- INCHOATE (in-koh-it
- unformed or formless, in a beginning stage.
- INDEFATIGABLE
- incapable of defeat, failure, decay.
- INEFFABLE
- unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words
- INEXORABLE
- incapable of being persuaded or placated.
- INGENUOUS
- not devious; innocent and candid
- INIMICAL
- hostile
- INSIDIOUS
- appealing but imperceptibly harmful, seductive
- INIQUITY
- wickedness or sin.
- uxorious
- excessively fond or submissive to one's wife
- unctuous
- characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness
- having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery
- ubiquitous
- being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent
- ululate
- to howl, wail or lament loudly
- troglodyte
- a cave dweller; recluse
- tramontane (trah-MON-tane)
- a person who lives beyond the mountains
- a foreigner; a stranger
- valetudinarian
- a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
- animadversion
- strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark
- Xanthippe (zan-THIP-ee)
- a shrewish, nagging wife
- yesternight
- last night
- zaftig
- full-bosomed
- having a full, shapely figure
- zephyr
- the west wind
- wizen
- to shrivel up; wither
- weanling
- a child or animal newly weaned
- vitiate
- to reduce the value or impair the quality of
- to corrupt morality; debase
- to make ineffective; invalidate
- virago
- a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman
- antilogy
- a contradiction in ideas, statements, or terms.
- a contradiction between any words or passages in an author
- aplomb
- self-confidence assurance; poise
- apolaustic
- devoted to enjoyment
- calisthenics
- gymnastic exercises designed to develop physical health and vigor, usually performer with little or no special apparatus.
- histrionic
- of or pertaining to actors or acting.
- deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.
- monomania
- (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
- an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.
- glabrous
- having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence
- glabella
- the flat area of bone between the eyebrows, used as a craniometric point
- gleba [pl. -bae]
- Botany. the inner, spore-bearing mass of a puffball
- cricoid
- pertaining to a ring-shaped cartilage at the lower part of the larynx
- french leave
- a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: "taking French leave, he evaded his creditors."
- Craniometry
- the science of measuring skulls
- craniomalacia
- the softening of the bones of the skull
- craniopagus
- a pair of twins joined at the head
- prurient
- having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
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