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  1. wanton
    a lewd or immoral person
    Other people turn wanton openness into an annoying, and somewhat disgusting, habit. BusinessWeek (Aug 3, 2012)
  2. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
    BlackBerry has failed to win back customers despite refreshing its software and launching a new line of its once ubiquitous phones.
  3. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
    Not that the famously taciturn musician was impressed by his British success.
  4. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
    A lot of portentous references to broken hearts and heart attacks throughout the episode. Slate (May 20, 2013)
  5. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
    Quarterback Andrew Tarantino said winning a championship would be particularly poignant this year.
  6. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
    Mr. Batista ostentatious lifestyle had once been popular gossip fodder.
  7. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
    His major problem, he said, was onerous labor laws and rising costs.
  8. olfactory
    of or relating to the sense of smell
    Even better, right whale scat is pungent enough to be detected by human olfactory systems.
  9. moot
    of no legal significance, as having been previously decided
    But the close-up image captured on film made all testimony moot. Golf Digest (Sep 17, 2013)
  10. liaison
    a means of communication between groups
    Now his local liaison was actively connecting the two dots. Forbes (Oct 30, 2013)
Created on Thu Nov 28 22:38:49 EST 2013

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