Adroit: skillful/ It wasn't as adroit as last week's best-ever episode, but it was a
solid follow up.
Amicable: characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly/ Contrary to other meetings you may
have experienced recently, ours will be amicable.
Averse: having a strong feeling of opposition/
He's remarkably averse
to conflict, pruning the toxic people from his life
Belligerent: of
warlike character/ Have
students discuss whether it is reasonable to disarm a former enemy belligerent.
Benevolent: characterized
by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings/ When things go swimmingly, few people seem to mind
being run by benevolent autocrats.
Cursory: going
rapidly over something, without noticing details/ And even a cursory look at his
gallery of work makes its stealth and subversiveness abundantly clear.
Duplicity: deceitfulness
in speech or conduct/ Its
pattern of duplicity extended into the instant proceeding.
Extol: to praise highly/ Occidentalists extol soul or spirit but despise
intellectuals and intellectual life.
Feasible: capable
of being done/ Labour
rates must be at financially feasible levels.
Grimace: a
facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain,
etc./ The intensity of
his concentration was clear in his grimace.
Holocaust: a
great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire./ Many people lost their lives in a holocaust.
Impervious: not
permitting penetration or passage/ Sam did not feel the punches or kicks, completely impervious
to pain.
Impetus: a moving force; impulse; stimulus/ Creating more time is the impetus
behind many new technologies that allow listeners to pick up the pace.
Jeopardy: hazard
or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury/ For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
Meticulous: taking
or showing extreme care about minute details/ A meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal
appearance.
Nostalgia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former
time in one's life/ As
you can imagine, the combined might of the property's legacy and personal nostalgia
tends to complicate matters significantly.
Quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something./ The formulation of harmonic quintessence
and a fundamental energy equivalence equation.
Retrogress: to
go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition/Fluctuations can cause cut-off date
movement to slow, stop, or even retrogress.
Scrutinize: to examine in detail with careful or critical
attention./ Consumers
are advised to closely scrutinize any lock agreement and ask their
mortgage company to explain the terms of the lock.
Tepid: moderately warm/ The reception is familiar: tepid applause from an audience
that seems resigned rather than enthusiastic.
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