Word Within The Word List 76
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Special_K_2 on January 26, 2012
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The legitimate test of Michael Clay Thompson's Word Within the Word List 76.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 opia | sight |
| ate | cause |
| gen | origin |
| per | through |
| sanct | holy |
| graph | write |
| clar | clear |
| onto | organism or being |
| ob | against |
| ex | out |
| megalo | large |
| mania | madness |
| prope | near |
| multi | many |
| viv | life |
| sym | together |
| fin | end |
| clast | break |
| clud | close |
| spec | look |
| vale | farewell |
| duct | lead |
| mis | bad |
| mony | condition |
| ex | out |
| chiaroscuro | artistic shading |
| choreography | dancing |
| paragon | excellent model |
| viva voce | word of mouth |
| ontogeny | development of individual |
| purlieu | a haunt |
| impecunious | poor |
| oncology | medicine of tumors |
| egotism | chronic self-reference |
| inveigh | to violently criticize |
| congruity | harmonious agreement |
| recondite | abstruse |
| asseverate | to state severely |
| mercy killing | euthanasia |
| peripatetic | walking |
| inchoate | just begun |
| desultory | rambling |
| saturnine | gloomy and remote |
| dichotomy | two-part division |
| concupiscence | intense desire or lust |
| erudite | scholarly |
| condescend | lower oneself |
| importune | to trouble with requests |
| gregarious | sociable |
| ostentatious | showy |
| pecunia | money |
| viv | life |
| dis | bad or away |
| topo | place |
| im | in or not |
| choreo | dance |
| onto | organism or being |
| simul | feign |
| voc | voice |
| myria | many |
| alt | high |
| quis | search |
| miso | hatred |
| clam | cry out |
| necro | death |
| cise | cut |
| ped | foot or child |
| ann | year |
| ambul | walk |
| noct | night |
| mort | death |
| se | apart |
| ager | field |
| cur | care for |
| sed | sit |
| nearsightedness | myopia |
| to howl | ululate |
| art of trimming shrubs | topiary |
| conceal through pretense | dissemble |
| metaphysics of being | ontology |
| sly | insidious |
| affectedly holy | sacrosanct |
| to earnestly object | expostulate |
| restoration of friendship | rapproachement |
| chronic relapse | recidivism |
| childishness | puerilism |
| to ridicule institutions | iconoclasm |
| to violently revile | vituperate |
| to cut short | truncate |
| malleable | ductile |
| an obsequious parasite | Sycophant |
| faithless person | nullifidian |
| speak dogmatically | pontificate |
| face | visage |
| treat as real | reify |
| concern for others | altruism |
| to lessen | abate |
| amazing | prodigious |
| conflicting feelings | ambivalence |
| a book lover | bibliophile |
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