chinese 34
Vocabulary Cards: 100
- 1.
- ..the fiendish difficulty of the questions.
- 2.
- This was a fiendish act of wickedness.
- 3.
- ensnarement
- 4.
- incarcerated
- 5.
- discernment
- 6.
- ...their lack of discernment and acceptance of inferior quality
- 7.
- incorrigible
- 8.
- Gamblers are incorrigible optimists.
- 9.
- extremist
- 10.
- Will not commit incorrigible big mistake.
- 11.
- tirade
- 12.
- She launched into a tirade against the policies that ruined her business...
- 13.
- He too has met a tirade of abuse.
- 14.
- barnacles
- 15.
- Green weed and grey barnacles encrust every part under the sea.
- 16.
- As organisms grow on the debris, barrels like this one may sink and then resurface after sloughing off the heavy barnacles.
- 17.
- dissing
- 18.
- He believes that his records speak for themselves and ignores those who diss him.
- 19.
- Instead of dissing me like that?
- 20.
- He was expelled for dissing the gym teacher.
- 21.
- heresy
- 22.
- It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
- 23.
- In previous decades, repatriating powers would have been regarded as heresy.
- 24.
- Eg. it is vain to attempt to root out heresy by force.
- 25.
- vilified
- 26.
- The agency has been vilified by some doctors for being unnecessarily slow to approve life-saving drugs...
- 27.
- He was vilified, hounded, and forced into exile by the FBI.
- 28.
- Being vilified goes with the territory
- 29.
- If wealth creators are admired rather than vilified, it will surely inspire the next generation of founders.
- 30.
- moochers
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- I see, you're a tax moocher
- 32.
- trivial
- 33.
- The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that could be settled later...
- 34.
- I don't like to visit the doctor just for something trivial.
- 35.
- ingrate
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- That ingrate can't stop hounding me for five minutes.
- 37.
- avarice
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- He paid a month's rent in advance, just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice.
- 39.
- A prize beyond the dreams of avarice
- 40.
- Some men steal out of need or avarice
- others kill themselves out of despair, or murder for revenge or gain.
- 41.
- varice, embarrassment, boredom, depression, jealousy and love, for example, might epitomise the modern age.
- 42.
- redacted
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- A heavily redacted version of the report was released earlier this month.
- 44.
- expiated
- 45.
- ...an often painful process of evaluation and expiation.
- 46.
- By the atonement of christ we generally mean his work by which he expiated our sins.
- 47.
- zithers
- 48.
- No zithers, no wild chinese percussion, and the only pipa to be seen was a non-functioning prop covered in glitter.
- 49.
- shambles
- 50.
- pique
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- This phenomenon piqued Dr Morris' interest..
- 52.
- impudent
- 53.
- Some of them were impudent and insulting.
- 54.
- One sister had the impudence to wear the other's clothes.
- 55.
- nonchalant
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- Clark's mother is nonchalant about her role in her son's latest work...
- 57.
- dolmen
- 58.
- She is also standing next to a megalithic structure-a dolmen.
- 59.
- verbose
- 60.
- ..verbose politicians
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- horridly
- 62.
- filial piety
- 63.
- For many, evidently, that had more relevance than pious preachings about filial piety.
- 64.
- But for all his stress on filial piety, mencius wanted children treated "with the kindness due to youth".
- 65.
- indigenous
- 66.
- ...animals that are indigenous to Asia.
- 67.
- In panama nature and indigenous culture are abundant.
- 68.
- Indigenous people and single women and girls are prone to exploitation and abuse.
- 69.
- clouts
- 70.
- bear a grudge
- 71.
- plutocrats
- 72.
- He proclaimed his fellow-feeling with workers, and denounced plutocrats and the idle rich in terms which caused them alarm.
- 73.
- noobs
- 74.
- unscathed
- 75.
- Tony emerged unscathed apart from a severely bruised finger..
- 76.
- East Los Angeles was left relatively unscathed by the riots...
- 77.
- The tobacco industry escaped unscathed from its toughest legal challenge.
- 78.
- scorned
- 79.
- Researchers greeted the proposal with scorn...
- 80.
- He became the object of ridicule and scorn.
- 81.
- delish
- 82.
- trite
- 83.
- slackers
- 84.
- What's more, the slackers, on average, outlived the high-achievers.
- 85.
- We strivers are even more at odds with slackers.
- 86.
- discerning
- 87.
- .tailor-made holidays to suit the more discerning traveller...
- 88.
- Her childhood passion for collecting has not dimmed, but now she is more discerning.
- 89.
- brash
- 90.
- On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising.
- 91.
- He was a typical showman with a brashness bordering on arrogance.
- 92.
- 玩杂耍
- 93.
- He can perform an astonishing variety of acts, including mime and juggling.
- 94.
- So how can you juggle your relationship and your career?
- 95.
- All must juggle competing interests.
- 96.
- overcome
- 97.
- Find a way to overcome your difficulties.
- 98.
- A dizziness overcame him, blurring his vision.
- 100.
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