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  1. propinquity
    the property of being close together
    propinquity
  2. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  3. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  4. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  5. obscurantism
    a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
  6. obstruent
    a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
  7. obsolesce
    become obsolete, fall into disuse
  8. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  9. obduracy
    resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible
  10. obbligato
    a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
  11. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
  12. obit
    a notice of someone's death
  13. obiter dictum
    an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
  14. objurgate
    censure severely
  15. objurgation
    rebuking a person harshly
  16. oblate
    having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
  17. obliterate
    remove completely from recognition or memory
  18. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  19. obstipate
    constipate severely
  20. obturate
    block passage through
  21. obtund
    reduce the edge or violence of
  22. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
Created on Sat Jul 23 04:40:02 EDT 2011

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