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  1. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  2. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  3. adulation
    exaggerated flattery or praise
  4. aground
    with the bottom lodged on land
  5. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  6. asymptotic
    relating to or of the nature of an asymptote
  7. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  8. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  9. cachet
    an indication of approved or superior status
  10. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
  11. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  12. dalliance
    the act of delaying and playing instead of working
  13. diminutive
    very small
  14. duplicitous
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  15. elemental
    of or being the essential or basic part
  16. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  17. exigent
    demanding immediate attention
  18. furtive
    secret and sly
  19. gestalt
    a whole that cannot be described as a sum of its parts
  20. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  21. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  22. indomitable
    impossible to subdue
  23. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  24. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  25. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  26. insouciant
    marked by unconcern
  27. inspirit
    infuse with spirit
  28. interstitial
    of or relating to small spaces between things
  29. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
  30. jubilant
    full of high-spirited delight
  31. kismet
    fate or fortune
  32. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  33. lucidity
    freedom from obscurity of expression; comprehensibility
  34. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  35. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  36. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  37. panoply
    a complete and impressive array
  38. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  39. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  40. precipitous
    extremely steep
  41. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  42. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  43. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  44. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  45. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  46. provincial
    associated with an administrative district of a nation
  47. quintessential
    representing the perfect example of a class or quality
  48. quixotically
    in an unrealistically hopeful manner
  49. resplendent
    having great beauty
  50. rudimentary
    being in the earliest stages of development
  51. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  52. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  53. seismograph
    an instrument for measuring movements of the ground
  54. soporific
    inducing sleep
  55. stoicism
    an indifference to pleasure or pain
  56. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  57. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  58. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  59. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  60. vitriol
    abusive or venomous language to express blame or censure
  61. wonk
    a student who is ridiculed as being boringly studious
Created on 十月 15, 2009

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