Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Christie's Wordies

From The Beautiful and Damned:
1. atavistic (61): habitual or ingrained; tendency to revert to ancestral type; a trait presumed to be that of an ancestor
2. infelicitous (63): inappropriate in application; unhappy or unfortunate
3. mawkish (95): insincerely emotional
4. mountebank (115): a flamboyant deceiver
5. dross (143): impurity; worthless or ordinary

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