chinese 45
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- I tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to contact him
- 2.
- arbiter
- 3.
- The arbiter will have the last say.
- 4.
- archway
- 5.
- We went through a stone archway into the courtyard
- 6.
- argy-bargy
- 7.
- aridness
- 8.
- How can people make a living in this arid area?
- 9.
- anvil
- 10.
- aperitif wine
- 11.
- apocryphal
- 12.
- These are apocryphal advertisements in order to racket from customers.
- 13.
- Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
- 16.
- He masqueraded as a doctor and fooled everyone.
- 17.
- vices masquerading as virtues.
- 19.
- The Appeal Court has quashed the convictions of all eleven people.
- 20.
- Graham attempted to quash rumours of growing discontent.
- 21.
- Troops were displaying an obvious reluctance to get involved in quashing demonstrations.
- 22.
- squealing
- 23.
- sequels
- 25.
- chasm
- 26.
- rigours
- 27.
- ...the rigours of childbirth.
- 28.
- The new current affairs series promises to address challenging issues with freshness and rigour.
- 31.
- competency
- 32.
- ...managerial competency.
- 33.
- pageant
- 34.
- pomp
- 35.
- ..the pomp and splendour of the English aristocracy.
- 36.
- ostentations
- 37.
- Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s...
- 38.
- On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
- 39.
- intergrative
- 40.
- conducive
- 41.
- Make your bedroom as conducive to sleep as possible...
- 42.
- parody
- 43.
- befuddling
- 44.
- ..befuddled with drink.
- 45.
- autarky
- 46.
- ennui
- 47.
- pretexts
- 48.
- They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force...
- 49.
- They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.
- 50.
- lassitude
- 51.
- Symptoms of anaemia include general fatigue and lassitude.
- 52.
- skylarks
- 53.
- pork rinds
- 54.
- wrought iron
- 55.
- mongrel dogs
- 56.
- slurp it up
- 57.
- He slurped down a cup of sweet, black coffee.
- 58.
- rapeseed
- 59.
- jargons
- 60.
- splendid
- 61.
- I found him to be splendid company during the hour of our acquaintance.
- 62.
- grandiose
- 63.
- outright
- 64.
- My driver was killed outright.
- 65.
- flabbergasted
- 66.
- Everybody was flabbergasted when I announced I was going to emigrate to Australia.
- 67.
- He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
- 68.
- provolone
- 69.
- mustard
- 70.
- Thinly paint the lamb with Dijon mustard.
- 71.
- ...a mustard coloured jumper.
- 72.
- reel
- 73.
- I shall not reveal the movie's final reel.
- 74.
- syncope
- 75.
- crop (bird/chicken)
- 76.
- corainder/cilantro
- 80.
- embarassment
- 81.
- mincing
- 85.
- wisdom teeth
- 86.
- unicuspid teeth/Tiger Fang
- 87.
- unrestricted
- 88.
- abode
- 89.
- I went round the streets and found his new abode.
- 90.
- Outsiders who wed islanders are given only three years' right of abode at first.
- 91.
- lumpy
- 92.
- When the rice isn't cooked properly it goes lumpy and gooey...
- 93.
- Many women, especially as they get older, develop lumpy veins in their legs.
- 94.
- ordained
- 95.
- Destiny has ordained that they are who they are...
- 96.
- The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.
- 97.
- shoplifter
- 98.
- paedophilia
- 99.
- depravity
- 100.
- ...the absolute depravity that can exist in war.