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  1. compassion
    a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
  2. complacent
    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
  3. delinquent
    a young offender
  4. denouement
    the outcome of a complex sequence of events
  5. etymology
    a history of a word
  6. excursion
    a journey taken for pleasure
  7. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  8. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  9. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  10. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  11. perseverance
    the act of continuing or repeating
  12. proverb
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  13. restitution
    the act of restoring something to its original state
  14. sophisticated
    having worldly knowledge and refinement
  15. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
Created on 九月 27, 2010 (updated 九月 27, 2010)

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