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  1. ad hominem: appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
  2. ailurophobia: fear of cats
  3. allegory: expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence
  4. amalgam: a mixture of different elements
  5. ambivert: a person having characteristics of both extrovert and introvert
  6. ameliorate: to make better or more tolerable
  7. amenable: liable to be brought to account
  8. animalcule: an animal invisible to the naked eye
  9. banal: commonplace
  10. bete noire: something especially hated or dreaded
  11. bourgeois: of, relating to, or characteristic of the townsman or of the social middle class
  12. chagrin: disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
  13. cursorily: in a running or hasty manner
  14. de trop: excessive or unreasonable
  15. defenstrate: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window
  16. desultory: marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose
  17. dipsomania: an uncontrollable craving for alcohol
  18. elan: vigorous spirit or enthusiasm
  19. entomology: study of insects
  20. epicureanism: doctrine of hedonism
  21. esthete: one who professes great senstivity to the beauty of art and nature
  22. exaptation: preadaptation
  23. expiate: make amends for
  24. facetious: joking or jesting often inappropriately
  25. flaneur: one who strolls about aimlessly
  26. indefeasible: not capable of being annulled or voided or undone
  27. innervate: to supply with nerves
  28. knout: a whip used for flogging
  29. loquacious: talkative
  30. magnate: a person of influence or distinction in any sphere
  31. martinet: a strict disciplinarian
  32. maudlin: excessively sentimental
  33. monad: an elementary individual substance which reflects the order of the world
  34. moot: deprived of practical significance
  35. mulct: a fine or penalty
  36. nyctophobia: fear of darkness
  37. oast: a kiln used for drying hops, malt, or tobacco
  38. ochlocracy: government by the multitude
  39. osteopathist: a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles
  40. paucity: smallness of quanitity
  41. peccadillo: a slight trespass or offense
  42. persiflage: frivolous or bantering talk
  43. phlegmatic: not easily excited to action or passion
  44. plebeian: of or relating to the common people
  45. polemic: an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
  46. polyglot: speaking many languages
  47. praxis: practical application of a theory
  48. predilection: an established preference for something
  49. psychopomp: a leader or guide of souls
  50. punctilious: precise accordance with details
  51. qui vive: to be watchful and alert
  52. quiescent: marked by inactivity or repose
  53. recapitulate: to restate briefly
  54. remunerate: recompense
  55. reticent: restrained in expression, presention, or appearance
  56. rusticate: to go into or reside in the country
  57. salient: standing out conspicuously
  58. saturnine: heavy, grave
  59. scurrilous: expressing offensive reproach
  60. seminal: containing or contributing the seeds of later development
  61. senescent: the process of becoming old
  62. somnambulist: sleep-walker
  63. stymie: to present an obstacle to
  64. sub rosa: secretly or covertly
  65. tyro: novice
  66. uxorious: excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife
  67. weltschmerz: a mood of sentimental sadness