Jim List Day 1

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  1. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  2. emerge
    come out into view, as from concealment
  3. geodesic
    relating to or determined by the study of the earth's shape
  4. strategy
    an elaborate and systematic plan of action
  5. ethnic
    distinctive of the ways of living of a group of people
  6. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  7. Sierra Nevada
    a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
    German composer of instrumental music
  9. alarming
    frightening because of an awareness of danger
  10. admirably
    in an admirable manner
  11. steer
    be a guiding or motivating force or drive
  12. silliness
    a ludicrous folly
  13. preposterous
    inviting ridicule
  14. portrait
    any likeness of a person, in any medium
  15. International
    any of several international socialist organizations
  16. ironic
    displaying incongruity between what is expected and what is
  17. mitzvah
    (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty
  18. wreak
    cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
  19. wreck
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
  20. layette
    kit consisting of a complete outfit for a new baby
  21. vocabulary
    a language user's knowledge of words
  22. contrapuntal
    having independent but harmonically related melodic parts
Created on Thu Jan 17 18:26:34 EST 2008 (updated Wed Mar 25 16:52:18 EDT 2009)

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