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  1. edict
    a formal or authoritative proclamation
  2. mutton
    meat from a mature domestic sheep
  3. constrain
    hold back
  4. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  5. conviviality
    a jovial nature
  6. accession
    the act of attaining a new office or right or position
  7. precipice
    a very steep cliff
  8. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  9. pawn
    leave as a guarantee in return for money
  10. allot
    give out
  11. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  12. ravenous
    extremely hungry
  13. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
  14. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  15. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  16. degradation
    a change to a lower state
  17. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  18. hitherto
    up to this point; until the present time
  19. rake
    a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
  20. prey
    animal hunted or caught for food
  21. condone
    excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
  22. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  23. withhold
    hold back; refuse to hand over or share
  24. subserve
    be helpful or useful
  25. mar
    cause to become imperfect
  26. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  27. shortcoming
    a failing or deficiency
  28. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  29. concrete
    capable of being perceived by the senses
  30. expedient
    appropriate to a purpose
  31. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
  32. racy
    marked by richness and fullness of flavor
  33. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  34. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  35. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  36. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  37. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  38. chameleon
    lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color
  39. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  40. disdainful
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  41. infer
    conclude by reasoning
  42. litotes
    understatement for rhetorical effect
  43. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  44. sly
    marked by skill in deception
  45. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
Created on Wed Dec 04 10:52:21 EST 2013 (updated Tue Dec 10 08:49:34 EST 2013)

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