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  1. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  2. inveigle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  3. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  4. dint
    force or effort
  5. beguiled
    filled with wonder and delight
  6. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  7. eugenics
    the promotion of controlled breeding in human populations
  8. entranced
    filled with wonder and delight
  9. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  10. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  11. pastiche
    a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
  12. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  13. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  14. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  15. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  16. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  17. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  18. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  19. recondite
    difficult to understand
  20. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  21. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  22. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  23. repine
    express discontent
  24. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  25. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  26. restive
    in a very tense state
  27. retinue
    the group following and attending to some important person
  28. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  29. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  30. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  31. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  32. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  33. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  34. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  35. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  36. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  37. vagary
    an unexpected and inexplicable change in something
  38. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
  39. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  40. welter
    a confused multitude of things
Created on 五月 13, 2009 (updated 五月 14, 2009)

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