Mind Plasticity # 2

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  1. amanuensis
    someone skilled in the transcription of speech
  2. farrier
    a person who shoes horses
  3. internist
    a specialist in internal medicine
  4. lapidary
    relating to precious stones or the art of working with them
  5. grandee
    a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal
  6. renegade
    someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
  7. thrall
    the state of being under the control of another person
  8. malingerer
    someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity
  9. pettifogger
    someone who argues over unimportant details
  10. shamus
    someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
  11. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  12. nabob
    a governor in India during the Mogul empire
  13. myrmidon
    a follower who carries out orders without question
  14. thespian
    a theatrical performer
  15. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  16. arriviste
    an ambitious social climber or status seeker
  17. votary
    a priest or priestess in a non-Christian religion or cult
  18. surrogate
    someone or something that takes the place of another
  19. wayfarer
    a pedestrian who walks from place to place
  20. reactionary
    extremely conservative or resistant to change
  21. waif
    a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
  22. fob
    short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
  23. calliope
    a musical instrument with steam whistles played from a keyboard
  24. flotilla
    a fleet of small craft
  25. cyclopean
    of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops
  26. Gorgon
    (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone
  27. victual
    any substance that can be used as food
  28. incubus
    an evil spirit thought to visit people while they sleep
  29. recreant
    having deserted a cause or principle
  30. squib
    firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
  31. portmanteau
    a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
  32. abbess
    the superior of a group of nuns
  33. poltroon
    an abject coward
  34. cabochon
    a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets
  35. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
Created on 十二月 28, 2008

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