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  1. amuck
    wildly; without self-control
  2. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  3. calumniate
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  4. confute
    prove to be false
  5. convoke
    call together
  6. cranny
    a small opening or crevice
  7. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  8. elaborate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
  9. estival
    of or occurring in summer
  10. hedge
    a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
  11. hermetic
    completely sealed or airtight
  12. inception
    an event that is a beginning
  13. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  14. jaw
    the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth
  15. lean against
    rest on for support
  16. meritorious
    deserving reward or praise
  17. necromancy
    conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
  18. outright
    without reservation or concealment
  19. parochial
    relating to or supported by or located in a parish
  20. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  21. profuse
    produced or growing in extreme abundance
  22. propitiate
    make peace with
  23. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  24. relishing
    the act of eating small quantities to appreciate the flavor
  25. slack
    not tense or taut
  26. solicitude
    a feeling of excessive concern
  27. suave
    having a sophisticated charm
  28. toady
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  29. torpid
    in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  30. voluptuous
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  31. revamp
    patch up or renovate; repair or restore
  32. exposition
    a collection of things for public display
  33. graciousness
    excellence of manners or social conduct
  34. cynosure
    something that provides guidance
  35. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  36. litigant
    a party to a lawsuit
  37. aerate
    fill, combine, or supply with oxygen
  38. spurious
    plausible but false
  39. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  40. casuistry
    argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle
  41. hermit
    one retired from society for religious reasons
  42. mendacity
    the tendency to be untruthful
  43. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
  44. inveigle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  45. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  46. peroration
    the concluding section of a rhetorical address
  47. mascot
    a person or animal adopted by a group as a symbolic figure
  48. manikin
    a life-size dummy used to display clothes
  49. intrusive
    tending to enter uninvited
  50. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  51. paddy
    an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
  52. shale
    a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
  53. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  54. delimit
    set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
  55. denude
    make bare or strip of a covering
  56. emendation
    a correction by emending
  57. efficacious
    giving the power to produce an intended result
  58. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  59. disquieting
    causing mental discomfort
  60. coterminous
    being of equal extent or scope or duration
  61. endogenous
    derived or originating internally
  62. exogenous
    derived or originating externally
  63. nous
    that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
  64. cusp
    the point of transition when something happens or changes
Created on 六月 2, 2011 (updated 六月 14, 2011)

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