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2025-1-20 15:04
cockeyed Definition: (adjective) Turned or twisted toward one side. Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky Usage: He noticed that his tie was cockeyed and made sure to straighten it before meeting with the company executives.
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2025-1-21 14:52
portentous Definition: (adjective) Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty. Synonyms: overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, pontifical Usage: His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it.
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2025-1-22 13:01
sulfurous Definition: (adjective) Harsh or corrosive in tone. Synonyms: acid, blistering, caustic, vitriolic, acrid, acerbic, bitter, virulent Usage: Her sulfurous denunciation of the governor was aired on the news that evening.
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145樓
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2025-1-23 13:01
nuzzle Definition: (verb) Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position. Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle Usage: We nuzzled against each other to keep warm and quickly fell asleep.
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146樓
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2025-1-24 14:04
cipher Definition: (noun) A person of no influence. Synonyms: nobody, nonentity Usage: He was a cipher in the estimation of the public, and nobody attached any importance to what he thought or did.
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147樓
圆环之理
2025-1-25 13:00
stammer Definition: (verb) To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions. Synonyms: bumble, falter, stutter Usage: "You--you must think me crazy," stammered Anne, trying to recover her self-possession.
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148樓
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2025-1-26 13:47
hobgoblin Definition: (noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment. Synonyms: bugbear Usage: But this encompassment of her own characterization ... was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.
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149樓
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2025-1-27 13:54
sacrilege Definition: (noun) Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred. Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation Usage: I entreat you, if you be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders.
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150樓
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2025-1-28 13:12
blamable Definition: (adjective) Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious. Synonyms: blameworthy, censurable, culpable Usage: You are aware that I am no way blamable in this matter.
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151樓
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2025-1-29 13:23
lament Definition: (noun) A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody Usage: And when the Duke's wife died Chaucer wrote a lament which is called the Dethe of Blaunche the Duchess, or sometimes the Book of the Duchess.
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