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peanut oil

a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.

circular

having the form of a circle round

leonine

of or pertaining to the lion

imbibe

to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink

disgraceful

bringing or deserving disgrace shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.

punch

a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.

ridicule

speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.

insurgent

a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.

ragamuffin

a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.

intransigent

refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.

funnel cake

a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.

magnify

to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.

vinegar

a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.

morose

gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

morbid

suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.

slippery

tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.

pertinent

pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant

fluent

spoken or written with ease

lousy

wretchedly bad; miserable

neutron

an elementary particle having no charge, mass slightly greater than that of a proton, and spin of

extravagant

exceeding the bounds of reason, as actions, demands, opinions, or passions.

spelunk

to explore caves, especially as a hobby.

grope

to feel about with the hands; feel one's way

numismatist

a person who collects numismatic items, especially coins.

fleabag

a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.

traceless

having or leaving no trace

frog	any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.

smectic

noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes.

quark

any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or ?2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue.

supernova

the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.

shift

to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange

directional

of, pertaining to, or indicating direction in space.

cosmos

the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.

omnivorous

taking in everything, as with the mind

characteristic

pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive

spean

to wean.

wean	to withdraw (a person, the affections, one's dependency, etc.) from some object, habit, form of enjoyment, or the like

feedback

the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input or to aid the input

magnetism

the properties of attraction possessed by magnets the molecular properties common to magnets

spore

a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.

pore	to read or study with steady attention or application

drunken

intoxicated; drunk

fuzzy

of the nature of or resembling fuzz

boojie

haughty; elitist; snobbish.

haugh

a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.

valley

an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream.

selection

an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.

freaky

weird; strange.

plunder

to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.

insolent

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting

bedlam

a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.

menagerie

a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.

neon	a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Ne; 20.183; 10; 0.9002 g/l at 0

exon	any portion of an interrupted gene that is represented in the RNA product and is translated into protein.

yellow

a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.

squelch

to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.

muffler

a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.

isotope

any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.

onomatopoeia

the formation of a word, as or by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

nerve

one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.

george bush

republican put into office that didn't know what he was doing

methemoglobin

a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.

contaminate

to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.

contagion

the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.

fry	to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.

valance

a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.

drapery

coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.

fantasize

to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by )

tripe

the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.

fondue

a saucelike dish of Swiss origin made with melted cheese and seasonings together with dry white wine, usually flavored with kirsch: served as a hot dip for pieces of bread.

luscious

highly pleasing to the taste or smell

lush	(of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.

anarchy

a prefix occurring before stems beginning with a vowel or in loanwords from Greek, where it means

oligarchy

a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

tyranny

arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.

ferment

any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation

alcohol

a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water-miscible liquid, CHOH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating principle of fermented liquors, produced by yeast fermentation of certain carbohydrates, as grains, molasses, starch, or sugar, or obtained synthetically by hydration of ethylene or as a by-product of certain hydrocarbon syntheses: used chiefly as a solvent in the extraction of specific substances, in beverages, medicines, organic synthesis, lotions, tonics, colognes, rubbing compounds, as an automobile radiator antifreeze, and as a rocket fuel.

volatile

evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor

etherify

to convert into an ether

peanut oil

a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.

circular

having the form of a circle round

leonine

of or pertaining to the lion

imbibe

to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink

disgraceful

bringing or deserving disgrace shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.

punch

a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.

ridicule

speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.

insurgent

a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.

ragamuffin

a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.

intransigent

refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.

funnel cake

a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.

magnify

to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.

vinegar

a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.

morose

gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

morbid

suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.

slippery

tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.

pertinent

pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant

fluent

spoken or written with ease

lousy

wretchedly bad; miserable

neutron

an elementary particle having no charge, mass slightly greater than that of a proton, and spin of

extravagant

exceeding the bounds of reason, as actions, demands, opinions, or passions.

spelunk

to explore caves, especially as a hobby.

grope

to feel about with the hands; feel one's way

numismatist

a person who collects numismatic items, especially coins.

fleabag

a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.

traceless

having or leaving no trace

frog	any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.

smectic

noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes.

quark

any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or ?2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue.

supernova

the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.

shift

to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange

directional

of, pertaining to, or indicating direction in space.

cosmos

the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.

omnivorous

taking in everything, as with the mind

characteristic

pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive

spean

to wean.

wean	to withdraw (a person, the affections, one's dependency, etc.) from some object, habit, form of enjoyment, or the like

feedback

the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input or to aid the input

magnetism

the properties of attraction possessed by magnets the molecular properties common to magnets

spore

a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.

pore	to read or study with steady attention or application

drunken

intoxicated; drunk

fuzzy

of the nature of or resembling fuzz

boojie

haughty; elitist; snobbish.

haugh

a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.

valley

an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream.

selection

an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.

freaky

weird; strange.

plunder

to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.

insolent

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting

bedlam

a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.

menagerie

a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.

neon	a chemically inert gaseous element occurring in small amounts in the earth's atmosphere, used chiefly in a type of electrical lamp. Ne; 20.183; 10; 0.9002 g/l at 0

exon	any portion of an interrupted gene that is represented in the RNA product and is translated into protein.

yellow

a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.

squelch

to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.

muffler

a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.

isotope

any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.

onomatopoeia

the formation of a word, as or by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

nerve

one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.

george bush

republican put into office that didn't know what he was doing

methemoglobin

a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.

contaminate

to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.

contagion

the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.

fry	to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.

valance

a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.

drapery

coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.

fantasize

to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by )

tripe

the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.

fondue

a saucelike dish of Swiss origin made with melted cheese and seasonings together with dry white wine, usually flavored with kirsch: served as a hot dip for pieces of bread.

luscious

highly pleasing to the taste or smell

lush	(of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.

anarchy

a prefix occurring before stems beginning with a vowel or in loanwords from Greek, where it means

oligarchy

a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

tyranny

arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.

ferment

any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation

alcohol

a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water-miscible liquid, CHOH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating principle of fermented liquors, produced by yeast fermentation of certain carbohydrates, as grains, molasses, starch, or sugar, or obtained synthetically by hydration of ethylene or as a by-product of certain hydrocarbon syntheses: used chiefly as a solvent in the extraction of specific substances, in beverages, medicines, organic synthesis, lotions, tonics, colognes, rubbing compounds, as an automobile radiator antifreeze, and as a rocket fuel.

volatile

evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor

etherify

to convert into an ether