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Pique

Plaintive

Plasticity

Plume

Prate

Precept

Precipitate

Preempt

Prehensible

Premonition

Preternatural

Prevaricate

Primordial

Probity

Propitate

Provident

Puissant

Purport

Pusillanimous

Quail

Quiescent

Quorum

Raiment

Rebus

Recondite

Redoubtable

Refractory

Regale

Remonstrate

Reprise

Repine

Reproach

Reprobate

Riposte

Salacious

Salutary

Sardonic

Sartorial

Satyr

Secrete

Sedition

Sextant

Sodden

Soliloquy

Sinuous

Solvent

Somatic

Sordid

Specious

Spendthrift

Staccato

Stint

Stratified

Stratum

Striated

Stricture

Strident

Stultify

Stygian

Subsume

Succor

Supine

Suppliant

Supplicant

Supposition

Syllogism

Sylvan

Tautology

Taxonomy

Tenuous

Tenet

Timbre

Thespian

Tout

Translucent

Travesty

Tremulous

Turbid

Turgid/Tumid

Tutelary

Undulating

Untenable

Untoward

Usury

Venal

Vendetta

Venerate

Visage

Vituperative

Vivisection

Welter

Wary

n. feeling of hurt pride

adj. melancholy; mournful

n. condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability

v. to congratulate onself in a self-satisfied way

v. to talke idly; chatter

n. principle; law

v. to cause to happen; throw down from a height

v. to supersede; appropriate for oneself

adj. capable of grasping

n. forewarning; presentiment

adj. supernatural

v. to quibble; evade the truth

adj. original; existing from the beginning

n. honesty; high-mindedness

v. to win over; appease

adj. providing for future needs; frugal

adj. powerful

v. to profess; suppose; claim

adj. cowardly

v. to cower; lose heart

adj. inactive; still

n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

n. clothing

n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words

adj. abstruse; profound

adj. formidable; arousing fear; worthy of respect

adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment

v. to entertain

v. to object or protest

n. repetition, especially of a piece of music

v. to complain

v. to find fault with; blame

n. morally unprincipled person

n. a retaliatory action or retort

adj. lascivious; lustful

adj. expecting an improvement; favorable to health

adj. cynical; scornfully mocking

adj. pertaining to tailors

n. a creature that is half-man, half beast with the horns and legs of a goat; a follower of Dionysos; a lecher

v. produce and release substance into organism

n. behavior prompting rebellion

n. navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

adj. thoroughly soaked; saturated

n. literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

adj. winding; intricate; complex

adj. able to meet financial obligations

adj. relating to or affecting the body; corporeal

adj. filthy; contemptible and corrupt

adj. seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

n. person who spends money recklessly

adj. marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

v. to be sparing

adj. arranged in layers

n. layers

adj. marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

n. something that restrains; negative criticism

adj. loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

v. to impair or reduce to uselessness

adj. dark and gloomy; hellish

v. to include; incorporate

n. relief; help in time of distress or want

adj. lying on the back; marked by lethargy

adj. beseeching

n. one who asks humbly and earnestly

n. the act of assuming to be true or real

n. a form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

adj. relating to the woods or forest

n. unnecessary repetition

n. science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories

adj. weak; insubstantial

n. belief; doctrine

n. the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone or color

n. an actor or actress

v. to promote or praise energetically

adj. partially transparent

n. parody; exaggerated imitation; caricature

adj. trembling; quivering; frugal; tumid

adj. muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion

adj. swollen; distended; bloated; pompous

adj. serving as a guardian or protector

adj. moving in waves

adj. indefensible

adj. not favorable; troublesome; adverse; unruly

n. practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

adj. bribable; mercenary; corruptible

n. prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility

v. to adore; honor; respect

n. countenance; appearance; aspect

adj. using or containing harsh, abusive censure

n. dissection, surgery, or painful experiments performed on a living animal for the purpose of scientific research

v. to wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil

adj. careful; cautious