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cynosure (synosure): An object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration.
commissar (commasar): An official of the ommunist !arty in charge of political indoctrination
and the enforcement of party loyalty.
graupel (grouple): A snow pellet.
voortre""er (vortre""er): #ne of the original Afri"aner settlers of the Transvaal and the #range
$ree %tate who migrated from the ape olony in the &'().
weissnichtwo (weisnichtwo): An indefinite, un"nown, or imaginary place.
asana (ocena): Any of various bodily positions assumed in yogic e*ercise.
cappelletti (capiltti): %mall s+uares of pasta containing a savoury mi*ture of meat, cheese, or
vegetables.
witloof (witloaf): An endive.
apparatchi" (apparchi"): An un+uestioningly loyal subordinate, especially of a political leader or
organi,ation.
douane (duan): A customhouse.
weimaraner (weimeraner): Any of a large breed of hunting dog that originated in -ermany, having
a smooth grayish coat.
langlauf (launlauf): The sport of cross.country s"iing.
prerogative (perogative): An e*clusive right or privilege held by a person or group, especially a
hereditary or official right.
,winger (svinger): A palace in /resden and a major landmar" of -erman baro+ue architecture.
yannigan (yannagan): A member of a scrub team in baseball.
+uadragenarian (+uadregenarian): A person who is between 0) and 01 years old.
ratafia (ratifia): A sweet cordial flavored with fruit "ernels or almonds.
totipotency (totipettancy): The ability of a cell, such as an egg, to give rise to unli"e cells and thus
to develop into or generate a new organism or part.
vargueno (vargaino): A decorative cabinet, of a form originating in %pain, the body being
rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framewor" and the front opening downwards
on hinges to serve as a writing des".
belomancy (belemancy): A "ind of divination anciently practiced by means of mar"ed arrows
drawn at random from a bag or +uiver, the mar"s on the arrows drawn being supposed to
foreshadow the future.
orthian (orthein): haracteri,ed by high pitch 2used of a style of singing or a tune.
sabot (sabbot): A wooden shoe worn in some 3uropean countries.
jicama (jicima): A crisp, sweet turnip.shaped root vegetable (!achyrhi,us erosus) used raw in
salads and as crudit4s or coo"ed in stews. Also called 5e*ican turnip, yam bean.
piloncillo (piloncio): A conical loaf of sugar.
dowager (dowiger): A widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband.
febrility (fibrillity): A rise in the temperature of the body6 fre+uently a symptom of infection
mussitation (muscitation): A spea"ing in a low tone6 mumbling.
tectogene (techtegene): A long, relatively narrow downward fold of sialic crust considered to be
an early phase in mountain.building processes. Also "nown as geotectogene.
pe"oe (pee"oe): A grade of blac" tea consisting of the leaves around the buds.
!romethean (!romothean): -ree" 5ythology 7elating to or suggestive of !rometheus.
brode+uin (brodican): A high shoe once worn by women.
ageusia (augusia): !athol lac" of the sense of taste.
meiosis (miosis): -enetics. The process of cell division in se*ually reproducing organisms that
reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells from diploid to haploid, leading to the
production of gametes in animals and spores in plants.
8unyanes+ue (8unyones+ue): #f, relating to, or suggestive of the legend of !aul 8unyan.
8eethovenian (8eatovinian): #f or pertaining to 9udwig van 8eethoven.
botryoidal (batrodile): %haped li"e a bunch of grapes.
beel,ebub (bie,elbub): The /evil6 %atan.
dysbarism (dysporism): The comple* of symptoms (as the bends, headache, or mental
disturbance) that accompanies e*posure to e*cessively low or rapidly changing environmental air
pressure.
nubuc" (nubuc): 9eather that has been rubbed on the flesh side of the s"in to give it a fine velvet.
li"e finish.
fimbrillate (fimbrilate): 8ordered with a minute fringe.
soavemente (suavemente): %weetly.
pultaceous (pultatious): 5acerated6 softened6 nearly fluid.
hyetometer (hyatometer): A device for measuring rainfall.
halloc" (hali"): A rectangular wood veneer berry bo* with straight sides and a raised bottom.
ignimbrite (ignembrite): A volcanic roc" formed by the welding together of tuff material from an
e*plosive volcanic eruption.
laureation (laureaiton): The act of crowning with laurel6 the act of conferring an academic degree,
or honorary title.
diplodocus (diplodicus): A very large herbivorous dinosaur of the genus /iplodocus that e*isted
during the :urassic !eriod.
amimia (amimea): The loss of the ability to e*press ideas by gestures or to understand the
significance of gestures.
parapsychical (paracycical): A number of ostensibly paranormal phenomena, including telepathy,
precognition, clairvoyance, psycho"inesis, near.death e*periences, reincarnation and apparitional
e*periences.
sussultatory (cessultatory): haracteri,ed by up.and.down vibrations of large amplitude 2 used
of an earth+ua"e.
morosoph (morisoph): A philosophical or learned fool.
ecphonesis (echphenesis): An animated or passionate e*clamation.
polytocous (peliticous): !roducing many offspring in a single birth.
cabotinage (cabotonnage): behavior befitting a second.rate actor : obvious playing to the
audience.
pancratiast (pancrasiast): #ne who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
calotte (colotte): A s"ullcap, especially one worn by 7oman atholic priests.
isopiestic (isopyestic): 5ar"ed by or indicating e+ual pressure6 isobaric.
circensian (circentian): #f or relating to the ircus in ancient 7ome.
olecranon (olechranon): The large process on the upper end of the ulna that projects behind the
elbow joint and forms the point of the elbow.
cyanope (psianope): A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
sarrusophone (serusiphone): A wind instrument resembling the oboe but made of brass.
epichoric (epicoric): !eculiar to a limited area.
venenate (veninate): To poison6 to infect with poison.
pergameneous (pergamineous): 7esembling parchment
bourr4e (bourret): An old $rench dance resembling the gavotte, usually in +uic" duple time
beginning with an upbeat.
doryline (doraline): A type of migratory tropical ant that is blind e*cept for the functional males.
melocoton (melecaton): A +uince.
"aburi (caburri): A land crab (;cides cordatus) common in mangrove swamps from the <est
=ndies to southern 8ra,il.
cipollino (cipolino): A fictional character from -ianni 7odari's eponymous Tale of ipollino.
,enaida (,aneida): A genus of tropical American pigeons that has one species (>enaida aurita)
reaching the <est =ndies and formerly the $lorida coast and one (>enaida asiatica) occurring in
the southwestern ;nited %tates.
paryphodrome (pariphodrome): ?aving a vein that closely follows the margin 2used of a form of
leaf venation.
hallali (hallelee): A huntsman's bugle call.
ptyalagogue (ptyalogogue): A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.
cyanophycean (cyanophycein): Any member of the 5y*ophyceae.

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