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- ADUNCITYCrookedness, curvaceousness, hookedness.
- AMBAGIOUSRoundabout, circuitous, vague.
- BIVIOUSHaving, or leading, two ways.
- BOTULISMPoisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.
- CAPACITYThe ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
- CAPTIOUSThat captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
- CAROUSELA pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which are fixed various seats, frequen
- COACTIONForce; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling
- COCTIONAn act of boiling.
- DENIGRATETo criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
- DUCTILECapable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
- EDACIOUSHaving an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
- FLAVESCENTyellowish in colour, or turning yellow
- FULCRUMThe support about which a lever pivots.
- HAUSTORIUMA root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
- HIRSUTECovered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- IMPROBITYA lack of probity or integrity; dishonesty.
- INVIOUSuntrodden
- IRIDESCENTProducing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
- LIQUESCENTMelting.
- LOQUACITYTalkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.
- METAPHYSICALOf or pertaining to metaphysics.
- OLEIFEROUSThat produces oil
- OLFACTORYConcerning the sense of smell.
- OMNIVOREAn animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
- OPACITYThe state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
- OVIPAROUSDepositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
- PERFIDIOUSOf, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
- PILIFEROUSContaining or producing hair.
- PLACENTAAn organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umb
- PLEURISYInflammation of lung pleura.
- PRUDENTIALCharacterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation.
- RAPACIOUSVoracious; avaricious.
- RUFESCENTBecoming reddish; tinged with red.
- SCENOGRAPHYThe design of theatrical sets.
- TACTIONThe act of touching; touch; contact.
- TENACIOUSClinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
- TENUIOUSRare or subtle; tenuous.
- UNCTIONAn ointment or salve.
- VELOCITYA vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
- VERTIGINOUSHaving an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
- VIRESCENTGreen or greenish.
- VIRIDESCENTGreen or greenish.
- VOMITUSVomit (the product of an emesis).