chinese 15
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy...
- 2.
- bragging
- 3.
- He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer..
- 4.
- prowess
- 5.
- unrealistic
- 6.
- It would be unrealistic to expect such a process ever to be completed.
- 8.
- Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
- 9.
- No one knows until the end of the game whose hidden card is the winner.
- 10.
- scorned
- 11.
- imprecise vernacular
- 12.
- flattering
- 13.
- .a refreshing new look that's flattering to skins of all ages..
- 14.
- conceive
- 15.
- He was immensely ambitious but unable to conceive of winning power for himself.
- 16.
- The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water...
- 17.
- She had conceived the idea of a series of novels...
- 18.
- About one in six couples has difficulty conceiving...
- 20.
- He has carried out a partial cabinet reshuffle.
- 21.
- versatility
- 22.
- acquaintances
- 23.
- unemployment
- 24.
- ripple effect
- 25.
- imminent
- 26.
- There appeared no imminent danger...
- 27.
- At phase 5 a pandemic is considered imminent.
- 28.
- pandemic
- 29.
- propositions
- 30.
- device
- 31.
- plaintiff
- 33.
- ...the faculty of abstract reasoning.
- 34.
- deemed
- 35.
- gauze
- 36.
- Strain the juice through a piece of gauze or a sieve.
- 37.
- spectators
- 38.
- bewildered
- 39.
- Some shoppers looked bewildered by the sheer variety of goods on offer.
- 40.
- autobiography
- 41.
- insisted
- 42.
- opportunism
- 43.
- This opportunism melds with determination to produce a powerful cocktail of self-belief.
- 44.
- meld
- 45.
- Emotional transference is an effect of the mind meld.
- 46.
- chalks it up
- 47.
- propagandas
- 48.
- rivals
- 49.
- eliminated
- 50.
- If you think you may be allergic to a food or drink, eliminate it from your diet.
- 51.
- right-wingers
- 52.
- reactionaries
- 53.
- The debt has been moved around but not eliminated.
- 54.
- discrimination
- 55.
- .colour discrimination.
- 56.
- They cooked without skill and ate without discrimination.
- 57.
- ..discrimination against immigrants.
- 58.
- threatens
- 59.
- full-scale war...
- 60.
- going back and forth
- 61.
- So rather than clicking and going back and forth between each ad, you can get a nice scan of all the options with a quick swipe
- 62.
- sedulous
- 63.
- She is as gifted as sedulous.
- 64.
- She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather
- 65.
- humdrum
- 66.
- The new government seemed rather humdrum.
- 67.
- abortions
- 68.
- Americans disagree bitterly about abortion.
- 69.
- weird
- 71.
- Miners hewed chunks of rock veined with cinnabar, the main commercial source of mercury.
- 73.
- quarantine
- 74.
- Silk is a fibrous protein, produced in glands within the spider or silkworm and some insects.
- 75.
- chrysalis
- 76.
- ...a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.
- 77.
- flax acerbity technology
- 78.
- vascular endothelial growth factor-vegf
- 80.
- .a few drops of vanilla essence.
- 81.
- Time is of the essence...
- 82.
- Speed was of the essence in a project of this type.
- 83.
- redress imbalances.
- 84.
- marshal
- 86.
- This butterfly is named after the green mineral malachite and you can see why.
- 87.
- bottom plinth
- 88.
- geochemist
- 89.
- vultures,buzzards
- 90.
- With no buyer in sight for the company as a whole, the vultures started to circle.
- 91.
- I glimpsed, between the hills, sea and white surf curling on golden sand
- vultures and buzzards floated overhead.
- 92.
- sallowness
- 93.
- realgar
- 94.
- apoptosis
- 96.
- sniffed
- 97.
- The salary was not to be sniffed at either..
- 98.
- He felt light-headed, as if he'd sniffed glue.
- 99.
- worsening
- 100.
- deficit