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  Word Descriptions prim, suppliant, overweening, rancid, drab, centigrade, dispassionate, perspicacious, erose, lissom


   
Description of prim (adjective: primmer; primmest)
exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced



   
Description of suppliant (adjective)
humbly entreating; supplicatory



   
Description of overweening (adjective)
presumptuously arrogant



   
Description of rancid (adjective)
smelling of fermentation or staleness



   
Description of drab (adjective: drabber; drabbest)
causing dejection; dark; dingy; disconsolate; drear; dreary



   
Description of centigrade (adjective)
of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees



   
Description of dispassionate (adjective)
unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice



   
Description of perspicacious (adjective)
mentally acute or penetratingly discerning



   
Description of erose (adjective)
having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed; jaggy; notched; toothed



   
Description of lissom (adjective)
moving and bending with ease; lithe; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike



  Determinations of the words prim, suppliant, overweening, rancid, drab, centigrade, dispassionate, perspicacious, erose, lissom

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