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| incentive | (noun) something (as fear or hope of reward) that constitutes a motive or stimulus. |
| freight | (noun) something that is loaded for transportation : cargo. |
| mugwump | (noun) the head or leader of any body of persons. |
| pontiff | (noun) a high priest or chief religious figure. |
| dissemble | (verb) to conceal facts, motives, intentions, or feelings under some pretense. |
| piety | (noun) zeal in religious service or worship : devoutness. |
| agitation | (noun) mental excitement or emotional perturbation : a tremulous and disturbed state. |
| permafrost | (noun) a permanently frozen layer of soil, subsoil, or other deposit occurring at variable depth below the earth's surface in arctic or subarctic regions. |
| expunge | (verb) to obliterate (a material record or trace) by any means. |
| duplicity | (noun) deception by pretending to entertain one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. |
| qualms | (plural noun) sudden misgivings or faintheartedness. |
| wattage | (noun) amount of power expressed in 1/746 horsepower. |
| correlation | (noun) the presentation of phenomena as invariable accompaniments of each other whether causally connected or not. |
| vivacious | (adjective) lively in temper or conduct : sprightly. |
| lanai | (noun) a living room open in part to the outdoors : an outdoor space used as a living room. |
| Pulitzer | (noun) any of several annual awards for outstanding literary or journalistic achievement or public service established by the will of Joseph Pulitzer. |
| chicle | (noun) a gum obtained from the latex of the sapodilla tree largely from Yucatan and Central America and used as the chief ingredient of chewing gum. |
| equinox | (noun) either of the two times each year when the Sun crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere of equal length, being about March 21st and September 23rd. |
| lolled | (verb) reclined, leaned, or moved in a lax, lazy, or indolent manner : idled, lounged, sprawled. |
| shiatsu | (noun) a massage with the fingers especially of a form that originated in Japan applied to those specific areas of the body used in acupuncture. |
