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spondee
[spon-dee]
in poetry, a "foot" of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter

toplofty
[top-lawf-tee, -lof-]
condescending; haughty

staid
[steyd]
of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious

paraselene
[par-uh-si-lee-nee]
Meteorology—a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon

jocund
[jok-uhnd]
cheerful; merry; blithe; glad

perdure
[per-door]
remain in existence throughout a substantial period of time; endure

belabor
[bih-ley-ber]
to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary

excogitate
[eks-koj-i-teyt]
to think out; devise; invent

puissant
[pyoo-uh-suhnt; pwis-uhnt]
powerful; mighty; potent

repugnant
[ri-puhg-nuhnt]
extremely distasteful; unacceptable

matutinal
[muh-toot-n-l]
pertaining to or occurring in the morning; early in the day

vernal
[vur-nl]
of, in, or appropriate to spring

piffle
[pif-uhl]
nonsense, as trivial or senseless talk

boondoggle
[boon-dog-uhl]
waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects

proliferate
[pruh-lif-uh-reyt]
to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation

tantamount
[tan-tuh-mount]
equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification