Chinese Vocabulary Power (T98-40)
Vocabulary Cards: 26
- 2.
- low income
- 3.
- both parties (to a lawsuit)
- plaintiff and defendant
- 5.
- suspenders
- garters
- shoulder strap
- brace
- sling
- 6.
- disk
- 7.
- scared out of one's wits
- lit. lost soul, dropped spirit (idiom)
- driven to distraction
- 8.
- monograph
- specialized text
- 9.
- ordinary
- mediocre
- 10.
- stream of consciousness (in literature)
- 15.
- erosion
- wearing away
- ablation
- 16.
- reptile
- 17.
- to industrialize
- industrialization
- 18.
- to know the law and break it (idiom)
- consciously going against the rules
- 20.
- Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC), the First Emperor
- 22.
- county seat
- county town
- 24.
- lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom)
- fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy
- to feel beleaguered
- 25.
- streptococcus (pathogen caused by chain spherical bacteria)
- 26.
- (Claire) Chennault, commander of Flying Tigers during World War II