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  1. caterwaul
    make a shrill and unpleasant screeching sound
  2. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  3. couchant
    lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward
  4. distrain
    levy a distress on
  5. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  6. galore
    existing in abundance
  7. gormandize
    eat fine food immodestly or excessively
  8. hopscotch
    a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
  9. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  10. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  11. juju
    a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  12. kith
    your friends and acquaintances
  13. kvetch
    express complaints, displeasure, or unhappiness
  14. laconic
    brief and to the point
  15. lupine
    of or relating to or characteristic of wolves
  16. mussitate
    talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
  17. nympholepsy
    a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable
  18. orthoepy
    the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
  19. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  20. ruction
    the act of making a noisy disturbance
  21. satori
    (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment
  22. schlep
    pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance
  23. shenanigan
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  24. slugabed
    a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour
  25. smithereens
    a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
  26. teem
    be full of or abuzz with
  27. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  28. vellicate
    (archaic) touch a body part lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
Created on Sat Nov 06 17:15:19 EDT 2010 (updated Sat Nov 06 17:30:26 EDT 2010)

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