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  1. harlequinade
    acting like a clown or buffoon
  2. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  3. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  4. kerfuffle
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
  5. ululate
    emit long loud cries
  6. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  7. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  8. titular
    existing in name only
  9. bivouac
    temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
  10. defenestrate
    throw through or out of a window
  11. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  12. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
Created on 四月 18, 2011

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