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2025-2-9 15:38
rive Definition: (verb) Tear or be torn violently. Synonyms: pull, rend, rip Usage: As he rose, a flash of lightning, that seemed to rive the remotest heights of heaven, illumined the darkness.
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2025-2-10 13:22
sibylline Definition: (adjective) Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, vatic Usage: It was a sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to all sorts of questions about the future.
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164樓
圆环之理
2025-2-11 15:25
rector Definition: (noun) A person authorized to conduct religious worship. Synonyms: curate, minister, parson, pastor Usage: She was the daughter of a clergyman, and it was with her father, the rector of a village in Lincolnshire, that Mr. Carey had spent his last curacy.
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165樓
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2025-2-12 13:47
wring Definition: (verb) To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress. Synonyms: wrench Usage: And the little princess began to cry capriciously like a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some affectation.
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166樓
圆环之理
2025-2-13 13:00
torrent Definition: (noun) A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring. Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation Usage: She frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches and angry words.
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167樓
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2025-2-14 13:15
specious Definition: (adjective) Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. Synonyms: gilded, meretricious Usage: "You are a specious fellow," returned Sir John, fixing his eyes upon him, "and carry two faces under your hood, as well as the best."
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168樓
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2025-2-15 16:35
voracious Definition: (adjective) Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy. Synonyms: rapacious, ravening Usage: She was a voracious reader and loved to spend her afternoons at the library.
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169樓
圆环之理
2025-2-16 17:05
mensuration Definition: (noun) The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule. Synonyms: measuring Usage: The mensuration of the faculties of the mind has, I believe, no place in the catalogue of known arts.
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170樓
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2025-2-17 14:13
pensive Definition: (adjective) Deeply or seriously thoughtful. Synonyms: contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, brooding, broody Usage: Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted; but on entering the parlor, she found those who must rouse her.
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171樓
圆环之理
2025-2-18 14:01
solace Definition: (verb) To give comfort or cheer to (a person) in time of sorrow or distress. Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe Usage: I grieved quietly and solaced myself with the knowledge that she was in a better place.
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