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  1. ARCUATION■3■0005■The process of being bent or curved.■                                                                                                                                                                                                      0000OBFUSCATION■3■0005■The act of darkening or making more confusting.■                                                                                                                                                                                         0000BOMBAST■3■0006■Grandiloquent and pompous speech or writing.■                                                                                                                                                                                                0000STUPIDITY■3■0002■See 'Lawyer'■                                                                                                                                                                                                                              0000RECTIFICATION■3■0004■To set right; correct.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                0000EXPONIBLE■2■■Requiring or admitting of explanation or definition
  2. ■                                                                                                                                                                                         0000INGURGITATION■3■■Swallowing greedily or in excessive amounts.■                                                                                                                                                                                              0000TOPOGRAPHICALLY■1■■Detailed and accurate description of a physical place or thing.■                                                                                                                                                                         0000APOTHEGM■3■0011■A terse and witty instructive saying or maxim.■                                                                                                                                                                                             0000VITRIOLICISM■3■0007■Bitterly scathing; caustic■                                                                                                                                                                                                             0000AMBSACE■3■0009■Bad Luck Misfortune; Snake-eyes.■                                                                                                                                                                                                            0000ACERBITY■3■0007■Sourness of Taste; Sharp bitter temper or mood.■                                                                                                                                                                                            0000ANFRACTUOUS■2■■Winding, Tortuous, full of twists and turns.■                                                                                                                                                                                                0000VERBOSITY■3■0001■Abundance of words.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                       0000HOKUM■3■0008■Something that may seem impressive but which is untrue or insincere.■                                                                                                                                                                          0000ABSTINENCE■3■0003■Forbearance, giving up, doing without.■                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000AMBROSIAL■2■0003■Worthy of the gods. ■                                                                                                                                                                                                                      0000FLATULENCE■3■0006■Self importance, pomposity; (also gas)                                                                                                                                                                                                    0000ABNEGATION■3■0003■Self denial, abstinence.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                 0000BARBAROUS■2■■Primative in nature, uncivilized, and prone to savagery.■                                                                                                                                                                                      0000FREAKISHLY■1■■Like a Freak.  Rare, Unusual, outlandish.■                                                                                                                                                                                                    0000PLENIPOTENTIARY■2■■Invested with or conferring full powers
  3. ■                                                                                                                                                                                               0000PRACTICABLE■2■■Capable of being done.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                      0000PRACTICUM■3■■Practical application of a previously studied theory.■                                                                                                                                                                                         0000MODICUM■3■■Small amount.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000MODALITY■3■■Tendency to conform to a general pattern or type.■                                                                                                                                                                                              0000AMELIORATION■3■0004■Improvement■                                                                                                                                                                                                                            0000ARCANUM■3■0010■A profound secret or mystery.■                                                                                                                                                                                                               0000DOGMATICALLY■1■0007■In an authoritative, arrogant manner. Esp. as when advanancing an unproven and perhaps questionable priniple or idea.■                                                                                                                  0000BAFFLE-GAB■3■0001■The fine art of interjecting extensive superfluous verbosity in the process of obfuscating any written or oral communitcation.■                                                                                                           0000PSEUDOMORPH■3■■A false, deceptive, or irregular form.■                                                                                                                                                                                                      0000COMPENDIOUS■2■■Containing briefly and concisely all the essentials of something.  Terse; Succinct.■                                                                                                                                                         0000ABECEDARIAN■2■■Like the ABC's.  Simple.  Simple-minded.■                                                                                                                                                                                                    0000VOLITIZABLE■2■■Able to be made volatile.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000TRUMPERY■3■0008■Showy but worthless finery.  Bric-a-brac.  Nonsense, rubbish, deception, fraud.                                                                                                                                                             0000TRUCULENCE■3■■Savagery, pugnacity, belligerence.
  4. ■                                                                                                                                                                                                         0000FEEBLEMINDEDNESS■3■0002■Subnormal; mentally deficient.■                                                                                                                                                                                                     0000INTENSIVELY■1■■Extreme in degree, strength or size.■                                                                                                                                                                                                        0000IMPROVEMENT■3■0004■The act of making more better.■                                                                                                                                                                                                          0000PLETHORIC■2■■Excessive in quantity, super-abundant■                                                                                                                                                                                                         0000ARCANE■2■■Known or understood only by those with special, secret knowledge.■                                                                                                                                                                                0000ZYGOMORPHIC■2■■Bi-laterally symetrical.  Having two equivelent halves. ■                                                                                                                                                                                    0000VENERABLE■2■■Worthy of reverence or respect.■                                                                                                                                                                                                               0000VENALITY■3■■Open to bribery or corruption.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                 0000RESOUNDINGLY■1■■Filled with sound or reverberation.  Extolled, celebrated.■                                                                                                                                                                                 0000QUALITATIVELY■1■■Of, pertaining to, or concerning quality.■                                                                                                                                                                                                 0000FRENETICALLY■1■0008■frenzied, maniacal■                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0000VOLATILIZABLE■2■■able to be made volaitle
  5. ■                                                                                                                                                                                                                0000EPISODICALLY■1■■Segmented.  Proceeding by a series of episodes.
