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Olinda T.
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  1. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
    In images posted on the Internet purporting to show the protest, gunfire could be heard as several people carried a wounded young man. New York Times (Dec 28, 2011)
  2. mien
    a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor
  3. reconditeness
    the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
  4. recondite
    difficult to understand
  5. affect
    have an influence upon
    to influence. RAVEN = Remember Affect, Verb, Effect, Noun
  6. affected
    influenced
  7. affection
    a positive feeling of liking
  8. affectionate
    having or displaying warmth or fondness
  9. affectation
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  10. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
    as a verb: cause RAVEN = Remember: Affect Verb, Effect Noun
  11. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  12. sylvan
    relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
  13. Sylvanus
    god of woods and fields and flocks
  14. putative
    purported
  15. cant
    a slope in the turn of a road or track
  16. decadent
    relating to indulgence in something pleasurable
    a person who has fallen into moral or artistic decay
  17. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  18. coruscant
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
    As those terrific forces struck her, the terrestrial cruiser became a vast pyrotechnic set piece, a dazzling fountain of coruscant brilliance: for the mirror held. Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
  19. peripatetic
    a person who walks from place to place
    The peripatetic stock picker lays out his strategy in five broad themes. Forbes (Oct 31, 2011)
    the sample sentences do not agree with the definition. look it up someplace else as well
  20. importunate
    making persistent or urgent requests
    Our friend became more importunate: the old man was at last obliged to yield, and announce him. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
    "ktzar rooach" or even "menadned"
  21. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  22. enjoin
    give instructions to or direct somebody to do something
Created on Thu Aug 18 11:17:45 EDT 2011 (updated Tue Jan 31 10:00:55 EST 2012)

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