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Abutted

Adjoining (countries or land masses)

Alacrity

Cheerful readiness

Altitude

the height of an object relative to a set point, such as the horizon or sea level

Anodyne

Mentally soothing

Anomalous

Having an irregular or deviant feature

Astronomical

too large to contemplate

Attrition

Abrasion

Audacious

Daring, bold

Avuncular

Kind and friendly

Bizarre

Strange, eccentric

Bonhomie

Good-natured friendliness

Cadaverous

Deathly pale and corpse-like

Catatonic

Schizophrenic with intervals of violence

Consternation

Anxiety, dismay

Delusory

False (belief or opinion)

Denuded

Made bare

Disillusioned

Disenchanted

Doldrums

Low spirits

Ecstatic

Overwhelmed by feelings of rapture

Eugenics

The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to produce only the desired characteristics

Extrapolating

Calculating approximately from known values

Febrile

Relating to a fever

Fomented

Applied warmth to

Formidable

Awe-inspiring

Hallucinated

Perceived visions of things that are not really there

Imbue

Saturate

Impunity

Exemption from punishment

Incipient

In the initial stages

Inebriated

Drunk

Infractions

Violations

Inherently

Naturally existing, such as a characteristic in someone

Insurgency

Active revolt

Intrepid

Brave, fearless

Kamikaze

A Japanes warplane loaded with explosives and deliberately crashed into a target

Magnitude

Extreme importance

Myopic

Near-sighted, lacking in imagination

Neophyte

New convert

Obstreperous

Turbulent, unruly

Parlaying

Using money already won to increase the stake

Precipitously

Steeply

Prodigy

A person with exceptional qualities or abilities

Prognostication

Prediction

Propaganda

Organized program of selected information

Recessive

Receding

Restive

Fidgety

Revenue

Income

Scuttlebutt

Gossip

Shrapnel

Fragments of a bomb after an explosion

Specter

haunting preoccupation

Spindly

Tall and thin

Tethers

Binding ropes

Teutonica

German memorabilia

Torpor

Sluggishness

Virulent

Bitterly hostile

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