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  1. aplomb
    great coolness and composure under strain
  2. apolitical
    neutral with regards to government policy
  3. didacticism
    communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive
  4. labile
    liable to change
  5. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  6. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  7. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  8. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
  9. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  10. gesticulation
    a deliberate and vigorous motion of the hands or body
  11. subliminal
    below the threshold of conscious perception
  12. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  13. diabolical
    showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
  14. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  15. indigence
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  16. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  17. awry
    turned or twisted to one side
  18. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  19. prognosis
    a prediction of the course of a disease
  20. sumptuousness
    the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
  21. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  22. plummet
    drop sharply
  23. rescind
    cancel officially
  24. perfidious
    tending to betray
  25. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  26. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  27. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  28. recondite
    difficult to understand
  29. dabble
    bob under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
  30. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  31. prolixity
    boring verbosity
  32. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  33. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  34. pander
    yield to; give satisfaction to
  35. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  36. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  37. finesse
    subtly skillful handling of a situation
  38. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  39. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  40. dishabille
    the state of being carelessly or partially dressed
  41. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  42. opalescence
    the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface
  43. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  44. laity
    members of a religious community who are not clergy
  45. indubitable
    too obvious to be doubted
  46. runic
    relating to characters from an ancient alphabet
  47. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  48. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  49. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  50. seamy
    morally degraded
  51. laconic
    brief and to the point
  52. exacerbate
    make worse
  53. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
  54. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  55. moribund
    being on the point of death
  56. buxom
    healthily plump and vigorous
  57. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  58. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  59. guileless
    innocent and free of deceit
  60. swelter
    be uncomfortably hot
  61. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
  62. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  63. gainsay
    take exception to
Created on 十月 2, 2012

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