  6. ■                                                                                                                                                                                          0000PONTIFICATION■3■0001■Speaking in a pompous authoritative manner.■                                                                                                                                                                                           0000VITREOUS■2■■Glass or glass-like.  Transparent.  Esp. as 'vitreous humor.'■                                                                                                                                                                                  0000SABULOUSLY■1■■Coarse. Gritty, Sandy, Granularity.■                                                                                                                                                                                                          0000REMONSTRANT■2■■Characterized by a speech or gesture of protest.■                                                                                                                                                                                            0000QUASI■1■■To some degree; almost or somewhat.  Most likely, just enough to get by.■                                                                                                                                                                          0000MORPHOLOGICALLY■1■■Pertaining to form rather than function
  7. ■                                                                                                                                                                                               0000QUANTITATIVELY■1■■Expressed, or capable of expression, as a quantity.■                                                                                                                                                                                      0000VOCATIVELY■1■■Pertaining to, characteristic of, or used in calling or naming.■                                                                                                                                                                              0000MULTIPLICATIVELY■1■■Tending toward, or capable of, multiplying or increasing.■                                                                                                                                                                              0000LUCULENT■2■■Clear, lucid, easily understood.■                                                                                                                                                                                                               0000LUCUBRATION■3■■Laborious study or writing.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                 0000PEDANT■3■■One who pays undue attention to book learning without an understanding or experience with practical affairs.■                                                                                                                                     0000PROXIMAL■2■■Nearest approximation.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                         0000INFELICITY■3■0009■Something inappropriate or unpleasing.■                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000DOUBLE-SPEAK■3■0001■The fine art of baffle-gab specifically as it is applied to politics.■                                                                                                                                                                  0000MISOLOGY■3■0012■Hatred of reason, argument, and enlightenment.■                                                                                                                                                                                             0000APHORISM■3■0011■A brief statement of fact, opinion, or maxim.■                                                                                                                                                                                              0000APHONIA■3■■Loss of speech, voicelessness.■                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0000CONUNDRUM■3■0010■A problem admitting to no satisfactory solution.■                                                                                                                                                                                          0000ANIMADVERSION■3■0007■A hostile, critical, or censorious remark.■                                                                                                                                                                                            0000CONSTITUENTS■3■0016■Ones represented by others, clients.■                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000GRANDILOQUENCE■3■0006■Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.                                                                                                                                                                                            0000EXIGENT■2■■Requiring immediate action or remedy; urgent.■                                                                                                                                                                                                   0000EXPEDIENTIALLY■1■■In a manner adherent to self serving means.■                                                                                                                                                                                              0000VERIDICAL■2■■expressing the truth; accurate.■                                                                                                                                                                                                               0000AFFIRMATIVELY■1■■In the manner of asserting that something is true as represented.  In a confirming way.■                                                                                                                                                   0000CONTINUUM■3■0015■A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighoring parts except by arbitrary division.■                                                                                                      0000TIME■3■0015■A non-spatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.■                                                                                                           0000OBSCURANT■3■0012■One who opposes intellectual advancement and/or political reform.                                                                                                                                                                          0000SURREPTITIOUSLY■1■■Perfomed, made, or acquired by secret clandestine, or stealthy means.■                                                                                                                                                                   0000CONTINUM■3■0015■■                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           0000COUNTRY■3■0016■A large tract of land distinguisable by features of topography, biology, or culture.■                                                                                                                                                        0000EARTH■3■0017■The dwelling place of mortal men, as distinguished from heaven and hell; the temporal world.■                                                                                                                                                  0000HINTERLAND■3■0016■The land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast.■                                                                                                                                                                                   0000SUBLUNARY■2■■Situarted beneath the moon.  Of this world; earthly; mundane.■                                                                                                                                                                                 0000CORUSCATION■3■0018■Flashes of light; sparkles, glitter.■                                                                                                                                                                                                    0000LAMBENCY■3■0018■Gentle flickering of light above or across a surface.■                                                                                                                                                                                      0000MACROCOSM■3■0017■The universe itself, or the concept of universe.■                                                                                                                                                                                          0000CHRONOLOGY■3■0015■The arrangement of events in time.■                                                                                                                                                                                                       0000LIGHT■3■0018■Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 3900 to about 7700 angstroms and that may be perceived by the unaided normal human eye.■                                                                               0000EMPEMERALLY■1■■Briefly.  In a short-lived or transitory manner.■                                                                                                                                                                                            0000TRANSIENT■3■0001■Someone or something which is temporary.
  8. ■                                                                                                                                                                                                0000EPHEMERA■3■0001■Something short lived.  Esp. as printed matter of current and passing interest.■                                                                                                                                                            0000ALLEGORY■3■0002■A literary, dramatic, or pictorial representation which parallels and illustrates a deeper, alternative sense.■                                                                                                                             0000METAPHOR■3■0002■A figure of speech is which a term is applied to something other than what it normally represents.  e.g. the "evening of life."■                                                                                                            0000POLYMORPHIC■2■■Characterized as having two or more forms, stages, or color types.■                                                                                                                                                                          0000QUINTESSENTIAL■2■■Having the characteristic of purity.■                                                                                                                                                                                                     0000JOCUND■2■■Exhibiting a cheerful disposition or quality; merry; gay■                                                                                                                                                                                         0000KINETIC■2■■Of, relating to, or produced by motion.■                                                                                                                                                                                                         0000NORMATIVE■2■■Based upon or prescribing a norm, especially one regarded as a standard of usage in speech and writing.■                                                                                                                                       0000NEOMORPHIC■2■■Having an unevolved form or structure; primative.■                                                                                                                                                                                            0000NUGATORY■2■■Of no value; worthless; triffling.  Having no power; inoperative.■                                                                                                                                                                              0000UXORIAL■2■■Pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a wife.
  9.  ■                                                                                                                                                                                       0000WHILOM■2■■Former; having once been.  She is the whilom Miss Smith.■                                                                                                                                                                                         0000XENOPHOBIC■2■■Being fearful or contemptuous of strangers or foreigners.■                                                                                                                                                                                    0000XEROPHILOUS■2■■Flourishing in, or able to withstand, a dry hot environment.■                                                                                                                                                                                0000GENOTYPICAL■2■■Relating to the genetic constitution of a class of organisms or entities.■                                                                                                                                                                   0000