October 2006
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- wan
- pale; also, lacking vitality or intensity.
- crabwise
- sideways; also, in a cautiously indirect manner.
- bloviate
- to speak or write in a pompous manner.
- exemplar
- an ideal model or type.
- qua
- in the capacity or character of; as.
- lascivious
- lewd; lustful.
- obstreperous
- noisily and stubbornly defiant; also, boisterous.
- deprecate
- to disapprove of; also, to belittle.
- recalcitrant
- stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.
- febrile
- feverish.
- inveterate
- deep-rooted; of long standing.
- ancillary
- subordinate, subsidiary; auxiliary.
- tchotchke
- a trinket; a knickknack.
- virtu
- love of or taste for fine objects of art; also, productions of art.
- contemporaneous
- originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
- perfidy
- faithlessness; treachery.
- ken
- perception, view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
- felicitous
- apt or appropriate; also, delightful.
- hypnagogic
- leading to sleep; hypnotic.
- tutelary
- guardian; protecting.
- braggadocio
- empty boasting.
- facile
- easily done or performed.
- rapport
- relation characterized by sympathetic understanding.
- swan song
- a final or farewell appearance, action, or pronouncement.
- indomitable
- incapable of being subdued or overcome.
- gambol
- to dance and skip about in play.
- privation
- the state of being deprived of something.
- perorate
- to conclude or sum up a long discourse; also, to speak at length.
- extraneous
- coming from the outside; also, not essential; also, irrelevant.
- solicitous
- manifesting, expressing, or full of care or concern.
- concinnity
- elegance -- used chiefly of literary style.