chinese 38
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- Perhaps the footprint was a hallucination.
- 2.
- perverse
- 3.
- It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend...
- 4.
- Psychotherapists often take a perverse delight in criticizing other psychotherapists...
- 5.
- She was perversely pleased to be causing trouble
- 6.
- Some saw it, perversely, as a victory.
- 7.
- decorum
- 8.
- I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
- 9.
- He was rough and excessively coarse in his manners, and utterly regardless of all decorum.
- 10.
- Some of their feuds badly breached decorum in the secretive court.
- 11.
- intoxicated
- 12.
- They seem to have become intoxicated by their success..
- 13.
- These leaders can become intoxicated with a sense of their own omnipotence.
- 14.
- omnipotence
- 15.
- ...the omnipotence of God.
- 16.
- autarky
- 17.
- onycholysis
- 18.
- paronychia
- 19.
- impertinent
- 20.
- Would it be impertinent to ask where exactly you were?...
- 21.
- amphetamine
- 22.
- decamped
- 23.
- We all decamped to the pub.
- 24.
- Today he decamped to moscow, promoting a russian edition of the book.
- 25.
- ennui
- 26.
- How can employers, especially those managing workers in multiple countries and cultures, combat the ennui?
- 27.
- This is unadulterated, indigenous anger and ennui.
- 28.
- gallivants
- 29.
- A girl's place is in the home, not gallivanting around and filling her head with nonsense.
- 30.
- sprawled
- 31.
- People are sprawled on makeshift beds in the cafeteria..
- 32.
- truces
- 33.
- Let's call a truce.
- 34.
- The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides...
- 35.
- debility
- 36.
- .exhaustion or post-viral debility.
- 37.
- frivolous
- 38.
- Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty.
- 39.
- bogus
- 40.
- ...their bogus insurance claim...
- 41.
- He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate.
- 42.
- apprehensive
- 43.
- apprehensive
- 44.
- People are still terribly apprehensive about the future.
- 45.
- I waited apprehensively for him to comment.
- 46.
- admissible
- 47.
- Convictions will rise steeply now photographic evidence is admissible.
- 48.
- So why is it no longer admissible?
- 49.
- instigating
- 50.
- Jenkinson instigated a refurbishment of the old gallery...
- 51.
- The violence over the last forty-eight hours was instigated by ex-members of the secret police.
- 52.
- skylarks
- 53.
- sordid
- 54.
- He sat with his head buried in his hands as his sordid double life was revealed...
- 55.
- dunce
- 56.
- When he changed his school to brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him.
- 57.
- pretext
- 58.
- They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force...
- 59.
- They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.
- 60.
- bidet
- 61.
- It also has a built-in bidet spray, to properly clean our bottom
- toilet paper doesn't do it.
- 62.
- The bomb scorched the side of the building.
- 63.
- The leaves are inclined to scorch in hot sunshine.
- 64.
- pallor
- 65.
- The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color...
- 66.
- My face had a greenish pallor.
- 67.
- lassitude
- 68.
- Symptoms of anaemia include general fatigue and lassitude.
- 69.
- tilth
- 70.
- splendors
- 71.
- audacious
- 72.
- .an audacious plan to win the presidency.
- 73.
- They are raking in the profits from each more audaciously violent movie.
- 74.
- malleable
- 75.
- The malleable mayor of New York was under his control...
- 76.
- She was young enough to be malleable.
- 77.
- Silver is the most malleable of all metals.
- 78.
- But one's general sense of well-being is surprisingly malleable.
- 79.
- quinquagenarian
- 80.
- cockles
- 81.
- The three deceased young men were among at least 20 chinese illegal immigrants who drowned while gathering cockles.
- 82.
- onslaughts
- 83.
- The attackers launched another vicious onslaught on their victim...
- 84.
- The onslaught of orders should keep aircraft manufacturers busy for some time.
- 85.
- erratically
- 86.
- ...the family's erratic affairs
- 87.
- barista
- 88.
- mysophobiac
- 89.
- ear muffs
- 90.
- sobriety
- 91.
- ..the values society depends upon, such as honesty, sobriety and trust.
- 92.
- giblets
- 93.
- ruching
- 94.
- kale(look like cabbage)
- 95.
- drug pedaler
- 96.
- elliptically
- 97.
- The stadium is elliptical in plan.
- 98.
- He spoke only briefly and elliptically about the mission.
- 99.
- nefariously
- 100.
- melancholy