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  1. Evangelist
    (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
  2. algorism
    the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration
  3. boulder
    a large smooth mass of rock detached from a place of origin
    He swung
    down a narrow trail among the boulders, to a path running through a green slope,
    to the road below.
  4. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
    It had stout wooden buttresses supporting nothing.
  5. clairvoyant
    someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
  6. coercion
    using force to cause something to occur
  7. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  8. dormer
    a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof
    Behind the lawns stood
    wooden piles tortured out of all shape: twisted into gables, turrets, dormers;
    bulging with porches; crushed under huge, sloping roofs.
  9. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  10. expurgate
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  11. extravagant
    recklessly wasteful
  12. gaunt
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
    It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and
    steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a
    saint.
  13. hypocrisy
    pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have
  14. implore
    beg or request earnestly and urgently
    His
    face was like a law of nature--a thing one could not question, alter or
    implore.
  15. knoll
    a small natural mound
    Roark swung into a side street, where at the end of a long row, on a knoll over
    a green ravine, stood the house of Mrs. Keating.
  16. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  17. precarious
    not secure; beset with difficulties
  18. predicament
    an unpleasant or difficult situation
  19. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  20. presumption
    a premise that is taken for granted
  21. presumptuous
    going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous
  22. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  23. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  24. protract
    lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
  25. ravine
    a deep narrow steep-sided valley
    Roark swung into a side street, where at the end of a long row, on a knoll over
    a green ravine, stood the house of Mrs. Keating.
  26. skimp
    work hastily or carelessly
    When I think of how I skimped and slaved to put my boy
    through school.
  27. spine
    the series of vertebrae forming the backbone
    He felt the wind behind him,
    in the hollow of his spine.
  28. squanderer
    a recklessly extravagant consumer
  29. stout
    having rugged physical strength
    It had stout wooden buttresses supporting nothing.
  30. stranded
    cut off or left behind
  31. stupendous
    so great in size, force, or extent as to elicit awe
  32. tactual
    of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch
  33. tangible
    perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch
  34. tenacity
    persistent determination
  35. whim
    an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
    It was not as if
    the draftsman had sat over them, pondering laboriously, piecing together doors,
    windows and columns, as his whim dictated and as the books prescribed.
  36. will
    the capability of conscious choice and decision
  37. nefarious
    extremely wicked
Created on 六月 12, 2011 (updated 七月 11, 2011)

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