ca -da Flashcards
spurious
A: bogus, false, fake
separating authentic and spurious claims
N: spuriousness
condone
V: accept and allow behavior that is wrong
The college cannot condone any behavior involving drugs.
N: condonation, condoner
A: condonable
confine
V: inclose, imprison; restrict sm or sth within certain limits of (space, scope, quantity, or time).
“you’ve confined yourself to what you know”
N: the boundaries of a place
“they were cramped within the confines of a little cabin”
humility
N: a modest or low view of one’s own importance; modesty, humbleness, meekness
He needs the humility to accept that her idea is better
abstruse
A: Difficult to understand; obscure
an abstruse philosophical inquiry.
N: abstruseness
defiance
N: open resistance, opposition
A: defiant
condescending
A: If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone; snobbish, patronizing
A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, “What do you know? You’re only a 6-year-old!” is being condescending.
A condescending tone.
Trifle
N: a thing of little value or importance; trivial, petty, minor
we need not trouble the Emporer over such trifles
V: treat sm without seriousness or respect
he is not a man to be trifled with
A: trifling
A trifling matter
corpulent
A: (of a person) fat.
“a short, somewhat corpulent man”
juxtapose
V: place close together for contrasting purposes
juxtaposing the natural and the artificial
Black and white images were starkly juxtaposed with colour images
starkly
A: in a way that is severe or harsh in appearance
The scar starkly stood out on her white skin
conventional
A: in accordance with what is generally done or believed. 符合习俗
the conventional wisdom of the day
