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05/31/2011

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Obdurate
Definition
resistant to persuasion
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Obesquious
Definition
overly submissive and eager to please; deferential; subserviant
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Obfuscate
Definition
to deliberately obscure; make confusing
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Oblique
Definition
indirect; evasive; misleading tangential; glancing
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Obloquy
Definition
sharp critecism; abusivley detractive larguange; calumny
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Obsterperous
Definition
noisy; defiant
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Obstinate
Definition
sutbborn; unyielding; mulish; pertinacious
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Obtuse
Definition
lacking sharpness of intellect
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Obviate
Definition
to prevent; anticipate and make unecesssary; forestall; intervene
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Occlude
Definition
to stop up; prevent passage; barricade
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Odious
Definition
evoking intense aversion or dislike; repugnant
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Officious
Definition
too helpful; meddlesome; pushy in ones services, eager
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Ombudsman
Definition
a person who investigates citizens complaints; mediator
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Onerous
Definition
troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
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Opaque
Definition
impossible to see through; obscure; turbid
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Opine
Definition
to express an opinion; voice
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Opprobrium
Definition
public disgrace; disrepute; ignominy; obloquy
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Orotund
Definition
pompous; aureate; magniloquent; oratorical
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Ossify
Definition
to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern
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Ostensible
Definition
apparent; seeming; surface
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Ostentatious
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characterized by or given to pretentiousness, conspicuousness
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Overweening
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presumptuously arrognat; overbearing
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Overwrought
Definition
agitated, overdone
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