kleptomaniac N. /偷窃狂;盗窃癖/person who has a compulsive desire to steal. They discovered that the wealthy
customer was a kleptomaniac when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.
knave N. /流氓;无赖;恶棍/untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel. Any politician nicknamed Tricky Dick clearly has the
reputation of a knave. knavery, N.
knit V. /编织;结合/contract into wrinkles; grow together. Whenever David worries, his brow knits in a frown. When he
broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.
knoll N. /小山包/little round hill. Robert Louis Stevenson's grave is on a knoll in Samoa; to reach the grave site, you
must climb uphill and walk a short distance along a marked path.
knotty ADJ. /复杂的，错综的;精细的/intricate; difficult; tangled. What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock
Holmes was simplicity itself.
kudos N. /名望，声誉/honor; glory; praise. The singer complacently received kudos from his entourage on his
performance.
laborious ADJ. /艰苦的，勤劳的/demanding much work or care; tedious. In putting together his dictionary of the English
language, Doctor Johnson undertook a laborious task.
labyrinth N. /迷宫/maze. Hiding from Indian Joe, Tom and Becky soon lost themselves in the labyrinth of secret
underground caves. labyrinthine, ADJ.
laceration N. /破口/torn, ragged wound. The stock car driver needed stitches to close up the lacerations he received
in the car crash.
lachrymose ADJ. /爱哭的/producing tears. His voice has a lachrymose quality more appropriate to a funeral than a
class reunion.
lackadaisical ADJ. /懒洋洋的，没上进心的/lacking purpose or zest; halfhearted; languid. Because Gatsby had his mind
more on his love life than on his finances, he did a very lackadaisical job of managing his money.
lackluster ADJ. /暗淡的，无光的;单调的/dull. We were disappointed by the lackluster performance.
laconic ADJ. /简洁的/brief and to the point. Many of the characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood are laconic types:
strong men of few words.
laggard ADJ. /缓慢的，迟缓的/slow; sluggish. The sailor had been taught not to be laggard in carrying out orders. lag, N.,V.
lament V. /悲伤，恸哭/grieve; express sorrow. Even advocates of the war lamented the loss of so many lives in combat.
lamentation, N.
lampoon V. /讽刺的/ridicule. This article lampoons the pretensions of some movie moguls. also N.
languid ADJ. /疲倦的，无精打采的/weary; sluggish; listless. Her siege of illness left her languid and pallid.
languish V. /无力的，憔悴的/lose animation; lose strength. Left at Miss Minchin's school for girls while her father went
off to war, Sarah Crewe refused to languish; instead, she hid her grief and actively befriended her less fortunate classmates.
languor N. /衰弱，萧条/lassitude; depression. His friends tried to overcome the languor into which he had fallen by
taking him to parties and to the theater.
lap V. /舔食，泼溅/take in food or drink with one's tongue; splash gently. The kitten neatly lapped up her milk. The waves
softly lapped against the pier.
larceny N. /盗窃/theft. Because of the prisoner's record, the district attorney refused to reduce the charge from grand
larceny to petty larceny.
larder N. /食品室;储藏室/pantry; place where food is kept. The first thing Bill did on returning home from school was to check what snacks his mother had in the larder.
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