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  1. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  2. blazon
    the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
  3. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  4. oubliette
    a dungeon with a trap door in the ceiling
  5. scintillate
    emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  6. coruscate
    reflect brightly
  7. drachm
    a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
  8. baldric
    a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip
  9. litany
    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
  10. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
  11. supplicate
    ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
  12. fen
    low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
  13. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  14. renascent
    rising again as to new life and vigor
  15. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  16. gamboge
    a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative
  17. cerise
    of the color between orange and purple in the color spectrum
  18. thaumaturgy
    any art that invokes supernatural powers
  19. lazaret
    hospital for persons with infectious diseases
  20. crenation
    one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
  21. doxy
    a woman who cohabits with an important man
  22. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  23. restitution
    the act of restoring something to its original state
  24. salubrious
    promoting health
  25. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
Created on 七月 15, 2010 (updated 七月 15, 2010)

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