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  1. indurate
    make hard or harder
  2. extirpate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  3. sphinx
    a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head
  4. soupcon
    a slight but appreciable amount
  5. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  6. emanation
    the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
  7. doughty
    possessing courage and determination
  8. malapropism
    misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
  9. lucullan
    characterized by extravagance and profusion
  10. jeremiad
    a long and mournful complaint
  11. Tartuffe
    a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety
  12. garboil
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  13. limen
    the smallest detectable sensation
  14. bete noire
    a detested person or thing
  15. shaman
    one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds
  16. logion
    a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels
  17. gossamer
    a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
  18. koan
    a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution
  19. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  20. deification
    elevation to the status of a god
  21. mesmerize
    attract strongly, as if with a magnet
  22. periphrasis
    an instance of using more words than needed
  23. niggle
    worry unnecessarily or excessively
  24. pulchritude
    physical beauty, especially of a woman
  25. sui generis
    constituting a class of its own; unique
  26. anthropophagus
    a person who eats human flesh
  27. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  28. dark horse
    a racehorse about which little is known
  29. epiphenomenon
    a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
  30. fugacious
    lasting a very short time
  31. louche
    of questionable taste or morality
  32. demoniac
    someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
  33. derring-do
    brave and heroic action
  34. placable
    easily calmed or pacified
  35. laconic
    brief and to the point
  36. ursine
    of or relating to or similar to bears
  37. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  38. apophthegm
    a short pithy instructive saying
Created on 四月 28, 2008 (updated 四月 28, 2008)

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