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  1. rhapsodic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  2. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  3. sedentary
    requiring sitting or little activity
  4. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  5. frontispiece
    an illustration facing the title page of a book
  6. quintessence
    the most typical example or representative of a type
  7. declivity
    a downward slope or bend
  8. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  9. palanquin
    a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers
  10. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  11. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  12. misnomer
    an incorrect or unsuitable name
  13. preeminent
    greatest in importance, degree, or significance
  14. syncope
    the loss of sounds from within a word
  15. volition
    the act of making a choice
  16. embrocation
    a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain
  17. propinquity
    the property of being close together
  18. usury
    the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
  19. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  20. nonagenarian
    being from 90 to 99 years old
  21. minion
    a servile or fawning dependent
  22. servile
    submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  23. fawning
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  24. jingoist
    an extreme bellicose nationalist
  25. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  26. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  27. temerity
    fearless daring
  28. connote
    express or state indirectly
  29. comeuppance
    a usually negative outcome or fate that is well deserved
  30. decant
    pour out
  31. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  32. lentissimo
    (of tempo) very slow
  33. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  34. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  35. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  36. taxonomy
    a classification of organisms based on similarities
  37. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  38. lexicalization
    the process of making a word to express a concept
  39. putative
    purported
  40. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  41. specious
    plausible but false
  42. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  43. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
Created on 六月 17, 2010 (updated 六月 17, 2010)

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