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  1. aberration
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  2. acuity
    sharpness of vision
  3. adjuvant
    furnishing added support
  4. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  5. apartheid
    a social policy of racial segregation
  6. apoplectic
    marked by extreme anger
  7. asymptote
    a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve
  8. avant-garde
    radically new or original
  9. behemoth
    someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  10. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
  11. caveat
    a warning against certain acts
  12. conflate
    mix together different elements
  13. conundrum
    a difficult problem
  14. crepuscular
    like or relating to twilight; dim
  15. doppelganger
    a person who is almost identical to another
  16. egalitarian
    favoring social equality
  17. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  18. eschatology
    the branch of theology that is concerned with final things
  19. ethnocentric
    centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
  20. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  21. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  22. gaffe
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  23. gentry
    people having high social status or power in a society
  24. homostylic
    (botany) having styles all of the same length
  25. hyperbolize
    to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  26. ichthyosis
    any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is dry and scaly like a fish
  27. lagniappe
    a small gift given by a merchant to a customer
  28. leitmotif
    a recurring melody in a piece of music
  29. linchpin
    a central cohesive source of support and stability
  30. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  31. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  32. palliative
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  33. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  34. panoply
    a complete and impressive array
  35. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  36. pell-mell
    in a wild or reckless manner
  37. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  38. pheromone
    a chemical that influences physiology or behavior in animals
  39. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  40. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  41. porcine
    relating to pigs or swine
  42. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  43. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  44. rapprochement
    the reestablishing of cordial relations
  45. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  46. rubric
    category name
  47. ruse
    a deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture
  48. Schadenfreude
    delight in another person's misfortune
  49. Sisyphean
    both extremely effortful and futile
  50. Socratic
    of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching
  51. swage
    a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
  52. Tertiary
    relating to the period from about 66 to 2.6 million years ago
  53. vivarium
    an indoor enclosure for keeping living animals and plants
  54. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
  55. dyscalculia
    impaired ability to learn grade-appropriate mathematics
Created on 六月 3, 2010 (updated 八月 25, 2011)

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