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  1. mayhem
  2. maiming a person, disfiguring act
  3.  
  4. bourgeois
  5. belonging to the middle rank in society
  6.  
  7. vociferous
  8. crying out noisily, clamorous
  9.  
  10. vicarious
  11. suffered or enjoyed by one person on behalf of another
  12.  
  13. utopian
  14. having the nature of, or inclined to draw up schemes for a utopia;
  15. idealistic; visionary
  16. veracity
  17. truthfulness, honesty
  18.  
  19. mendacious
  20. dishonest, not telling truth
  21.  
  22. polemical
  23. involving controversy, disputing
  24.  
  25. orthopedics
  26. science dealing with prevention or correction of deformitites
  27. in the skeletal system
  28. heinous
  29. hateful, bad, outrageous
  30.  
  31. hirsute
  32. hairy, havong lots of hair, shaggy
  33.  
  34. megalomania
  35. delusion of grandeur from mental disorder
  36.  
  37. henchman
  38. followers, sometimes unscrupulous
  39.  
  40. aborigines
  41. earliest known inhabitants of a country
  42.  
  43. ostensible
  44. avowed; professed apparent
  45.  
  46. winced
  47. shrank, drew back, flinched
  48.  
  49. hedonism
  50. belief that pleasure is chief good in life
  51.  
  52. viscosity
  53. thickness, quality of being sticky
  54.  
  55. potpourri
  56. mixture, medley, miscellany
  57.  
  58. venomous
  59. poisonous, deadly
  60.  
  61. sacrilege
  62. desecrating that which is sacred, profaning something
  63.  
  64. plagarism
  65. steal from another's writing, copying
  66.  
  67. pensive
  68. thoughtful, serious
  69.  
  70. abrogated
  71. called off, annulled, nullified
  72.  
  73. wanton
  74. reckless about the feeling of others, unrestrained
  75.  
  76. renaissance
  77. rebirth, a new birth or revival
  78.  
  79. sagacious
  80. wise, knowing, of sound judgement, respected
  81.  
  82. vapid
  83. empty, insipid, spiritless
  84.  
  85. resilience
  86. elasticity, rebound
  87.  
  88. roseate
  89. rosy, bright, promising
  90.  
  91. hiatus
  92. gap, break with a part missing
  93.  
  94. remunerate
  95. to pay for service, reward, recompense
  96.  
  97. platonic
  98. a spiritual comradeship of love, idealistic
  99.  
  100. utilitarian
  101. useful, satisfying human wants
  102.  
  103. orthodox
  104. sound in opinion or doctrine, correct, approved
  105.  
  106. respectively
  107. as relating to each other, each in order
  108.  
  109. respite
  110. delay or postponement, intermission of labor
  111.  
  112. oscillation
  113. a swinging back and forth
  114.  
  115. scaerdotal
  116. pertaining to priests or priesthood
  117.  
  118. plausible
  119. seemingly true, reasonable, trustworthy
  120.  
  121. histrionic
  122. of or pertaining to stage and acting
  123.  
  124. rustic
  125. pertaining to the country
  126.  
  127. poignant
  128. piercing, keen, distressing to feelings
  129.  
  130. welter
  131. a tossing and tumbling
  132.  
  133. blithe
  134. joyous, gay, merry
  135.  
  136. ruminate
  137. to ponder over in the mind
  138.  
  139. peccadillo
  140. petty fault, trifle, silliness
  141.  
  142. winch
  143. machine to turn or strain something
  144.  
  145. venial
  146. excusable, capable of being forgiven
  147.  
  148. wizened
  149. dried, shriviled
  150.  
  151. 
  152.  
  153. winch
  154. machine to turn or strain something
  155.  
  156. venial
  157. excusable, capable of being forgiven
  158.  
  159. wizene