CRQ: Invisible Man

Ms. Maxwell (United States of America)
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  1. futility
    uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
  2. encore
    an extra performance in response to audience demand
  3. appease
    make peace with
  4. embalm
    preserve a dead body
  5. augment
    enlarge or increase
  6. cessation
    a stopping
  7. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  8. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
  9. enigmatic
    not clear to the understanding
  10. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  11. oration
    an instance of formal speaking
  12. despondency
    feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
  13. virile
    characteristic of a man
  14. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  15. ambiguity
    unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
  16. ghoulish
    suggesting the horror of death and decay
  17. shoddiness
    the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
  18. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  19. denigrating
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  20. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  21. interrogative
    relating to sentences that ask a question
  22. angst
    an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety
  23. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
Created on Mon Mar 02 19:45:01 EST 2015

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