ignoble

Colette P. (Ireland)
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  1. Athenian
    a resident of Athens
  2. indict
    accuse formally of a crime
  3. aquiline
    curved down like an eagle's beak
  4. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
  5. slander
    words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
  6. jest
    activity characterized by good humor
  7. hearth
    a built-in space in a wall where a fire can be built
  8. dependent
    a person who relies on another person for support
  9. ditch
    a long narrow excavation in the earth
  10. seer
    an observer who perceives visually
  11. pious
    having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
  12. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  13. impious
    lacking piety or reverence for a god
  14. deity
    a supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
  15. enmity
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
  16. embroider
    decorate with needlework
  17. adorn
    make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color
  18. extol
    praise, glorify, or honor
  19. cladistics
    a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
  20. phylogenesis
    (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
  21. cladogram
    a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships
  22. supersede
    take the place or move into the position of
  23. habitus
    constitution of the human body
Created on Mon Aug 01 06:12:26 EDT 2011

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