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  • 07.31.2010

    innuendo noun. implication. Synonymns: insinuation.

  • 07.30.2010

    penitence noun. Remorse for your past conduct. Synonymns: penance, repentance.

  • 07.29.2010

    panic-stricken adjective. Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation. Synonymns: panicky, terrified, frightened.

  • 07.28.2010

    reniform adjective. Shaped like a kidney. Synonymns: kidney-shaped.

  • 07.27.2010

    seaquake noun. An earthquake originating under the sea floor. Synonymns: submarine earthquake.

  • 07.26.2010

    scrubby adjective. Inferior in size or quality. Synonymns: stunted, scrawny.

  • 07.25.2010

    treillage noun. Latticework used to support climbing plants. Synonymns: trellis.

  • 07.24.2010

    bountiful adjective. Giving freely and generously; liberal. Synonymns: bighearted, bounteous, giving, openhanded, handsome, freehanded, big.

  • 07.23.2010

    personate verb. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions. Synonymns: impersonate, pose.

  • 07.22.2010

    memorialize verb. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. Synonymns: immortalize, commemorate, record.

  • 07.21.2010

    entrust verb. Confer a trust upon. Synonymns: confide, commit, trust.

  • 07.20.2010

    copestone noun. A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination. Synonymns: capstone, finishing touch.

  • 07.19.2010

    gimcrack adjective. Cheap and tasteless; gaudy. Synonymns: flashy, garish, tawdry, trashy, brassy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty.

  • 07.18.2010

    birthrate noun. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year. Synonymns: fertility, fertility rate, natality.

  • 07.17.2010

    slumberous adjective. Inclined to or marked by drowsiness. Synonymns: somnolent.

  • 07.16.2010

    decamp verb. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. Synonymns: abscond, absquatulate, go off, make off, run off, bolt.

  • 07.15.2010

    placard noun. A sign or notice for display in a public place. Synonymns: bill, card, notice, poster, posting.

  • 07.14.2010

    cogitable adjective. Thinkable; conceivable. Synonymns: ponderable.

  • 07.13.2010

    stagger verb. Walk as if unable to control one's movements. Synonymns: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag.

  • 07.12.2010

    cuddle verb. Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position. Synonymns: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle.

  • 07.11.2010

    conjectural adjective. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. Synonymns: divinatory, hypothetical, suppositional, suppositious.

  • 07.10.2010

    feeble adjective. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. Synonymns: debile, infirm, sapless, weakly, decrepit, rickety, weak.

  • 07.09.2010

    frenzied adjective. Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion. Synonymns: frantic, frenetic.

  • 07.08.2010

    honcho noun. One who is in charge; a manager or leader. Synonymns: boss, chief, foreman, gaffer.

  • 07.07.2010

    predilection noun. A predisposition in favor of something. Synonymns: preference, orientation.

  • 07.06.2010

    vista noun. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees. Synonymns: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view.

  • 07.05.2010

    guileful adjective. Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning. Synonymns: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily.

  • 07.04.2010

    quarry noun. An object of pursuit. Synonymns: fair game, prey, target.

  • 07.03.2010

    entreat verb. Ask for or request earnestly. Synonymns: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press.

  • 07.02.2010

    clime noun. The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time. Synonymns: climate.

  • 07.01.2010

    kinship noun. A close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character. Synonymns: affinity.

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