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- brevity
- ë¸Œë¤ ë¹„ í‹° 1, 간결함
- broach
- 브로우취 v.to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject:Henrietta was proud of her new dress, so no one knew how to broach the subject with her of how silly grandmothers look in leather.
- bucolic
- ë·° ì¹¼ ë¦ 2, ì „ì›ì ì¸
- burgeon
- 벌 ì „ 1, to expand; to flourish:The burgeoning weeds in our yard soon overwhelmed the grass.
- burlesque
- 벌 ë ˆìŠ¤í¬ 2, í•´í•™ì ì¸
- cacophony
- 커 ìº í¼ ë‹ˆ 2, 불협화ìŒ
- cadence
- ì¼€ì´ ë˜ì“° 1, 억양
- cajole
- 커 조울 2, to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do:I didn't want to give the speech, but Joel cajoled me into doing it by telling me what a good speaker I am. As it turned out, he simply hadn't been able to find anyone else.
- callow
- 캘 로우 1, adj. immature:The patient was alarmed by the callowness of the medical staff. The doctors looked too young to have graduated from high school, much less from medical school.:To be callow is to be youthfully naive, inexperienced, and unsophisticated.; A teenager might show callow disregard for the feelings of adults.; Driving fast cars and hanging out in the parking lot at the 7-Eleven are callow pursuits.
- candor
- 캔 ëœ 1, 허심탄회함
- capitalism
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ìº í¼ í„¸ 리 ì 1, ìžë³¸ì£¼ì˜(ì²´ì œ)
adj. capitalistic - capitulate
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커 피 츌 ë ˆìž 2, to surrender; to give up or give in:On the twentieth day of the strike, the workers capitulated and went back to work without a new contract.:So few students paid attention to Mr.Jones that he had to recapitulate his major points at the end of the class
Recapitulate:to summarize - capricious
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커 프리쉬 어스 2, ë³€ë•ìŠ¤ëŸ¬ìš´
caprice:Penny attempted a quadruple somersault off the ten-meter diving board as a caprice. It was a painful caprice.:A caprice[커 프리스 2] is a whim. - castigate
- ìºìŠ¤ í„° ê²Œìž 1, 혼내다
- catalyst
- ìº í„¸ 리스트 1, ì´‰ë§¤ì œ
- categorical
- ìº í„° ê³ ëŸ¬ 껄 3, 무조건ì ì¸:A categorical denial is one without exceptions--it covers every category:Crooked politicians often make categorical denials of various charges against him. Then they go to jail.: I categorically refuse eto do anything whatsoever at any time, in any place, with anyone.
- catharsis
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커 딸 씨쓰 2, 카타르시스 purification that brings emotional relief or renewal:To someone with psychological problems, talking to a psychiatrist can lead to a catharsis. A catharsis is a sometimes traumatic event after which one feels better. A catharsis is a cathartic. Some people find emotional movies cathartic--watching one often allows them to release buried emotions. Cathartic can also be a noun.:Young Teddy swallowed the contents of a bottle of shoe polish, so his mother gave him a raw egg as a cathartic to make him vomit.
cathartic:하Ëì œ(下劑)[명사] 설사를 하게 하는 약. ì‚¬ì œ(瀉劑) - catholic
- ìºëœ¨ ë¦ 1, universal; embracing everything:Da Vinci was a catholic genius who excelled at everything he did.
- caustic
- 커 스틱 1, 부ì‹ì„±ì˜ like acid; corrosive:Paint remover is a caustic substance; if you spill it on your skin, your skin will burn. The caustic detergent ate right through Henry's laundry.:The teacher's caustic criticism of Sally's term paper left her in tears.
- celibacy
- 쎌 러 버 씨 1, 금욕
- censure
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쎈 슈어 1, v. to condemn severely for doing something bad:The Senate sometimes censures senators for breaking laws or engaging in behavior unbecoming to an elected official.:Censure can be a noun.:The clumsy physician feared the censure of his fellow doctors, so he stopped treating anything more complicated than the common cold.
A Senate that made a habit of censuring senators might be said to be censorious. To be censorious is to be highly critical--to do a lot of censuring. - cerebral
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ì¨ ë¤¼ 브뤌 2, ì¨ ë¤„ 브뤌 1, adj. brainy; intellectually refined:Your cerebrum[ì¨ ë¤¼ 브뤔 2] is the biggest part of your brain. To be cerebral is to do and care about things that really smart people do and care about.
