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- GHASTLYLike a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
- SHREWDShowing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- CRAVENUnwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
- TRIFLEAn English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- TURMERICAn Indian plant (Curcuma longa), with aromatic rhizomes, part of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
- BLUNDERA clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
- BUSTLEAn excited activity; a stir.
- DOOZYSomething that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.
- BUOYA float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
- SLOUGHThe skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- WICKETA small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- FATHOMA man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.
- JUVENILEYoung; not fully developed.
- LECHEROUSGiven to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.
- PIOUSOf or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
- PULMONARYPertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
- RIBALDCoarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
- SHRIFTThe act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- SUNDRYMore than one or two but not very many; a number of, several.
- VARICOSEAbnormally swollen, dilated or knotty.
- GOADA long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
- TANTRICRelated to Vajrayana Buddhism.
- BOLEROA lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
- CONGEALTo change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
- RODEOA gathering of cattle to be branded.
- ASKEWTurned or twisted to one side.
- AUTHORIALOf, coming from, or typical of an author
- AXIALRelating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- BLIGHTED(Can we verify this sense?) Having caused to suffer a blight.
- CALLAA marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
- CANNERYA factory that produces canned goods.
- CANTANKEROUSGiven to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
- CHEEKILYIn a cheeky or impudent manner.
- CHUFFEDsimple past and past participle of chuff
- CLAYMATIONStop-motion animation where each animated piece is made from a deformable substance, typically Plasticine clay.
- CLOWNISHResembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
- DOODLERA person who doodles.
- FASHIONABLYIn a fashionable manner.
- FRACTIOUSGiven to troublemaking.
- FROGGYA frog.
- FUNGICIDEA substance used to kill fungus, whether yeasts, molds, mildews, or mushrooms.
- GAFFERA chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
- GRAPHICALOf, related to, or shown on a graph.
- INDENTUREDSubject to an indenture.
- INFRAREDThe electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation, having a wavelength between 700 nm and 1 mm.
- MILLAGEA tax rate on property, expressed in mills of the property's value.
- MIMICRYAn act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance, characteristics, or behavior of someone or something else.
- PHOTONThe quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge b
- PRIVETAny of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum.
- PUCKISHHaving a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
- PUNKISHReminiscent of the punk subculture; slightly punk.
- QUAGMIREA swampy, soggy area of ground.
- RAFFIAA fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of raffia palm trees (genus Raphia).
- SCHOONERA sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
- SCOUNDRELA mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.
- SERRATEDNotched or cut like a saw.
- SHIMMYA dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
- SYSTEMICEmbedded within and spread throughout and affecting a whole system, group, body, economy, market, or society.
- TEPIDLYIn a tepid or halfhearted manner.
- TORRENTIALComing or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities.
- UNCOUTHLYIn an uncouth manner.
- UNFETTERTo release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.
- UNTOWARDUnfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
- UNVERIFIABLENot capable of being verified, confirmed, checked or proven.
- VERBALISMThe expression of a concept in words; the wording used in such an expression
- VOLTAGEThe difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
- WADDLEROne who waddles.
- WARMONGERSomeone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.
- WHORLEach circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.