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INTERESTING WORDS 15)ennui
 * 1) capricious**
 * 2)remonstrated**
 * 3)rectory**
 * 4)expatriate**
 * 5)spontaneity**
 * 7)daub**
 * 8)fjord**
 * 9)phlegm**
 * 11)spruce**
 * 12)tannoyed**
 * 13)farby**
 * P.S. "Dowsed" means to searchg for underground supplies of water, metal etc by the use of a divining rod.**
 * -Yi Hao **.

22). anaesthetic 23). desalination

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 * Note: Words 21 to 39 are from:
 * Phobias:**
 * 40)brontophobia**
 * 41)claustrophobia**
 * 42)anemophobia**
 * 43)keraunophobia**


 * 44)hyalithe**
 * 45)vichyssoise**
 * 48)****loquacious **

49)tsetse

50)**aberrant** deviating from the proper course of, like or pertaining to the depths of the oceanIt refers to the bottom of the ocean — how great is that? The sinister "abysso" recalls Tartarus, and overall conjures a gorgeous image of blind prognathous fish constellating the dark with the aching lambency of their bioluminescence. 1. incomprehensibility; a word much used (in its Greek form) by the later Academics and Skeptics (Carneades, Arcesilaus, etc.), who held that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability, and who advocated a suspension of judgment upon all questions, even upon the doctrine of acatalepsy itself. 2. uncertainty in the diagnosis or prognosis of diseases. 3. a weak understanding; mental deficiency. It sounds like a medical condition, but it describes most humans and our path through life.
 * 51)****abyssopelagic**
 * 52)****acatalepsy**

53)chockablock Extremelyfull;crowded; jammed. 2. // Nautical. // Having the blocks drawn close together,as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost. adverb: 1. In a crowded manner: books piled chockablock on the narrow shelf.

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__ Spelling Round 3 1) Millennium 2) Rescind 3) Usurp 4) Assassin 5) Accommodate 6) Possession 7) Obsession 8) Waiver 9) Versatile 10) Occurrence 11) Scandalous 12) Conscientious 13) Gauge 14) Colonel 15) Cemetery 16) Irresistible 17) Accessories 18) Assessment 19) Shrewd 20) Capricious 21) Exemplary 22) Miscellaneous 23) Ingenious 24) Tyrannical 25) Generosity 26) Amateur 27) Grotesque 28) Distraught 29) Curriculum 30) Equitable 31) Attorney 32) Truant 33) Silhouette 34) Preferential 35) Whet 36) Counsel 37) Sceptical/Skeptical 38) Expatriate 39) Espionage 40) Labyrinth
 * handicraft || overwhelm || scrooge || diagnosis ||
 * elaborate || spasm || surmount || eradicate ||
 * secretary || elevator || dispensary || felony ||
 * efficient || exertion || culpable || countenance ||
 * ridicule || acknowledge || aerial || obituary ||
 * ornament || panicking || mutiny || tumultous ||
 * athletics || frivolous || reproach || elusive ||
 * skyscraper || sarcastic || caffeine || meridian ||
 * multitude || assessment || epilogue || installment ||
 * eminence || elegance || feasible || immensely ||
 * horrendous || colleagues || financier || hypocrite ||
 * sensation || allergic || stalwart || counterfeit ||
 * graduation || omitted || autonomous || lyrical ||
 * stereotype || impassive || psychiatrist || jubilant ||
 * transaction || dilemma || perennial || referral ||
 * caress || precede || pulverise ||  ||
 * manual || maintenance || innoculate ||  ||
 * fulfilled || paralysis || supersede ||  ||
 * acquit || luminous || oscillate ||  ||
 * succession || parliament || compelling ||  ||
 * marathon || acronym || protocol ||  ||
 * optimum || proficient || riotous ||  ||
 * beverage || ointment || neurotic ||  ||
 * oppressor || furtively || consensus ||  ||
 * orchestrate || compromise || repulsion ||  ||

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SPELLING ROUND 4

1.
 * feudalism – a system is a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank || provocation || Perceptive – good at noticing or realizing something ||
 * superstitious || Supercilious – disapprove of people who behave in a scornful way towards others || pathetic ||
 * incorrigible – have faults which will never change || Commiserate – show pity or sympathy for someone when something has happened to them || intermittent ||
 * ambivalent – uncertain about what they really want || Acquiesce – agree to do what someone wants || diarrhoea ||
 * exasperate || possession || ultimatum ||
 * sycophantic – people who flatter others who are more important and powerful || intrigued || misconstrue ||
 * reminisce – think or write about the past || ascertain || impeccable - perfect ||
 * condolence - sympathy || furlough || debris ||
 * dessicated - || inexhaustible || Incorrigible – have faults which will never change ||
 * hierarchy – system for organizing people into ranks || obscure – something that is difficult to understand || forlorn ||