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- ANOMALOUSDeviating from the normal; marked by incongruity or contradiction; aberrant or abnormal.
- ATAXYataxia
- CACOPHONYA mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- CHIRAL(geometry, physical chemistry) that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
- CHTHONICDwelling within the underworld.
- EUTAXYGood or established order or arrangement.
- EXARCHYThe jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.
- GLYPHICCarved, sculpted.
- MONADICof, relating to, or being a monad
- PHLEGMATICNot easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
- PHYLONAll of the organisms descending from a given common ancestor, regarded as a race, tribe, vel sim.; a clade.
- PHYTONOne of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves.
- PSEUDONYMA fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.
- QUINCEThe pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
- THALAMUSEither of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
- XENOGAMYThe transfer of pollen from the anthers of one plant to the stigma of another; cross-pollination.
- ZOETROPEAn optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of
- CHOTTA dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
- SHADOOFA device used since ancient times in the Middle East to raise water from a well or other low point, consisting of a pivoted rod with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the
- FLENSETo strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
- AFFICHEA written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
- COQUETA flirtatious female; a coquette.
- JOVIALITYThe state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.
- VIRULENTOf animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
- ERSATZAn inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
- PSYCHOIDAn innate physical reaction to a psychological stimulus.
- RAFFISHCharacterized by careless unconventionality; rakish.
- WANKLEWeak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
- BHAJIAny of various Indian dishes of fried vegetables.
- AISLINGA kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish p
- CANTOOne of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- AFFEERTo assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
- APIARIANPertaining to bees or beekeeping.
- ASPICA meat or fish jelly.
- DYSLEXIAA learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
- EQUESTRIANOf horseback riding or horseback riders.
- EXCULPATIONThe act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime.
- EXEUNTA stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage.
- EXUVIALRelated to something sloughed off or stripped away.
- EXUVIATETo shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- FEBRILEFeverish, or having a high temperature.
- FECUNDITYAbility to produce offspring.
- FLOCCULENTFlocculated, resembling bits of wool; woolly.
- GROCKLEA tourist from elsewhere in the country
- GROYNEAn often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
- INIMICALHarmful in effect.
- JUGUMA connecting ridge or projection, especially on a bone.
- LUXURIANTAbundant in growth or detail.
- OMINOUSOf or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- PAUCITYFewness in number; too few.
- PAUNCHThe first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
- PROFLIGATEInclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- PROFUNDITYThe state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
- PUGNACIOUSNaturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.
- PULCHRITUDEPhysical beauty.
- QUOTIDIANHappening every day; daily.
- REDOLENTFragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
- REFULGENCEthe quality of being refulgent; refulgency
- REFULGENTResplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly.
- SOJOURNA short stay somewhere.
- TRUCULENTCruel or savage.
- TURGIDDistended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- WUXIASA genre of East Asian fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists, typically set in Ancient China.
- SUPINELying on its back.
- CAPTAINRYPower or command over a district; chieftainship.
- AXOLOTLA critically endangered salamander found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum.
- BEQUEATHTo give or leave by will; to give by testament.
- BOXENMade of boxwood.
- PIQUANTCausing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
- QUOTHSaid.
- WEFTThe horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
- WIZENEDsimple past and past participle of wizen
- ADROITdeft, dexterous, or skillful
- ANTIPATHYOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious rea
- PUGILISTOne who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
- PYTHONICOf or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.
- QUETHINGSpeech, talk.
- RUBICONA limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.
- SKEINA quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a
- VEXATIONThe action of vexing, annoying, or irritating someone or something; an instance of this. The action of physically annoying or irritating a person or an animal; an instance of this;
- DROOGA violent young gang member or a hooligan.
- AISLEDHaving aisles.
- ANKYLOTICOf or pertaining to ankylosis.
- ANTISEXUALOpposing or disapproving of sexual intercourse.
- APHASICAffected by, or pertaining to, aphasia.
- APHIDIANLike an aphid.
- APIARISTbeekeeper
- ASEXUALITYThe state or quality of being asexual: The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.
- AVOIDANTExhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
- BAYWOODThe wood of the bay tree.
- BLASTOIDA member of an extinct class of echinoderms, the Blastoidea.
- BLIGHTEROne who blights.
- CANKEROUSInfected with canker; ulcerous.
- CANKERYFull of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
- CINEMATOGRAPHYThe art, process, or job of filming movies.
- CONKThe shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
- CUPPYHaving the form of a cup.
- CYNOPHOBIAAn irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.
- CYNOPHOBICOf or relating to cynophobia, having an irrational fear or hatred / dislike of dogs or other canines.
- CYTOPATHICThat damages or destroys cells