atrabilarian (comparative more atrabilarian, superlative most atrabilarian)
Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.

Victoria: what do you think of studying abroad? Ian: I think it's a great idea. Studying abroad will offer you plenty of new opportunities. Are you planning on going abroad? V: yes, I hope so. I am studying for my IELTS right now. I: which country do

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auricular, adj 耳(状)的;听觉的 【例】an auricular tube [医]听诊器 【源】源自拉丁语 auricula耳 【区】particular(adj 特殊的),一起记。你们不觉得耳朵是最特殊的器官吗? 【参】aural(adj 听觉的

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This is the second in our three-part Business English Podcast lesson on a useful telephone and sales skill: cold calling. You can always make yourself more persuasive by asking well-considered questions and really listening to the answers. This princ

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In BEP 34, we talked about clarifying what was said , for example, What did you just say? I didnt catch that. In todays Business English Pod lesson, well look at clarifying what was meant, for example, What do you mean by that? or What Im trying to s

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This is the first in a two-part Business English Podcast series on clarifying. To clarify means to make clear. Today well look at phrases and skills for clarifying what was said. For example, I didnt quite catch that. Could you say that again? This i

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David Gollust Secretary of State Colin Powell says Tuesday he has no reason to doubt the ability of the Saudi government to maintain stability and continue oil exports, despite the weekend terrorist a

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Asking for Elaboration Could you elaborate (on that)? Could you tell me a little more about it? Could you give (me) some details? Could you fill me in on that? Could you expound on that? What else can you tell us (about that)? Is there anything else

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THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank an extraordinary group of American citizens who have served our country as members of my Cabinet. Everybody around this table here could have taken the easy road and stayed home and worried about their own comforts, bu

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The US Border Patrol is encountering more problems with drug dealers from Mexico. A few weeks ago, a dealer ran over a border patrol agent. The agent, standing in the middle of a two-lane road, had motioned the dealers vehicle to stop. Instead, the d

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 26 January 2006 Palestinian supporters of Islamic Hamas wave flags and hold weapons during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Khan Younis The Palestinian cabine

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PARIS, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Jamaican sprinter Lerone Clarke clocked the fastest 60-meter time this season on Tuesday at the Lievin indoor meet in France. The Commonwealth Games champion, 30, timed 6.5 seconds to win the match, and finished clear of Fr

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2-desoxyribose
accident cause factor
all-wheel drive vehicles
annexive
aphyllous plant
aristarainite
auto-harvester thresher
ballast compartment
banoffi pie
Beulaville
Biddlesdon
big agile
Brayton
bulb tubulating machine
canal of Reissner
capitellate
CAV system
centre opening
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comprehensive export schedule
contractionary
Cranborne Chase
dabbling duck
daypacks
depressurization transient
dielectric ellipsoid
do a job on sb.
Emām
Entera-strept
Erfenis Dam
erythema craquele'
factor-price differentials
family Ibidiidae
feltless wet machine
fibrae pontocerebellares
first point of carpricorn
flood the market with paper money
foundation breeder
freshly set mortar
friction-grip
green pike
griple
hackneymen
holw
hule
idio-agglutinin
indirect configuration
inheritance tax paid in kind
internal-force
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jinni
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Lebesque norm
loipe
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PC card
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plumed hydroid
pressure of speech
psicoliras
Queef Nugget
ray equation
reductio ad absurdums
relapses
remote access(RAX)
remote indication
row sb. out
rumblegarie
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Scott R.
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tapability
tehband
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tool car
try his hand at
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vasodilator center
video playback
volatile crystal
was at pains
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