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Donnybrook |
An inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all |
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Snickersnee |
A knife, especially one used as a weapon |
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Enervate |
To deprive of force or strenth; destroy the vigor of; to weaken |
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Oviparous |
Producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles, and fish, and monotremes. |
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Viviparous |
Bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals, and some reptiles, and some fish. |
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Sagacity |
Acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgement |
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Lacustrine |
Of or relating to a lake |
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Viviparous |
Producing seeds that germinate on the plant |
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Aeonian |
Eternal; everlasting |
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Dichotomy |
Division into two parts, kinds, ect; subdivision into halves or pairs |
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Kvell |
To be extraordinarily pleased; especially to be bursting with pride, as over one's family |
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Adumbration |
To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch |
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Terpsichorean |
Pertaining to dance |
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Reify |
To convert into or regard as a concrete thing |
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Lacustrine |
Living or growing in lakes, as various organisms |
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Dichotomy |
A mode of branching by constant forking as in some stems, in veins of leaves, ect |
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Mollify |
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone) |
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Mirth |
amusement, especially as expressed in laughter. |
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Cygnet |
A young swan |
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Piebald |
Having patches of black or white or of other colors; multicolored |
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Verisimilitude |
the appearance of being true or real. |
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Effluvia |
an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge. |
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Querulous |
complaining in a petulant or whining manner. |
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quiescent |
marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest. |
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baleful |
foreboding or threatening evil. |
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Baleful |
deadly or pernicious in influence |
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Garrulous |
given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity |
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Garrulous |
pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
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propitious |
favorably disposed; tending to favor or a good omen |
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Recalcitrant |
resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. |
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bellicose |
inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
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Pernicious |
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful, deadly, or fatal |
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Nebulous |
In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy |
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Delineate |
to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially |
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Delineate |
to portray in words; describe or outline with precision |
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Moxie |
courageous spirit and determination; |
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Caterwaul |
make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat |
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dauntless |
showing fearlessness and determination |
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foehn |
a warm dry wind developing in the lee of any mountain range. |
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