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1.) ABSTRACTED - taken out of or separated from

2.) ABULIA - Loss of will power

3.) ABSTRUSE - difficult to penetrate

4.) ABY - make amends for

5.) ACANTHOID - shaped like a thorn

6.) ACATELECTIC - metrically complete

7.) ACCLIVITOUS - sloping upward

8.) ACIDULENT - tasting sour like acid

9.) ACME - the highest level or degree attainable

10.) ACRIMONY - a sharp and bitter manner

11.) BAKSHEESH - small amount of money given for services rendered

12.) BALDERDASH - trivial nonsense

13.) BALE - bundle bound for storage or transport

14.) BALKY - refusing to go on

15.) BALLETOMANE - a ballet enthusiast

16.) BALLYHOO - sensational promotion

17.) BANE - something causes misery

18.) BANNERET - knight honored for valor

19.) BANNS - public announcement of a proposed marriage

20.) BAPTISTERY - bowl for baptismal water

21.) CALIGINOUS - dark and misty and gloomy

22.) CALISTHENICS - light exercise

23.) CALLIPYGOUS - having finely developed buttocks

24.) CALLOW - lacking experience of life

25.) CALLITHUMP - noisy parade

26.) CALORIMETRIC - relating to the measurement of heat

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27.) CALORIFACIENT - producing heat

28.) CALUMNIATORY - statements harmful and often untrue

29.) CALVE - release ice

30.) CAMBER - slight convexity

31.) DYSLOGISTIC - expressing disapproval

32.) DYSOMIA - impairment of the sense of smell

33.) DYSTOPIA - state in which the condition of life is extremely bad

34.) DYAD - two items of the same kind

35.) DYNAST - a hereditary ruler

36.) DUVET - a soft quilt

37.) DURANCE - imprisonment

38.) DUNCE - low opinion of someone's intelligence

39.) DUPERY - something intended to deceive

40.) DULCET - extremely pleasant in a gentle way

41.) EYRIE - nest of a bird of prey

42.) EXTRUDE - form by forcing through an opening

43.) EXULTANT - joyful and proud especially

44.) EXTRAVERT - characterized by extroversion

45.) EXTEAPOLATED - estimated

46.) EXTRICATE - release from difficulty

47.) EXTRAVASATE - force out from a vessel

48.) EXTOL - praise, glorify, or honor

49.) EXTENUATING - partially excusing or justifying

50.) EXPOSIT - to state

51.) FABULIST - person who tells or invents fables

52.) FUZEE - a colored flare

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53.) FURTIVE - marked by quiet and caution and secrecy

54.) FUSSY - perversely irritable

55.) FUSTIAN - pompous or pretentious talk or writing

56.) FUSTY - stale and unclean smelling

57.) FUROR - a sudden outburst

58.) FULSOME - excessively suave in manner or speech

59.) FULGURATING - sharp and piercing

60.) FULGUROUS - amazingly impressive

61.) GUILD - association of people with similar interests

62.) GUFF - unacceptable behavior

63.) GUBBINS - something whose name is either forgotten or not known

64.) GUERDON - a reward or payment

65.) GRUNGE - being covered with unclean things

66.) GRUFF - brusque and surly and forbidding

67.) GROVELLING - totally submissive

68.) GROTTY - very unpleasant or offensive

69.) GRIPSACK - a small suitcase

70.) GRISLY - shockingly repellent

71.) HYPOPNEA - slow or shallow breathing

72.) HYPONYM - a word that is more specific than a given word

73.) HYPETHRAL - partly or entirely open to the sky

74.) HYMNODY - act of singing psalms

75.) HYMNAL - songbook containing a collection of hymns

76.) HYALINE - glassy translucent material

77.) HUSKY - muscular and heavily built

78.) HURTLE - move with with a rushing sound

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79.) HUSSY - a woman adulterer

80.) HUNG JURY - a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict

81.) ITERATIVE - tedious repetition

82.) IRREVERENT - showing lack of due respect

83.) IRREALITY - imaginary

84.) IRE - a strong emotion

85.) IRATE - feeling or showing extreme anger

86.) INVOLUTION - reduction in size of an organ

87.) INVIGILITATE to proctor

88.) INVIDIOUS - implying a slight or showing prejudice

89.) INURE to habituate

90.) INTROSPECT - reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings

91.) JUVENESCENCE - the process of growing into a youth

92.) JUT - something which bulges out

93.) JUMENTOUS - smelling strongly like an animal

94.) JOUNCE - a sudden impact

95.) JOVIAL - high-spirited merriment

96.) JOSH - be silly or tease one another

97.) JOT - a hurriedly handwritten note

98.) JOCUNDITY - a feeling facetious merriment

99.) JOG - a sharp change in direction

100.) JOBBERY - corruptness among public officials