| Term | Definition |
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| Cantilever | n: a long projecting beam or girder fixed only at one end. |
| Subcutaneous | adv: situated or applied under the skin |
| Jocose | adj: playful or humorous |
| Portentous | adj: of or like a sign that something momentous or calamitous will happen. |
| Pale | n: wooden stake or post used as upright with others to from fence; fig a boundary |
| Outside the pale | phrase: outside exceptability |
| Paroxysm | n: sudden attack or violent expression of particular emotion, activity. |
| Placate | v: make less angry, hostile. |
| Avuncular | adj: of or relating to an uncle |
| Wac | n: Women's Army Corps |
| Petulantly | adv: in a childishly sulky, bad-tempered manner |
| Cagey | adj: reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion |
| Moil | v: intrans: work hard; w/ adverbial: move around in confusion, agitation |
| Deprecate | v: express disapproval of |
| Circumspect | adj: wary and unwilling to take risks |
| Charnel house | n: a building or vault in which corpses or bones are piled, fig place associated with violent death. |
| Torpid | adj: mentally, physically inactive; lethargic. Dormant, esp. during hybernation. |
| Indomitable | adj: impossible to subdue or defeat. |
| Invidious | v: likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others; unfairly discriminating, unjust |
| Bereft | adj: deprived of or lacking something esp. a nonmaterial asset |
| Dolorous | adj: feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress |
| Cloy | v: disgust or sicken with excess sweetness, richness, sentiment |
| Diaphanous | adj: light, delicate & translucent esp. of fabric |
| Necrotic | adj: like or of the death of most or all the cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury, failure of blood supply. |
| Reticent | adj: not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily |
| Ululate | v: howl or wail as an expression of strong emotion |
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