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  1. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  2. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  3. perfidious
    tending to betray
  4. largesse
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  5. dilapidate
    fall into decay or ruin
  6. apartheid
    a social policy of racial segregation
  7. confutation
    evidence that refutes something
  8. steward
    someone who manages property or affairs for someone else
  9. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  10. syncope
    the loss of sounds from within a word
  11. syncope
    the loss of sounds from within a word
  12. effete
    excessively self-indulgent, affected, or decadent
  13. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  14. nonagenarian
    being from 90 to 99 years old
  15. straiten
    squeeze together
  16. connote
    express or state indirectly
  17. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  18. malleable
    capable of being shaped or bent
  19. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  20. nascent
    being born or beginning
  21. edification
    uplifting enlightenment
  22. rejoinder
    a quick reply to a question or remark
  23. ethos
    the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
  24. nihilist
    someone who rejects all theories of morality
  25. nihilism
    complete denial of established authority and institutions
  26. nihilistic delusion
    the delusion that things do not exist
  27. syndicalist
    an advocate of anarchism
  28. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  29. prognosticate
    make a prediction about; tell in advance
  30. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  31. episodic
    divided into or composed of distinct scenes or events
  32. palindrome
    a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
  33. anthropomorphism
    the representation of objects as having human form
  34. pestle
    a hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
  35. ablution
    the act of washing oneself, as for ritual purposes
  36. judicious
    marked by the exercise of common sense in practical matters
  37. cleave
    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
  38. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  39. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  40. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  41. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
  42. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  43. execrable
    unequivocally detestable
  44. transmute
    change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
  45. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  46. vestal
    a chaste woman
  47. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  48. subsequent
    following in time or order
  49. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  50. obscene
    offensive to the mind
  51. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  52. beatitude
    a state of supreme happiness
  53. corpus
    a collection of writings
  54. apoplexy
    a loss of consciousness from the lack of oxygen in the brain
  55. macerate
    soften and cause to disintegrate as a result
  56. ratiocination
    the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning
  57. syllogism
    reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
  58. induction
    the act of bringing about something
  59. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  60. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
Created on Sun Apr 25 13:30:43 EDT 2010 (updated Wed Feb 16 09:56:02 EST 2011)

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