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  1. adumbration
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  2. algorithm
    a precise rule specifying how to solve some problem
  3. androgyne
    one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
  4. Apocrypha
    14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
  5. appellation
    identifying words by which someone or something is called
  6. arcanum
    information known only to a special group
  7. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  8. arriviste
    an ambitious social climber or status seeker
  9. aureole
    the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
  10. calumniation
    a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
  11. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  12. conflate
    mix together different elements
  13. demotic
    of or for the common people
  14. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  15. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  16. enjoin
    give instructions to or direct somebody to do something
  17. epicene
    having an ambiguous sexual identity
  18. eponymous
    relating to a name derived from a person
  19. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  20. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  21. extenuate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or degree of
  22. extirpate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  23. gynandromorph
    one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
  24. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  25. homunculus
    a person who is tiny or diminutive
  26. immix
    mix together different elements
  27. imprecation
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
  28. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  29. malediction
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
  30. misoneism
    hatred of change or innovation
  31. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  32. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  33. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  34. pasquinade
    a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style
  35. petulance
    an irritable feeling
  36. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  37. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  38. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  39. recursive
    characterized by repetition
  40. savant
    a learned person
  41. scabrous
    rough to the touch, as if covered with scales or projections
  42. senescence
    the property characteristic of old age
  43. singularity
    the quality of being one of a kind
  44. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
  45. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  46. traducement
    a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
  47. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
  48. velleity
    a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort
  49. eclecticism
    making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style
  50. prostrate
    stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
Created on 六月 19, 2009 (updated 七月 16, 2009)

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