Thursday, June 7, 2007

resentment
–noun
the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.

Fury
–noun, plural -ries.
1.unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
2.violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy.
3.Furies, Classical Mythology. minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
4.a fierce and violent person, esp. a woman: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.
5.like fury, Informal. violently; intensely: It rained like fury.

Blurt
To utter suddenly and impulsively: blurt a confession.

Elaborate
1.worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care.
2.marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated.
–verb (used with object)
3.to work out carefully or minutely; develop to perfection.
4.to add details to; expand.
5.to produce or develop by labor.
6.Physiology. to convert (food, plasma, etc.) by means of chemical processes into a substance more suitable for use within the body.
–verb (used without object)
7.to add details in writing, speaking, etc.; give additional or fuller treatment (usually fol. by on or upon): to elaborate upon a theme or an idea.

Conduit
  1. A pipe or channel for conveying fluids, such as water.
  2. A tube or duct for enclosing electric wires or cable.
  3. A means by which something is transmitted: an arms dealer who served as a conduit for intelligence data.
  4. Archaic A fountain.

assiduous
1.constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
2.constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.

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