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Wordmasters Challenge 2011-2012 Meet 3 (Blue)
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| Temperate | mild, calm |
| Gravity | seriousness, severity |
| Unrequition | unreturned, unreciprocated |
| Necrophilic | (psychological) having an unnatural fixation on corpses |
| Ardor | passion |
| Morbid | gruesome, macabre, fixated on death |
| Dell | valley, glade, or hollow |
| Pallor | whiteness of skin |
| Nymphomaniac | (psychological) a woman with abnormally heightened desires |
| Infantile | childish |
| Aggressive | forceful, assertive |
| Mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward |
| Punctilious | meticulous, conscientious, painstaking |
| Sumptuary | regulating expense or expenditure |
| Ruefulness | feeling of sorrow, pity, or mourning |
| Impotent | powerless, ineffective |
| Constancy | fidelity, faithfulness |
| Frigid | icily aloof, standoffish, or passionless |
| Monogamous | committed to one person |
| Abyss | chasm, gulf, break |
| Unfathomable | immeasurable or incomprehensible |
| Malodorous | offensive smelling |
| Destitution | poverty or hardship |
| Touchstone | benchmark, criterion, or standard for the qualities of a thing |
| Euphoria | joyful exhilaration |
| Potent | powerful, strong |
| Prudence | caution or discretion |
| Buccaneer | pirate |
| Brook | to tolerate |
| Nostalgic | longing or regretful |
| Admonitory | warning, advisory |
| Chic | fashionable |
| Dictate (n.) | command or decree |
| Propriety | politeness, decorum, modesty |
| Spiteful | malicious, hurtful |
| Overweening | arrogant, haughty |
| Schadenfreude | taking delight in others’ misfortunes |
| Sentimental | over-romantic |
| Tone | mood of a story |
| Ironic | saying one thing but meaning another; mocking |
| diction | word choice |
| locution | style of speech or verbal expression |
| cliché | overused expression; a trite saying |
| rhapsodic | extravagantly enthusiastic or ecstatic |
| oratory | the art of public speaking, especially in a formal, heightened, eloquent manner |
| colloquialism | conversational, informal speech |
| jargon | the language and vocabulary peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Metaphorical | figurative |
| Oxymoron | a self-contradictory expression, such as “deafening silence” |
| Syntactical | relating to sentence structure |
| Parallelism | use of grammatically comparable structures |
| Rhetorical question | a question used solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion rather than to elicit a replay |
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