The Jungle

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  1. grimness
    the quality of being ghastly
  2. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  3. remedy
    a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
  4. maniacally
    in a maniacal manner or to a maniacal degree
  5. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  6. fixate
    pay attention to exclusively and obsessively
  7. guffaw
    a burst of loud and hearty laughter
  8. sparse
    not dense or plentiful
  9. clench
    squeeze together tightly
  10. lure
    provoke someone to do something through persuasion
  11. solitude
    a state of social isolation
  12. gingerly
    in a manner marked by extreme care or delicacy
  13. quell
    suppress or crush completely
  14. sate
    fill to contentment
  15. reprieve
    postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal
  16. ruse
    a deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture
  17. caliber
    diameter of a tube or gun barrel
  18. eradicate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  19. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  20. banter
    light teasing repartee
  21. plaintively
    in a manner expressing sorrow
  22. evasively
    with evasion; in an evasive manner
  23. noncommittal
    refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action
  24. attribute
    a quality belonging to or characteristic of an entity
  25. engulf
    flow over or cover completely
  26. intersperse
    introduce into one's writing or speech (certain expressions)
  27. restraint
    the act of controlling by holding someone or something back
  28. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Created on Fri Mar 25 13:30:28 EDT 2011

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