chinese 18
Vocabulary Cards: 99
- 2.
- How had he amassed his fortune?
- 4.
- Asparagus is reputed to be an aphrodisiac.
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- Printing money would worsen inflation, debauch the currency and bring a balance-of-payments crisis.
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- klutz
- 8.
- slue
- 9.
- cyme
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- Inflorescence a flat-topped cyme, axillary, few-flowered.
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- vines
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- Every square metre of soil was used, mainly for olives, vines, and almonds.
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- Vines and trees sprout from decrepit bungalows.
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- Farmers planted the vines hoping to cash in on the seemingly endless boom in australian wine.
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- ramp up cost
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- decrepit
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- volatile
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- There have been riots before and the situation is volatile...
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- decipher
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- convergence
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- inflation and stagnation
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- dead meat
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- That kid better show upor he's dead meat.
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- I had spent too many hours there and was beginning to get a bit ratty and fed up
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- brevity
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- The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time.
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- slammer
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- towing
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- Interior design illustrated
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- butler
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- stuntman
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- Truth, like an awl, bags can not hide.
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- lullaby
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- whit
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- It does not matter one whit to the customer.
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- koi fish
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- windmills
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- jail breaker
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- instinctual
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- hazard
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- A new report suggests that chewing-gum may be a health hazard...
- 45.
- Cocktail Attire
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- cockatoos
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- Australia's fauna includes wombats, cockatoos and frill-necked lizards.
- 48.
- wombats
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- iguana
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- brew up
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- There's another security scandal brewing up.
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- inkling, clue
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- clumsy
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- The rooks flew clumsily towards their nests.
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- insensitive
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- Women's and Latino organizations that say he is insensitive to civil rights.
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- ...insensitivity to the environmental consequences.
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- Carousel Activity
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- Caricature Characteristic
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- inscribes
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- bonanza
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- cloying
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- Her cheap, cloying scent enveloped him...
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- The film is too cloyingly sentimental.
- 65.
- symbiotic bonds
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- virtually
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- It would have been virtually impossible to research all the information.
- 69.
- Direct criticism of leaders is still virtually taboo in china.
- 70.
- convalescent
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- Convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed.
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- At last she was pronounced upon the mend and then convalescent.
- 73.
- tamed
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- Some of today's political demonstrations look rather tame...
- 75.
- The deer never became tame
- they would run away if you approached them.
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- Two regiments of cavalry were called out to tame the crowds.
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- regiment
- 78.
- scraggly
- 80.
- Ma and I crocheted new quilts.
- 81.
- auspicious
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- His career as a playwright had an auspicious start.
- 83.
- Auspicious numbers are often determined by what words they resemble.
- 84.
- demographics
- 85.
- Most of our listeners are in the 25-39 demographic
- 86.
- ...the changing demographics of the United States.
- 87.
- eye retina
- 88.
- chameleons
- 89.
- Brookesia chameleons may not be as vibrant as their colour-changing larger cousins, but are still skilled in the art of camoufla
- 90.
- four spot orb weaver and the crab spider.
- 91.
- rinderpest
- 92.
- contemptuous
- 93.
- When calm was contemptuous smile, is a self-confidence.
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- When a woman she could share the right to man, they trust is rewarded, not a contemptuous disregard.
- 95.
- rigor mortis
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- He asked the cramped hand that was almost as stiff as rigor mortis.
- 97.
- recondite
- 98.
- Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
- 99.
- We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.