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Ravi Chandra G. (India)
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  1. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  2. runic
    relating to characters from an ancient alphabet
  3. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  4. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  5. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  6. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  7. sanctimony
    the quality of being hypocritically pious or devout
  8. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  9. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  10. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  11. seine
    a large fishnet that hangs vertically
  12. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  13. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  14. sidereal
    of or relating to the stars or constellations
  15. simper
    smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way
  16. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  17. sinuous
    curved or curving in and out
  18. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  19. sodden
    wet through and through; thoroughly wet
  20. solder
    join or fuse with an alloy
  21. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  22. South America
    a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
  23. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  24. stanch
    stop the flow of a liquid
  25. stentorian
    very loud or booming
  26. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  27. striate
    marked with stripes
  28. Stygian
    dark and dismal as of the river in Hades
  29. succor
    assistance in time of difficulty
  30. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  31. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  32. supine
    lying face upward
  33. tamp
    press down tightly
  34. tautology
    useless repetition
  35. tawdry
    tastelessly showy
  36. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  37. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  38. toady
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  39. torrid
    characterized by intense emotion
  40. tractable
    easily managed
  41. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  42. tumid
    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  43. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
  44. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  45. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  46. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  47. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  48. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  49. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  50. upbraid
    express criticism towards
  51. usury
    the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
  52. vaunt
    show off
  53. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  54. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  55. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  56. veritable
    not counterfeit or copied
  57. virago
    a noisy or scolding or domineering woman
  58. vitiate
    make imperfect
  59. volubility
    the quality of being facile in speech and writing
  60. waft
    a long flag; often tapering
  61. welter
    a confused multitude of things
  62. wend
    direct one's course or way
  63. narcissist
    someone who is excessively self-centered
    Meaning: Loving ones bodynEtymology: Narzissismus, from Narziss Narcissus, from Latin Narcissus
  64. natal
    relating to or accompanying birth
    Etymology : Middle English, from Latin natalis, from natus, past participle of nasci to be born — more at nationn1: nativen2: of, relating to, or present at birth ; especially : associated with one's birth
  65. natty
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
    Meaning: trimly neat and tidy : smart nEtymology:perhaps alteration of earlier netty, from obsolete net neat, clean
  66. necromancy
    conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
    Meaning: 1 : conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of eventsn2 : magic , sorcerynEtymology:alteration of Middle English nigromancie, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin nigromant
  67. nefarious
    extremely wicked
    Meaning: flagrantly wicked or impious : evilnEtymology:Latin nefarius, from nefas crime, from ne- not + fas right, divine law; perhaps akin to Greek themis law, tithenai to place
  68. nemesis
    a personal foe or rival that cannot be easily defeated
    1. A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.n2. Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.n3. An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.n4. One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.n5. Nemesis Greek Mythology The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.
  69. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
    Meaning: newly PlantednEtymology:Middle English, from Late Latin neophytus, from Greek neophytos, from neophytos newly planted, newly converted, from ne- + phyein to bring forth
  70. nettle
    plant having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation
    1 : any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairsn2 : any of various prickly or stinging plants other than the true nettles (genus Urtica)
  71. nicety
    conformity with some standard of correctness or propriety
    The quality of being nice.nElegent
  72. niggard
    a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
    1. Extremely mean when it comes to spending.n2. Stingy
  73. niggle
    worry unnecessarily or excessively
    triflengnaw
  74. nihilist
    someone who rejects all theories of morality
    Meaning:1 a: a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless b: a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truthsn2 a: a doctrine or belief that conditions in the
  75. nimble
    moving quickly and lightly
    Meaning:1: quick and light in motion : agile n2 a: marked by quick, alert, clever conception, comprehension, or resourcefulness b: responsive , sensitive nEtymology:Middle English nimel, from Old EnglishnnUsage: Possessing nimbleness can take you to unbelievable heights.
  76. nip
    sever or remove by pinching
    Meaning:transitive verbn1 a: to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch , bite b: to pinch in (as a garment) n2 a: to sever by or as if by pinching sharply b:
  77. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
    Meaning:noxious, harmfulnEtymology:Middle English noysome, from noy annoyance, alteration of anoi, from Anglo-French anui, from anuier to harass, annoy
  78. nomenclature
    a system of words used to name things in a discipline
    Etymology:Latin nomenclatura assigning of names, from nomen + calatus, past participle of calarenMeaning:1: name , designationn2: the act or process or an instance of namingn3 a: a system or set of terms or symbols especially in a particular science, disc
  79. nether
    lower
    Meaning: 1 : situated down or below : lowern2 : situated or believed to be situated beneath the earth's surfacenEtymology:Middle English, from Old English nithera, from nither down; akin to Old High German nidar down, Sanskrit ni
  80. nonchalance
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
    Meaning: Having an air of unconcern or indifferencenEtymology:French, from Old French, from present participle of nonchaloir to disregard, from non- + chaloir to concern, from Latin calēre to be warm
  81. noncommittal
    refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action
    Meaning: nRefusing commitment to a particular opinion or course of action; not revealing what one feels or thinks: "His face was the color of a freshly baked pork pie and as noncommittal" Thomas Pynchon.
  82. noose
    a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot
    Etymology:Middle English nose, probably from Old French nos, nous, knot, from Latin ndus; see node.nnMeaning: 1. A loop formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled. Also called running noose.n2. A snare or trap.
  83. nostrum
    patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
    Etymology:Latin, neuter of noster our, ours, from nos wennMeaning:1 : a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectivenessn2 : a usually questionable remedy or scheme : panacea
  84. notch
    a small cut
    Etymology:perhaps alteration (from misdivision of an otch) of *otch, from Middle French ochennMeaning: n1 a: a V-shaped indentation b: a slit made to serve as a record c: a rounded indentation cut into the pages of a book on the edge opposite the spinen2:
  85. nova
    a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
    Etymology: Latin novus newnMeaning: a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years
  86. nugatory
    of no real value
    Etymology:Latin ngtrius, from ngtor, trifler, from ngr, to trifle, from ngae, jokesnnMeaning: 1 : of little or no consequence : trifling , inconsequentialn2 : having no force : inoperative
Created on Fri Apr 25 01:41:14 EDT 2008 (updated Mon Apr 13 08:41:23 EDT 2009)

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