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  1. batten
    a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
    Nancy and Don live in a barnlike board-and-batten home
  2. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
    Prosaic complaints receive middling scores
  3. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
    we appreciate the anachronistic sense of community
  4. cachet
    an indication of approved or superior status
    but pot, with its outlaw cachet
  5. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
    his increasing ennui and hunched surliness
  6. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
    we hope that these are appropriately onerous.
  7. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
    because it has taught him a salient lesson
  8. apogee
    the farthest point in an orbit around the Earth
    brought Hippocrates' humoral theory to its apogee
  9. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
    that were evolving in its penumbra
  10. en bloc
    all together
    he retained the notion of the en bloc removal of the organ
  11. extirpate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    stopped short of evacuating the entire pelvis or extirpating the bladder
  12. intaglio
    a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate
    Cushing inherited Haslted's intaglio surgical technique
  13. moribund
    being on the point of death
    was self-contained and moribund
  14. ossify
    become bony
    an ossifying Manhattan social club
  15. neoplastic
    of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm
    chemotherapy of malignant neoplastic disease
  16. iterative
    marked by repetition
    killing leukemia was an iterative process
  17. antipode
    direct opposite
    in many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.
  18. ineffable
    defying expression or description
    She lost sleep, her hair, and her appetite, and then something more important and ineffable
  19. animus
    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
    her animus, her drive, her will
  20. carapace
    hard outer covering or case of certain organisms
    Her melancholy hardened into something impenetrable, a carapace
Created on 一月 29, 2012 (updated 一月 29, 2012)

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