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  1. aesculapian
    of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
  2. apotropaic
    having the power to prevent evil or bad luck
  3. augur
    predict from an omen
  4. augury
    an event indicating important things to come
  5. badinage
    frivolous banter
  6. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
    finding fault
  7. cozen
    be dishonest with
  8. cryaesthesia
    hypersensitivity to cold
  9. expatiate
    add details to clarify an idea
  10. feculent
    foul with waste matter
    from fecal
  11. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  12. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
    lacking form
  13. janissary
    elite Turkish soldier who was a member of the Sultan’s guard
  14. labile
    liable to change
  15. lagniappe
    a small gift given by a merchant to a customer
  16. lechatelierite
    colorless glass made of almost pure silica
  17. omphaloskepsis
    the practice of looking at one's belly button as an aid to meditation
  18. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
    faithless
  19. psephology
    the branch of sociology that studies election trends
  20. puissance
    power to influence or coerce
    power
  21. rubicund
    having a healthy reddish color
    reddish of complexion, as healthy from having been outdoors
  22. sempiternal
    having no known beginning and presumably no end
  23. shibboleth
    a favorite saying of a sect or political group
  24. sprachgefuhl
    an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language
  25. stochastic
    being or having a random variable
  26. supervene
    take place as an additional or unexpected development
  27. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  28. terpsichorean
    of or relating to dancing
  29. theophany
    a visible manifestation of a deity to a human person
  30. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  31. ululate
    emit long loud cries
  32. velleity
    a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort
Created on 十月 1, 2008 (updated 二月 26, 2012)

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