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  1. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  2. adulterate
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  3. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  4. aver
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  5. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  6. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  7. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  8. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  9. exacerbate
    make worse
  10. grandiloquence
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  11. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  12. hedonism
    an ethical system that values the pursuit of pleasure
  13. hegemony
    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
  14. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  15. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  16. impunity
    exemption from punishment or loss
  17. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  18. infelicitous
    not appropriate in application; defective
  19. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  20. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  21. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
  22. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  23. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  24. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  25. occlude
    block passage through
  26. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  27. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  28. pine
    a coniferous tree
  29. pith
    spongelike central cylinder of the stems of flowering plants
  30. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  31. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  32. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  33. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  34. profuse
    produced or growing in extreme abundance
  35. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  36. query
    an instance of questioning
  37. querulous
    habitually complaining
  38. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  39. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  40. rescind
    cancel officially
  41. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
  42. specious
    plausible but false
  43. spurious
    plausible but false
  44. subpoena
    a writ issued to compel the attendance of a witness
  45. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  46. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  47. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  48. tenacity
    persistent determination
  49. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  50. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  51. transient
    lasting a very short time
  52. zealous
    marked by active interest and enthusiasm
  53. plummet
    drop sharply
Created on 三月 3, 2009

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