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  1. berserker
    one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury
  2. tincture
    a substance that colors metals
  3. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  4. embargo
    a government order imposing a trade barrier
  5. rigorous
    strict; allowing no deviation from a standard
  6. myeloma
    a tumor of the bone marrow (usually malignant) composed of cells normally found in bone marrow
  7. familial
    relating to a social unit living together
  8. microbe
    a minute life form, especially one that causes disease
  9. satyr
    one of a class of woodland deities
  10. Centaur
    a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
  11. macadam
    a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar
  12. phalanx
    any closely ranked crowd of people
  13. detente
    the easing of tensions or strained relations
  14. pogrom
    organized persecution of an ethnic group, especially Jews
  15. apartheid
    a social policy of racial segregation
  16. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  17. hegemony
    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
  18. portent
    a sign of something about to happen
  19. satiety
    being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
  20. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  21. hypertrophy
    abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
  22. atrophy
    a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  23. telephony
    transmitting speech at a distance
  24. caoutchouc
    an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
  25. polymath
    a person of great and varied learning
  26. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  27. eschatological
    relating to the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world
  28. centripetal
    tending to move toward an area in the middle
  29. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  30. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  31. collimator
    optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
  32. iconography
    the system or use of familiar images as symbols
  33. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  34. papyrus
    tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber
  35. perfidious
    tending to betray
Created on 九月 15, 2007 (updated 五月 4, 2010)

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