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Abscessed | past participle verbial form of "abscess"; a localized collection of pus in the tissues of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflamation and often caused by bacteria. |
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Advocate | to plead in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly |
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Anathmatise | to pronounce an anthem against; curse |
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Annihilating | gerund form of "annihilate"; 1. to reduce to ruin or utter nonexistence; destroy utterly, 2. to cancel the effect of; nullify |
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Astral | 1. pertaining to or or proceeding from the stars; consisting of or resembling an aster; star-shaped, 2. noting a supersensible substance pervading all space and forming the substance of a new body belonging to each individual, accompanying him in life and surviving him in death |
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Atone | to make ammends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender |
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Berift* | to deprive or to strip |
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Bludgenous | adjective form of "bludgeon"; a short heavy club with one end weighted or thicker and heavier than the other, 2. to strick or fell with a bludgeon |
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Brimstone | 1. sulfur, 2. a virago; shrew |
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Cardinal | 1. of prime importance; cheif; principal; fundamental, 2. of the color cardinal, 3. a deep rich red color |
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Centralize | 1. to draw to or gather around a central point, 2. to bring into control, esp. in government |
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Charon | the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead accross the river Styx |
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Choronozone* | mythological; He has something to do with magic. He is the guardian of and "Dweller in the Abyss" |
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Claustraphobic | an abnormal fear of closed or narrow places |
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Consecrate | 1. to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of the Diety, 2. to devote or dedicate to some purpose |
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Conventicle | 1. a secret or unauthorized meeting, esp. for religious worship, 2. a place of meeting or assembly |
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Cryogenics | the branch of physics that deals with very low temperatures |
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Debauchery | excessive indulgence in sunsual pleasures; intemperance |
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Decadence | the act or process of falling into inferior condition or state; deacy; deterioration |
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Decadent | 1. characterized by decadence; decaying; deteriorating, 2. of or like the decadents |
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Deluge | 1. a great flood of water; inundation; flood, 2. a drenching rain; downpour |
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Dementia | severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration |
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Demitasse | a small cup for serving black coffe after dinner |
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Denigrate | 1. to speak damagingly of; criticize in derogatory manner; sully; defame, 2. to make black; blacken |
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Diadems | plural of "diadem"; 1. a crown, 2. a cloth headband, sometimes adorned with jewels, formerly worn by Oriental kings |
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Donning | to put on or dress in |
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Eloquently | adverbial form of "eloquent"; 1. having exercized the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speach, 2. characterized by forceful and appropriate expression |
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Elysian | 1. of, pertaining to, or resembling Elysium ( defined separately as "1. the abode of the blessed after death, 2. any place or state of perfect happiness" ), 2. blissful; delightful |
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Envelope | a surrounding or enclosed part |
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Eradication | noun form of "eradicate'; to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate |
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Euphoria | a feeling of well-being, esp. an exaggerated one having no basis in truth or reality |
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Exhilarating | gerund form of "exhilerate"; 1. to make cheerful or merry, 2. to enliven; invigorate; stimulate |
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Fallacy | 1. a deceptive, misleading or false notion, belief, etc., 2. a misleading or unsound argument, 3. deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness |
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Forebode | 1. to foretell or predict; portend; to be an omen of; indicate beforehand |
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Girth | the measure around anything; cicumference |
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Harlot | 1. a lewd or promiscuous woman, 2. a prostitute; strumpet |
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Heathen | 1. an irreligious or unenlightened person, 3. ( formerly ) any person neither christian nor Jewish, esp. a member of the Islamic faith or of a polytheistic religion, 3. pagan or pertaining to the unenlightened |
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Heinous | hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensive |
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Helter-Skelter | 1. in headlong and disorderly haste, 2. in a haphazard manner; without regard for orders, 3. tumultuous disorder; confusion |
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Hoax | 1. a humerous or mischievous deception, esp. a practical joke, 2. something intended to deceive or defraud |
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Hypocrite | 1. a preson who pretends to have moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc. he does not really have 2., a person who feins some desirable or publicly approved attitude |
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Impervious | 1. not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable, 2. incapable of being injured or impaired, 3. incapable of being influenced or affected |
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Incarcerated | past participle of "incarcerate"; 1. to imprison; confine, 2. to enclose; constrict closely |
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Incognito | 1. having ones identity concealed, as under an assumed name, esp. to avoid notice or formal attentions, 2. with the real identity concealed |
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Innuendo | 1. an indirect intimation about a person or thing, esp. of a derogatory nature |
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Insatiable | not satisfiable; incapableof being satisfied |
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I.R.A. | Irish Republican Army ( defined separately as "a secret Irish nationalist organization founded to work for independance from Great Britain and suppressed by the Irish government in 1936" ) |
