WPME 11 [1]

jerrynik (India)
Its chapter 11, How To Insult Your Enemies. Mainly consists of Sessions 28 to 31.

from the Awesome Book "Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis"
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  1. acrophobia
    a morbid fear of great heights
  2. acrophobic
    suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places
  3. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  4. agnosticism
    a religious orientation of doubt
  5. agoraphobia
    a morbid fear of open spaces
  6. agoraphobic
    suffering from agoraphobia
  7. alma mater
    a school you graduated from
  8. antonym
    a word that expresses an opposite meaning
  9. antonymous
    of words: having opposite meanings
  10. arson
    malicious burning to destroy property
  11. arsonist
    a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
  12. atheism
    the doctrine or belief that there is no God
  13. atheist
    someone who denies the existence of god
  14. atheistic
    related to a lack of belief in the existence of God
  15. chauvinism
    fanatical patriotism
  16. chauvinist
    a person with a prejudiced belief in his own superiority
  17. claustrophobe
    a person suffering from claustrophobia
  18. claustrophobia
    a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
  19. claustrophobic
    abnormally afraid of closed-in places
  20. diagnose
    subject to a medical analysis
  21. diagnosis
    identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon
  22. diagnostic
    concerned with identifying the nature or cause of something
  23. diagnostician
    a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
  24. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  25. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  26. dilettanteish
    showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
  27. dilettantish
    showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
  28. dipsomania
    an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
  29. dipsomaniac
    a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
  30. extramarital
    characterized by adultery
  31. fraternal
    like or characteristic of or befitting a brother
  32. fraternity
    a social club for male undergraduates
  33. fraternize
    be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother
  34. fraternization
    associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way
  35. fratricide
    the murder of your sibling
  36. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
  37. harridan
    a scolding (even vicious) old woman
  38. homicidal
    characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
  39. homicide
    the killing of a human being by another human being
  40. homonym
    a word pronounced or spelled the same with another meaning
  41. homonymous
    pronounced or spelled the same but having different meanings
  42. homophone
    a word pronounced the same with another meaning or spelling
  43. homophonous
    characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
  44. hypertension
    a disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high
  45. hypertensive
    having abnormally high blood pressure
  46. hypochondriac
    a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
  47. hypochondria
    abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments
  48. hypochondriacal
    suffering from hypochondria
  49. hypotension
    abnormally low blood pressure
  50. hypotensive
    having abnormally low blood pressure
  51. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  52. iconoclasm
    the orientation of an iconoclast
  53. iconoclastic
    characterized by attack on established beliefs
  54. incendiarism
    malicious burning to destroy property
  55. incendiary
    capable of causing fires or catching fire spontaneously
  56. infanticide
    murdering an infant
  57. kleptomania
    an impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
  58. kleptomaniac
    someone with an irrational urge to steal
  59. lascivious
    driven by lust
  60. lecher
    man with strong sexual desires
  61. lecherous
    given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
  62. lechery
    unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
  63. lewd
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  64. libidinous
    driven by lust
  65. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  66. lubricious
    characterized by lust
  67. lubricity
    feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
  68. lust
    a strong sexual desire
  69. lustful
    characterized by lust
  70. marital
    of or relating to the state of marriage
  71. mariticide
    the murder of a husband by his wife
Created on Sun Aug 25 14:07:41 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Feb 08 21:19:14 EST 2014)

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