1. Louse: any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura that have mouthparts adapted for sucking. 
2. Bifurcated: divided into two branches.
3. Quondam: former; onetime.
4. Convolutions: a rolled up or coiled condition.
5. Inhibitions: something that inhibits; constraint.
6. Eddy: a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having arotary or whirling motion.
7. Squandered: to spend or use money, time, etc... extravagantly or wastefully.
8. Palpably: readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident.
9. Acumen: keen insight; shrewdness.
10. Sacrosanct: extremely sacred or inviolable.
11. Entity: something that has a real existence; thing.
12. Nattily: neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce. 
13. Contractual: of, pertaining to, or secured by a contract. 
14. Mawkishly: weakly emotional.
15. Anachronistic: pertaining to something that is not historically or chronologically correct. 

Cephalic- having to do with the head.
Turgid- swollen.
Pragmatic- having to do with a practical point of view.
Epitomized- to be in or to be represented in a small compass; typify.
Cogitators- to think hard; ponder; meditate.
Devolving- to pass [a job] over to another.
Obliquely- at an angle; sloping.
Fluctuate- to change continually; shifting back and forth; to vary irregularly.
Inordinate- not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive.
Depraved- corrupt.
Dragnet- a system or network for finding or catching someone.
Gyrate- to move in a circle or spiral or a fixed point; whirl.
Travail- painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
Ignominious- discreditable.
Ostensibly- outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended.

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