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dont fail
abut
(v.) border on; adjoin
baleful
(adj.) deadly; sinister
bestial
(adj.) savage; like an animal
bravado
(n.) pretended courage
carnivorous
(adj.) flesh eating
deign
(v.) to think it beneath one’s dignity; condescend; give
draconian
(adj.) harsh or vigorous; a law or code of extreme severity
elfin
(adj.) fairylike; delicate; small and charmingly merry or mischievous
equine
(adj.) a horse; of like, or characteristic of a horse
exhume
(v.) to dig out of the earth; disinter; reveal. From the Latin humus “ground”
gossamer
(adj.) soft, sheer, gauzy fabric; fine film of cobwebs seen in autumn; anything delicate, light or insubstantial
incommunicado
(adj.) without the means or right of communication with others, as one held in solitary confinement
moot
(noun/adj.) discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless
picayune
(adj.) of little value or account; petty or prejudiced
predator
(n.) an animal that preys on others; one who abuses others for his own gain
rigamarole
(n.) confused, incoherent, foolish talk; a complicated and petty procedure
roil
(v.) to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile
teeming
(adj.) swarming; prolific or fertile
thrall
(n.) a person under the moral, physical, or psychological domination of something or someone
titanic
(adj.) of enormous size, strength, or power
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