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Zadie Smith - "On Beauty"

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  1. banter
    light teasing repartee
  2. bantering
    cleverly amusing in tone
  3. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  4. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  5. frowzled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
  6. frazzle
    exhaust physically or emotionally
  7. hovel
    small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  8. abrasive
    causing irritation or erosion by friction
  9. garnet
    any of a group of hard glassy minerals used as gemstones
  10. mottle
    mark with spots or blotches of different color
  11. scurrilous
    expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
  12. dapple
    a small contrasting part of something
  13. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  14. pucker
    gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  15. sinew
    a band of tissue connecting a muscle to its bony attachment
  16. carcinogen
    any substance that produces cancer
  17. gauge
    an instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity
Created on 二月 16, 2009

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