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Legion | an infantry brigade numbering from 3000 to 6000 men, and usually combined with 300 to 700 cavalry, 2. any great host or multitude of things |
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Macabre | 1. gruesome; horrible; grim; ghasty, 2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, esp. its grimmer and ublier aspect, 3. of or suggestive of an allegorical dance of death |
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Malevolently | adverbial form of "malevolent"; 1. wishing evil to another or others; showing ill will; ill-desposed; vindictive; malicious, 2. evil, harmful, injurous, 3. evil or malign in influence |
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Marionettes | plural of "marionette"; a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs |
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Mephisto | abbreviation for "Mephistopheles"; one of the seven chief devils |
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M.P.L.A.* | Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. The reason it's not P.M.L.A. is because in French it's written Movimento popular de libertação de Angola |
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Necrosis | the death of a circumscribed piece of tissue or of an organ |
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Noisome | 1. offensive or disgusting, as an odor, 2. harmful, injurious, or noxious |
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Noxious | 1. harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being, 2. morally harmful, pernicious |
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Overture | 1. an opening or initiating more toward negotiations, establishment of a relationship, etc., a formal or informal proposal or offer, 2. Music; a. an orchestral composition forming the prelude or introductionto an opera, oratorio, etc., b. an independant piece of similar charcater, 3. an introductory part, as of a poem |
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Pandemonium | 1. wild lawlessness or uproar; tumult or chaos, 2. a place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos, 3. the abode of all the demons, 4. hell |
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Pabulum | 1. something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organizm; food, 2. nourishment equiv. to feed |
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Parchment | 1. the skin of a sheep, goat, etc. prepared for use as a material on which to write, 2. manuscript or document on such material, 3. paper resembling this material |
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Permeate | 1. to pass through the substance or mass of, 2. to penetrate through the pores, interstices, etc. of, 3. to be diffused through; pervade; saturate |
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Pestilence | 1. a deadly epidemic disease, usually pertaining to the bubonic plague, 2. something that is considered harmful or evil |
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Pilage | 1. to strip of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder, 2. to take as booty, 3. to rob with open violence; take booty, 4. act of plundering, esp. in war |
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Pillory | a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision |
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P.M.R.C.* | Parental Music Resource Center, US govt. agency created in the 1980s to deem music appropriate or inappropriate for children instead of urging parents to play an active role in their childrens' lives and decide for themselves. Agency is no longer as powerful as it was for a time because of 1st ammendment violation suits by individuals and states |
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Precariously | adverbial form of "precarious"; dependant on circumstances beyone one's control; uncertain; anstable; insecure, 2. dependant on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another, 3. exposed or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky |
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Primordial | 1. constituting a beginning; giving origon to something derived or deveolped; origonal; elementary, 2. primative; initial; first formed, 3. pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning |
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Purging | gerund form of "purge"; 1. to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify, 2. to rid, clear, or free, 3. to clear away imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness, 4. to clear away or wipe out legally, 5. to remove by cleansing or purifying, 6. to clear or empty, 7. to put to death or otherwise elimintate, 7. the removal or elimination of members of a political organization, nation, etc., who are considered disloyal or otherwise undesirable |
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Putrifying | gerund form of "putrefy"; 1. to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor, 2. to become putrid, 3. to become gangrenous |
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Reprieve | 1. to respite from impending punishment, esp. to grant a stay of execution to a condemned person, 2. to relieve temporarily from evil, 3. any respitef or temporary relief |
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Retrograde | 1. movig backward;having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating, 2. inverse or reverse order, 3. to turn back |
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Sanguinary | 1. full of or characterized by bloodshead; bloody, 2. ready or eager to shead blood; bloodthirsty, 3. composed of or marked with blood |
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Sect | 1. a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination, 2. a group regarded as heretical or deviating from a generally accepted religious tradition, 3. any group, party, or faction united by a specific doctrine or under a doctrinal leader |
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Sheol | the abode fo the dead or departed spirits |
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Succumb | 1. give way to superior force; yield, 2. to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die |
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Telestic* | final |
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Thorazine | brand name ( trademark ) of chlorpromazine |
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U.D.A.* | 1. Ulster Defence Association, 2. Utah Department of Agriculture |
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Unhollow | 1. not holy; not sacred or hallowed, 2. impious, sinful, wicked |
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Vindication | 1. the act of vindicating, 2. the state of being vindicated, 3. something that vindicates ( vindicate is defined separately as "1. to clear as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like, 2. to afford justification for; to justify, 3. to get revenge against; avenge, 4. to deliver from; liberate |
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Vortex | 1. a whirling mass of water, esp. one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool, 2. a whirling mass of air, esp. one on the the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado, 3. a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc., 4. something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it |
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Wino | a person, usually a derelict, who keeps himself intoxicated on cheap wine |
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Wyverns | a two-legged winged dragon having the hinderpart of a serpent with a barbed tail |
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