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  1. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  2. filibuster
    a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
  3. prevarication
    the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
  4. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  5. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  6. flippant
    showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  7. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  8. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  9. captivation
    the state of being intensely interested
  10. misleading
    designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  11. wuss
    a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
  12. doormat
    a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering
  13. altruistic
    showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  14. acrimonious
    marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  15. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  16. decrepitude
    a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
  17. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  18. copious
    large in number or quantity
  19. digress
    wander from a direct or straight course
  20. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
  21. suffusion
    the process of permeating something with a substance
  22. logorrhea
    pathologically excessive and often incoherent talking
  23. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  24. equivocation
    intentional vagueness or ambiguity
  25. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  26. ingratiating
    capable of winning favor
  27. kerfuffle
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
  28. quandary
    state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options
  29. extricate
    release from entanglement or difficulty
  30. extrication
    the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
  31. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
  32. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  33. hemidemisemiquaver
    a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
  34. apocope
    abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
  35. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  36. posit
    take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
  37. reprehensible
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  38. blancmange
    a sweet milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch
  39. malaise
    a feeling of mild sickness or depression
  40. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  41. largesse
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  42. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  43. ostentatiously
    in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
  44. tawdry
    tastelessly showy
  45. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  46. constituent
    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity
  47. banausic
    (formal) ordinary and not refined
  48. concupiscence
    a desire for sexual intimacy
  49. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  50. samsara
    (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
  51. discourse
    an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
Created on 三月 8, 2008

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