chinese 23
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- The earth would be a frozen ball if it were not for the radiant heat of the sun.
- 2.
- verbatim
- 3.
- quick tip
- 4.
- glow worm
- 5.
- critters
- 7.
- euthanized
- 8.
- Suffering animals with no hope for survival are humanely euthanized
- 9.
- squeamish
- 10.
- I'm terribly squeamish. I can't bear gory films...
- 11.
- gory
- 12.
- ...the gory death scenes.
- 13.
- emnity
- 14.
- subjugated
- 15.
- Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.
- 16.
- villains
- 17.
- guilty beyond forgiveness
- 18.
- gonacyte
- 19.
- swatters
- 20.
- tarnishing
- 21.
- His image was tarnished by the savings and loan scandal.
- 22.
- It never rusts or tarnishes.
- 23.
- A thick brown sludge is tarnishing its once blue waters.
- 24.
- sludges
- 25.
- Better methods of dewatering and disposing of these sludges are needed.
- 26.
- escherichia coil
- 28.
- inoculates
- 29.
- His dogs were inoculated against rabies.
- 30.
- He always inoculates me with new ideas.
- 32.
- Land ravaged by pillage and rapine.
- 33.
- Rabies is perhaps the archetypal zoonotic disease one spread between animals and humans.
- 34.
- boron
- 35.
- fore
- 36.
- aft
- 37.
- chook poo
- 38.
- brussel sprout
- 39.
- iron chelates
- 40.
- authentic
- 41.
- ..patterns for making authentic frontier-style clothing.
- 43.
- Molybdenum and vanadium are used as alloys for steel to prevent corrosion.
- 45.
- he female whiptail lizards are doing it for themselves with the unique ability to produce asexually.
- 46.
- auxin
- 47.
- Effect of boron deficiency on auxin metabolism in cucumber.
- 49.
- inebriated
- 50.
- queasy
- 51.
- The food did nothing to stifle her queasiness
- 52.
- rampage
- 53.
- Hundreds of youths rampaged through the town, shop windows were smashed and cars overturned.
- 54.
- bulbul bird
- 55.
- prelude
- 57.
- The poetry was chanted to the accompaniment of the lyre.
- 58.
- cistern
- 59.
- Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.
- 60.
- rote
- 61.
- He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning...
- 62.
- Education in asia is still too stifling, rote and high-pressured.
- 63.
- sceptically
- 64.
- Investors were sceptical at first.
- 65.
- anemone
- 66.
- Sea anemones are predatory animals.
- 67.
- We begin with a traditional floral arrangement using vibrant anemones, ranunculus and mini daffodils.
- 68.
- Others, though, believe they were cnidarians, the group that includes modern sea anemones and jellyfish.
- 69.
- wheelbarrow
- 70.
- driveway
- 71.
- The plastic rug hides a bumpy driveway.
- 72.
- thrones
- 73.
- altar
- 74.
- Altar Guild
- 76.
- foxglove leaf
- 77.
- A powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove.
- 79.
- rehabilitation
- 80.
- ..an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre.
- 81.
- doxy
- 82.
- stake out
- 83.
- Those who want to take child abuse seriously today must stake out a humane child protection practice...
- 84.
- trifles
- 85.
- As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing...
- 86.
- His uniform made him look a trifle out of place.
- 87.
- enslaves
- 88.
- monk
- 89.
- fain
- 90.
- I would fain stay at home.
- 91.
- troupe
- 92.
- wile and guile
- 94.
- porcupine
- 95.
- The best example of this is the porcupine whose spikes stand up when threatened.
- 96.
- civet cat
- 97.
- lamrice
- 98.
- wild crinum
- 99.
- mane
- 100.
- Here, an underwater view captures the billowing tentacles of a lion's mane jellyfish.