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  1. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  2. plangent
    loud and resounding, often in a mournful way
  3. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  4. ephemera
    something transitory or not of lasting significance
  5. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  6. asinine
    devoid of intelligence
  7. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  8. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  9. incorporeal
    without material form or substance
  10. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  11. pruriently
    in a prurient manner
  12. staunch
    firm and dependable especially in loyalty
  13. nonplus
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  14. autonomous
    existing as an independent entity
  15. paunchy
    having a large belly
  16. lexical
    of or relating to words
  17. abhorrent
    offensive to the mind
  18. proletariat
    a social class comprising those who do manual labor
  19. episcopal
    denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
  20. papal
    proceeding from the head of the Roman Catholic Church
  21. rimy
    covered with frost
  22. prepossessing
    creating a favorable impression
  23. stoical
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  24. purblind
    having greatly reduced vision
  25. self-possessed
    calm, composed, and fully in control of oneself
  26. munificence
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  27. octogenarian
    being from 80 to 89 years old
  28. epistolary
    written in the form of letters or correspondence
  29. circumscribed
    subject to restrictions or constraints
  30. vestigial
    not fully developed in mature animals
  31. gracile
    slender and graceful
  32. sempiternal
    having no known beginning and presumably no end
  33. pedantry
    an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
  34. slatternly
    characteristic of or befitting an untidy, immoral woman
  35. aphoristic
    terse and witty and like a maxim
  36. obstreperously
    in manner that attracts attention
  37. cuprous
    of or containing divalent copper
  38. puritanical
    of or relating to a certain group of English Protestants
  39. xenophobic
    having abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners
  40. cussed
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  41. paramilitary
    of a group of civilians operating like or assisting the army
Created on 十一月 14, 2011 (updated 一月 6, 2013)

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