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Fastidious
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Gymnastics
Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Mellifluous
Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice.
Cease
Extinction.
Internationalism
The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.
Self-determination
Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
Enmesh
To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
Bookkeeper
One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Autocracy
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Scissors
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of sci..
Scraper
An instrument with which anything is scraped.
Incapacitate
To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
Quotum
Part or proportion; quota.
Arbitrary
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
Sabulous
Sandy; gritty.
Mutilated
of Mutilate
Suppositional
Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
Enervated
of Enervate
Despondency
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Allege
To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
Saucebox
A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.
Finish
See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
Bumper
A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
Manipulator
One who manipulates.
Tergiversation
The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Peephole
A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Piste
The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Mulct
A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
Rarity
The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
Wrinkled
of Wrinkle
Mannerism
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Footpath
A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Oligarchic
Alt. of Oligarchical
Gusto
Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
Promenade
A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
Amazement
The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
Contestable
Capable of being contested; debatable.
Stepper
One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Recreancy
The quality or state of being recreant.
Convolute
Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
Chivalry
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Overweening
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
Yockel
The yaffle.
Apologizer
One who makes an apology; an apologist.
Adaptation
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Valiance
Alt. of Valiancy
Ungula
A hoof, claw, or talon.
Peppery
Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
Inherit
To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendib..
Double-quick
Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
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