words 101-150 (not whole set--missing last 11 words)
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- entrepeneur
- one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of business or enterprise
- Epicurean
- 1. describes one who indulges in and is devoted to sensual pleasures especially food and wine
- Epilogue
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1. a short often conclusion at the end of a literary work dealing with the charaters after the play(an after work)
2. the ending scene, statements, or speech or a play
etm. from greek logos - after - Epitaph
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an inscription on a tomb stone in memory of one burried there
etm. Taphos - from greek meaning tomb - Epoch
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1. a memorable event or date
etm. from greek epokhe - a point in time - Equanimity
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1. evenness of mind especially under stress
2. balance
etm. (from latin)
aeguus - even
animus - mind - Equestrian
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1. one who rides on horseback
etm. from latin equus - horse - Errant
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1. traveling or given to traveling
2. not following a set course or path - Exemplary
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1. serving as a pattern
2. serving as an example,instance,or illustration
--exemplary work-- - Facade
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1. the front of a bulding
2. a false, superficial, or artificial appearanceor effect - Facile (Adj.)
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1. used or comprehended with ease
2. mild or pleasing in manner or disposition - Fanaticism (N.)
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excessively enthusiastically and often intensely uncrittically devotional outlook,or behavior
etm: from latin - fanum meaning "temple" - Fatuous
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1. Silly
2.uncontiously foolish - Fecundity (N.)
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1. fruitfullness and furtility
2. productive or creative power - Fell
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1. fierce, cruel, terrible, sinister
2. very destructive - Filch
- to take, especially something of little value
- Fickle
- marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability
- Finale
- the close or termination or something
- Finesse
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1. skillfull handling of a situation
2. to bring about or manage by adroit meaneuvering - trick - Foible (N.)
- a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior; a weakness
- Franchise
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1. the license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory
2. a business granted such a right or license - Frenetic (Adj)
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1. Frenzied
2. frantic - Fresco
- the art of painting freshly spread moist lime plaster with waterbased pigments
- Freshet
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1. a stream
2. a great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow - Frieze
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1. a sculptured or richly ornamented band (as on a bulding or piece or furniture)
-->2. a horizontal decorated piece (wallpaper) along the top of a room - Fritter (V.)
- to spend or waster bit by bit, or trifles, or without commensurate return (used with away)
- Frowzy
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1. Musty, stale
2. having a slovenly or uncared for appearance - Gadfly (N.)
- a persistant, irritating critic
- Genre
- a catagorey or artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
- Glut
- an excessive quantity
- Glutinous
- having the quality of glue; gummy
- Gossamer
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something light, delicate, or flimsy
etm. goose + somer (summer) - Gouge
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1. to poke or take out
2. to become very high -- price gouges - Grandiloquent
- A lofty bombastic style or quality especially in language
- Guffaw
- a loud burst of laughter
- HEresy
- 1. an opinion or doctorine contrary to church dogma
- hierarchy
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1. a body of person in authority
2. catagoration of people marked by rank - Hireling
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1. One who works soely for compesation
--person who does unskilled labor-- - Hogshead
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1. a large cask or barrel
2. any of various units of capacity
3. a pub in harry potter