Friday, 10 July 2015

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. -Abu Bakr


No.
Word
type
meaning
sentence
1
glib
adjective
Speak with ease but without sincerity
I have  found that the more glib the  salesman, the worse the  product.
2
blurt
verb
Speak  quickly without thought
Please  think about your reply and don’t  just blurt out  the first  thing that  comes  in your  mind.
3
eccentric
adjective
Strange, highly unconventional, bizarre, cranky, peculiar, unusual
-Raina was well-known for her  eccentricities, often  speaking  words backward  to confuse  those round her.
-Mia loves to collect  an eccentric products and  keep it as an indelible.
4
fascination
noun
Power to fascinate  someone
She  has  always held a fascination towards  me.
5
indelible
adjective
Impossible to forget or remove
Your family name may be stay on  my  mind but let me tell you something, you’re not indelible.
6
ebullient
adjective
Full of confident, energy, and good humor
I love my prime minister as he  always in ebullient mood.
7
morbid
adjective
Strong interest in sadness or unpleasant things
His  morbid  fascination towards death terrifies me.
8
credulity
noun
Ability or willingness to believe that  something is real
The credulity of his  horror  novels amaze me.
9
equivocal
adjective
Open to more  than one interpretation, ambiguous, vague, imprecise, hazy, unclear
The results of the investigation were equivocal.
10
aboveboard
adjective
Open and honest
Mak Leha’s face was hardly  aboveboard  as she gave speech about the environmental  cleanliness.
11
apprehension
noun
-Fearful expectation. Misgiving, foreboding, unease, worry, anxiety
-understanding, grasp
-Test day can be one of  pure apprehension, as many students worry about their test score.
-The pure apprehension of the  work art.
-The  apprehension of music  encourages me to keep calm instantly.
12
autonomously
adverb
Act independently, self-governing
Many  of the factory workers are worried about being replaced by machines and computers that will work complete autonomously.
13
oust
verb
Remove, expel
I ask  dad  to oust him from his company.
14
grassroots
adjective
Important, fundamental, paramount, crucial, weighty, significant
You have to know a  grassroots factor in deciding to buy a  house. 
15
embellish
verb
-Make  something  beautiful by adding ornaments
-improve ( add untrue details)
-She wears a dress embellished with  lace and ribbons.
-He often embellishes  the tales of his travel.
16
soporific
adjective
Induces sleep
I’m tired  of listening to soporific lectures every day.
17
secluded
adjective
Placed apart  from  other people
She lives  in a secluded  beach  far from the  urban  area.
18
insolvent
adjective
Not having  enough  money to pay debts
Dad willingly helps his insolvent friend pay debts to save  his life from danger.
19
Smog
noun
-Fog mixed with smoke, cloud of dirty air
-brume, fog, mist
-The city’s smog  was once so bad that darkness was prevailed, even at noon.
-We see nothing as smog filled our surrounding.
20
Disparate
adjective
-different from each other
-distinctive
-diverse
-Make a trouble is  disparate thing that he cannot change it rather than his twin.
-Disparate  notions among adults and adolescents about when middle begins.
21
Riot
noun
-situation in which a large group of people behave in a violent way
-someone / something that is very funny, hoot, knee-slapper, laugh
-Polices always try to handle a riot that occur from unthinkable person.
- The new comedy is a riot.

22
Stance
noun
-publicly state opinion
- way of standing
-posture, station, attitude
-My mum impresses with my little brother’s stance not to deal with people’s words.
-She has maintained a neutral stance during the negotiations.
23
swatch
noun
-Small cloth as sample to choose colors and fabrics
-patch
-Customers are allowed to test the fabric swatches as long as they keep it neatly and safely.
-She looked at fabric swatches to select material for the drapes.
24
Estranged
verb
-cause someone to be no longer friendly/ close to group
-alienate
-alien
-disaffect
-disgruntle
-sour
-I have decided to estrange them from my life.
-she estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head.
25
Cop
-noun
-verb
-police officer
-steal, take, get something
-receive something undesirable
-I do support my brother my ambition to be a cop.
-He didn’t succeed to cop my attention from the lecture.
-Somebody copped my watch.
26
Loud-mouthed
adjective
Given to loud offensive talk
I cannot negotiate with a loud-mouthed person.
27
Bail
noun
-temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes sum of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court
-surety, security, assurance, indemnity
-My uncle was released on bail.
28
Bondsman
noun
-Person who agrees to pay a bond
-slave
Mr. Chia was forced to be a bondsman.
29
Entangle
Verb
-catch
-get involved
-ensnare
-interlace
-intertwine
-The young runaway gradually became entangled in a web of lies.
-In the process taking down the Christmas tree, we managed to entangle the strings of the lights into a hopeless mess of wires.
-They become entangled in a war.
30
Cartel
noun
-a group businesses that agree to fix prices, so can make more money
-combination
-syndicate
-A cartel of oil-producing nations that controls production and influences prices.
-I don’t think he will realize the influence as he get involved with Mexican drug cartels.
31
Wind up
verb
-end
-conclude
-terminate
-complete
-We can’t believe that we can escape than wind up in the hunt.
-Her speeches often wind up with last one joke and poem.
32
Demean
verb
To insult
-Everyone knows how bad can we feel as we demean others.
-At first the soccer players bantered and forth, but as soon as one of the players became demeaning calling the other’s mother a water buffalo, the ref whipped out a red card.
33
Banter
verb
-speak or act playfully
-badinage
-backchat
-People sometimes mistook our constant banter for spiteful bickering.
-He loves to banter along with anyone and somehow make people know him lots.
34
emulate
verb
-strive to be equal, by imitating
-compete successfully
-We can emulate our idol but not too much, just take good parts of them to change ourselves to be better than previous.
-To really become fluent in new language, emulate the speech patterns of people who speak the language.
35
stem
verb
-hold back
-limit the flow or growth of something
-To stem the tide of application, the prestigious Ivy requires that each applicant score at least 330mon the Revised GRE.
-Carnival Okland Management stems the amount of the audience by tightening up the security.

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