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大魔導士 十七級 |
voluminous Definition: (adjective) Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse). Synonyms: copious Usage: She took voluminous notes during the lecture, and her classmates begged for copies.
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sepulchral Definition: (adjective) Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. Synonyms: charnel, ghastly Usage: The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs sent a chill down my spine.
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alkali Definition: (noun) Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water. Synonyms: base Usage: He dropped a piece of litmus paper into an acid, when it changed instantly to red, and on floating it in an alkali it turned as quickly to blue.
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suppositious Definition: (adjective) Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, suppositional Usage: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly suppositious and involve much educated guessing.
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yammer Definition: (verb) To complain peevishly or whimperingly. Synonyms: grizzle, yawp, whine Usage: I refused to do my chores, electing instead to yammer and whine about the injustices of life.
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prehensile Definition: (adjective) Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy Usage: His prehensile employers were so stingy that they replaced their workers' annual bonus with a keychain worth less than a dollar.
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jeer Definition: (verb) To speak or shout derisively; mock. Synonyms: scoff, flout, gibe, barrack Usage: The crowd jeered at the speaker, and she ran offstage in tears.
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didactics Definition: (noun) The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. Synonyms: education, instruction, pedagogy, teaching Usage: After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education.
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plenitude Definition: (noun) A full supply. Synonyms: plenteousness Usage: They lived in a region blessed with a plenitude of natural resources.
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gallantry Definition: (noun) Nobility of spirit or action; courage. Synonyms: heroism, valor Usage: Never have I seen such gallantry in the face of danger than I saw today in these young women.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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risible Definition: (adjective) Arousing or provoking laughter. Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful Usage: The dramatic performance's unintentionally trite and risible dialogue drew hearty laughs from the audience.
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endocarp Definition: (noun) The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed. Synonyms: pit, stone Usage: I bit into the prune and nearly broke my tooth on the hard endocarp inside.
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miry Definition: (adjective) (Of soil) soft and watery. Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged Usage: Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
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mound Definition: (noun) A collection of objects laid on top of each other. Synonyms: cumulation, heap, pile, cumulus, agglomerate Usage: At one point upon the bosom of the Thames there rises a few feet above the water a single, disintegrating mound of masonry.
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vengeful Definition: (adjective) Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge. Synonyms: revengeful, vindictive Usage: The murderer believed he was being haunted by the vengeful ghost of his victim.
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forswear Definition: (verb) Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract Usage: "It's rank poison," said he, grasping the bottle by the neck, "and I forswear it! I've given up gambling, and I'll give up this too."
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infringement Definition: (noun) An encroachment, as of a right or privilege. Synonyms: violation Usage: Before I could prove to them that this proceeding was a gross infringement on the liberties of the British subject, I found myself lodged within the walls of a prison.
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bobbin Definition: (noun) A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound. Synonyms: spool, reel Usage: Please thread the bobbin so that I can mend your shirt.
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trounce Definition: (verb) Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. Synonyms: beat, vanquish, crush, shell Usage: Australia trounced France by sixty points to four.
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egoism Definition: (noun) Concern for your own interests and welfare. Synonyms: self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest Usage: As a man advances in life he grows more selfish; egoism develops, and relaxes all the secondary bonds of affection.
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