Sleeping Freshman Never Lie

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  1. tesseract
    the four-dimensional analogue of a cube
  2. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  3. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  4. deprivation
    the disadvantage that results from losing something
  5. putrefaction
    the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
  6. proposition
    a suggestion offered for acceptance or rejection
  7. preposition
    a word before a noun or pronoun connecting to another word
  8. viscous
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  9. ichor
    the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods
  10. capybara
    pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
  11. imputation
    the attribution to a source or cause
  12. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  13. perplexing
    lacking clarity of meaning
  14. flux
    a state of constant change
  15. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  16. penultimate
    next to the last
  17. unsubstantiated
    unsupported by other evidence
  18. valor
    courage when facing danger
  19. perambulation
    a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
  20. mastication
    biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Created on Thu Sep 12 13:32:05 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Oct 28 14:16:20 EDT 2013)

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