Stories I Waited Too Long to Tell
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Adj: twisted with or as if with gnarls or knots; gnarled. Distasteful or distressing; offensive; gross.
Gnarly
Noun: patronage; support; sponsorship. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
Auspices
Noun: a point or pointed end.
Cusp
Verb: to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll.
Saunter
Adj: causing fear or discouragement; intimidating.
Daunting
Noun: petulant displeasure; ill humor.
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Verb: to give minor offense to; offend.
Miff
Adj: brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible.
Pithy
Verb: to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.
Wane
Noun: a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
Curmudgeon
Noun: anything that attracts, entices, or allures; the power of attracting or enticing.
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Lure
Noun: an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession.
Affectation
Adj: lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm.
Lackluster
Adj: of the highest quality, degree, character, importance, etc.
Supremely
Adv: in a way that is overexcited, restless, or uncontrolled, as if from fever.
Feverishly
Adj: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever.
Deft
Noun: a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing, or used as a vehicle for, medicinal substances.
Elixir
Adj: full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant; causing tension or stress.
Fraught
Verb: the action of turning around a point.
Noun: a person, thing, or factor having a major or central role, function, or effect.
Pivot
Adj: characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect; physical reaction to a non-physical experience.
Visceral
Noun: the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rainwater.
Atrium
Adj: highly original and influencing the development of future events.
Seminal
Verb: to move sideways or obliquely; to edge along furtively.
noun.
Sidle
Adj: of, relating to, or suggesting heaven.
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Blissful delightful.
Elysian
Adj: unsociable. Not conducive to sociability.
Unclubbable
Adj: tending to promote or assist.
Conducive
Adj: having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities.