chinese 10
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- Grumbles and sighs of frustration turned to gasps.
- 2.
- She gasped for air and drew in a lungful of water
- 3.
- midst
- 4.
- But, in their midst, there is one truly strange character.
- 5.
- homicide
- 6.
- The police arrived at the scene of the homicide.
- 7.
- obscene
- 8.
- I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene
- 9.
- boggy
- 10.
- What causes fever, boggy lungs and blurry vision?
- 11.
- discrete
- 12.
- conviction
- 13.
- Nor did his denial carry conviction.
- 14.
- He will appeal against his conviction...
- 16.
- filthy
- 17.
- infirm
- 18.
- infirm, feeble, and often senile.
- 19.
- senile
- 20.
- acupuncture
- 21.
- lucrative business
- 22.
- iridescent
- 23.
- Male peacocks display their iridescent feathers for prospective female mates.
- 24.
- plagioclase
- 25.
- fraught with
- 26.
- The business of market punditry is fraught with potholes.
- 27.
- punditry
- 29.
- .the overwhelming appeal of television bloopers.
- 30.
- overwhelming
- 31.
- The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps...
- 32.
- She felt an overwhelming desire to have another child.
- 33.
- muffin
- 35.
- He stabbed at the omelette with his fork.
- 36.
- denounced
- 37.
- defection
- 38.
- multifarious
- 39.
- musk
- 40.
- cardamom
- 41.
- narwhal
- 43.
- Without a mucous or watery discharge.
- 44.
- nausea
- 45.
- I was overcome with a feeling of nausea.
- 46.
- Its symptoms can range surprisingly from increased heart rate to sweating and from nausea to shortness of breath.
- 47.
- nevertheless
- 48.
- niche
- 49.
- nippy
- 50.
- This nippy new car has fold down rear seats...
- 51.
- novice
- 52.
- nurtured
- 53.
- obdurate
- 54.
- obedience
- 55.
- oblique
- 56.
- It was an oblique reference to his mother...
- 57.
- This muscle runs obliquely downwards inside the abdominal cavity
- 58.
- obliterated
- 59.
- obscured
- 60.
- The contracts are written in obscure language.
- 61.
- obsolete
- 62.
- obstreperous
- 63.
- You know I have no intention of being awkward and obstreperous
- 64.
- obtuse
- 65.
- occult
- 66.
- scavenging
- 67.
- Children scavenge through garbage...
- 68.
- The foxes come and scavenge the bones..
- 69.
- odium
- 70.
- oddity
- 71.
- oesophagus
- 72.
- off-peak
- 73.
- ogre
- 74.
- omen
- 75.
- Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster...
- 76.
- Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster...
- 77.
- omniscience
- 78.
- onlookers
- 79.
- onslaught
- 80.
- The attackers launched another vicious onslaught on their victim...
- 81.
- oppression
- 82.
- opulence
- 83.
- ordure
- 84.
- orifice
- 85.
- After a massive heart attack, he was strapped to a bed, with tubes in every orifice.
- 87.
- Junior research assistant, dept of orthopaedics& traumatology.
- 88.
- orthodox
- 89.
- ostensibly
- 90.
- outbreaks
- 91.
- outlook
- 92.
- The illness had a profound effect on his outlook...
- 93.
- outnumbered
- 94.
- outspreading
- 95.
- outspoken
- 96.
- overclouded
- 97.
- His face was overclouded with sadness.
- 98.
- overreaction
- 99.
- overcrowded
- 100.
- overbidding