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  1. aborigines
  2. earliest known inhabitants of a country
  3.  
  4. poignant
  5. piercing, keen, distressing to feelings
  6.  
  7. hiatus
  8. gap, break with a part missing
  9.  
  10. wizened
  11. dried, shriviled
  12.  
  13. winced
  14. shrank, drew back, flinched
  15.  
  16. orthopedics
  17. science dealing with prevention or correction of deformitites
  18. in the skeletal system
  19. viscosity
  20. thickness, quality of being sticky
  21.  
  22. welter
  23. a tossing and tumbling
  24.  
  25. ostensible
  26. avowed; professed apparent
  27.  
  28. vapid
  29. empty, insipid, spiritless
  30.  
  31. respite
  32. delay or postponement, intermission of labor
  33.  
  34. mayhem
  35. maiming a person, disfiguring act
  36.  
  37. plausible
  38. seemingly true, reasonable, trustworthy
  39.  
  40. wanton
  41. reckless about the feeling of others, unrestrained
  42.  
  43. venomous
  44. poisonous, deadly
  45.  
  46. oscillation
  47. a swinging back and forth
  48.  
  49. vociferous
  50. crying out noisily, clamorous
  51.  
  52. potpourri
  53. mixture, medley, miscellany
  54.  
  55. heinous
  56. hateful, bad, outrageous
  57.  
  58. veracity
  59. truthfulness, honesty
  60.  
  61. blithe
  62. joyous, gay, merry
  63.  
  64. winch
  65. machine to turn or strain something
  66.  
  67. histrionic
  68. of or pertaining to stage and acting
  69.  
  70. vicarious
  71. suffered or enjoyed by one person on behalf of another
  72.  
  73. sacrilege
  74. desecrating that which is sacred, profaning something
  75.  
  76. henchman
  77. followers, sometimes unscrupulous
  78.  
  79. utilitarian
  80. useful, satisfying human wants
  81.  
  82. bourgeois
  83. belonging to the middle rank in society
  84.  
  85. hirsute
  86. hairy, havong lots of hair, shaggy
  87.  
  88. respectively
  89. as relating to each other, each in order
  90.  
  91. platonic
  92. a spiritual comradeship of love, idealistic
  93.  
  94. plagarism
  95. steal from another's writing, copying
  96.  
  97. orthodox
  98. sound in opinion or doctrine, correct, approved
  99.  
  100. roseate
  101. rosy, bright, promising
  102.  
  103. ruminate
  104. to ponder over in the mind
  105.  
  106. rustic
  107. pertaining to the country
  108.  
  109. venial
  110. excusable, capable of being forgiven
  111.  
  112. utopian
  113. having the nature of, or inclined to draw up schemes for a utopia;
  114. idealistic; visionary
  115. sagacious
  116. wise, knowing, of sound judgement, respected
  117.  
  118. resilience
  119. elasticity, rebound
  120.  
  121. peccadillo
  122. petty fault, trifle, silliness
  123.  
  124. scaerdotal
  125. pertaining to priests or priesthood
  126.  
  127. mendacious
  128. dishonest, not telling truth
  129.  
  130. hedonism
  131. belief that pleasure is chief good in life
  132.  
  133. pensive
  134. thoughtful, serious
  135.  
  136. renaissance
  137. rebirth, a new birth or revival
  138.  
  139. megalomania
  140. delusion of grandeur from mental disorder
  141.  
  142. polemical
  143. involving controversy, disputing
  144.  
  145. abrogated
  146. called off, annulled, nullified
  147.  
  148. remunerate
  149. to pay for service, reward, recompense
  150.  
  151.  controversy, disputing
  152.  
  153. abrogated
  154. called off, annulled, nullified
  155.  
  156. remunerate
  157. to pay for service,