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a. 敲诈的, 勒索的
a. Serving or tending to extort.

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学英语单词
'rt
acquired cutis laxa
actual steam consumption
Alec Issigonis
algae fission
amerco
anchorage-prohibited area
Angstrom unit
anticipated systole
antimagnet
atmospheric diffusion of effluent from nuclear power plant
berry-shaped
bimaculated
Burchard-Liebermann test
capacity of well
chaldecott
chromatic triangle
chudders
claytoniana
conductivity connected charge-coupled device
contact slipper
costing
cowardship
dentilated
devocalizing
direction of management
East Northport
eggyolk sputhum
exosporella rhois-javanicae
factory load
feruler
flagellomers
fly to bits
Foramen cecum linguae
forenames
forward space
free piston gasifier
genus Copernicia
globulol
Goszczanów
Gracchi, the
improvizations
indicator organism
kerosene lamps
Laters.
Lei Yue Mun
Letter of Affirmation of Ship Auction
leukemogeneses
Lyrurus tetrix
macrothyatira flavida flavida
major leaguer
market investigation
marundite
methicillin sodium
monochloro methane
morote-gari
MT magnet
multiresidue code
Myriopteron
needierest
no not room enough to swing a cat in
nucleus reticularis parvocellularis
oil temperature gage
onlay graft
output/input field
outside in
pewpe
phenylpyrrole
picture phone
pocket amalgamator
poundfalde
poxiest
pressure sterilizer
productive labo(u)r in general
public address announcer
rack end pinion
Raditsa-Krylovka
repeat like a metronome
Restoration drama
Rubus multisetosus
SATAe
semi jib boring machine
sepia
shut-off member
silico-tungstic acid
sun dried food
surface contamination
TCABG
transgressing continental sea
transvestic
triggers off
twoparted
unsneezed
vertex (vortex)
vilanch
volitionists
vow of chastity
wake robin
weatherburn
wood-quest
work and materials clause
Yébenes, Sa.de