Goreyesque (not comparable)
Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
morbid, especially in the vein of Edward Gorey

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- When the sun withdrew its last drop of sunshine on Tuesday, the ancient Stonehenge was transformed into a carnivalesque fire garden to mark the London 2012 Olympics. Lit up with fire sculpture, the megalithic monuments wer

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Bob Beamon established himself as the favourite in the 1968 long jump by winning 22 of 23 meets in the pre-Olympic season. He almost met with disaster in the qualifying round. After fouling his first two attempts, he had only one try left. His teamma

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Bob Kerrey was born in 1943, in the Midwestern state of Nebraska. He says he had an uneventful, middle class childhood far removed from the struggles over civil rights and the Vietnam War that were roiling Americans in other parts of the nation duri

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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True Dedication! 好投入啊! Mrs. Fortesque was getting more and more worried. 福特斯克太太越来越担心。 Her husband had left for a round of golf early in the morning and by mid-afternoon he still wasn't home. 因为她先生一早出去打

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ABC party
abundance of offers
Actinidia umbelloides
AEPL
afloat evaporimeter
alcohol ga(u)ge
application for petty patent
area-averaged equation
autodrive
automated data acquisition
back-water at pier
bad money
Blackmun, Harry Andrew
bow kites
branch tendril
brass scrap
broadcasting junctioning equipment
bruschettas
carbomycins
chasseurs
co-domain
common pond-skaters
computer-aided design language
constrs
corpus of civil law
decline in
detective fiction
dip coat
double covering
DP center
economic tillage
emesis gravidarum
enclosed grazing
exit time
expediate
exposure meter
finaglers
final act
fixed span
flip-flopping
grapple dredger
gun fore-end
helipads
helmifren
internal reflection spectrometry
j-type diabetes
K electron
keemuns
laymons
local leakage test
long irradiated
loom oil
macromorphology
Matatiele
mauger
mercury material
metasternal seta
methylene urea
middle cut
monkishness
monosemy
motherboards
mud eaters
Mwera
myricariin
nasi ambeng
nerdify
neutral packing
null-type instrument
parenchyme
plenck's solution
Pluck Point
poikilotopic
Polyalthia verrucipes
predication
prefrontal lobotomy
quality-adjusted life year
rake type cooling bank
reflecting absorption grating
remoulades
rescalings
resist temptation
resonant percossion-note
roof-lights
SMMT
Spina suprameatica
spun bonding
strizostedion vitreum glaucums
subadult
Syntrophobacter
teller's check
tetrahydroallopregnane
thermal-neutron reactor
three-chord bridge
togalike
total percent of ash
unbends
valence theory
watch guards
Wilmot Proviso
wish away something
wring someone's withers