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  1. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
  2. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  3. coquettishly
    in a flirtatious manner
  4. abet
    assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
  5. analytical
    using or skilled in using reasoning
  6. expatriate
    a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
  7. effigy
    a representation of a person
  8. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  9. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  10. contemptuous
    expressing extreme scorn
  11. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  12. connote
    express or state indirectly
  13. denote
    have as a meaning
  14. aubergine
    a plant that grows edible, dark-purple fruit
  15. fallal
    cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
  16. theoterrorism
    terrorism for a religious purpose
  17. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  18. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
  19. kimberlite
    a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds
  20. swingeing
    severe; punishingly bad
  21. pother
    an excited state of agitation
  22. deprecative
    tending to diminish or disparage
  23. ululate
    emit long loud cries
  24. lampoon
    ridicule with satire
  25. lambency
    an appearance of reflected light
  26. Identikit
    a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought
  27. genteel
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
  28. leviathan
    the largest or most massive thing of its kind
  29. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  30. marred
    blemished by injury or rough wear
  31. marmite
    a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup
  32. bard
    a lyric poet
Created on Tue Sep 20 11:39:03 EDT 2011

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