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  1. oligarch
    member of a small group that runs a country, business, etc.
  2. attrition
    the act of rubbing together
  3. contrition
    sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
  4. prescribed
    set down as a rule or guide
  5. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  6. privet
    any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
  7. relic
    an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
  8. adjudicate
    hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
  9. catacomb
    an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried
  10. anathema
    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  11. exasperate
    make furious
  12. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  13. calumniate
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  14. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  15. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  16. dissipated
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  17. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  18. ostensibly
    from appearances alone
  19. gilded
    made from or covered with gold
  20. specious
    plausible but false
  21. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  22. chimera
    a grotesque product of the imagination
  23. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  24. peonage
    the condition of a peon
  25. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
  26. nascent
    being born or beginning
  27. proselytize
    convert or try to convert someone to another religion
  28. tendril
    slender structure by which some plants attach to an object
  29. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  30. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  31. archetypal
    of an original pattern on which other things are modeled
  32. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  33. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  34. practicable
    capable of being done with means at hand
  35. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  36. dogma
    a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  37. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  38. jut
    extend out or project in space
  39. internment
    the act of confining someone in a prison
  40. domineering
    tending to rule in a cruel manner
  41. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  42. calcify
    become impregnated with calcium salts
  43. sclerotic
    relating to or having sclerosis; hardened
  44. comportment
    manner of behaving or conducting oneself; bearing
  45. comport
    behave in a certain manner
  46. clarion
    loud and clear
  47. shrill
    having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
  48. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  49. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  50. fascism
    a political theory advocating an authoritarian government
  51. delusion
    a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
  52. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
Created on 十月 6, 2008

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