chinese 32
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- The rubbish in modern landfills does not rot.
- 2.
- Expanding urban areas can not accommodate new landfills.
- 3.
- vise
- 4.
- tarp
- 5.
- Inside, 107 bodies lay atop a blue plastic tarp.
- 6.
- delineates
- 7.
- Biography must to some extent delineate characters...
- 8.
- The relationship between Church and State was delineated in a formal agreement.
- 9.
- divulges
- 10.
- Officials refuse to divulge details of the negotiations.
- 11.
- I do not want to divulge where the village is.
- 12.
- city slickers
- 13.
- flail
- 14.
- His arms were flailing in all directions...
- 15.
- He gave a choked cry, flailed his arms wildly for a moment, and then went over the edge
- 16.
- capuchin monkey
- 17.
- Capuchin monkeys use predator alarm calls to warn fellow monkeys to scatter and avoid threats.
- 18.
- uncanny
- 19.
- They have uncannily similar voices...
- 20.
- edicts
- 21.
- He issued an edict that none of his writings be destroyed.
- 22.
- No man can become a serviceable servant solely by obedience to written edicts.
- 24.
- bonfires
- 25.
- With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump...
- 26.
- They celebrated the event by holding parades, lighting bonfires and setting off fireworks.
- 27.
- pelt
- 28.
- ...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
- 29.
- Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.
- 30.
- The rain now was pelting down...
- 31.
- Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
- 32.
- cloaks
- 33.
- syrinx
- 34.
- polyglots
- 35.
- envoys
- 36.
- appalled
- 37.
- We are all, of course, appalled that such items are still on sale in the shops.
- 38.
- interpol
- 39.
- arable lands
- 40.
- women penitentiary
- 41.
- devilishly
- 42.
- I'd been devilish lucky.
- 43.
- He grinned devilishly, leaning in close.
- 44.
- Devilishly clever, wouldn't you say?
- 45.
- cannon fodder
- 46.
- The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder
- 47.
- Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
- 48.
- Its people are cannon fodder in wars with bordering states.
- 49.
- turmoils
- 50.
- ..the political turmoil in South Africa.
- 51.
- Her marriage was in turmoil...
- 52.
- Your mind is in such a turmoil you do not know what you are saying.
- 54.
- There is too great a readiness to sneer at anything the Opposition does.
- 55.
- f you go to a club and you don't look right, you're sneered at.
- 56.
- 'Hypocrite,' he sneered..
- 57.
- croaker fish
- 58.
- Frozen fish surimi, frozen yellow croaker.
- 59.
- nepotism privileges
- 60.
- boffins
- 61.
- A computer boffin is set to make £5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
- 62.
- Boffins are pondering birth control for elephants, including even vasectomies.
- 63.
- Geode dragons are closely related to stone dragons.
- 64.
- geode
- 65.
- The biggest amethyst geode in the world.
- 66.
- meander
- 67.
- ..roads that meandered round the edges of the fields.
- 68.
- A rural single railway track meanders through the valley...
- 69.
- We meandered through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and vineyards...
- 70.
- hatchling
- 71.
- epaulettes
- 72.
- alluded
- 73.
- She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles.
- 74.
- an food convey meaning, sometimes complex and multiple meanings, and allude to larger narratives?
- 75.
- agates
- 76.
- He ordered a carafe of wine.
- 77.
- carafes
- 78.
- At dinner, share a half carafe of agreeable wine with an agreeable companion.
- 79.
- The natural gradations of the horn are paired with amber, caramel, and silver shades of agate stones.
- 80.
- n the third row a jacinth, an agate and anamethyst
- 81.
- clew
- 82.
- In each course, conduct reader study through progressively clew.
- 83.
- Expert clew: salt adds iodine to be able to prevent iodine effectively to lack disease.
- 84.
- lance
- 85.
- .the clang of lances striking armour
- 86.
- t is a painful experience having the boil lanced.
- 87.
- convergence
- 88.
- the need to move towards greater economic convergence...
- 89.
- There is a convergence between capitalist firms and co-operatives in terms of business strategy.
- 90.
- finicky
- 91.
- Even the most finicky eater will find something appetizing here
- 92.
- intimidating
- 93.
- He was a huge, intimidating figure
- 94.
- fumigate
- 95.
- .fruit which has been treated with insecticide and fumigated.
- 96.
- We had to fumigate the cellar to get rid of cockroaches.
- 97.
- spat
- 98.
- ..a spat between America and Germany over interest rates and currencies.
- 99.
- An open spat erupted two days ago over an unrelated incident.
- 100.
- ousted