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  1. advent
    arrival that has been awaited
  2. archipelago
    a group of many islands in a large body of water
  3. betrothed
    pledged to be married
  4. blasphemy
    profane language
  5. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
  6. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  7. canon
    a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
  8. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  9. cavalier
    showing a lack of concern or seriousness
  10. contiguous
    having a common boundary or edge
  11. correlate
    bear a reciprocal or mutual relation
  12. denouement
    the outcome of a complex sequence of events
  13. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  14. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
  15. edict
    a formal or authoritative proclamation
  16. enamor
    attract
  17. etymology
    a history of a word
  18. fabricate
    put together out of artificial or natural components
  19. frenetic
    fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
  20. insensate
    devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
  21. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
  22. kinetic
    relating to the motion of material bodies and their forces
  23. lilliputian
    very small
  24. phobia
    an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear
  25. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  26. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  27. projectile
    a weapon that is forcibly propelled toward a target
  28. pulverize
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
  29. queasy
    causing or able to cause nausea
  30. reciprocate
    act, feel, or give mutually or in return
  31. recondite
    difficult to understand
  32. relegate
    assign to a lower position
  33. renegade
    someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
  34. repulse
    force or drive back
  35. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  36. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  37. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  38. triumvirate
    a group of three people responsible for civil authority
  39. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  40. upheaval
    a violent disturbance
  41. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  42. vertigo
    a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
  43. vestment
    a gown worn by the clergy
  44. votary
    a priest or priestess in a non-Christian religion or cult
  45. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
Created on 六月 23, 2013

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