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  1. bailiwick
    one's particular area of interest or branch of knowledge
  2. belay
    turn a rope around something in order to secure it
  3. bellwether
    someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity
  4. bight
    a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
  5. blether
    idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
  6. brogan
    a thick and heavy shoe
  7. butte
    a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region
  8. cadenza
    a solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music
  9. caitiff
    a cowardly and despicable person
  10. cast
    put or send forth
  11. contumacy
    obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination
  12. covey
    a small flock of birds
  13. culvert
    a transverse and enclosed drain under a road or railway
  14. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  15. effigy
    a representation of a person
  16. flummox
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  17. gimcrack
    tastelessly showy
  18. gravel
    rock fragments and pebbles
  19. insincere
    lacking the quality of being open and truthful
  20. irrupt
    erupt or intensify suddenly
  21. maunder
    speak in a rambling or incoherent way
  22. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  23. pleonastic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  24. prate
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  25. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  26. rebuff
    a deliberate discourteous act
  27. simulacrum
    a representation of a person
  28. specious
    plausible but false
  29. stick
    a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
  30. thenar
    the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb
  31. vermiculate
    infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
  32. exaltation
    the elevation of a person, as to the status of a god
  33. clowder
    a group of cats
  34. rubric
    category name
  35. jejune
    lacking interest or significance or impact
Created on 四月 23, 2008 (updated 五月 4, 2010)

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