7434860278 | an irish bull | an absurd statement, usually unrecognizable as such by the speaker | 0 | |
7434863398 | de rigueur | required by etiquette or current fashion | 1 | |
7434870040 | Machiavellian | cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics or in advancing one's career. | 2 | |
7434872724 | a Lothano | a man who behaves selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women. | 3 | |
7434875696 | namby-pamby | lacking energy, strength, or courage | 4 | |
7434878385 | a Tartuffe | a religious hypocrite, or a hypocritical pretender to excellence of any kind. | 5 | |
7434883711 | tilt at windmills | attack imaginary enemies or evils | 6 | |
7434887343 | Rabelaisian | displaying earthy humor; bawdy | 7 | |
7434889898 | a Frankenstein | a thing that becomes terrifying or destructive to its maker | 8 | |
7434892389 | pamphlet | a small booklet containing info about a subject | 9 | |
7434895135 | a sherlock | a person who investigates mysteries or shows great perceptiveness | 10 | |
7434899440 | a Simon Legree | any harsh, merciless master | 11 | |
7434902144 | Barmecidal | illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing | 12 | |
7434904789 | Pecksniffery | hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles | 13 | |
7434908943 | euphuism | artificial elegance of language | 14 | |
7434912427 | a Micawber | one who is poor but lives with a hopeful outlook | 15 | |
7434915245 | a panjandrum | a person who claims to have high authority or intelligence | 16 | |
7434919102 | pogrom | genocide based on race/religion | 17 | |
7435229895 | cossack | a member of a people of southern Russia and Ukraine, noted for their horsemanship and military skill. | 18 | |
7435232465 | intelligentsia | intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence. | 19 | |
7435235045 | ukase | an edict of the Russian government. an arbitrary command | 20 | |
7435237772 | steppe | large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia. | 21 | |
7435240684 | tundra | a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen. | 22 | |
7435244422 | czar | an emperor of Russia before 1917. | 23 | |
7435247710 | samovar | a highly decorated tea urn used in Russia. | 24 | |
7435251712 | dacha | a country house or cottage in Russia, typically used as a second or vacation home. | 25 | |
7435254059 | commissar | an official of the Communist Party, especially in the former Soviet Union or present-day China, responsible for political education and organization. | 26 | |
7435257614 | perestroika | (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning. | 27 | |
7435264007 | kulak | prosperous or wealthy peasant farmer in 19th century Russia | 28 | |
7435270560 | apparatchik | loyal member of an organization | 29 | |
7435274108 | tovarish | comrade | 30 | |
7435274109 | glasnost | policy of public/more open politics and freer dissemination of news and info | 31 | |
7435281731 | Soviet | an elected council in the former USSR | 32 | |
7435284480 | Kolkhoz | a collective farm in the former USSR | 33 | |
7435288239 | addendum | something that is added | 34 | |
7435288240 | erratum | an error | 35 | |
7435291683 | agendum | list of things to be done | 36 | |
7435294702 | stratum | one of many layers in a substance; levels/ classes of society | 37 |
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