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  1. besmirch
    smear so as to make dirty or stained
  2. grandiloquence
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  3. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  4. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  5. dilatory
    wasting time
  6. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  7. obviate
    do away with
  8. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  9. desuetude
    a state of inactivity or disuse
  10. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  11. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  12. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  13. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  14. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  15. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  16. spurious
    plausible but false
  17. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  18. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  19. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  20. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  21. forbearance
    a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  22. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
  23. mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
  24. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  25. catalyst
    substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction
  26. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  27. indecorous
    lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
  28. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  29. augur
    predict from an omen
  30. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  31. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
Created on 五月 3, 2011

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