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apocalyptic
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-affording a revelation or prophecy
-pertaining to the Apocalypse or biblical book or Revelation -predicting or presaging imminent disaster and total or universal destruction |
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cascade
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anything that resembles a waterfall, esp. in seeming to flow or fall in abundance
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cogitation
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-thoughful consideration; meditation
-a serious though; a carefully considered reflecton |
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anomalous
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-deviating from the normal or common order, form or rule
-equivocal, as in classification or nature |
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teetotaler
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-one who abstainds from drinking alcohol completely
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Clairvoyance
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the ability to percieve things that are not in sight or that cannot be seen
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antiquated
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continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old fashioned (house of spirits p. 307)
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peripatetic
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-walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot
-one who walks from place to place; an itinerant (house of spirits 210) |
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Soporific
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-causing or tending to cause sleep
-something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug |
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perverse
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willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary
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alcove
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recess or class room adjacent to or opening out of a room: a dining alcove
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Virulent
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intensely bitter, or malicious: a virulent attack
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Orison
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prayer or supplication "for hareton Eearnshaw was muttering his orisons, sotto voice, in a a series of cures directed against every object he touched" (24
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Pendant
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-hanging or suspended
-overhanging; jutting; projecting -undecided; undetermined; pending "his pendant lips streaming with bloody slaver" |
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Reprobate
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-a depraved, unprincipled or wicked person; a person rejected by god of salvation
-morally depraved; unprincipled; bad; rejected by god and beyond hope of salvation -to disapprove, condemn, or consure (of god ) to reject (a person), "he encouraged him to regard Hinkley as a reprobate" |
