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| Define: leverage | power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions, etc.; sway |
| Define: wistfulness | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. |
| Define: defiant | characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: |
| Define: ecstatic | of, pertaining to, or characterized by ecstasy - rapturous delight. |
| Define: incredulous | skeptical - indicating or showing unbelief |
| Define: contemptuous | indicating or showing unbelief |
| Define: specimen | a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc. - a particular or peculiar kind of person. |
| Define: banter | an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery. |
| Define: complacence | a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc. |
| Define: pessimist | A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: |
| Define: desolate | barren or laid waste; devastated |
| Define: pathetic | causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow |
| Define: coherence | overall sense or understandability; consistency |
| Define: peremptory | leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner |
| Define: bellows | a device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube |
| Define: feigned | pretended; sham; counterfeit: assumed; fictitious; disguised |
| Define: bungalow | a cottage of one story. |
| Define: fractiousness | refractory or unruly; readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome. |
| Define: imperceptibly | very slight, gradual, or subtle |
| Define: infinitesimal | indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute |
| Define: grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre |
| Define: transcendent | going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding |
| Define: ghastly | shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible |
| Define: borough | (in certain states of the U.S.) an incorporated municipality smaller than a city; one of the five administrative divisions of New York City |
| Define: supercilious | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
| Define: contiguous | sharing an edge or boundary; touching; neighboring; adjacent |
| Define: anaemic | lacking vitality; listless and weak; relating to or suffering from anemia |
| Define: smouldering | to burn with little smoke and no flame; to show signs of repressed anger or hatred |
| Define: deferred | postponed or delayed |
| Define: rapture | ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy; "the Rapture", Theology: the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth |
| Define: ambigiously | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations |
| Define: kike | Used as a disparaging term for a Jew (slang: disparaging and offensive) |
| Define: hors d'oeuvre | an appetizer, as a relish or more elaborate preparation, served before or as the first course of a meal |
| Define: salon | a drawing room or reception room in a large house; a hall or place used for the exhibition of works of art |
