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Sadistically Hard Vocabulary
If you know all of these words without needing to look them up then you, like yours truly, have far too much time on your hands
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Language - English
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11/13/2010
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trefa
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antonym of kosher
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quidnunc
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an inquisitive and/or gossipy person
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haptic
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relating to the sense of touch
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glabrous
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smooth, slick, hairless
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gnomic
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given to aphorisms
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pyknic
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squat and fleshy; endomorphic
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Procrustean bed
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an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced
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hebetate
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blunting or dulling in spirit or feeling
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Stygian
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dark, gloomy
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potamic
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pertaining to rivers
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gallimaufry
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a chaotic jumble
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antithalian
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gloomy, joyless
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lief
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fain, gladly
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abseil
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descend by rappelling
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ablution
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an act of ritual washing, as for the purpose of purification
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agrypnia
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insomnia or sleeplessness
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cynosure
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something that provides guidance
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fulignious
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sooty, dusky, gloomy
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inspissate
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to thicken; condense
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limn
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delineate; describe; portray
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liminal
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barely perceptible; of or pertaining to a sensory threshold
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nonce
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a word coined for use in only a single occasion
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omerta
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a code of silence, particularly within the mafia
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pretermit
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intentionally disregard
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saccade
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a sudden, rapid jerking motion, particularly of the eye
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serried
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pressed closely together
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tantivy
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a full-tilt gallop
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tergiversate
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1. to deliberately avoid; equivocate 2. to change sides; apostatize
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altricial
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being incapable of independence shortly after birth
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argosy
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a merchant ship or fleet of merchant ships
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