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Kanishka P. (India)
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  1. deluge
    a heavy rain
  2. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  3. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  4. frolic
    play boisterously
  5. frolic
    play boisterously
  6. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  7. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  8. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  9. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  10. valedictory
    a farewell oration
  11. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  12. titillate
    stimulate or excite
  13. perplex
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  14. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  15. decimate
    kill in large numbers
  16. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  17. smitten
    affected by something overwhelming
  18. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  19. premonitory
    warning of future misfortune
  20. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  21. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  22. adjure
    command solemnly
  23. specious
    plausible but false
  24. deluge
    a heavy rain
  25. entreat
    ask for or request earnestly
  26. indict
    accuse formally of a crime
  27. cerebral
    of or relating to the brain
  28. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  29. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  30. flail
    an implement with a handle and a free swinging stick
  31. vitiate
    make imperfect
  32. beseech
    ask for or request earnestly
  33. docket
    a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
  34. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  35. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  36. slapdash
    marked by great carelessness
  37. tumid
    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  38. deprave
    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  39. swathe
    wrap in or as if in strips of cloth
  40. fickle
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  41. balmy
    mild and pleasant
  42. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  43. esurient
    extremely hungry
  44. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  45. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  46. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  47. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  48. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  49. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  50. embroil
    force into some kind of situation or course of action
  51. camouflage
    an outward semblance misrepresenting the nature of something
  52. rend
    tear or be torn violently
  53. pillage
    steal goods; take as spoils
  54. reprove
    reprimand, scold, or express dissatisfaction with
  55. misapprehend
    interpret in the wrong way
  56. bequeath
    leave or give, especially by will after one's death
  57. contingent
    determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
Created on Mon Jul 29 12:46:03 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Aug 22 10:41:52 EDT 2013)

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