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  1. aficionado
    a serious devotee of some activity, genre, or performer
  2. arch
    a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening
  3. artful
    not straightforward or candid
  4. artless
    simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
  5. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  6. brickbat
    a fragment of brick used as a weapon
  7. cachet
    an indication of approved or superior status
  8. cipher
    a secret method of writing
  9. colloquy
    formal conversation
  10. craw
    a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
  11. delectation
    a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
  12. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  13. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  14. derogate
    cause to seem lesser or inferior
  15. disaffection
    the feeling of being alienated from other people
  16. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  17. doughty
    possessing courage and determination
  18. elide
    omit or strike out
  19. emote
    give expression to, in a stage or movie role
  20. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  21. errant
    straying from the right course or from accepted standards
  22. expostulate
    reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
  23. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  24. felicitate
    express congratulations
  25. fey
    suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
  26. font
    a bowl for baptismal water
  27. force majeure
    a natural and unavoidable catastrophe
  28. founder
    a person who establishes some institution
  29. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  30. hie
    move fast
  31. imponderable
    difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
  32. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  33. ingenue
    an artless innocent young girl
  34. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  35. interdict
    command against
  36. inviolate
    not injured physically or mentally
  37. issue
    some situation or event that is thought about
  38. keen
    intense or sharp
  39. ken
    range of what one can know or understand
  40. kite
    plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
  41. kitsch
    excessively gaudy or sentimental art
  42. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  43. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  44. limn
    make a portrait of
  45. logy
    sluggish and slow to react
  46. Lothario
    a successful womanizer
  47. malfeasance
    wrongful conduct by a public official
  48. misfeasance
    doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
  49. nonfeasance
    a failure to act when under an obligation to do so
  50. manque
    unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
  51. matriculate
    enroll as a student
  52. maw
    the mouth, jaws, or throat
  53. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  54. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  55. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  56. ombudsman
    an official who investigates public complaints or disputes
  57. ordure
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  58. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  59. parlous
    fraught with danger
  60. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  61. plangent
    loud and resounding, often in a mournful way
  62. plaudits
    enthusiastic approval
  63. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  64. potter
    a craftsperson who makes ceramic objects
  65. priapic
    resembling or being a phallus
  66. puckish
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  67. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  68. raffish
    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputability
  69. roue
    a dissolute man in fashionable society
  70. rake
    a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
  71. coloratura
    singing with florid ornamentation
  72. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  73. seamy
    morally degraded
  74. cringing
    totally submissive
  75. slew
    a large number or amount or extent
  76. sop
    dip into liquid
  77. sublimate
    change directly from a solid into a vapor without melting
  78. dauphin
    formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne
  79. traduce
    speak unfavorably about
  80. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  81. virago
    a noisy or scolding or domineering woman
  82. pox
    a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
  83. waspish
    very irritable
  84. yen
    the basic unit of money in Japan
  85. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  86. readying
    the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
  87. demonstrate
    give an exhibition of to an interested audience
  88. substantial
    real; having a material or factual existence
Created on 十一月 21, 2008

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