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Monthly Archives: April 2005
caliph
a leader of an Islamic polity, regarded as a successor of Muhammad and by tradition always male
trebuchet
a medieval catapult for hurling heavy stones
moil
1. to toil; slave 2. to churn about continuously
obdurate
1a. hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent b. hardened against feeling; hardhearted 2. not giving in to persuasion; intractable
odious
arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure
lissome
1. easily bent; supple 2. having the ability to move with ease; limber
frenetic
wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied
risible
1. relating to laughter 2. eliciting laughter; ludicrous 3. capable of laughing or inclined to laugh