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Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- His political future has looked iffy for most of this year.
- 2.
- It was an iffy case to win.
- 3.
- glib
- 4.
- ..the glib talk of 'past misery'...
- 5.
- That glib logic has been jettisoned, at least temporarily.
- 6.
- vetoed
- 7.
- She effectively holds a veto over policy decisions.
- 8.
- permutations
- 9.
- Variation among humans is limited to the possible permutations of our genes.
- 10.
- miffed
- 11.
- All right, why are you still miffed at me?
- 12.
- twaddling
- 13.
- pomace
- 14.
- hoodlums
- 15.
- doleful
- 16.
- geriatric
- 17.
- There is a question mark over the future of geriatric care...
- 18.
- He will complain about having to spend time with such a boring bunch of geriatrics.
- 19.
- conundrums
- 20.
- ..this theological conundrum of the existence of evil and suffering in a world created by a good God.
- 21.
- verdant
- 22.
- .a small verdant garden with a view out over Paris.
- 23.
- innocuous
- 24.
- The otherwise innocuous visit raised a storm of protest from the japanese.
- 25.
- Companies that conduct online tracking have long argued that the information they collect is anonymous, and therefore innocuous.
- 27.
- kohlrabi
- 28.
- adhering
- 29.
- rosemary
- 30.
- propel
- 31.
- Growth in the developing world will most likely remain episodic and too weak to propel the world economy.
- 32.
- That sense of crisis helped propel passage of the president's stimulus package.
- 34.
- clementine
- 35.
- vitreous
- 36.
- loach soup
- 37.
- perfunctory
- 38.
- Too long and it looks windy, too short and it looks perfunctory.
- 39.
- Investigators say preflight medical checks, a world-wide requirement, were perfunctory and possibly falsified.
- 40.
- bromance
- 41.
- stank (past tense of stink)
- 42.
- thiols
- 43.
- raunchy
- 44.
- quibbling
- 45.
- cicadas
- 46.
- preambles
- 47.
- The controversy has arisen over the text of the preamble to the unification treaty...
- 48.
- 'I would like you to return to the villa as soon as possible,' she said without preamble.
- 49.
- aphasias
- 50.
- obituary
- 51.
- pronto
- 52.
- stroboscope
- 53.
- spendthrifts
- 54.
- plenary
- 55.
- concede
- 56.
- He believes that his records speak for themselves and ignores those who diss him.
- 57.
- frazzled
- 58.
- So I expected Susan to sound frazzled, unhappy.
- 59.
- infidelity
- 60.
- While in Mexico, 70% of older respondents gave infidelity as their top reason for saying adi ó s.
- 61.
- n the age-old pattern of female infidelity, we can usually commandeer a man\'s sperm without marrying him.
- 62.
- comandeered
- 63.
- He decides to commandeer their room...
- 64.
- The hijacker commandeered the plane on a domestic flight.
- 65.
- proboscis
- 66.
- The proboscis monkey eats almost nothing but mangrove leaves.
- 67.
- wo-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
- 68.
- ecstatically
- 69.
- he maenad on the left of the idol is ladling wine into a drinking cup, while the other two maenads dance ecstatically.
- 70.
- writhed
- 71.
- He was writhing in agony...
- 72.
- undulated
- 73.
- His body slowly undulated in time to the music.
- 74.
- As we travel south, the countryside begins to undulate as the rolling hills sweep down to the riverbanks...
- 75.
- stubby
- 76.
- he overhead cleaner, core spinning for Spandex and stubby yarn spinning devices are options for customers to choose.
- 77.
- A short stubby hand argues a lack of sensibility.
- 78.
- he bird was frantically beating it stubby wings.
- 79.
- snort
- 80.
- Does everyone snot up this much when they cry?
- 81.
- shambles
- 82.
- e ship's interior was an utter shambles...
- 83.
- he economy is in a shambles.
- 84.
- ..helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
- 85.
- lint
- 86.
- wimpy
- 87.
- ...a wimpy unpopular schoolboy..
- 88.
- archaic
- 89.
- Archaic practices such as these are usually put forward by people of limited outlook.
- 90.
- hatchet
- 91.
- leptospirosis
- 92.
- precipitation
- 93.
- invoked
- 94.
- he judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
- 96.
- I am really fed up with his freeloading.
- 97.
- brawling
- 98.
- He was suspended for a year from University after brawling with police over a speeding ticket.
- 99.
- notes of pledge