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  1. carnage
    the savage and excessive killing of many people
  2. grandiloquence
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  3. marsupial
    a mammal the female of which has a pouch carrying the young
  4. syncopation
    a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
  5. incommodious
    uncomfortably or inconveniently small
  6. variegated
    having an assortment of colors
  7. obscurantism
    a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
  8. ducat
    formerly a gold coin of various European countries
  9. binomial
    a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms
  10. obsolescent
    becoming disused or outdated
  11. rotund
    spherical in shape
  12. artless
    simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
  13. centrifugal
    tending to move away from the middle
  14. mountebank
    a flamboyant deceiver
  15. checksum
    a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
  16. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  17. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
Created on 五月 29, 2009

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