The Scarlet Letter: The Custom-House

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  1. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
    "the most prolix among the tales that make up my volume"
  2. truculency
    obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
    "she appears, by the fierceness of her beak and eye and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community"
  3. eiderdown
    down of the eider duck
    "softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow"
  4. emolument
    compensation received by virtue of holding an office
    "a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments"
  5. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
    "the whirlpool of political vicissitude"
  6. eulogium
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently
    "the case seemed to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution"
  7. dotage
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
    "It would be a sad injustice..to represent all my excellent old friends as in their dotage."
  8. coadjutor
    an assistant to a bishop
    ..."my coadjutors were not invariably old"
  9. vitiate
    make imperfect
    "neither sacrificed nor vitiated any spiritual endowment by devoting all his energies and ingenuities to subserve the delight and profit of his maw"
  10. polemical
    of or involving dispute or controversy
    "all the polemical philanthropists of the age"
  11. anthracite
    a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
    "the smouldering glow of the half-extinguished anthracite"
  12. lucubration
    laborious cogitation
    "to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public"
Created on 十月 11, 2010 (updated 十月 14, 2010)

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