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  1. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  2. anathema
    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  3. anomie
    lack of moral standards in a society
  4. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  5. austerity
    excessive sternness
  6. avuncular
    being or relating to an uncle
  7. blasphemy
    profane language
  8. brinkmanship
    act of pushing a dangerous situation to the edge of disaster
  9. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  10. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  11. crepuscular
    like or relating to twilight; dim
  12. cronyism
    favoritism shown to friends and associates
  13. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  14. duplicitous
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  15. dyspeptic
    suffering from indigestion
  16. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  17. excoriate
    express strong disapproval of
  18. exegesis
    an explanation or critical interpretation
  19. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  20. hauteur
    overbearing pride with a superior manner toward inferiors
  21. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  22. immiscible
    (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
  23. incarcerate
    lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  24. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  25. insouciance
    a casual or lighthearted feeling of unconcern
  26. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  27. juggernaut
    a massive inexorable force
  28. legerdemain
    an illusory feat
  29. Manichean
    of or relating to Manichaeism
  30. misdemeanor
    a crime less serious than a felony
  31. nascent
    being born or beginning
  32. omerta
    a code of silence practiced by the Mafia
  33. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  34. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  35. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  36. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  37. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  38. protean
    taking on different forms
  39. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  40. quorum
    a gathering of the minimal number of members of a group
  41. realpolitik
    politics based on practical rather than moral considerations
  42. recognizance
    a bond requiring someone before a court to perform some act
  43. risible
    arousing or provoking laughter
  44. samizdat
    a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
  45. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  46. superannuated
    too old to be useful
  47. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  48. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  49. unambiguous
    having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning
Created on 八月 14, 2011 (updated 八月 16, 2011)

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