音标:[ik'stɒ:ʃәnәri] ;
a. 勒索的, 硬要的, 敲诈性的
a. Extortionate.

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学英语单词
-ii
A.M.E.
ALCC
aligrab
Alloa wheeling
american industry program
appresorium
Barcid
Beckman process oxygen monitor
bonnell
bounded character box
brain-derived
bromcresol
business capability
Cattaneo's sign
cervical sclerate
chrome iron stone
co-emperors
cockneyfy
collect up
corrosion protection coating
Cyperus imbricatus
cystis degenerationis
detailloss
devitrifying
dictatorship of proletariat
election-winner
electrochemical desalting
electronic voltmeter
Embadomonas sinensis
emergency cock
encryprat
equilibrium level of income
fath.
fibroexudative
gained
gallamide
Genouilly
global threshold
Haï, Oued el
heavy in section
himpne
HPIS (high pressure injection system)
hydrolysin
Iitti
imbecilic
improved mutton
Khon Kaen, Changwat
knowledge reasoning
knowledgelessness
kreager
landing station
leave loose of something
lipacidaemia
loudmouth
Mageroy(Makeroy)
major-league
Mittelbach
mixermobile
monotone data flow system
neutralizational process
normergic
odyssin
open sided milling machine
order due date limit
otherwhere
paraski
percoct
petedunnite
photogeny
police lock-up
prisoner petitions
raw-data
rescorla
retired allowance
revolving box
ripply
roblitz
ruthenium monochloride
scenioscope
scribe and strip testing
servo assembly
spotted wilt virus
squares away
subtropical black earth
T-1220
tainan county cultural center
thanet, isle of
trouble proof
turflike
unbended
vehicle storage track
verticillioides
vintenary
virtual image display
viscero-pannicular reflex
Viviana
warehousing loan
Weeks's bacillus
width of oxidized coal seam
work list horizon