1984

Jenn W. (United States of America)
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  1. predicament
    an unpleasant or difficult situation
  2. renegade
    someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
  3. polysyllabic
    (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
  4. discountenance
    look with disfavor on
  5. gambol
    play or run boisterously
  6. saboteur
    someone who deliberately destroys or disrupts something
  7. raspingly
    in a harsh and grating manner
  8. reproach
    express criticism towards
  9. fathom
    a linear unit of measurement for water depth
  10. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  11. shrewish
    continually complaining or faultfinding
  12. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  13. heretic
    a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field
  14. irrepressible
    impossible to control
  15. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  16. debauchery
    a wild gathering
  17. listless
    lacking zest or vivacity
  18. incriminate
    suggest that someone is guilty
  19. posterity
    all future generations
  20. stratum
    one of several parallel layers of material
  21. altercation
    a noisy, angry argument or fight between people
  22. officiousness
    aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding
  23. unprocurable
    not capable of being obtained
  24. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
  25. strenuousness
    extreme effortfulness
  26. stagnant
    not growing or changing; without force or vitality
  27. commodity
    any good that can be bought and sold
  28. effigy
    a representation of a person
  29. indignation
    a feeling of righteous anger
  30. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  31. remonstrance
    the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
  32. voluptuous
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  33. reprisal
    a retaliatory action against an enemy
  34. fecundity
    the state of being fertile or capable of producing offspring
  35. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
  36. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  37. spurious
    plausible but false
  38. preponderance
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
  39. plunder
    steal goods; take as spoils
  40. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  41. supple
    moving and bending with ease
  42. repression
    control by holding down
  43. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  44. bludgeon
    a club used as a weapon
  45. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  46. interpose
    introduce
  47. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
Created on Sun Dec 08 11:41:00 EST 2013 (updated Sun Dec 08 11:45:46 EST 2013)

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