chinese 37
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- ...a cushy job in the civil service...
- 2.
- Now they have become the greedy, self-serving elite who specialise in policy blunders and award themselves cushy post-retirement
- 3.
- pertinent
- 4.
- stigma
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- There is a strong argument for remaining an unmarried mother. There's no stigma attached any more..
- 6.
- sanctity
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- ..the sanctity of human life.
- 8.
- rankled
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- They paid him only £10 for it and it really rankled...
- 11.
- Any style can be parodied.
- 12.
- The first trial was a parody of justice.
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- freesias
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- mozzie buster
- 15.
- epically funny
- 17.
- ..a brief but poignant epistle.
- 18.
- These epistles even spawned a book.
- 19.
- blisters
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- The affected skin turns red and may blister...
- 21.
- The sap of this plant blisters the skin.
- 22.
- calluses
- 23.
- warts
- 24.
- pruritus
- 25.
- halitosis
- bad breath
- 26.
- quinoa(keen-wa)
- 28.
- All around women wailed their woe or screamed abuse.
- 29.
- curbing
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- nflation needs to be curbed in Russia.
- 31.
- You must curb your extravagant tastes.
- 33.
- The Ambassador Hotel is a Los Angeles landmark.
- 34.
- ..a landmark arms control treaty...
- 35.
- The baby was one of the big landmarks in our relationship.
- 36.
- phishing
- 37.
- Firefox 3 has similar phishing and malware protection.
- 38.
- Police were hired to mainly block phishing and terrorist websites.
- 39.
- humiliation
- 40.
- The result is a humiliation for the prime minister.
- 41.
- Humiliation is what happens when nations lose their empires.
- 43.
- his befuddled manner.
- 44.
- ..befuddled with drink.
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- snow blindness
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- he glare from snow can cause snow blindness, so wear sunglasses ( polarized lenses are best) to avoid this problem.
- 47.
- lesions
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- .a lesion of the spinal cord.
- 49.
- ooze
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- He saw there was a big hole in the back of the man's head, blood was still oozing from it..
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- The lava will just ooze gently out of the crater...
- 52.
- 格雷厄姆表面上看起来会像过去一样满怀信心。
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- Outwardly, Graham will ooze all his old confidence...
- 54.
- pus
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- If there is blood or pus in the stool, I recommend you consult with a physician.
- 56.
- Acute otitis media is the presence of fluid, typically pus, in the middle ear with symptoms of pain, redness of the eardrum, and
- 57.
- blisters
- 58.
- Three weeks before the wedding, she developed a black blister under her eye.
- 59.
- gaiety
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- 音乐响起来了，给市场增添了一份快乐和生机。
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- Her face had turned from gaiety to seriousness.
- 62.
- futile
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- He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow...
- 64.
- It would be futile to sustain his life when there is no chance of any improvement.
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- indubitably
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- His brilliance renders this film an indubitable classic.
- 67.
- His behaviour was indubitably ill-judged.
- 68.
- jargon
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- The manual is full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses.
- 70.
- Do not let the math jargon intimidate you.
- 71.
- impeccably
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- She had impeccable taste in clothes...
- 73.
- Her academic credentials are impeccable.
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- adulterers
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- The koran mandates flogging for unlawful sex, and a strongly held tradition ascribes to muhammad the view that adulterers should
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- gouged up
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- gamut of coloration
- 78.
- plethora
- 79.
- A plethora of new operators will be allowed to enter the market.
- 80.
- A plethora of tips are available on presenting designs and public speaking
- 81.
- aesthetic
- 82.
- Mainland chinese taste is influenced more by history and tradition than by aesthetics.
- 83.
- croaking
- 84.
- Thousands of frogs croaked in the reeds by the riverbank.
- 85.
- ..the guttural croak of the frogs.
- 86.
- She croaked something unintelligible.
- 87.
- wrought iron
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- There are wrought iron bats and gargoyles on the gates.
- 89.
- stainless steel
- 90.
- tarnished
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- His image was tarnished by the savings and loan scandal.
- 92.
- t never rusts or tarnishes...
- 93.
- buffing/polishing tool
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- cinch
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- It sounds difficult, but compared to full-time work it was a cinch.
- 96.
- Don't hold your breath or cinch the tape too tight.
- 97.
- pork rinds
- 98.
- goosebump
- 99.
- hallucinations
- 100.
- The drug induces hallucinations at high doses...