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kvell (verb)
Def: to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.

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resolute (adjective)
Def: firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion.

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assuage (verb)
Def: to make milder or less severe; alleviate; ease; mitigate.

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propinquity (noun)
Def: nearness of relation; kinship.

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sumptuous (adjective)
Def: luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid.

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persnickety (adjective)
Def: overparticular; fussy.

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octothorpe (adjective)
Def: overparticular; fussy.

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tourtière (noun)
Def: a pastry-covered pie containing minced pork or other chopped meat and various chopped vegetables.

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defenestrate (verb)
Def: to throw a thing out of a window.

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prink (verb)
Def: to deck oneself out.

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duende (noun)
Def: charm; magnetism.

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cacophony (noun)
Def: harsh discordance of sound; dissonance.

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whippersnapper (noun)
Def: an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.

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mellifluous (adjective)
Def: sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding.

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jabberwocky (noun)
Def: a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.

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bumbershoot (noun)
Def: an umbrella.

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malamute (noun)
Def: one of an Alaskan breed of large dogs having a dense, coarse coat, raised originally by the Inuit for drawing sleds.

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bedizen (verb)
Def: to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.

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jubilation (noun)
Def: a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation.

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connoisseur (noun)
Def: a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste.