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acute

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sharp, shrewd;

Your eyesight is acute.

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adamant

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stubborn, unyielding;

completely infelxible

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address

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to speak to;

to adress a convention

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adherent

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follower, supporter, believer;

king’s adherent

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adhere

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to adhere to sth = to stick to sth

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admonish

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to scold gently, to warn;

The boys’ mother admonish them for eating the pie.

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ameliorate

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to make better or more tolerable;

The gift of several million dollars considerably ameliorated my financial condition.

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amenable to sth

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easy to control;

He seemed most amenable to my idea.; ‘Hamlet’ is the least amenable of all Shakespeare’s plays to being summarized.

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amnesty

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an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy

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categorical

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unconditional, absolute;

a categorical denial

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cajole

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He cajoled me into giving a speech.

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cadence

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rhythm

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castigate

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to criticize severely;

His mother castigated him for forgetting to pick her up at the airport.

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capricious

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unpredictable;

The weather is often said to be capricious.

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censure

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to condemn severely;

The Senate sometimes censures senators for breaking laws.

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cerebral

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brainy;

To be cerebral is to do and care about things that really smart people do and care about.

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callow

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immature;

Teens could show callow disregard for the feelings of others.

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hackneyed

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overused, stale, trite;

The creationism issue had been discussed so much as to become hackneyed.

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harbinger

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a forerunner, a signal of;

Warm weather is a harbinger of spring.

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hapless

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unlucky;

His hapless search for fun led him from one disappointment to another.

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salient

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sticking out, conspicuous, leaping;

She had few salient features including…

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catholic

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universal, embracing everything;

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disparage

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play down / belittle;

I don’t mean to disparage your achievements.

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equivocate

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to use words in a calculated effort to mislead or to be ambiguous;
He is equivocating a lot about what is going to happen

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equivocal

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purposely vague;

She gave an equivocal answer, typical of a politician.

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vociferous

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loud, noise, clamorous;

vociferous protests

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vocal

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referring to the voice;

skillful or fluent in expressing by voice

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vocalize

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to gove voice to;

to express aloud; to sing; vocalized your idea

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titillation

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pleasurable stimulation

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adulation

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excessive flattery, exaggerated admiration; thirst for adulation

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adulatory

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worshipful;

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proscription

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prohibition against something injurious;

the proscription against any religious service;

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benedictory

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involving a blessings;

such a benedictory and appropriate poetry recital

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beneficient

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showing kindness, giving help;

the beneficent powers of Nature

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benefactor

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one who does stb good, kind or charitable for another;

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benefactress

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female one who does sth good, kind or charitable for another;

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benefaction

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a donation or gift;

an exceptional benefaction

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beneficiary

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a person who gains as a result of sth;

Who will be the main beneficiary of the cuts in income tax?

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benevolent

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(especially of people in authority) kind, helpful and generous; a benevolent smile/attitude

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bona fide

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sincere, valid, in good faith;

The jeweler stated the large diamond was bona fide and valuable.

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fidelity

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faithfulness;

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infidel

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non-beliver in the “true” religion;

43
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infidelity

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unfaithfulness;

44
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dictatorial

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tending to give orders;

45
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volition

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the power to choose sth freely or to make your own decisions;
on/of one’s own volition (=자기 의사로, 자유 의지로),
They left entirely of their volition. (그들 의사로 떠난 것임)

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impartial

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fair, unbiased;

Jurors are supposed to be impartial.

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implement

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to carry out;

The government is better at creating new laws than at implementing them.

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pristine

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original, unspoiled, pure;

An antique in pristine condition

49
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prodigious

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extraordinary; enormous;

a prodigious research grant

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banal

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unoriginal, ordinary;

Mrs. Garnett’s classroom is a bastion of banality.

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bane

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poison, torment, cause of harm;

She is the bane of my existence. 암적인 존재.

52
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bastion

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stronghold, fortress, fortified place;

Mrs. Garnett’s classroom is a bastion of banality.

53
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beget

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to give birth to, to create, to lead to;

One lie begets another lie.

54
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belabor

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to go over repeatedly or to and absurd extent; 장황하게 논하다, 애쓰다

The boring speaker spent the entire period belaboring the obvious.

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beleaguer

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to surround, to besiege;

I felt beleaguered at work.

56
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belie

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to give an false impression of, to contradict;

His smile belied the grief he was feeling.

57
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belittle

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to make to seem little;

belittle efforts. belittling comments

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belligerent

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combative, quarrelsome, waging war;

A bully is belligerent.

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bemused

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confused, bewildered;

The two stood bemused in the middle of the parking lot.

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benign

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gentle, not harmful;
The lump on his leg turned out to be benign.
The threat of revolution turned out to be benign.
Her personality is benign.

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bequest

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sth left to someone in a will(유언으로 남긴 것);

The money is a bequest from him to you.

62
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bereaved

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deprived or left desolate, especially through death(죽음 등으로 홀로 남겨진, 상심한);
The widow was still bereaved.

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beset

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to harass, to surround;

The bereaved widow was beset by grief.

64
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pensive

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thoughtful and sad(우수에 젖은, 시름에 젖은);

The gloomy weather made everyone feel pensive.

65
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blasphemy

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irreverence, an insult to sth held sacred, profanity;

commit blasphemy 불경을 저지르다

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blatant

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unpleasantly or offensively noisy, glaring;
David was blatantly critical of our efforts.
불쾌할 정도로 시끄럽게 우리의 성과를 비판했다.

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blithe

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carefree, cheerful;

blithe birds, playing blithely

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bovine

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cow related, cowlike;

A fat or mooring person is bovine.

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brevity

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briefness 간결함;
brevity of the speaker’s remarks
brevity of this example

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broach (the subject of ~ to/with~)

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to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicated subject; (종종 민감한) 주제를 내놓다
No one knows how to broach the subject of how silly grandmothers look in leather with her.

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bucolic

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charmingly rural, rustic; 매혹적으로 목가적인

The bucolic scence

72
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cogent

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forceful and convincing;

  • the cogent proof
  • the doctor’s cogent statement about my strong need for the surgery.
73
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bureaucracy

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수많은 국이나 부로 구성된 전부기관, 특히 융통성이 없고 비효율적인 규정에 의해서 운영되는 것. 비능률, 형식주의로 대변되는 대규모의 행정체계

74
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burgeon

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to expand, to flourish;

The burgeoning weeds

75
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burlesque

A

a ludicrous, mocking or exaggerated imitation’

익살극

76
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circumlocution

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an indirect expression, use of wordy or evasive language(간접적이거나 장황하게 둘러대는 말);

evade questions by resorting to circumlocution

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circumscribe

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to draw a line around, to set the limits;

The Constitution clearly circumscribes the restrictions that can be placed on our personal freedoms

78
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circumspect

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cautious;

The general was so circumspect.

79
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circumvent

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to frustrate as though by surrounding 완전히 포위하는 것처럼 해서 실패하게 만들다;
circumvent the effort (노력을 무위로 만들다)

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clemency

A

mercy, mildness;
The judge displayed clemency in giving him a suspended sentence. ;
clement weather;

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