The Greatest Gift Glossary

by Philip Van Doren Stern

The Greatest Gift Glossary

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Apprehensive

Frightened, fearful

Appraising

Assess, judge

Crotchety

Eccentric, bad-tempered

Immaculate

Unstained, irreplaceable

Varicolored

Polychrome, multicolored

Dilapidated

Ramshackle, deterioration

Sacrilegious

Blasphemous, sinful

Carnage

Massacre, slaughter

Prosaic

Mediocre, monotonous

Cavort

Bounce, jump

Squander

Misspend, waste

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