□恥ずかしながら知らなかったor忘れていた英語(or覚えておきたい単語など）

・gaffe:1. a clumsy social error; a fauz pas 2. a blatant mistake or misjudgement
　　　　(社交場の)失言、失態、失敗； make a gaffe 失態をしでかす　

（Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and top politicians lashed out Friday at Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara for refusing to retract a headline-grabbing gaffe saying that a top diplomat "deserved" to receive a bomb threat.(MDN, 9/13/03)）

・peremptorily < peremtory; 1. Putting an end to all debate or action 2. Not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative
　　3. Having the nature of or expressing a command ; urgent 4. Offensively self-assured; dictatorial
　　１．（命令が）有無を言わせない、断固とした　２．横柄な
・retrograde: 1.Moving or tending backward 2. Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reverted 4. Astronomy a. Of or retlating to the orbital revolution or axial rotation of a planetary or other celestial body that moves clockwise from east to west, in the direction opposite to most most celestial bodies b. Of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed ; 後退する、後戻りの
（Both Mars, the planet of energy, andMercury, the planet of communication, negotiation and contractualagreements, went retrograde last month）
・wince: To shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress; flinch （痛さ・怖さに）ひるむ、たじろぐ、縮みあがる
（You don't have to wince like that. I'll fix it so it doesn't hurt. ）

・assailant: a person who attacks another; 攻撃{加害]者, 襲撃[暴行]犯
（Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms by an unidentified assailant while shopping in Stockholm Wednesday and underwent lengthy surgery)

・ pungent: adj. Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp, acrid sensation （におい、味などが）舌や鼻を刺激する
（Dracula is not the only creature repelled by garlic -- snails and　slugs are also put off by the pungent herb. And now British scientists have produced a special garlic extract that may just be the answer to gardeners' prayers.　）

・ wane: To decrease gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree; decline （光・力・人気などが）弱くなる、衰える
（Huge at the end of the 19th century, the power of the British Empire waned over the next 100 years.）
　
・ bogus: Counterfeit or false; 偽の, いんちきの

・ rave : An extravagantly enthusiastic opinion or review; 絶賛
（his award-winning Web site gets over one million hits a month and raves from around the world;）

・ hapless: Luckless; unfortunate ; 不幸な、不遇な
（The refugees found themselves in a hapless situation. They could neither return to their own country nor stay in the country they'd fled to.）

・ in passing: While going by; incidentally;ついでに言えば
（the writer referred in passing to the "unfathomable craziness of [Japanese] TV." ）

・ junket : a party, a banquet, or an ouitng / A trip or tour, especially: a. one taken by an official at public expense. b. One taken by a person who is the guest of a business or an agency seeking favor or patronage.
（early diplomats on a junket）

・ dodgy : 1.Evasive; shifty 2.Unsound, unstable, and unreliable 3. So risky as to require very deft handling;危険な；ずるい
（Scientifically, this sort of research is pretty dodgy, but the show's claim that the information they provide is "totally useless" is disingenuous.）

・ disingenuous: Not straightforward or candid; crafty; 腹黒い、不正直な

・ hang-up : A psychological or emotional difficulty or inhibition; (心理的な)引っかかり；抵抗、コンプレックス、悩みの種
(　He's got a sexual hang-up. )

・ stand corrected : 自分が誤っていることを認める （ I stand corrected. 訂正されたとおりです )

・ porterhouse :(骨付きの）上等のビフテキ

・ clincher : a decisive factor; 決め手（ This offer of extra money was the clincher. )

・ ablution : the act of cleansing one's boday (as a part of a riligious ritual; （宗教的儀式のため体・手を）洗い清めること
（　After completing many of the prescribed rituals, the rajah begged leave to perform his ablutions.　）

・ ablate : to remove through erosion and evaporation;
（　Even the hardest rock will ablate given enough exposure to the continual turbulence of ocean waves.　）

・ abecedarian: a person who teaches or studies the alphabet;
(　The older child entering the third grade, was proud to help her younger brother, an abecedarian.　）

・absinthe: a green liqueur having a bitter anicse or licorice flavor and a high alcohol content, prepared from absinthe and other herbs. Production of absinthe is now prohibited in many coutries because of its toxicity.
（　Artists like Edgar Degas were fascinated by the legions of down-and-out absinthe addicts who congregated night after night in bars throughout Europe.）

・abreact : To release ( repressed emotioms) by acting out, in words, behavior, or the imagination, the situation causing the conflict.
( The early attempts to get him to abreact his hostility over his younger brother's theft of a bowl of soup failed, and as a result the two haven't spoken in years.)
・ ritzy:贅沢な
（Bryant, 25, is charged with raping a 19-year-old employee of the ritzy Lodge & Spa at Cordillera on June 30. He has said the two had consensual sex. -America's Yahoo news, 9/23/03)
・go cold turkey:一気に麻薬[たばこ]を断つ
・crank call:いたずら（嫌がらせ）電話 (※prankと間違い易い)
・cushy: 楽な；楽しい Making few demands; comfortable ( a cushy job)
・overhead: 一般経費 The operating expense of a business, including the costs of rents, utilities, interior decoration, and taxes, exclusive ov labor and materials（Overhead is greatly reduced if you work out of a home office.）
・agnate: Related on or descended from the father's or male side cf. enate: Related on the mother's side
・agathism:the belief that all things ultimately lead to good
・ailurophile: a cat lover: ( A confessed ailurophile, she took care of ten cats.)
・aleatory: based on chance or uncertain prospect: (Using such an aleatory process to choose a home seems to risk trouble in the future.)
・astemious:eating or drinking little, refraining from enjoyment in pleasures of any kind.(The Dalai Lama believes in an abstemious way of life.)