Crime and Punishment By: Fydor Dostoevsky

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A few words from the book Crime and Punishment that I didn't know or heard before but wasn't quite sure about the actual meanings of them.
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  1. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  2. futility
    uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
  3. salve
    a preparation applied externally as a soothing remedy
  4. exemplary
    worthy of imitation
  5. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  6. equate
    consider or describe as similar or analogous
  7. resonant
    characterized by a loud deep sound
  8. charismatic
    possessing an extraordinary ability to attract
  9. stipend
    a sum of money allotted on a regular basis
  10. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  11. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
  12. calisthenics
    light exercises designed to promote general fitness
  13. cataclysm
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  14. lethargy
    inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
  15. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
  16. descend
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  17. procure
    get by special effort
  18. advocacy
    active support of an idea or cause
  19. conenose
    large bloodsucking bug
  20. ethical
    conforming to accepted standards of social behavior
  21. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  22. entrepreneur
    someone who organizes a business venture
  23. implementation
    the act of providing a means for accomplishing something
  24. clause
    a separate section of a legal document
  25. allegorical
    characteristic of or containing a symbolic meaning or moral
  26. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
  27. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  28. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  29. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  30. farfetched
    highly imaginative but unlikely
  31. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  32. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
  33. tenacity
    persistent determination
  34. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  35. symmetrical
    exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents
  36. inquisition
    a severe interrogation
  37. conundrum
    a difficult problem
  38. perplex
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  39. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  40. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  41. utter
    without qualification
  42. distinctive
    of a feature that helps to identify a person or thing
  43. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  44. absenteeism
    habitual failure to be present from work
  45. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
Created on 十月 2, 2011 (updated 十二月 3, 2014)

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