2009 March Week 2

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USURP

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1 a: to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right
b: to take or make use of without right
2: to take the place of by or as if by force : supplant

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POMP

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1: a show of magnificence : splendor
2: a ceremonial or festival display
3 a: ostentatious display : vainglory b: an ostentatious gesture or act

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HIGHFALUTINAL

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1 pretentious, fancy
2: expressed in or marked by the use of high-flown bombastic language : pompous

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PLACARD

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1: a notice posted in a public place : poster
2: a small card or metal plaque

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UNSTINTING

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not restricting or holding back : giving or being given freely or generously

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FIREBUG

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incendiary, pyromaniac

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DUBIETY

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1 : a usually hesitant uncertainty or doubt that tends to cause vacillation 2 : a matter of doubt

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OBTRUDE

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1: to thrust out: extrude
2: to force or impose (as oneself or one's ideas) without warrant or request
1.to become unduly prominent or interfering: intrude

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BUNGLE

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1 to act or work clumsily and awkwardly
2 mishandle , botch

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DAVENPORT

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1: a small compact writing desk
2: a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed

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REPLETE

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1: a small compact writing desk
2: a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed

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LEVITATE

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to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
to cause to levitate

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FRIGORIFIC

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causing cold : chilling

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SPOONY

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1: silly, foolish; especially unduly sentimental
2: being sentimentally in love

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PLEONASM

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1: the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense
2: an instance or example of pleonasm