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  1. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  2. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  3. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  4. aver
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  5. boorish
    ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance
  6. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  7. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  8. condone
    excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
  9. disabuse
    free somebody from an erroneous belief
  10. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  11. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  12. coda
    the closing section of a musical composition
  13. foment
    try to stir up
  14. gainsay
    take exception to
  15. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  16. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  17. recondite
    difficult to understand
  18. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  19. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  20. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  21. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  22. occlude
    block passage through
  23. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  24. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  25. perfidious
    tending to betray
  26. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  27. inured
    made tough by habitual exposure
  28. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  29. laconic
    brief and to the point
  30. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  31. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  32. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  33. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  34. proscribe
    command against
  35. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  36. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  37. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  38. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  39. truculence
    stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
  40. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  41. salubrious
    promoting health
  42. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  43. rescind
    cancel officially
  44. specious
    plausible but false
  45. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  46. tortuous
    marked by repeated turns and bends
  47. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  48. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  49. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  50. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  51. transgression
    the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
  52. propitiate
    make peace with
  53. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  54. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  55. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  56. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  57. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  58. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  59. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  60. inveterate
    habitual
  61. desuetude
    a state of inactivity or disuse
  62. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  63. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  64. prolixity
    boring verbosity
  65. expatiate
    add details to clarify an idea
  66. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  67. indigence
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  68. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  69. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  70. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  71. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  72. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  73. ameliorate
    make better
  74. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  75. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  76. sanguinary
    accompanied by bloodshed
  77. belie
    be in contradiction with
  78. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  79. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  80. astringent
    tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
  81. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  82. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  83. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  84. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  85. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  86. ardour
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  87. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  88. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  89. recant
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  90. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  91. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  92. commensurate
    corresponding in size or degree or extent
  93. complaisant
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  94. exacerbate
    make worse
  95. extirpate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  96. lascivious
    driven by lust
  97. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  98. puissant
    powerful
  99. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  100. qualified
    meeting the proper standards and requirements for a task
  101. refulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  102. rescind
    cancel officially
  103. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  104. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
Created on 十月 9, 2013 (updated 十月 10, 2013)

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