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  1. abeyance
    temporary cessation or suspension
  2. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  3. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  4. ambivalence
    mixed feelings or emotions
  5. apprise
    inform somebody of something
  6. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  7. appurtenant
    furnishing added support
  8. aver
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  9. boorish
    ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance
  10. bridle
    headgear for a horse
  11. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  12. burnish
    polish and make shiny
  13. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  14. clique
    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  15. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  16. compendium
    a publication containing a variety of works
  17. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  18. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  19. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  20. convocation
    the act of calling to a meeting
  21. coruscate
    reflect brightly
  22. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  23. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  24. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  25. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  26. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  27. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  28. disabuse
    free somebody from an erroneous belief
  29. disapprobation
    an expression of strong disapproval
  30. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  31. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  32. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  33. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  34. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  35. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  36. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  37. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  38. eldritch
    suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
  39. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  40. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  41. factious
    dissenting with the majority opinion
  42. fanciful
    indulging in or influenced by the imagination
  43. fatalism
    a doctrine that all events are predetermined in advance
  44. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  45. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  46. fledgling
    young bird that has just become capable of flying
  47. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  48. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  49. gainsay
    take exception to
  50. gambol
    play or run boisterously
  51. gentrification
    change in poorer areas due to an influx of wealthier people
  52. gerrymander
    divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage
  53. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  54. hirsute
    having or covered with hair
  55. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  56. idempotent
    unchanged in value following multiplication by itself
  57. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  58. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  59. importunate
    making persistent or urgent requests
  60. impropriety
    the condition of being unsuitable or offensive
  61. indigence
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  62. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  63. limn
    make a portrait of
  64. lionize
    assign great social importance to
  65. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  66. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  67. manacle
    shackle that can be locked around the wrist
  68. mannered
    having unnatural behavioral attributes
  69. mendacious
    given to lying
  70. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  71. moiety
    one of two approximately equal parts
  72. nave
    the central area of a church
  73. nettle
    plant having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation
  74. noetic
    of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
  75. nonplus
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  76. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  77. odium
    hate coupled with disgust
  78. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  79. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  80. orison
    reverent petition to a deity
  81. paean
    a hymn of praise
  82. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  83. patois
    a regional dialect of a language
  84. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  85. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  86. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  87. perfidious
    tending to betray
  88. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  89. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  90. polemical
    of or involving dispute or controversy
  91. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  92. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  93. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  94. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  95. prodigality
    the trait of spending extravagantly
  96. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  97. profundity
    the quality of being physically deep
  98. prolixity
    boring verbosity
  99. propitiate
    make peace with
  100. propriety
    correct behavior
  101. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  102. providential
    peculiarly fortunate or appropriate
  103. quibble
    evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections
  104. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  105. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  106. rarefied
    of high moral or intellectual value
  107. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  108. recant
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  109. recreant
    having deserted a cause or principle
  110. redoubtable
    inspiring fear
  111. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  112. refulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  113. repast
    the food served and eaten at one time
  114. reproach
    express criticism towards
  115. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  116. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  117. rescind
    cancel officially
  118. restive
    in a very tense state
  119. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  120. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  121. salubrious
    promoting health
  122. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  123. sartorial
    of or relating to tailoring or clothing
  124. schism
    division of a group into opposing factions
  125. scuttle
    move about or proceed hurriedly
  126. seamy
    morally degraded
  127. solecism
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  128. specious
    plausible but false
  129. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  130. striate
    marked with stripes
  131. temperance
    the trait of avoiding excesses
  132. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  133. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  134. traduce
    speak unfavorably about
  135. trifling
    not worth considering
  136. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  137. unseemly
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  138. variegated
    having an assortment of colors
  139. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  140. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  141. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  142. virulence
    extreme harmfulness
  143. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  144. welter
    a confused multitude of things
  145. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
  146. scotch
    hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
  147. pied
    having sections or patches colored differently and brightly
  148. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  149. reactionary
    extremely conservative or resistant to change
  150. mountebank
    a flamboyant deceiver
  151. impute
    attribute or credit to
Created on 九月 6, 2013 (updated 十二月 12, 2013)

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