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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 embellishing | Verb; exaggerating |
| ogling | looking at something or someone with desitre or want |
| miffed | aroused to impatience or anger |
| infatuating | (adj.) maddening, causing incredible anger |
| loincloth | a garment that provides covering for the loins |
| hag | an ugly evil-looking old woman |
| sinister | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| radical | (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm |
| winsome | charming in a childlike or naive way |
| glum | reflecting gloom |
| inept | revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse |
| malice | the quality of threatening evil |
| reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions |
| accommodate | provide a service or favor for someone |
| smirk | a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure |
| chronic | being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering |
| cockeyed | very drunk |
| groped | to feel about with the hands; feel one's way |
| psychotic | a person afflicted with psychosis |
| leering | showing sly or knowing malice in a glance |
| agonize | suffer agony or anguish |
| wafting | to float easily through the air |
| instinctively | `, as a matter of instinct |
| ingenious | showing inventiveness and skill |
| diabolical | extremely evil or cruel |
| seething | in constant agitation |
| dumfounded | as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise |
| sophisticated | marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel |
| gravelly | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound |
| petrified | scared |
| endear | make attractive or lovable |
| extortion | the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) |
| nonchalant | marked by blithe unconcern |
| oblivious | failing to keep in mind |
| alleviate | provide physical relief, as from pain |
| incriminating | charging or suggestive of guilt or blame |
| tyrannized | to excersize absolute power or control esp. cruelly |
| cathartic | a purging medicine |
| stiletto | a small dagger with a tapered blade |
| gawking | staring |
| materialize | come into being |
| conjured | summoned a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation |
| cul-de-sac | a blind ally or dead end street |
| pristine | immaculately clean and unused |
| spiel | plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) |
| smug | marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction |
| dredge | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
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