A cerebral discussion is one that is filled with big words and concerns abstruse matters that ordinary people can't understand.:Sebastian was too cerebral to be a baseball announcer; he kept talking about the existentialism of the outfield. - chagrin
- 셔허 그륀 2, 창피
- charisma
- 커 뤼즈 머 2, 카리스마
- charlatan
- 슈알 러 í„´ 1, í—ˆí’ì„ ì´(í—ˆí’ì„ â€•ì´(虛風扇―)[명사] í—ˆí’ì„ ë§ˆêµ¬ 치는 사람. í—ˆí’ì„ .)
- chasm
- ìº ì 1, a deep, gaping hole; a gorge:Mark was so stupid that his girlfriend wondered whether there wasn't a chasm where his brain should be.:The bad guys were gaining, so the hero grabbed the heroine[히 로우 ì¸ 1]and swung across the chasm on a slender vine.
- chastise
- 췌스 타ì´ì¦ˆ 2, 야단치다
- chicanery
- 쉬히 ì¼€ì´ ë„ˆ 뤼 2, trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political:Political news would be dull were it not for the chicanery of our elected officials
- chimera
- ì¹´ì´ ë¯¸ì–´ 뤄 2, an illusion; a foolish fancy:Susan's dream of becoming a movie star was just a chimera.:Could you take a picture of a chimera with a camera? No, of course not. It wouldn't show up on the film. Its apparent similarity to chimney is just a chimera.
- choleric
- ì¹¼ 러 뤽 1, 다혈질ì˜
- chronic
- í¬ë¡¸ 닉 1, constant; lasting a long time; inveterate[병, ìŠµê´€ë“±ì´ ë§Œì„±ì ì¸]:Someone who always comes in last could be called a chronic loser. Chronic is usually associated with something negative or undesirable:chronic illness, chronic failure, chronic depression. You would be much less likely to encounter a reference to chronic success or chronic happiness, unless the wrtier or speaker was being ironic. A chronic disease is one that lingers for a long time, doesn't go away, or keeps coming back.
- chronicle
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í¬ë¡¸ 너 껄 1, 연대기:a record of events in order of time:a history:Sally's diary provided her mother with a detailed chronicle of her daughter's extracurricular activities.
Chronicle can also be used as a verb.:The reporter chronicled all the events of the revolution. Chronology and chronicle are nearly synonyms:both provide a chronological list of events.Chronological means in order of time. - circuitous
- ì° í ì–´ í„°ì“° 2, 멀리ëŒì•„가는 roundabout; not following a direct path:The ~ bus route between the two cities went here, there, and everywhere, and it took an extremely long time to get anywhere.:The salesman's route was circuitous--it wound aimlessly through many small towns.:A circuitous argument is one that rambles around for quite a while before making its point. A circuitous argument is very similar to a circular argument, which is one that ends up where it begins or attempts to prove something without offering any new information.
- circumlocution
- ì° ì»´ 로우 í ì…˜ 4, 완곡한표현
- circumscribe
- ì° ì»´ 스í¬ë¡¸ìž… ì„ ì„ ê¸‹ë‹¤:to draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restric:The Constitution clearly circumscribes the restrictions that can be placed on our personal freedoms.:A barbed-wire fence and armed guards circumscribed the movement of the prisoners.
- circumspect
- ì° ì»´ 스펙트 1, ìš©ì˜ì£¼ë„í•œ
- circumvent
- ì° ì»´ 벤트 3, to frustrate as though by surrounding:Our hopes for an early end of the meeting were circumvented by the chairperson's refusal to deal with the items on the agenda.:The angry school board circumvented the students' effort to install color television sets in every classroom.
- civil
- 예ì˜ë°”른; Civil rights are rights established by law: Civil service is government service.
- clemency
- í´ë ˜ ì–¸ 씨 1, 너그러움:The governor committed an act of clemency when he released all the convicts from the state penitentiary[페 너 í… ì…” 뤼 3 êµë„소]:Mild weather is called clement[온화한] weather.
- clique
- í´ë¦¬ìžŒ 파벌:an exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest:The high school newspaper staff was a real clique; they all hung out together and wouldn't talk to anyone else. It was hard to have fun at that school if you weren't a member of the right clique. The cheerleaders were cliquish as well.
