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1. repine<\/strong> — to show discontent, to complain<\/p>\n

The whole weary day he <\/em>repines and sighs at the utter unfairness of it all, making each day wearier and drearier still.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. operculum<\/strong> — (zoology<\/em>) gill cover of a fish<\/p>\n

Besides the three bands of color (yellow head, black body, yellow tail) which give the rock beauty its Latin name, <\/em>Holacanthus tricolor, small stripes of red are often seen alongside the <\/em>opercula.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. kirtle<\/strong> — long women’s garment worn from medieval times to the Baroque Era over smock or chemise<\/p>\n

The barwoman’s scarlet <\/em>kirtle matched her ruddy cheeks, and distracted from the dirty linen smock she wore beneath.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. catamount<\/strong> — leopard, ocelot, lynx, or panther; (U.S.<\/em>) puma or cougar<\/p>\n

Having been abducted as a small boy, he is as wild as the bear, the wolf, and the <\/em>catamount, and I doubt me that any amount of effort will bring him back whole to civilization.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. hyperesthesia<\/strong> — excessive sensitivity of nerves, as to pain, etc.; algesia<\/p>\n

Many felt that the Rhine experiments proved no such thing as extrasensory perception, but rather a seemingly benign <\/em>hyperesthesia on the part of the subjects, produced by factors which could only be guessed at.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. gink<\/strong> — (slang<\/em>) fellow, person<\/p>\n

Every time we trot out the pinhead some <\/em>gink has to claim that it’s a fake chicken, or something stupid like that.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. blirt<\/strong> — to burst into tears<\/p>\n

It made my heart near to burst, to see her <\/em>blirt so upon the woeful, awful news.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. ecdysiast<\/strong> — stripper, striptease performer<\/p>\n

If she plays the <\/em>ecdysiast solely in the privacy of her home and only for physical exercise, does she really need to call it a stripper pole?<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. chthonic<\/strong> — of creatures, deities, beings, or other things dwelling in the earth <\/p>\n

He sought an ancient and matchless power, known only to the most primitive <\/em>chthonic beings that resided deep within the bowels of rock and magma, the power to move through matter itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. etiolate<\/strong> — to blanch (a plant) by keeping light from it; to induce a pale, sickly hue in (a person or a person’s skin)<\/p>\n

Playing video games for twelve, sixteen hours a day had <\/em>etiolated his face and hands, and his legs seemed almost leprous.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. repine — to show discontent, to complain The whole weary day he repines and sighs at the utter unfairness of it all, making each day wearier and drearier still.   2. operculum — (zoology) gill cover of a fish Besides the three bands of color (yellow head, black body, yellow tail) which give the … <\/p>\n

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