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1 April 2008 - 7:02am — Lit
  1. Schadenfreude
    A bavarian delicacy (fried head cheese)
  2. Defenestration
    Removing fence that had been knocked flat
  3. Adumbrate
    Changing voter registration to the "other" party.
  4. Encomium
    Chemical process of coating with shiny metal
  5. Blandish
    Not very spicy
  6. Turpitude
    What you clean paint brushes with
  7. Fribble
    Ketchup drops falling off french fries
  8. Solipsism
    Chasm on the surface on the sun
  9. Captious
    Like the boss asea
  10. Protean
    A nutrient used to build muscles
  11. Tenebrous
    Reminding one of inner city housing
  12. Otiose
    Going into multiple game extensions
  13. Puissant
    A six legged insect that infests kitties
  14. Hegemony
    Currency used by hedgehogs
  15. Tertiary
    Birdhouse for potato birds
  16. Bathos
    Ethics for dealing with ring around the tub
  17. Antediluvian
    Person married to uncle diluvian
  18. Fugacious
    Eager to fight with below-the-belt blows
  19. Sinecure
    Remedy for geometry problems
  20. Defalcate
    Take a dump
  21. Heuristic
    Synonym for feminist
  22. Quotidian
    Specialist in pricing auto insurance
  23. Avuncular
    Door-to-door cosmetics salesman
  24. Somnolent
    Not entirely nolent
  25. Juggernaut
    Spaceman who simultaneously tosses multiple objects in air
  26. Recondite
    Repeatedly perform fraud
  27. Peripatetic
    Like two identical skulls
  28. Parsimonious
    Wanting to charge high prices for parsley
  29. Bricolage
    Picture made from bricks
  30. Punctilio
    On time
  31. Numinous
    Coin collector
  32. Grampus
    Your parent's father
  33. Transmogrify
    Commute across city with dirty air
  34. Pismire
    Soggy ground near the porta-johnny
  35. Nictitate
    Breast-feeding, by a smoker
  36. Crenel
    Actor that played in "Real McCoys"
  37. Gravamen
    Men of great seriousness
  38. Insuperable
    Dead of curse, like George Reeves, Christopher Reeve
  39. Fungible
    Suitable for serving with mushrooms
  40. Putative
    Wanting to get rid of
  41. Palaver
    Vera's friend
  42. Panoply
    A wok full of oriental delicacy
  43. Aplomb
    What you dry to get aprune
  44. Haruspice
    Seasoning for mideastern dessert
  45. Moribund
    Really wide belt for tuxedo wearers
  46. Foozle
    Brass fitting on hose for dispensing liquid food
  47. Nostrum
    One of two openings in your nose.
  48. Moil
    Slang for 10W-50
  49. Flagitious
    Extremely patriotic
  50. Draconian
    Suitable for large fire-breathing lizards
  51. Soporific
    Very impoverished
  52. Aril
    Actor who played Robin Hood
  53. Flivver
    Famous dolphin
  54. Jejune
    Boot camp for Marines
  55. Frowzy
    Bushy hair just above eyes
  56. Canard
    Pertaining to dogs
  57. Qua
    Plural of "quota"