Beyond Term 1 Flashcards
alloy
To commingle or to debase by mixing of something inferior (ผสมเจือปน)
appropriate
To take for one’s own use or to confiscate (ยึดครอง)
August
Majestic or venerable
broach
To bring up or to announce or to begin to talk about (เจาะ เริ่มเรื่อง)
brook
To tolerate; to endure; to countenance
cardinal
Major as in cardinal sin (สำคัญ)
chauvinist
Blindly devoted patriot (พวกคลั่งชาติ)
consequential
Pompous or self important (primarily definition or logically following; important)
Die
A tool used for shaping, as an tool and die shop (แม่พิมพ์สำหรับตอด)
essay
To test or try or to attempt or experiment (ทดลอง ทดสอบ)
Exact
To demand; to call for or require or to take (ต้องการ บีบบังคับ)
Fell
Inhumanly cruel
Flag
To snack on droop; or to become spiritless or to decline
Flip
Sarcastic, impertinent as an a flippant or a flip remark
Ford
To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream (ลุยข้าม)
grouse
To complain or grumble (บ่น)
Guy
A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a praise or guide; to study or enforce using a guy
Intimate
To imply, suggest or insinuate (เหน็บแนม)
List
To tilt or lean to one side
Lumber
To move heavily and clumsily
Meet
Fitting or proper
Mince
To pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize; to speak too carefully; to take tiny steps, to tiptoe
Nice
Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise (จุกจิก)
Occult
Hidden concealed beyond comprehension
Pedestrian
Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian (ชีวิตประจำวัน)
Pied
Multicolor usually in blotches (รอยด่างดำ)
Pine
To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
Plastic
Moldable, Pliable, not rigid
pluck
Courage, spunk, fortitude (ความกล้าหาญ)
Prize
To pry, to press or force with a level, something taken by force or spoils (ชะแลง เหล็กสำหรับงัด)
Rail
To complain about bitterly
Rent
Past tense of rend which means torn; an opening or tear caused by such
Quail
To lose courage or to turn frightened
Qualify
To limit
Sap
To enervate or weaken the vitality of
Sap (noun)
A fool or nitwit
Scurvy
Contemptible or despicable (เลว ต่ำช้า น่าเหยียดหยามดูถูก)
Singular
Exceptional, unusual or odd
Stand
A group of trees
Steep
To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a teabag steep
Strut
Supporting structural cross part of a wing (ไม้ค้ำไม้ยัน)
Table (verb)
To remove as a parliamentary motion from consideration (ให้ถอดถอน (เป็นมติของรัฐสภา) ออกจากการพิจารณา)
Tender
To proffer or offer
Waffle (verb)
To equivocate (พูดกำกวม) or to change one’s position
Wag
Wit, joker