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  1. ferrule
    a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting
  2. lysozyme
    an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria
  3. affinal
    (anthropology) related by marriage
  4. atrabilious
    irritable as if suffering from indigestion
  5. periphrasis
    an act of expressing things in an indirect or roundabout way
  6. callipygian
    pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks
  7. anthropophagus
    a person who eats human flesh
  8. fecund
    capable of producing offspring or vegetation
  9. boustrophedon
    an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs'
  10. xerophyte
    plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water
  11. demagoguery
    political rhetoric appealing to popular prejudice or emotion
  12. arrogate
    seize and take control without authority
  13. abrogate
    revoke formally
  14. coccyx
    the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes
  15. austral
    of the south or coming from the south
  16. epiphenomenon
    a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
  17. fugacious
    lasting a very short time
  18. cachinnate
    laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way
  19. schwa
    a neutral middle vowel that occurs in unstressed syllables
  20. bibliopole
    a dealer in secondhand books
  21. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  22. eutherian
    mammals having a placenta
  23. louche
    of questionable taste or morality
  24. demoniac
    someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
  25. toroidal
    of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped
  26. cuneiform
    an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia
  27. embolus
    an abnormal particle circulating in the blood
  28. therefor
    (in formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it
  29. prorogue
    adjourn by royal prerogative
  30. derring-do
    brave and heroic action
  31. polymath
    a person of great and varied learning
Created on Wed Oct 10 07:33:44 EDT 2007

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