magnanimous-revelry

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  1. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  2. malign
    speak unfavorably about
  3. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  4. mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
  5. mentor
    a wise and trusted guide and advisor
  6. meritocracy
    a social system in which power goes to superior intellects
  7. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  8. mirage
    optical illusion in which hot air distorts distant objects
  9. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  10. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  11. nepotism
    favoritism shown to relatives or friends by those in power
  12. nocturnal
    belonging to or active during the night
  13. nuptials
    the social event at which the marriage ceremony is performed
  14. odyssey
    a long wandering and eventful journey
  15. oligarchy
    a political system governed by a few people
  16. ostracize
    expel from a community or group
  17. ovation
    enthusiastic recognition
  18. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  19. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  20. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  21. perambulate
    walk with no particular goal
  22. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  23. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  24. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  25. plebeian
    of or associated with the great masses of people
  26. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  27. posterity
    all future generations
  28. posthumous
    occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
  29. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  30. pristine
    immaculately clean and unused
  31. procrastinate
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  32. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  33. proletarian
    belonging to or characteristic of the working class
  34. protege
    a person who receives support from an influential patron
  35. purge
    rid of impurities
  36. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  37. rancid
    having an offensive smell or taste
  38. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  39. recluse
    one who lives in solitude
  40. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  41. reptilian
    of or relating to cold-blooded vertebrates with scaly skin
  42. retinue
    the group following and attending to some important person
  43. revelry
    unrestrained merrymaking
Created on 十一月 6, 2013 (updated 十一月 8, 2013)

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