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- Congenial
- used of plants
- Anguished
- experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
- Entreatingly
- in a beseeching manner
- Apparatus
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- Gambit
- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- Cordial
- sincerely or intensely felt
- Accolade
- a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
- Cosmopolite
- one who is at home in every place; an organism found in most parts of the world
- Monolith
- a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
- Rubato
- making the established pulse flexible by accelerating and slowing down the tempo, an expressive device
- Meaner
- verb-to wander aimlessly;ramble
- Scorned
- treated with contempt
- Check
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- Tabby
- female cat
- Treasonable
- constituting treason
- Lapsed
- no longer active or practicing
- Arid
- lacking vitality or spirit
- Burnishing
- Using the back of a spoon or some other tool to make the clay smooth.
- Insolence
- an offensive disrespectful impudent act
- Kippers
- salted and smoked herring
- Tranquility
- a disposition free from stress or emotion
- Ubiquitous
- being present everywhere at once
- Aquiline
- curved down like an eagle's beak
- Swede
- a native or inhabitant of Sweden
- Rancour
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- Hearth
- home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
- Lament
- a mohttp://quizlet.com/edit/113173/#urnful poem
- Gorge
- a narrow passage (like the ones between mountains)
- Facade
- the face or front of a building
- Grievance
- a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
- Lapsed
- no longer active or practicing
- Infuriate
- make furious
- Pier
- (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)
- Flay
- To strip the skin off of something
- Benignly
- in a benign manner
- Cascading
- falling or tumbling
- Dithering
- the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color
- Subversive
- a radical supporter of political or social revolution
- Nomads
- people with no permanent home; move from place to place in search of food,
- Unkempt
- not properly maintained
- Obliged
- obligated; indebted to; mandatory
- Dinghy
- a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
- Fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- Ensuing
- following immediately and as a result of what went before
- Rapacious
- devouring or craving food in great quantities