- coalesce
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코우 ì–´ ë ˆì“° 3, í•©ì³ì§€ë‹¤:When the dough coalesced into a big black blob, we began to wonder whether the cookies would be good to eat. 연합하다:The people in our neighborhood ~ed into a powerful force for change in the community.
coalition 연맹:The southern coalition in Congress is the group of representatives from southern states who often vote the same way. - coerce
- 코우 얼쓰 2, 강요하다:Darth Vader tried flattery, Darth Vader tried gifts, Darth vader even tried to coerce, but Darth Vader was never able to make Han Solo reveal the hidden rebel base.
- cogent
- 코우 ì „íŠ¸ 1, 설ë“ë ¥ìžˆëŠ”:The lawyer's argument on his client's behalf was not ~, so the jury convicted his client. The jury was persuaded by the cogency of the district attorney's argument.
- cognitive
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ì¹µ 너 íŒ 1, dealing with how we know the world around us through our senses; mental:Scientists study the cognitive apparatus of human being to pattern how computers should gather information about the world.
Cognition is knowing. - cognizant
- ì¹µ 너 ì „íŠ¸ 1, ì¸ì‹í•˜ê³ 있는:To be cognizant of your responsibilities is to know what your responsibilities are.
- coherent
- 코우 히어 런트 2, 조리있는:A coherent explanation is an explanation that makes sense; holding together:A coherent wad of cotton balls is one that holds together.
- colloquial
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컬 로우 ì¿ ìœ„ ì–¼ 2, 구어체ì˜
colloquialism:colloquial expression
colloquy:a conversation; conference - collusion
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컬 루 젼 2, secret cooperation; conspiracy 공모:The increase in oil prices was the result of collusion by the oil-producing nations.
to collude is to conspire. - commensurate
- 커 멘 ì¨ ë¥ 2, ì•Œë§žì€ with:Ryan's salary is commensurate with his abilities.비례하는:The number of touchdowns scored by the team and the number of its victories were commensurate.
- compelling
- ì»´ íŽ ë§ 2, forceful; causing to yield: A compelling argument for buying a videocassette recorder is one that makes you go out and buy a vidieocassette recorder.; The recruiter's speech was so compelling that nearly everyone in the auditorium enlisted in the army when it was over.:To compel someone to do something is to force him or her to do it.:Our consciences compelled us to turn over to the authorities the money we had found.
- compendium
- 컴 펜 디 엄 2, a summary; an abridgment: A yearbook often contains a compendium of the offenses, achievements, and future plans of the members of the senior class
- complacent
- ì»´ í”Œë ˆì´ ì¬íŠ¸ 2, ë“ì˜ì–‘ì–‘í•œ
- complement
- 캄 플러 먼트 1, 보완하다:The flower arrangement complemented the table decorations.
- complicity
- ì»´ 플리 ì¨ í‹° 2, 공모:Complicity among the students made it impossible to find out which of them had pulled the fire alarm.
- comprise
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ì»´ 프ë¼ì´ì¦ˆ 2, ..ê°€ ~ë¡œ ì´ë£¨ì–´ì§€ë‹¤:A football team comprises eleven players on offense and eleven players on defense:
We cannot say "a football team is comprised of players" - conciliatory
- 컨 ì”° 리 ì–´ í† ì–´ 뤼 2, adj.making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill:To be conciliatory is to kiss and make up:Come on--be conciliatory!:The formerly warring countries were conciliatory at the treaty conference. After dinner at the all-you-can-eat pancake house, the divorced couple began to feel conciliatory, so they flew to Las Vegas and were remarried.
- concord
- 칸 컬드 1, harmony; agreement:Nations that live in concord are nations that live together in peace:The war between the neighboring tribes ended thirty years of concord:The faculty meeting was marked by concord; no one yelled at anyone else:Discord is the opposite of concord.
- concurrent
- 컨 커 뤈트 2, happening at the same time; parallel:High prices, falling demand, and poor weather were three concurrent trends that made life especially difficult for corn farmers last month.
- concur
- 컨 컬 2, ë™ì˜í•˜ë‹¤ agree:The assistant wanted to keep his job, so he always concurred with his boss.
- condescend
- 칸 ë” ìŽˆë“œ 1, to stoop to someone else's level, usually in an offensive way; to patronize:I was surprised that the president of the company had condescended to talk with me, a mere temporary employee.:Many grown-ups make the mistake of condescending to young children, who usually prefer to be treated as equals, or at least as rational beings.