command solemnly
  25. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  26. yen
    the basic unit of money in Japan
  27. doyenne
    the most experienced or respected woman in some field
  28. conflate
    mix together different elements
  29. specious
    plausible but false
  30. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  31. condescending
    characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance
  32. encroach
    advance beyond the usual limit
  33. doyenne
    the most experienced or respected woman in some field
  34. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  35. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  36. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  37. mettle
    the courage to carry on
  38. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  39. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  40. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  41. stochastic
    being or having a random variable
  42. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  43. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  44. specious
    plausible but false
  45. comestible
    suitable for use as food
  46. stochastic
    being or having a random variable
  47. cumbersome
    difficult to handle or use, especially because of size or weight
  48. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  49. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  50. ruddy
    inclined to a healthy reddish color
  51. augur
    predict from an omen
  52. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  53. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  54. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  55. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  56. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  57. allegory
    a short moral story
  58. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  59. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  60. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  61. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  62. daft
    foolish or mentally irregular
  63. knell
    the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
  64. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  65. daft
    foolish or mentally irregular
  66. stilted
    artificially formal or stiff
  67. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  68. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  69. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  70. monastic
    relating to life in an isolated religious community
  71. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  72. afflatus
    a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
  73. animus
    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
  74. aspirant
    an ambitious young person
  75. conclusive
    forming a decisive end or resolution
  76. cataclysm
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  77. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  78. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  79. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  80. deprave
    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  81. invocation
    the act of appealing for help
  82. cant
    a slope in the turn of a road or track
  83. gouge
    an impression in a surface, as made by a blow
  84. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  85. consolidated
    joined together into a whole
  86. titular
    existing in name only
  87. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  88. rakish
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Created on Tue May 07 21:30:25 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Nov 23 13:03:48 EST 2013)

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