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| carcinogen | (noun) a substance or agent producing or inciting cancerous growth. |
| tomahawk | (noun) a light axe used both as a missile and as a hand weapon by Native North Americans. |
| monochrome | (noun) the art of producing a painting or drawing in a single hue. |
| gluttonous | (adjective) marked by or given to greedy or excessive indulgence of any desire or faculty. |
| ostracism | (noun) exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance. |
| rappelled | (verb) descended a precipitous cliff by means of a rope. |
| presumptuous | (adjective) assuming a prerogative, privilege, or permission without warrant : taking liberties. |
| annihilation | (noun) the act of destroying totally or the state of being destroyed totally. |
| petroglyphs | (plural noun) carvings or inscriptions on a rock. |
| courtier | (noun) a gentleman attendant or frequenter of a sovereign's residence or establishment. |
| bonsai | (noun) a potted plant (as a tree) dwarfed by special methods of culture. |
| schism | (noun) a division of a group into two discordant groups. |
| appellate | (adjective) having the power to review and affirm, reverse, or modify the judgment or decision of another tribunal. |
| elegiac | (adjective) of, relating to, befitting, or comprising a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead. |
| sapphire | (noun) a precious stone of transparent rich blue corundum of great value. |
| vestigial | (adjective) of, relating to, or being a small and degenerate body part or organ that remains from one more fully developed in an earlier stage of the individual, in a past generation, or in closely related forms. |
| laureate | (noun) a recipient of an honor or award for outstanding achievement in an art or science. |
| plagiarism | (noun) an act or an instance of stealing and passing off as one's own the ideas or words of another. |
| ragamuffin | (noun) a ragged and unkempt youth. |
| agitprop | (noun) propaganda and agitation especially in behalf of communism. |
