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  1. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  2. de rigueur
    required by etiquette, custom, or fashion
  3. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  4. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  5. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  6. cantankerous
    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  7. outre
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  8. fractiousness
    the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
  9. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  10. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  11. eviscerate
    remove the entrails of
  12. sub-rosa
    designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
  13. posit
    take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
  14. maligned
  15. edifice
    a structure that has a roof and walls
  16. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  17. irreconcilable
    impossible to bring into accord
  18. August
    the month following July and preceding September
  19. mise en scene
    an arrangement that shows where a play or film takes place
  20. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  21. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  22. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  23. mensch
    a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
  24. codify
    organize into a system, such as a body of law
  25. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  26. consternation
    sudden shock or dismay that causes confusion
  27. flinty
    containing flint
  28. pervade
    spread or diffuse through
  29. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  30. futile
    producing no result or effect
  31. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  32. caucus
    meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
  33. ensue
    take place or happen afterward or as a result
  34. festoon
    a decorative representation of a string of flowers
  35. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  36. adjudicate
    hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
  37. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  38. inculcation
    teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction
  39. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
  40. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  41. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  42. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  43. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  44. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  45. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  46. rubric
    category name
  47. moxie
    courage, confidence, and determination
  48. exculpatory
    clearing of guilt or blame
  49. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  50. katharsis
    (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
  51. repudiated
  52. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  53. adoration
    the act of admiring strongly
  54. parse
    analyze the sentence structure of
  55. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  56. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  57. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  58. mother lode
    the main vein of ore in a deposit
  59. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  60. obstinately
    in a stubborn unregenerate manner
  61. obstinately
    in a stubborn unregenerate manner
  62. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  63. alchemy
    a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
  64. Diaspora
    the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel
  65. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  66. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  67. admonition
    a firm rebuke
  68. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  69. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  70. verdant
    characterized by abundance of vegetation and green foliage
  71. virulent
    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  72. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  73. capitulation
    the act of surrendering, usually under agreed conditions
  74. aghast
    struck with fear, dread, or consternation
  75. addled
    confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  76. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  77. confutation
    evidence that refutes something
  78. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  79. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  80. consternation
    sudden shock or dismay that causes confusion
Created on 十一月 28, 2008 (updated 六月 11, 2010)

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