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FILIBUSTER
TO OBSTRUCT OR DELAY
FICTIVE
FICTIONAL
FEBRILE
FEVERISH, INTENSE EMOTION OR ACTIVITY

Febre = fever in Spanish
EXTRUDE
TO FORM A SHAPE BY PUSHING OUT

LIKE PLAYDOUGH MAKER
EXTRUDED STEEL
EXTIRPATE
TO ERADICATE, TOTALLY DESTROY
EXPONENT
TO CHAMPION OR ADVOCATE
EXCORIATE
TO CRITICIZE HARSHLY, CENSURE SCATHINGLY
EPOCHAL
MOMENTOUS, HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT
ENJOIN
TO FORBID, PREVENT

VERB FORM OF INJUNCTION
ENCUMBER
TO BURDEN, TO WEIGH DOWN
EFFLUVIA
WASTE PRODUCT, EFFLUENT, SEWAGE
DOCTRINAIRE
DOGMATIC, RIGIDLY DEVOTED TO RULES
DISPASSIONATE
DISINTERESTED
DISCOMFIT
TO MAKE SOMEONE LOSE COMPOSURE, TO DISCONCERT

DIS+COMFORTABLE

TO "NOONAN"
DILUVIAL
RELATED TO FLOOD
DENIZEN
AN INHABITANT, RESIDENT
DECLAIM
TO SPEAK VEHEMENTLY, USUALLY AGAINST SOMETHING
COUNTERVAIL
TO REACT WITH EQUAL FORCE
COTERIE
POSSE, ENTOURAGE
COQUETTE
A FLIRTY WOMAN
CONVALESCE
TO RECOVER GRADUALLY FROM AN ILLNESS
CONTINENCE
SELF-CONTROL
CONSTITUENT
A CITIZEN, A VOTER

AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OR PART OF
CONSANGUINEOUS
RELATED BY BLOOD

SANG=BLOOD
CONDOLE, CONDOLENCE
TO GRIEVE, EXPRESS SYMPATHY
CONCOMITANT
EXISTING CONCURRENTLY
TO COMMUTE
TO EXCHANGE A PENALTY FOR A LESS SEVERE PENALTY
CLOYING
SICKLY SWEET, EXCESSIVE, SACCHARINE
CHIMERICAL, CHIMERA
FANTASY, IMAGINARY, IMPOSSIBLE
CENSORIOUS
CRITICIZING, CENSURING
CELERITY
SPEED, HASTE
CEDE
SURRENDER POSSESSION, GIVE UP
CAPTIOUS
ARGUE, POINTS OUT TRIVIAL CRAP JUST TO ARGUE, CONFUSE, ARGUMENTATIVE IN PICKY WAY
TO BROACH
TO MENTION FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO SUGGEST FOR THE FIRST TIME
BILIOUS
ILL TEMPERED, SICKLY

LIKE BILE
BEDRAGGLE
WET, LIMP, SOILED, DILAPIDATED

DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD
BEATIFIC
HAPPINESS, JOY
ATAVISTIC
ANCIENT, FORMER ERA
ASKANCE
WITH DISAPPROVAL, SKEPTICAL
ARREARS
UNPAID, OVERDUE

TO PAY AFTER SOMETHING IS DUE
APPRISE
TO KEEP INFORMED, TO GIVE NOTICE TO
APPROPRIATE
TO ASSIGN FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TO ALLOCATE
APPOSITE
WELL SUITED, APPROPRIATE OR WELL ADAPTED FOR A USE OR CAUSE, GOES WELL WITH

Short "A" = to or Toward, goes with
ANODYNE
A SOURCE OF COMFORT, SOMETHING THAT RELIEVES PAIN
ANIMUS
FEELING OF ILL WILL, OR ANIMOSITY

Animus = animosity
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
SUGGESTS HUMAN QUALITIES FOR ANIMALS OR THINGS
APLOMB
POISE, SELF CONFIDENCE
ALGORITHM
A PROCEDURE TO SOLVE SOMETHING
AFFECTED
PHONY, ARTIFICIAL
AERIE
A NEST FOR BIRDS, A SECLUDED DWELLING

Aer = aerial, in the air
ADJUDICATE
TO ACT AS A JUDGE, TO RESOLVE A DISAGREEMENT
ACTUATE
TO PUT INTO ACTION

Put into motion
ABORTIVE
TO END SOMETHING EARLY WITHOUT RESULTS