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  1. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  2. beatitude
    a state of supreme happiness
  3. hinterland
    a remote and undeveloped area
  4. condole
    express one's sympathy on the occasion of someone's death
  5. apprehend
    anticipate with dread or anxiety
  6. obnoxious
    causing disapproval or protest
  7. moat
    ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
  8. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  9. furor
    an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
  10. topple
    fall down, as if collapsing
  11. persecute
    cause to suffer
  12. flora
    all the plant life in a particular region or period
  13. conservatory
    a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
  14. blackguard
    someone who is morally reprehensible
  15. tightwad
    a miserly person
  16. mazurka
    a Polish national dance in triple time
  17. bolster
    support and strengthen
  18. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  19. apoplexy
    a loss of consciousness from the lack of oxygen in the brain
  20. deliberate
    carefully thought out in advance
  21. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  22. evolve
    undergo development
  23. gaffe
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  24. smelt
    extract by heating, as a metal
  25. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  26. macerate
    soften and cause to disintegrate as a result
  27. recompense
    make payment to
Created on Wed Nov 03 12:02:40 EDT 2010 (updated Tue Nov 30 14:11:18 EST 2010)

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