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    rancid -- 1. unpleasant, stale smell or taste...

    leftover oil quickly turns rancid


    2. offensive, disagreeable
    quidnunc -- a person who is nosy and inquisitive...My room mate is an inveterate
    quidnunc
    bucolic -- 1. (adj.) relating to or suggestive of typical rural life
    2. (adj.) of or pertaining to herdsmen or shepherds; pastoral
    3. (n.) (archaic) a country person; peasant; a rustic

    drawcansir -- blustering, bullying boaster


    comstockery -- censorship of literature and other forms of expression and
    communication because of perceived immorality or obscenity
    despot -- A ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically exercising it
    cruelly
    juxtapose -- to place side by side especially in order to compare and contrast...to
    juxtapose captain's comments before the World Cup with the Indian team's actual
    performance
    nostrum -- 1. a favourite scheme for solving social and political problems
    2. a medicine whose ingredients are a secret and its effectiveness
    is unproved...The nostrum for cough sold by roadside quacks can have unpleasant
    side effects

    habiliments -- of or pertaining to clothes...The habiliments of a modern day


    cricketer are colourful and trendy
    dishabille -- (N) The state of being partly dressed

    vicissitudes -- A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is


    unwelcome or unpleasant...the various vicissitudes that she had had to endure in
    her lifetime
    blithe -- happy, merry or light-hearted...a blithe disregard for his long
    legislative and political record
    knave -- a person who is dishonest and crafty...the profession of politics is
    attractive only to a knave

    contumely -- (N.) a humiliating insult, disrespectful, contemptuous, opprobrious,


    impertinent, scurrilous, disdainful, insulting
    (Adj.) contumelious
    longanimity -- patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance
    enigma -- 1. A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to
    understand
    2. A riddle or paradox
    cagey -- Reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion, wary,
    cautious, cagy, chary, careful, prudent
    irenic/irenical -- Aiming or aimed at peace

    nary -- not one..Beer is on sale, but there is nary a lager lout in sight
    lout -- an uncouth and aggressive man or boy..drunken louts
    uncouth -- awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly, impertinent, unrefined, barbaric,
    awkward, boorish, raunchy, discourteous
    indemnity -- 1. protection or security against damage or loss.
    2. compensation for damage or loss sustained.
    3. protection, as by insurance, from liabilities or penalties
    incurred by one's actions.

    incendiary -- 1. (adj.) related to the illegal act of setting fire to property


    2. (adj.) capable of fiery combustion
    3. (adj.) causing dissension, hatred or anger; inflammatory
    4. (adj.) tending to arouse the senses
    5. (n.) a person who deliberately sets fire to property
    6. (n.) a bomb or grenade that explodes giving out intense heat
    libellous -- containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously
    defamatory.
    opprobrious, malevolent, pejorative, scurrilous, invidious,
    disparaging, derogatory, derisive

    apocryphal -- of questionable authenticity


    antagonistic -- hostile, unfriendly, combative, inimical
    agonistic -- Combative, polemical
    agnostic -- A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the
    existence or nature of God

    polemic -- 1. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc


    2. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist
    polemical -- controversial

    guile -- (N.) Sly or cunning or treacherous intelligence

    harlequin -- 1. (n.) a comic character usu. wearing a mask, tights and holding a
    wooden sword or magic wand
    2. (n.) a buffoon; clown
    nifty -- (adj.) very smart, clever and stylish...nifty new words and phrases, nifty
    satire..
    echelon -- (n.) any group or unit that acts in an organised or disciplined way

    tatterdemalion -- 1. (n.) a person dressed in rags; a shabby person...huge number


    of tatterdemalions in the refugee camps..
    2. (adj.) ragged or shabby appearance; unkempt,
    dilapidated...tatterdemalion parade of pilgrims..

    gourmand -- a person who is fond of good eating


    gourmet -- 1.(N.) a connoisseur of fine food and drink
    2.(Adj.) of or characteristic of a gourmet..gourmet meals, gourmet
    cooking..
    connoisseur -- a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in
    an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste...a connoisseur
    of modern art
    gastronome -- a connoisseur of fine food and drink

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