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03/19/2012
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Riparian

 

 

ADJ

 Definition
a river or stream
Term

Palliate

 

V

 Definition
to relieve or lesson without curing
Term

Arcane

 

ADJ

 Definition
understand or known by only a few
Term

Nescience 

 

N

 Definition
lack of knowledge
Term

Desultory

 

ADJ

 

 Definition
unconnected from main subject; random
Term

Skien

 

ADJ

 Definition
series of similar inrelated things
Term

Insouciant

 

ADJ

 Definition
free from concer; worry; anxiety
Term

Laconic

 

ADJ

 Definition
using few words; consise
Term

Spoony

 

ADJ

 Definition
extremely sentimental
Term

Loquacious

 

ADJ

 Definition
to talk freely
Term

Denizen

 

N

 

 Definition
a person who lives
Term

Ostentatious

 

ADJ

 Definition
intended to attract notice
Term

Eccentric

 

ADJ

 Definition
irregular; odd
Term

Ostensible

 

ADJ

 Definition
akwardly appearing as such
Term

Bloviate

 

V

 Definition
to speak or wtite in a boastful manner
Term

Primoridial

 

ADJ

 Definition
happening first in sequence time
Term

Pejorative

 

N

 Definition
be litting or disropind word or expression
Term

Neophyte

 

N

 Definition

 

novice
Term

Pragmatic

 

ADJ

 Definition
practical
Term

Anathema

 

N

 Definition
a person or thing,  detested
Term

Hubris

 

N

 Definition
overbearing pride or presumtion
Term

Sophistry

 

N

 Definition
Aplausible but misleading
Term

Inchoant

 

ADJ

 Definition
imperfectly formed or developed
Term

Gesticulate

 

V

 Definition
to make gestures; place
Term

Paramour

 

N

 

 

 Definition

a illict lover 

 

(guilty)
Term

Pule

 

V

 Definition
to wine; chillar
Term

Sociopath

 

N

 Definition
a psychopath
Term

Raillery

 

N

 Definition
good sense of humor
Term

Astral

 

ADJ

 Definition
pretaining to the stars
Term

Obdurate

 

ADJ

 Definition
stubbron; unyeilding
Term

Favonian

 

ADJ

 Definition
pertaining to the west wind; gental, soft,mild
Term

Dolorous

 

ADJ

 Definition
mournfoul
Term

Anadromous

 

ADJ

 Definition
mirgrating to fresh water
Term

Banal

 

ADJ

 Definition
common place and predictable
Term

Tryst

 

N

 Definition
a meeting secret between love
Term

Miscreant

 

N

 Definition
a villian
Term

Zephyr

 

N

 Definition
a gental mild breeze
Term

Gloaming 

 

N

 Definition
twighlight dusk
Term

Risible

 

ADJ

 Definition
causing laughter to laugh
Term

Misanthrope

 

 

N

 Definition
a hater of human kind
Term

Pretenatural

 

ADJ

 Definition
outside of natural (supernatural)
Term

Effloresence

 

N

 Definition
state of time of flowering 
Term

Atavistic

 

ADJ

 Definition
reverting to characteristics remote ancestor
Term

Malefactor

 

N

 Definition
a criminal
Term

Pejorative

 

ADJ

 Definition
tending to disparague
Term

Peccant 

 

ADJ

 Definition
gulity
Term

Chary

 

ADJ

 Definition
very cautious
Term

Reprobate

 

ADJ

 Definition
morrally depraved unprinclepled
Term

Cudgel

 

N

 Definition
short heavy stick as a weapon
Term

Cudgel

 

N

 Definition
to beat someone
Term

Immure 

 

V

 Definition
to shut in
Term

Reprobate

 

N

 Definition
a depraved
Term

Ubiquitious

 

ADJ

 Definition
being or seen at evewhere at once
Term

Antendilivian 

 

ADJ

 Definition
very old
Term

Sylan

 

ADJ

 Definition
pertaining to forest regions
Term

Aegis

 

N

 Definition
protection; support
Term

Habitue

 

N

 Definition
who frequents a place
Term

Logubrious

 

ADJ

 Definition
mournfoul in a exaggerated manner
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