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Sandeep J. (United States of America)
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  1. angular
    having straight lines and sharp points or corners
    Likewise, when an object with mass moves around some axis, it gains angular momentum.
  2. aplomb
    great coolness and composure under strain
  3. apolitical
    neutral with regards to government policy
  4. apologist
    a person who argues to defend some policy or institution
  5. arable
    capable of being farmed productively
  6. arbitrate
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  7. artisan
    a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
  8. atheistic
    related to a lack of belief in the existence of God
  9. blunder
    an embarrassing mistake
  10. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  11. cynic
    someone who is critical of the motives of others
  12. didacticism
    communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive
  13. emissary
    someone sent to represent another's interests
  14. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  15. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  16. labile
    liable to change
  17. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  18. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  19. privation
    the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights
  20. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  21. tedium
    the feeling of being bored by something
  22. volatile
    liable to lead to sudden change or violence
  23. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  24. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  25. bolt
    a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
  26. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  27. courteous
    characterized by politeness and gracious good manners
  28. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  29. diabolical
    showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
  30. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
  31. disease
    an impairment of health
  32. gesticulation
    a deliberate and vigorous motion of the hands or body
  33. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
  34. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  35. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  36. procrastinate
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  37. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  38. resolve
    find a solution or answer
  39. savour
    the taste experience when a savory condiment is taken into the mouth
  40. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  41. tractable
    easily managed
  42. vice
    a specific form of evildoing
  43. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  44. alienate
    arouse hostility or indifference in
  45. appurtenance
    equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles
  46. awry
    turned or twisted to one side
  47. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  48. decorum
    propriety in manners and conduct
  49. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  50. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  51. frugality
    prudence in avoiding waste
  52. indigence
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  53. insensible
    barely able to be perceived
  54. jingoist
    an extreme bellicose nationalist
  55. lethargic
    deficient in alertness or activity
  56. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  57. opinion
    a personal belief or judgment
  58. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  59. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  60. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  61. prognosis
    a prediction of the course of a disease
  62. recuperate
    restore to good health or strength
  63. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  64. striated muscle
    a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes
  65. sumptuous
    rich and superior in quality
  66. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  67. vulgar
    of or associated with the great masses of people
  68. warrantee
    a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
  69. annex
    attach to
  70. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
  71. apprehend
    anticipate with dread or anxiety
  72. archipelago
    a group of many islands in a large body of water
  73. arid
    lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  74. belie
    be in contradiction with
  75. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  76. exacerbate
    make worse
  77. fervour
    the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
  78. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
  79. insularity
    lack of openness to new ideas; narrow-mindedness
  80. itinerary
    an established line of travel or access
  81. perfidious
    tending to betray
  82. plummet
    drop sharply
  83. rescind
    cancel officially
  84. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
  85. temerity
    fearless daring
  86. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  87. traitor
    a person who says one thing and does another
  88. articulate
    express or state clearly
  89. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  90. berate
    censure severely or angrily
  91. castigation
    verbal punishment
  92. clique
    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  93. conserve
    keep in safety and protect from harm, loss, or destruction
  94. dabble
    bob under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
  95. debauch
    a wild gathering
  96. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  97. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  98. exclusive
    admitting or accepting only a particular group
  99. husband
    use cautiously and frugally
    conserve,economise
  100. meandering
    of a path e.g.
    But he has not found ways to finesse the meandering story line, hokey interplay among characters and woeful lack of consistent themes.
  101. mellow
    having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging
  102. melodramatic
    having excitement and emotional appeal
  103. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  104. pollute
    contaminate; make impure
  105. prolixity
    boring verbosity
  106. recondite
    difficult to understand
  107. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  108. stem
    cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
  109. tantrum
    a display of bad temper
  110. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  111. tortuous
    marked by repeated turns and bends
  112. authenticity
    undisputed credibility
  113. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  114. aquiline
    curved down like an eagle's beak
  115. berserk
    frenzied as if possessed by a demon
  116. communal
    for or by a group rather than individuals
  117. confrontation
    discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
  118. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  119. finesse
    subtly skillful handling of a situation
  120. immediacy
    the quickness of action or occurrence
  121. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  122. inept
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  123. jeopardise
    pose a threat to; present a danger to
  124. lust
    a strong sexual desire
  125. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  126. palpability
    the quality of being perceivable by touch
  127. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  128. pander
    yield to; give satisfaction to
  129. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  130. silicious
    relating to or containing or resembling silica
  131. stomach
    enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal
  132. temporise
    draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
  133. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  134. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  135. archives
    collection of records especially about an institution
  136. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  137. bask
    expose oneself to warmth and light, as for relaxation
  138. bizarre
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  139. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  140. canker
    an ulcerlike sore
  141. condemnation
    an expression of strong disapproval
  142. dishabille
    the state of being carelessly or partially dressed
  143. impeccable
    without error or flaw
  144. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  145. ingrate
    a person who shows no thankfulness or appreciation
  146. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  147. largess
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  148. opalescence
    the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface
  149. orient
    the eastern hemisphere
  150. paramour
    a lover, especially a secret or illicit one
  151. reiteration
    an act or instance of repeating something
  152. repertoire
    the range of skills in a particular field or occupation
  153. stigma
    a symbol of disgrace or infamy
  154. subliminal
    below the threshold of conscious perception
  155. tautological
    characterized by unnecessary repetition
  156. turbulence
    instability in the atmosphere
  157. unpredictable
    unknown in advance
  158. carping
    persistent petty and unjustified criticism
  159. celebrity
    the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
  160. cogitate
    consider carefully and deeply
  161. complaisant
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  162. contention
    the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  163. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  164. garnish
    decorate, as with parsley or other ornamental foods
  165. hinder
    be an obstacle to
  166. indubitable
    too obvious to be doubted
  167. inerrancy
    exemption from mistakes
  168. ingest
    take food, drink, or some other substance into the body
  169. laggard
    someone who takes more time than necessary
  170. laity
    members of a religious community who are not clergy
  171. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  172. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  173. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  174. overreach
    fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
  175. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  176. pandemic
    existing everywhere
  177. runic
    relating to characters from an ancient alphabet
  178. seamy
    morally degraded
  179. sepulchral
    of or relating to a chamber that is used as a grave
  180. shallow
    lacking physical depth
  181. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  182. attenuate
    become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  183. autonomous
    existing as an independent entity
  184. boorish
    ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance
  185. buxom
    healthily plump and vigorous
  186. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  187. comely
    according with custom or propriety
  188. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  189. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  190. futile
    producing no result or effect
  191. guileless
    innocent and free of deceit
  192. ingenuity
    the power of creative imagination
  193. nucleate
    having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus
  194. outlandish
    noticeably or extremely unconventional or unusual
  195. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  196. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
  197. substantiative
    serving to support or corroborate
  198. uncouth
    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  199. aromatic
    having a strong pleasant odor
  200. artifact
    a man-made object
  201. cardinal
    a vivid red color
  202. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  203. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  204. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  205. distill
    undergo condensation
  206. emollient
    a substance with a soothing effect when applied to the skin
  207. gainsay
    take exception to
  208. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  209. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  210. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  211. preen
    clean with one's bill
  212. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  213. swelter
    be uncomfortably hot
  214. vacillate
    be undecided about something
Created on Thu Jun 20 15:10:55 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Jul 02 01:39:50 EDT 2013)

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