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  1. abhorrent
    offensive to the mind
  2. transgress
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  3. transgendered
    involving a partial or full reversal of gender
  4. clairvoyance
    apparent power to perceive things not present to the senses
  5. redundancy
    the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
  6. insurrection
    organized opposition to authority
  7. swagger
    walk with a lofty proud gait
  8. fester
    generate pus
  9. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  10. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  11. quirky
    strikingly unconventional
  12. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  13. antagonistic
    characterized by feelings of intense dislike or hostility
  14. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
  15. odoriferous
    emitting a smell, especially an unpleasant smell
  16. alight
    settle or come to rest
  17. inculpate
    suggest that someone is guilty
  18. lambast
    censure severely or angrily
  19. hedonism
    an ethical system that values the pursuit of pleasure
  20. pogrom
    organized persecution of an ethnic group, especially Jews
  21. paraplegic
    suffering total immobilization of the lower half of the body
  22. harlequin
    a clown or buffoon
  23. lambent
    softly bright or radiant
  24. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  25. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  26. ingress
    the act of entering
  27. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  28. egret
    a white waterbird with long legs
  29. recondite
    difficult to understand
  30. nonchalant
    marked by casual unconcern or indifference
  31. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
  32. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  33. corporeal
    having material or physical form or substance
  34. corpulent
    excessively large
  35. bated
    diminished or moderated
  36. tortuous
    marked by repeated turns and bends
  37. loathe
    dislike intensely; feel disgust toward
  38. abdicate
    give up power, duties, or obligations
  39. abrogate
    revoke formally
  40. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  41. cognitive
    relating to or involving the mental process of knowing
  42. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  43. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  44. imminent
    close in time; about to occur
  45. immanent
    inherent; existing or remaining within
  46. percipient
    characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
  47. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  48. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  49. brevity
    the attribute of being short or fleeting
  50. feint
    any distracting or deceptive maneuver
  51. Ubermensch
    a person with great powers and abilities
  52. cougar
    large American feline resembling a lion
  53. mete
    a line that indicates a boundary
  54. rung
    one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
  55. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  56. genuflect
    bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
  57. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  58. jurisprudence
    the branch of philosophy concerned with the law
  59. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
  60. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
Created on Sat Aug 06 06:43:01 EDT 2011 (updated Sat Aug 06 06:43:07 EDT 2011)

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