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- HYGIENE - The science that deals with the preservation of health.
- COMBATANT - A nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- GINGHAM - A yarn-dyed, plain-weave cotton fabric, usually striped or checkered.
- BODEGA - A grocery store (esp. among Spanish-speaking Americans)
- MORTGAGE - A conveyance of an interest in property as a security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- PLATYPUS - A small aquatic, egg-laying monotreme, of Australia and Tasmania.
- LARIAT - A long, noosed rope used to catch horses, cattle, or other livestock.
- DEBRIS - The remains of anything broken down or destroyed.
- JICAMA - The large, edible, tuberous root of a tropical American plant of thelegume family
- LARCENY - The wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert to taker's own use.
- SUBSEQUENT - Occurring or coming later of after events.
- CYANIDE - Salt of hydrocyanic acid.
- WEIRD - Involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny.
- MAESTRO - An eminent composer, teacher or conductor of music.
- MERCENARY - Working or acting merely for money or other reward.
- CONVOLUTED - Twisted or coiled
- BOISTEROUS - Rough and noisy or noisily jolly or rowdy.
- INSIGNIA - A badge or distinguishing mark of office or honor.
- HOOLIGAN - A ruffian or hoodlum.
- SUBSIDY - A direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
- OCTAVE - A tone on the eighth degree from a given tone.
- EERINESS - An uncanny feeling, so as to inspire superstitious fear or weirdness.
- CANOEIST - A person who paddles a canoe.
- KNOWLEDGEABLE - Possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight or understanding.
- INDICTMENT - An act of indicting
- PROLIFERATE - To grow or produce by multiplication of parts, or by procreation.
- GUBERNATORIAL - Of or pertaining to a state governor of the office of state governor.
- ECZEMA - An inflammatory condition of the skin attended with itching and the exudation of serous matter.
- BARONET - A member of a British hereditary order of honor.
- HOMOPHONE - A word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning,whether spelled the same way or not.
- VISCOUNT - A nobleman nest below an earl or count and nest above a baron.
- PREROGATIVE - An exclusive right or privilege.
- PEJORATIVE - Having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force.
- HARASSED - To be disturbed persistently or bothered continually.
- EXTRANEOUS - Introduced or coming from without.
- DISENGENUOUS - Lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity.
- SOUVLAKI - In Greek Cookery, a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- SOMNIFEROUS - Act of inducing sleep.
- APOCALYPTIC - Pertaining to a prophetic disclosure or revelation.
- BOUDOIR - A woman's private sitting room, dressing room or bedroom.
- QUIDDITY - The real nature of a thing.
- SICCATIVE - causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying
- ILLIMITABLE - not limitable; limitless; boundless.
- OBEISANCE - deference or homage
- MISCIBLE - capable of being mixed
- GESUNDHEIT - used to wish good health, esp. to a person who has just sneezed
- SELENIC - of or containing selenium
- ROSTELLUM - Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- DECOLLATE - to behead; decapitate.
- SASSAFRAS - an American tree, Sassafras albidum, of the laurel family
- ISINGLASS - a pure, transparent or translucent form of gelatin
- ROCAILLE - any of the fantastic ornamental combinations of the Rococo period
- ORTHOEPY - the study of correct pronunciation
- ANNEALING - to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.
- OBSEQUIOUS - characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference
- CANAILLE - riffraff; rabble
- HEURISTIC - stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- PLEIOTROPY - the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- STOCHASTIC - of or pertaining to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
- PTARMIGAN - any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus
- COADUNATE - united by growth.
- SPLANCHNIC - of or pertaining to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- FILIOPIETISTIC - of or pertaining to reverence of forebears or tradition, esp. if carried to excess.
- MITHRIDATISM - the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- HYPONICHIUM - the thickened layer of epidermis beneath the free end of a nail
- MARQUISETTE - a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- VIMINEOUS - of, like, or producing long, flexible shoots.
- APODICTIC - incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.
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