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  1. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
    Last week, President Barack Obama sent Americans running to the dictionary when he called Democrats opposing his compromise on tax cuts "sanctimonious."
  2. lexicographer
    a compiler or writer of a dictionary
    But whatever you think of the tax cuts, it's refreshing—and not just refreshing for lexicographers—when a president talks policy and gives a vocabulary lesson at the same time.
  3. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
    At a San Francisco campaign rally in 2008, Mr. Obama had said of small-town Pennsylvanians who'd been waiting for years for their local economy to recover,nn "So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
  4. conundrum
    a difficult problem
    According to Merriam-Webster, the top 10 words looked up in its online dictionary are pretentious, ubiquitous, love, cynical, apathetic, conundrum, albeit, ambiguous, integrity, and the affect/effect pair.
  5. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
    According to Merriam-Webster, the top 10 words looked up in its online dictionary are pretentious, ubiquitous, love, cynical, apathetic, conundrum, albeit, ambiguous, integrity, and the affect/effect pair.
  6. scurrying
    moving with great haste
    That's a lot better than sending them scurrying ('moving hastily or rapidly') to fallout shelters ('something which affords a refuge from ... nuclear fall-out') or high-tailing it ('moving at full speed or rapidly') for the Canadian border.
  7. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
    According to Merriam-Webster, the top 10 words looked up in its online dictionary are pretentious, ubiquitous, love, cynical, apathetic, conundrum, albeit, ambiguous, integrity, and the affect/effect pair.
  8. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
    According to Merriam-Webster, the top 10 words looked up in its online dictionary are pretentious, ubiquitous, love, cynical, apathetic, conundrum, albeit, ambiguous, integrity, and the affect/effect pair.
  9. coinage
    metal money collectively
Created on 十二月 16, 2010 (updated 十二月 16, 2010)

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