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Mariam B. (Pakistan)
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  1. felicitous
    exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
  2. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  3. whimsy
    an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
  4. sophist
    someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
  5. cantankerous
    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  6. impudent
    improperly forward or bold
  7. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  8. uxorious
    foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
  9. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  10. misogyny
    hatred of women
  11. philogyny
    admiration for women
  12. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  13. materfamilias
    a female head of a family or tribe
  14. paterfamilias
    the male head of a kin group or tribe
  15. evitable
    capable of being avoided or warded off
  16. wieldy
    easy to handle or use or manage
  17. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  18. gainly
    graceful and pleasing
  19. corrigible
    capable of being corrected or set right
  20. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  21. cadge
    obtain or seek to obtain by wheedling
  22. pretermit
    disregard intentionally or let pass
  23. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  24. votary
    a priest or priestess in a non-Christian religion or cult
  25. camarilla
    a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
  26. fandango
    a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time
Created on Tue Jan 14 12:42:54 EST 2014 (updated Tue Jun 17 12:33:48 EDT 2014)

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