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  1. debouch
    march out (as from a defile) into open ground
  2. rampart
    an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  3. quiddity
    the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is
  4. cachinnation
    loud convulsive laughter
  5. vernal
    suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  6. vulpine
    resembling or characteristic of a fox
  7. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  8. vermilion
    of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
  9. toff
    informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person
  10. remonstrance
    the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
  11. tumbril
    a farm dumpcart for carrying dung
  12. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  13. seneschal
    the servant in charge of all the staff at a large house
  14. pederasty
    sexual relations between a man and a boy
  15. panjandrum
    an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
  16. redoubt
    a refuge or stronghold
  17. suborn
    incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
  18. sirocco
    a hot, dry wind from North Africa that blows into southern Europe
  19. waif
    a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
  20. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  21. vortex
    a powerful circular current of water
  22. snooker
    leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
  23. sacristan
    an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
  24. sodden
    wet through and through; thoroughly wet
  25. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  26. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  27. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  28. lubricious
    characterized by lust
  29. debauchee
    a dissolute person
  30. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  31. caliph
    the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state
  32. jeremiad
    a long and mournful complaint
  33. quay
    wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
  34. yeomanry
    class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
  35. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
  36. orthography
    representing the sounds of a language by written symbols
  37. propitiation
    the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
  38. subaltern
    British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
  39. hagiography
    a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person
  40. fakir
    a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk regarded as a holy man
  41. epistemology
    the philosophical theory of knowledge
  42. piebald
    having sections or patches colored differently and brightly
  43. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  44. voluptuary
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  45. valediction
    a farewell oration
  46. vertiginous
    having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
  47. demarche
    a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs
  48. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  49. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  50. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  51. philippic
    a speech of violent denunciation
  52. suzerain
    a state exercising dominion over a dependent state
  53. tautology
    useless repetition
  54. thrall
    the state of being under the control of another person
  55. catafalque
    a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral
  56. bacchanal
    a wild gathering
  57. rubric
    category name
  58. scabrous
    rough to the touch, as if covered with scales or projections
  59. solecism
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  60. scurrility
    foul-mouthed or abusive language
  61. conjure
    summon into action or bring into existence
  62. apery
    the act of mimicking; imitative behavior
  63. mimicry
    imitative behavior
  64. soutane
    a long cassock with buttons down the front
  65. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  66. fungible
    freely exchangeable for something of like nature
  67. foil
    hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
  68. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  69. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  70. pendant
    an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry
  71. fiduciary
    relating to or of the nature of a legal trust
Created on 二月 26, 2009 (updated 十月 20, 2009)

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