Bowen - The Professor and the Madman - Preface thru Chapter 3

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  1. colloquy
    formal conversation
  2. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
  3. enigmatic
    not clear to the understanding
  4. prolific
    intellectually productive
  5. intriguing
    capable of arousing interest or curiosity
  6. augury
    an event indicating important things to come
  7. landau
    a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately
  8. liveried
    wearing livery
  9. lexicographer
    a compiler or writer of a dictionary
  10. immense
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
  11. mahogany
    a reddish-brown wood commonly used to make furniture
  12. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  13. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  14. louche
    of questionable taste or morality
  15. sinister
    wicked, evil, or dishonorable
  16. cumbersome
    difficult to handle or use, especially because of size or weight
  17. smug
    marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
  18. languor
    inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
  19. warren
    a colony of rabbits
  20. heinous
    extremely wicked or deeply criminal
  21. vile
    morally reprehensible
  22. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  23. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  24. revelry
    unrestrained merrymaking
  25. abandon
    the trait of lacking restraint or control
  26. lewd
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  27. futile
    producing no result or effect
  28. haughty
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  29. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  30. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  31. lubricious
    characterized by lust
  32. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  33. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  34. polymath
    a person of great and varied learning
  35. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  36. lexicon
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  37. apotheosis
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  38. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  39. voracious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
  40. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  41. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  42. philology
    the humanistic study of language and literature
  43. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  44. congruent
    corresponding in character or kind
  45. prelapsarian
    of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve
    so post is the same thing but after!
  46. perdition
    the place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment
  47. lascivious
    driven by lust
  48. nascent
    being born or beginning
  49. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  50. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  51. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
    nostalgie de la boue (longing for the mud, attraction to what is degrading or crude)=ascribing higher spiritual values to people and cultures considered "lower" than oneself
  52. garrote
    an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
  53. Victorian
    relating to Great Britain's queen in the nineteenth century
  54. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Created on 十一月 12, 2013 (updated 五月 14, 2014)

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