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Grendel's Vocabulary

(Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.) Who would have thought that a brute like Grendel would have anything to teach us sophisticates of the new millennium ? But it's a fact. Learning to talk and write like Grendel (in most cases) has been shown to increase the average person's ACT/SAT/LMNOP score by an uncanny bigness. So, get to work. Look up these words and toss them into your brain pan. (They cook up real tasty with butter, onions, and thane's liver.) Thanks to Barbara Walker for the idea and the initial list.

docile 6 sycophantish 7 duff 9 hoary 12 dirge 13 dogmatism 14 putrefaction 19 loll 20 inviolable 21 pungent 23 gewgawed 31 ominous 32 aloof 35 victualers 47 petulant 49 intimation 50

ludicrously 53 undulant 57 paltry 64 immanence 68 apocalypse 71 brume 77 pompous 80 compensations 84 insinuations 87 nihilism 93 torus 93 byrnie 97 paradox 104 chilblains 108 brachiating 112 venue 113

oblivious 117 transmogrified 121 obsequious 127 inchoate 129 keens 131 concrescence 132 rationalism 135 ossified 135 extrapolate 135 apparitions 142 decorum 144 omnipotence 146 gannet  153 inexorable 152 pommel 153 ruse 155